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What’s New Version 1.3.17
- Added support for zipped subtitles, custom subtitle-source headers, and improved preferred-language fallback for more reliable subtitle selection.
- Enhanced detail pages with richer trailers, still-image browsing, movie collections, parental guidance, and more complete poster/resource fallbacks.
- Improved Continue Watching, watched-state handling, and next-episode positioning, including fixes for progress clearing, completion sync, and server/module resource switching.
- Improved watch calendar, reminders, push subscriptions, and Trakt metadata recovery so updated episodes and reminder rescheduling are more accurate.
- Refined playback, segment skipping, on-screen comments, and tvOS focus/progress-bar interactions to reduce accidental gestures, stalls, and control-state issues.
- Fixed cloud sync, watchlist, module details, quick import, external subtitles, and localization issues for better overall stability.
Description
Forward is an AI-powered media aggregation hub and video player for people whose movies and shows live across cloud drives, NAS, Emby, Jellyfin, Stremio, modules, and local files. It does more than play videos: it organizes scattered sources, metadata, posters, subtitles, watch progress, and airing calendars into one personal cinema library.
Key features:
- AI media organization: recognize movies, series, seasons, and episodes, then match TMDB metadata, posters, stills, and trailers to reduce manual file naming and library cleanup.
- Multi-source aggregation: bring cloud drives, NAS, WebDAV, SMB, media servers, modules, and local videos into one searchable playback hub.
- Personal media library: customize your home screen, Continue Watching, watched states, watchlists, episode reminders, and cross-device sync.
- High-quality playback: play common formats such as MKV, MP4, AVI, and MOV with support for HDR, Dolby Vision, spatial audio, and smooth controls.
- Smart subtitles: auto-match subtitles, load SRT/SSA/ASS files, use secondary subtitles, custom subtitle-source headers, and flexible styling.
- tvOS-first controls: optimized remote focus, progress bar interaction, still-image browsing, and intro/credit skip behavior.
Metadata and artwork shown by Forward are provided by TMDB, a community-maintained movie and TV database.
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use:
http://forward.inch.red/doc/terms/
http://forward.inch.red/doc/privacy/
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Continuous Subscription Instructions:
- You can enjoy all paid features of Forward during the subscription period.
- Forward offers monthly or yearly subscription options.
- Fees will be charged via your Apple ID account upon purchase confirmation.
- According to App Store auto-renewal rules, memberships renew within 24 hours before the end of the subscription period, including free trials. You can cancel at least 24 hours before expiration.
- To cancel subscriptions, go to Account Settings - Manage Subscriptions.
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Version history 25 versions
Build 886254564v1.3.172026-06-08 19:08:53
- Added support for zipped subtitles, custom subtitle-source headers, and improved preferred-language fallback for more reliable subtitle selection.
- Enhanced detail pages with richer trailers, still-image browsing, movie collections, parental guidance, and more complete poster/resource fallbacks.
- Improved Continue Watching, watched-state handling, and next-episode positioning, including fixes for progress clearing, completion sync, and server/module resource switching.
- Improved watch calendar, reminders, push subscriptions, and Trakt metadata recovery so updated episodes and reminder rescheduling are more accurate.
- Refined playback, segment skipping, on-screen comments, and tvOS focus/progress-bar interactions to reduce accidental gestures, stalls, and control-state issues.
- Fixed cloud sync, watchlist, module details, quick import, external subtitles, and localization issues for better overall stability.
Build 883772384v1.3.162026-05-26 23:47:31
New Features
Rebuilt the bottom navigation and iPad sidebar, with more flexible bottom entries, search access, home switching, and last-page restore.
Completely redesigned the Follow tab, reorganizing Continue Watching, Calendar, Watchlist, Recap, and AI recommendations.
Added airing reminders, new-episode availability notifications, progress marking, and multi-episode calendar display for followed shows.
Added Dolby Vision metadata support in the player.
Added ZIP subtitle support, secondary subtitles, audio codec details, danmaku keyword filtering, and more intro / credit skip data sources.
Added trailer overlay, previously watched info, Start Over, follow progress, media categories, and Emby date-added display on detail pages.
Added Widget bulk management and a Watch Calendar data source.
