Your own streaming service
Branded streaming app for TV and phone.
Your name on Apple TV, iPhone, Fire TV, Samsung and LG.
A branded streaming app puts your films on the living-room screen under your own name and icon, instead of inside someone else's app. This guide covers which stores matter, whose developer account the app should live under, what the stores themselves charge, and what review really involves.
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By uncompressed.io · Updated October 2026
Short answer
How do I get a branded streaming app on Apple TV, Fire TV, Samsung and LG?
Use a streaming platform that builds the apps for you and submits them under your own developer accounts, so the listings belong to you. uncompressed.io builds branded apps for Apple TV, iPhone, Fire TV, Samsung and LG as part of its streaming platform; the stores' own developer fees apply, and each store reviews the app before it goes live.
- Apps for Apple TV, iPhone, Fire TV, Samsung and LG
- Built and submitted under your own developer accounts
- Apple developer program: USD 99 a year (Apple's fee)
- Amazon Appstore registration: free, per Amazon
- Each store reviews the app; no approval date is guaranteed
- 0% commission on sales made through your shop
The stores
What the stores charge
read from the stores' own pages
These are the stores' own developer fees, separate from any platform. They are paid to Apple, Amazon, Samsung or LG, not to whoever builds the app.
USD 99
Apple Developer Program
per membership year, or local currency; waivers for eligible nonprofits, schools and government
Free
Amazon Appstore
developer registration, for Fire TV apps
See store
Samsung and LG
each runs its own seller program; read its terms when you register
Samsung's and LG's seller portals did not show fee terms to an automated read on 12 October 2026, so no figure is given for them here. Check each portal when you open the account. Stores may also take a share of purchases made inside an app under their own rules; read each store's current terms for in-app sales before deciding how buyers will pay.
Ownership
Whose account the app lives in
and why it matters later
Under your own developer account
The listing, the ratings, the install base and the name in the store are yours. If you move to another platform one day, the app does not vanish with the vendor. This is how uncompressed.io builds and submits apps.
Under the vendor's account
Quicker to start, because you skip the store sign-up, but the store relationship belongs to the vendor. Ask any provider in writing what happens to the app if you leave.
What the stores ask of you
Compared
Where TV apps sit in each offer
on the published plans
Vimeo OTT and Uscreen figures from their own pricing pages, read 12 October 2026. Vimeo OTT also lists Android TV, Roku, Xbox and Vizio apps on Enterprise; Uscreen's App Essentials lists USD 0.99 per subscriber a month. The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month.
uncompressed.io for creators, in one table
Read from the live price list. Verified 2026-10.
| Commission on sales | 0 percent, at any volume. Buyers pay into your own payment account; your card processor's fee applies. |
|---|---|
| What you can sell | Purchases (stream forever), downloads, rentals with a viewing window, memberships with monthly or yearly tiers, bundles and series. |
| Member tools | Free trials per tier, coupon codes, gift memberships, refunds and free access from your earnings page. |
| Your storefront | A shop under your name at yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand, or on your own domain. Buyers need no account. |
| Picture quality | Films stream as you exported them: no re-encode of video or audio, with an optional lighter copy for slow connections. |
| Viewing hours included | Lite 1,000, Pro 5,000, Max 15,000, Studio 25,000 hours a month, then USD 29 per extra 20,000-hour block. Playback never pauses. |
| Plans | Starter free (5 GB, one film at a time); Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month; yearly is one month free. |
| Leak Shield (optional) | Every buyer gets their own invisibly marked copy; the open web and torrent indexes are searched; a confirmed leak names and blocks the buyer and sends the takedown. USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year, any paid plan. |
| Inclusion window | The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month. |
Plans and add-ons: pricing. The whole cluster starts at the creator platform guide.
The plan
From web shop to TV
without promising a date
Open the web shop first
Films, prices and memberships live at your own address. This is what the apps show, and it earns while the apps are in review.
Open your store accounts
Apple, Amazon, Samsung and LG, in your name or your company's. Identity and tax steps can take days.
Give access and assets
Grant build access to your accounts, and supply the icon, artwork, description and privacy details each store asks for.
Submit and answer review
Each store reviews the app. If a reviewer asks for a change, it is made and resubmitted. Announce the apps once they are live, not before.
Store review is the store's decision, on the store's schedule. Any provider that guarantees a launch date for a TV app is guessing. Plan your premiere around the web shop, which you control, and treat the TV apps as the second wave.
Who this is not for: if your viewers mainly watch short videos on phones, a TV app adds little. Put the effort into the web shop and your mailing list first.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is a branded streaming app?
A branded streaming app is an app in the Apple, Amazon, Samsung or LG store that carries your name, icon and catalogue, so viewers install your service rather than a general video app. Behind it, the films, purchases and memberships come from your streaming platform.
How much does it cost to put an app on Apple TV?
Apple's developer program costs USD 99 per membership year, or the local equivalent, according to Apple's own page read 12 October 2026. Eligible nonprofits, accredited educational institutions and government entities can request a fee waiver. On uncompressed.io the app itself is built for you; the developer program fee is Apple's.
Why should the app be under my own developer account?
Because the store listing, the reviews and the installed base then belong to you. If you ever change platforms, the app and its listing stay in your account rather than in a vendor's.
How long does app store approval take?
No one outside the store can promise a date. Each store reviews every app and every update against its own guidelines, may ask for changes, and can reject a submission. Plan your launch around the films being live on the web first, with the apps following.
Which TV platforms does uncompressed.io build apps for?
Apple TV, iPhone, Fire TV, Samsung and LG. Each app is built and submitted under your own developer accounts.
Do I need a TV app to run a streaming service?
No. Many viewers watch in a browser, on a phone, or by casting from a laptop. A TV app matters most when your audience watches long films at home, and it adds credibility, but a web shop on your own domain is the place to start.
Put your films on the TV under your own name.
Branded apps come with the streaming platform on every paid plan (Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month), with 0% commission on what you sell. The stores' own developer fees apply.
Sources
- 1.Apple Developer Program, what's included (fee and waivers) (read 12 October 2026)
- 2.Amazon Appstore developer portal (registration) (read 12 October 2026)
- 3.Vimeo OTT pricing (TV apps on Enterprise) (read 12 October 2026)
- 4.Uscreen pricing (mobile apps on App Essentials, TV apps on Custom) (read 12 October 2026)