ITV

What ITV is for and who it suits

If you already pay for TV channels and a film service, you probably have two apps and two lists to keep track of. ITV puts live television and an on-demand video library in one app, so you can move between a channel and a film without leaving it.

The channels are sorted into categories: Belarusian, news, sport, children's, popular science, music, entertainment and others. The library is built around films and series, and it is aimed at households where more than one person watches, since it has separate profiles for each of them.

Most of the app's features need an active subscription, which the listing says is required to use all of its functions.

Live channels and the 48-hour catch-up archive

Live channels play in real time, and the category list lets you go straight to the kind of channel you want. Sport, news and children's channels each have their own group.

Most channels keep a record of the last 48 hours, so a programme you missed can be watched afterwards. Anything older than that is not covered by the archive.

The archive only applies to channels that support it, so check a specific channel before you count on it.

Searching films and series by filter

The library is large, and the search is the main way through it. You can narrow results by genre, year of release, country of origin and partner, along with other parameters the listing mentions without naming.

Themed collections group titles around a shared idea, and promotional banners rotate as new material arrives. Both are a shortcut when you do not have a particular title in mind.

Filters work on the same library for every profile, so a search does not change what another person in the household sees.

Family profiles and the child profile

You can create a separate profile for each person in the household, so each one has their own view of the app. A child's profile is designed for safe viewing, and the listing says it adapts as the child gets older, so you do not have to rebuild it by hand.

The listing does not say how the age adaptation works in detail, so the exact behaviour of the child profile is worth checking inside the app.

Picking up where you stopped and watching on other screens

The "I'm watching" section keeps every film and series you have started but not finished. You can return to any of them from there, so nothing gets lost between sessions.

ITV runs on smartphones, tablets and Smart TVs. On a laptop or desktop you can use the website at itv.by instead. The listing says all data syncs between these devices, so your profiles and your place in a title follow you from one screen to another.

Support is available through the developer's service team if something does not work.