Improvements & Fixes
Improved Continue Watching, watched state, and detail-page next-episode positioning for more accurate display and navigation.
Improved playback stability when switching episodes, changing sources, resuming playback, preloading danmaku, and using intro / credit skip.
Improved detail-page resource refresh, episode positioning, and playback progress display, reducing false missing-resource states, flicker, and stale data overrides.
Improved home, Widget, and image loading to reduce cover jumps, loading flicker, and weak-network stutter.
Fixed iCloud, Trakt, and Emby data isolation across multiple accounts and independent homes, making favorites, watchlist, calendar, and Continue Watching more reliable.
Improved iPad, tvOS, and Mac experiences, including sidebars, remote focus, progress bars, and detail-page layout.
Build 883003118v1.3.152026-03-25 23:47:57
What's New
- OneDrive — Browse and play videos directly from your OneDrive account
- 123 Cloud Drive — Stream videos from 123 Cloud Drive
- Local Folders — Add local folders as media libraries on iOS
- Enhanced Player — New Enhanced Player mode (BETA) with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos passthrough
- Smart Intro/Credits Skip — Set auto-skip per show, with countdown prompt; intros at the start are skipped instantly
- Device-to-Device Migration — Transfer all your data between devices on the same network
- iCloud Sync Upgrade — Rebuilt sync engine for faster, more reliable syncing; alerts when storage is full
- iCloud Reset Progress — Visual progress during sync reset with automatic recovery from interruptions
- AI Natural Language Search — Describe what you want to watch in everyday language
- Quick Server Switching — Switch between multiple server routes with one tap
- tvOS Remote Unlock — Unlock Apple TV using Face ID on your iPhone
Key Fixes
- Fixed iCloud sync data loss or being overwritten by outdated records
- Fixed crash when seeking in 4K high-bitrate videos
- Fixed crash when auto-playing next episode after credits skip
- Fixed server requests hanging on slow networks
- Fixed favorites and watchlist items reappearing after deletion
- Fixed excessive requests when danmaku matching fails
- Fixed slow module loading and occasional startup failures
- Fixed thumbnail generation causing lag on low-memory devices
- Fixed inaccurate or delayed Continue Watching list updates
- Numerous stability and performance improvements
Build 882460701v1.3.142026-02-18 01:21:07
This update brings a wealth of new features, welcome to experience them.
Main Additions
- Player progress bar thumbnails
- Detail page preloading (when enabled, it can effectively improve playback speed. Must be manually activated)
- Home page sharing, now you can share your home page via a link, and users can subscribe to your home page updates
Complete Update Content
Player Optimization
- Real-time thumbnail generation system, supports dragging the progress bar for preview
- Detail page preloading feature, faster entry into playback
Preloading and Caching
- Optimized preloading switching and resource switching logic
- Optimized preloading cache size limit
- Seamless switching from detail preloading to playback mode
- Fixed issue where videos without end markers would not preload the next episode
Home Page Sharing
- Home page sharing function restructured
- Dual mode switching, preview function
- Built-in avatar sharing optimization
Resource Library and Data Sources
- Metadata source priority configuration
- Settings for favorites and watchlist data sources
- Optimized Stremio resource library support
- Emby local avatar upload
- Fixed issue where Stremio could not import
Trakt Sync
- Trakt only marks the current episode instead of the entire season
- Trakt data source integrated into Widget
- Fixed viewing history processing logic
Widget
- Trakt data source support
- Duplicate module cleanup function
- Throttled refresh optimization
Notification Function
- Unwatched reminder configuration interface
- Resource library notification manager
- Trigger notification reset during iCloud sync
UI/UX
- Search history function
- Media information title display
- Home page edit lock function
Optimization
- Corrected carousel selection data errors
- Fixed custom avatar loading
- Corrected continue watching confusion
- Fixed API request priority issues
- Internationalization supplements
- Added QPS limits for images and subtitles from Emby, automatically terminating subsequent requests for 403 servers
- Temporarily disabled resource detection function, will reopen after testing is completed
Build 881165599v1.3.132026-01-06 12:06:12
Add AI image quality enhancement feature, which can upscale 1080P video to 4K.
Add DLNA screen mirroring.
Add Trakt reporting prohibition feature.
