It solely took two years for Vimeo to appreciate deleting all of its TV apps was dumb

Vimeo, the business-focused video sharing and internet hosting platform, is bringing back its Apple TV app after ending support for all of its TV apps in 2023. Whereas the corporate hasn’t been attempting to be a YouTube competitor for some time, TV apps have been all the time extra handy than Vimeo’s proposed resolution of casting video from a smartphone or pill.

The rebuilt Vimeo Apple TV app helps you to entry Vimeo’s curated library of Workers Picks, your private library of uploaded movies and something you’ve got saved to your watchlist to observe later. Vimeo additionally says the app helps “enhanced playback with chapters, pace controls, and multi-language choices.” The app is offered to download and try now, offered your Apple TV is working tvOS 18 or later and you’ve got a Free Vimeo account.

Vimeo initially pivoted away from being a direct YouTube competitor in 2017, a number of years earlier than it dropped help for its apps. Since then the corporate has styled itself as extra of a enterprise service, offering a method for companies {and professional} creatives to host and promote movies, and even build their own streaming services.

Spinning up a brand new TV app would not essentially imply Vimeo is altering methods, however if you happen to’ve received some scholar movies hanging out in an previous Vimeo account, you now have a a lot simpler solution to watch them at dwelling.