Fix crashes caused by caching.
Fix some known issues.
Build 880740120v1.3.122025-12-17 16:37:09
Merry Christmas! We have brought you a lot of updates!
Support for Baidu Cloud Disk
Support for Trakt synchronization (play history, favorites, watchlist)
Support for Stremio (powerful open-source plugin library)
Enhanced aggregation mode, now resources can be aggregated from Emby, Jellyfin, cloud storage, Stremio, and modules. Subtitle modules are also supported.
Optimized scraping speed, adjusted frequency and speed to the best
Restored YouTube trailers
Updated the UI style
Support for adjusting the brightness of HDR subtitles
Some detailed update contents:
Optimized task scheduling, accelerated loading of the homepage and detail pages
Performance optimization for detail pages of series with thousands of episodes
Filtered out some Trakt continue watching data (some users had records marked as watched but with playback progress; now filtered out records less than 1%)
Fixed playback failure caused by the same cloud disk address being unable to start playback twice
Fixed the issue where adjusting the volume modified the system ringtone volume
Fixed duplicate entries in the watchlist
Fixed abnormal jumps in the episode list aggregated from multiple servers (this issue does not exist when TMDB priority is enabled)
Actor information and related recommendations on the detail page are updated with seasons and series movies
Fixed some crashes
Updated the player core version
Build 880700835v1.3.112025-12-16 20:01:34
Thank you for your patience, everyone! We have brought you a lot of updates!
Support for Baidu Cloud Disk
Support for Trakt synchronization (play history, favorites, watchlist)
Support for Stremio (powerful open-source plugin library)
Enhanced aggregation mode, now resources can be aggregated from Emby, Jellyfin, cloud storage, Stremio, and modules. Subtitle modules are also supported.
Optimized scraping speed, adjusted frequency and speed to the best
Restored YouTube trailers
Updated the UI style
Support for adjusting the brightness of HDR subtitles
Some detailed update contents:
Optimized task scheduling, accelerated loading of the homepage and detail pages
Performance optimization for detail pages of series with thousands of episodes
Filtered out some Trakt continue watching data (some users had records marked as watched but with playback progress; now filtered out records less than 1%)
Fixed playback failure caused by the same cloud disk address being unable to start playback twice
Fixed the issue where adjusting the volume modified the system ringtone volume
Fixed duplicate entries in the watchlist
Fixed abnormal jumps in the episode list aggregated from multiple servers (this issue does not exist when TMDB priority is enabled)
Actor information and related recommendations on the detail page are updated with seasons and series movies
Fixed some crashes
Updated the player core version
Build 879814689v1.3.102025-11-18 05:47:58
Fix the specified error in the broadcast player kernel
When the number of danmu exceeds a certain number, switch to list selection
Correct the issue of not selecting a series when the module resource continues to play
Improve details
Build 879629366v1.3.92025-11-12 01:00:35
Add subtitle language detection and content language recognition
Fix the relevance of related content
Correct the refresh issue of the collection list after Emby is favorited
Modify the audio output method (used to try to fix the playback crash of some videos)
Add 2.5x speed
Add Dolby brightness enhancement switch (used to avoid overexposure issues in some Dolby videos)
Add detailed logs at startup, for locating startup hang issues for some users
Adjust the iCloud cold start synchronization logic
Fix details
Build 879438739v1.3.82025-11-06 09:02:58
We have added a server line subscription feature to the Emby service, which can automatically pull the latest lines from the server. Note 1
A screenshot button has been added when pausing videos.
The response speed for adjusting the progress bar has been optimized.
The homepage data refreshes more timely.
Fixed the error of switching episodes when preloading fails.
Fixed the issue of scraping data not being displayed in a timely manner.
Improved stability, optimized details, and smoothness.
Note 1: This service requires the server side to run an open-source Docker. For details, please check the Telegram Forward channel.
Build 879123332v1.3.72025-10-24 18:55:36
Adapted for tvOS26.
We have completely restructured the current kernel and interface to optimize the overall app response speed.
Fixed the issue with continuing to watch when aggregating different sources.
The bullet screen now supports episode selection, time offset, and conversion from traditional to simplified Chinese.
The screen supports pinch-to-zoom with two fingers.
The homepage has added pull-to-refresh.
Optimized the interaction.
Build 877753415v1.3.62025-09-03 09:17:35
Update the player kernel to ffmpeg8;
Support subtitle language selection for Arabic;
Optimize startup logic to avoid startup issues caused by iCloud being suspended by the system;
Adjust the module selection page, now retaining the same hierarchical relationship as in settings;
Fix the issue of incomplete loading of cloud disk resources;
Fix the issue of resource loss when cloud disk authorization expires;
Add smart filtering feature for Emby clips, which will recognize opening, closing, and valid clips when enabled, and display all Emby clips when disabled;
Restore the collection feature for scraping movies from the cloud disk;
Support adding Emby to the homepage;
Fix trailer loading;
Support subtitle language selection for Arabic;
Increase brightness configuration for the standalone player to maintain brightness;
Improve details and stability;
Build 877226645v1.3.52025-08-14 12:57:10
New bullet chat plugin
New subtitle search
Added style adjustments for subtitles and bullet chat
Improved details
Build 876903569v1.3.32025-08-04 23:58:16
Fix playback issues caused by video caching
Fix several details
Build 876827716v1.3.22025-08-01 02:25:02
Optimized the continue watching feature for multiple Emby instances.
Improved details of the homepage module.
Optimized aggregation speed.
Optimized playback start speed.
Optimized Dolby brightness.
Enhanced stability.
Build 875880112v1.3.12025-06-26 01:21:39
Repair details
Add the MP server subscription function for NAS users
Build 875711951v1.3.02025-06-20 08:29:38
Come and experience our carefully designed new discovery page, where you can create different viewing scenarios that belong to you through various homepage configurations and user modules. From personal viewing to family watching, and even children's mode or senior mode, all can be easily created. You can greatly expand the sources for exploring films through the plugin list shared by users.
The tuned light mode has been updated.
Search now allows filtering by source.
Added 115 web login.
Build 873744084v1.2.162025-04-03 09:04:31
Improve crash issues
Enhance cache stability
Build 873413471v1.2.152025-03-21 10:09:03
Improve stability and details.
Build 873097479v1.2.122025-03-10 08:46:18
- Internationalization support
- Added support for trailers
- iCloud reset can now completely clear existing data
- Fixed issue with 115 authorization expiration
- Improved stability and details
Build 872811860v1.2.112025-02-26 22:04:39
- Increase cloud disk scan interval settings
- Gradually start internationalization
- Fix crashes in CloudDrive2
- Add iCloud switch for resource library
- Optimize aggregation speed
- Optimize display and maintenance of Emby server information
- Optimize aggregation playback issues
- Optimize iCloud
Build 872628054v1.2.102025-02-19 16:58:36
新增 115 网盘支持
新增弹幕功能
开放预加载功能
开启推荐计划
Build 872011153v1.2.92025-01-28 11:06:50
修复视频缓存断流问题
Build 871865904v1.2.82025-01-21 07:25:29
针对 Emby 新增了下一集预加载功能
恢复画中画功能
增加授权管理
完善稳定性和细节
Build 871383410v1.2.72024-12-30 14:13:10
新增快速跳集功能
新增跳过片头片尾标记
优化功能和完善稳定性
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Availability 1 of 1 storefronts
| Region | Language | Price | Ratings | Avg | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
US | en-US | Free | 649 | 4.5 | 1.3.17 |
Change log 29 changes · US
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releaseNotes updated
- Added support for zipped subtitles, custom subtitle-source headers, and improved preferred-language fallback for more reliable subtitle selection.
- Enhanced
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description updated
Forward is an AI-powered media aggregation hub and video player for people whose movies and shows live across cloud drives, NAS, Emby, Jellyfin, Stremio, module
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subtitle updated
Cloud NAS Video Player
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name updated
Forward - AI Media Hub
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Version 1.3.17 released
- Added support for zipped subtitles, custom subtitle-source headers, and improved preferred-language fallback for more reliable subtitle selection.
- Enhanced detail pages with richer trailers, still-image browsing, movie collections, pare
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Version 1.3.16 released
New Features
Rebuilt the bottom navigation and iPad sidebar, with more flexible bottom entries, search access, home switching, and last-page restore.
Completely redesigned the Follow tab, reorganizing Continue Watching, Calendar, Watchlist
◆
Version 1.3.15 released
What's New
- OneDrive — Browse and play videos directly from your OneDrive account
- 123 Cloud Drive — Stream videos from 123 Cloud Drive
- Local Folders — Add local folders as media libraries on iOS
- Enhanced Player — New Enhanced Player
◆
Version 1.3.14 released
This update brings a wealth of new features, welcome to experience them.
Main Additions
- Player progress bar thumbnails
- Detail page preloading (when enabled, it can effectively improve playback speed. Must be manually activated)
- Ho
◆
Version 1.3.13 released
Add AI image quality enhancement feature, which can upscale 1080P video to 4K.
Add DLNA screen mirroring.
Add Trakt reporting prohibition feature.
Fix crashes caused by caching.
Fix some known issues.
◆
Version 1.3.12 released
Merry Christmas! We have brought you a lot of updates!
Support for Baidu Cloud Disk
Support for Trakt synchronization (play history, favorites, watchlist)
Support for Stremio (powerful open-source plugin library)
Enhanced aggregation mo
◆
Version 1.3.11 released
Thank you for your patience, everyone! We have brought you a lot of updates!
Support for Baidu Cloud Disk
Support for Trakt synchronization (play history, favorites, watchlist)
Support for Stremio (powerful open-source plugin library)
E
◆
Version 1.3.10 released
Fix the specified error in the broadcast player kernel
When the number of danmu exceeds a certain number, switch to list selection
Correct the issue of not selecting a series when the module resource continues to play
Improve details
◆
Version 1.3.9 released
Add subtitle language detection and content language recognition
Fix the relevance of related content
Correct the refresh issue of the collection list after Emby is favorited
Modify the audio output method (used to try to fix the playbac
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Version 1.3.8 released
We have added a server line subscription feature to the Emby service, which can automatically pull the latest lines from the server. Note 1
A screenshot button has been added when pausing videos.
The response speed for adjusting the progr
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Version 1.3.7 released
Adapted for tvOS26.
We have completely restructured the current kernel and interface to optimize the overall app response speed.
Fixed the issue with continuing to watch when aggregating different sources.
The bullet screen now supports
◆
Version 1.3.6 released
Update the player kernel to ffmpeg8;
Support subtitle language selection for Arabic;
Optimize startup logic to avoid startup issues caused by iCloud being suspended by the system;
Adjust the module selection page, now retaining the same
◆
Version 1.3.5 released
New bullet chat plugin
New subtitle search
Added style adjustments for subtitles and bullet chat
Improved details
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Version 1.3.3 released
Fix playback issues caused by video caching
Fix several details
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Version 1.3.2 released
Optimized the continue watching feature for multiple Emby instances.
Improved details of the homepage module.
Optimized aggregation speed.
Optimized playback start speed.
Optimized Dolby brightness.
Enhanced stability.
◆
Version 1.3.1 released
Repair details
Add the MP server subscription function for NAS users
◆
Version 1.3.0 released
Come and experience our carefully designed new discovery page, where you can create different viewing scenarios that belong to you through various homepage configurations and user modules. From personal viewing to family watching, and even
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Version 1.2.16 released
Improve crash issues
Enhance cache stability
◆
Version 1.2.15 released
Improve stability and details.
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Version 1.2.12 released
- Internationalization support
- Added support for trailers
- iCloud reset can now completely clear existing data
- Fixed issue with 115 authorization expiration
- Improved stability and details
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Version 1.2.11 released
- Increase cloud disk scan interval settings
- Gradually start internationalization
- Fix crashes in CloudDrive2
- Add iCloud switch for resource library
- Optimize aggregation speed
- Optimize display and maintenance of Emby server informa
◆
Version 1.2.10 released
新增 115 网盘支持
新增弹幕功能
开放预加载功能
开启推荐计划
◆
Version 1.2.9 released
修复视频缓存断流问题
◆
Version 1.2.8 released
针对 Emby 新增了下一集预加载功能
恢复画中画功能
增加授权管理
完善稳定性和细节
◆
Version 1.2.7 released
新增快速跳集功能
新增跳过片头片尾标记
优化功能和完善稳定性