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Mobile App · Android · written 11-6
BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIES · CaminarCuban

A backup called player13: how the Latin American pirate app BIXPLUS refuses to die on Google Play

What it is An app on Google Play that calls itself "movie info and trailers". Turn on the +18 toggle and you can watch pirated movies, series, and live TV for free. It's one of several same-named packages under the BIXPLUS brand.

Why it took off This package didn't take off on its own. It rode BIXPLUS brand searches. BIXPLUS took off because Magis / Xuper TV were removed at the start of 2026, and it was the one replacement that users in the community named and that you could find and install directly on Play.

EHow you could follow it Don't. The only legitimate lessons are two: when a rival gets pulled by the platform, go straight to its user community to pick up its users, and use obscure categories to get exposure on small-country charts.

Grade E: The core is unlicensed content plus getting through review. Following it means taking on copyright and account-ban risk, and the brand reputation and search habits of old users that let it spread aren't available to followers. This backup package itself gets only a hundred or two installs a day. What's going around in niche circles
Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-07-18 · 11-07 installs 11,498
Android · Total installs worldwide
10k10k11k12k10-2911-0311-0711k
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 3 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

On Google Play there's an app called "BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIES" with the package name com.tmsoudure.player13. It's been listed for 3 and a half months and has 11k installs. It isn't hot on its own. It's worth a look because of the brand behind it: BIXPLUS, a pirate movie app that caught several million users who left Magis TV / Xuper TV in Argentina and Mexico. The main package already has 3.93M installs. player13 is one of the backups it prepared. This piece explains how the whole setup works and why we advise you to stay away from it.

A reply of just three words

On Jan 26, 2026, a Spanish-language tech account posted on Threads: "Amazon removed XuperTV (formerly Magis TV) from Fire TV. Even installed copies no longer work." The post got 1,700 likes and the thread was viewed 34K times.

The most-liked reply below is just three words: "Ahora es bixplus" — now it's bixplus. 220 likes. Someone asks where to get it, one person replies "Google play," and another adds: "Activa el +18" (turn on the +18).

Two weeks later, someone posted in a local Argentine Facebook group: "Stop fighting over Xuper and Magis. Get Bixplus, it has all the Argentine channels." 28 comments in, someone said it doesn't show up in the store, and someone else replied: "Just switch to another country's store with a VPN."

These two exchanges lay out BIXPLUS's whole secret: it's pirated, but it's on Google Play. In the store it looks like a legit app, and the real content sits behind a toggle.

What it looks like in the store

The store description for player13 opens like this: "Your ultimate guide to movies and entertainment… We're not a streaming platform, but your personal library and discovery tool, powered by The Movie Database (TMDB), the most complete film database in the world." It's filed under "Video Players", labeled "Contains ads", with no in-app purchases and no ratings.

More interesting is its website apps.tmsoudure.com/player13/. That's a landing page for a generic video player, saying "plays any video format, picture-in-picture, casting", which doesn't match the "movie info app" in the store. It looks like it was first listed as a player, then renamed and reskinned as BIXPLUS.

Under the same domain sit a whole series of packages, player1 through player16, filed under 4 different developer names, all gray-market "free watch TV / movies from around the world" players built on one landing-page template. One of them, "TV Garden – Live World TV", has 80k installs and grew by 16k in a week. It looks like a studio that batch-publishes shell packages and rents or sells them to different content operators. BIXPLUS is one of its clients (inferred, unverified).

The package's own install curve

DateTotal installsNotes
2026-07-180Launched
07-31About 2,000Third-party estimate, first two weeks 150–350 a day
09-15About 7,100
10-05About 8,50060–110 a day
11-0311,2945 days +886, about 180 a day (Google Play)

A couple hundred installs a day, and only charted #193 in Argentina's Free Video Players chart during 11-03. Most of these installs come from one thing: people searching "bixplus" on Play, the main app not ranking first, or being blocked in their country, so they tapped this same-named package.

The main app is what actually took off

At least 5 live packages share this name on Play, spread across 5 different developer accounts (Google Play, 11-06):

PackageInstalls7 new in the last dayCharts
com.bixmax.global (main app)3.93M+98kPeaked at #35 overall Free in Argentina (11-03/04)
com.smithtommy.xuper238k+648Mexico Events Free #26–44
com.bixplus.maxtvshows33k+4,043Argentina House & Home Free #12–23
com.tmsoudure.player13 (this package)11k+886Argentina Video Players #193–200
com.tmsoudure.player168,297+563Mexico Events Free #27–41

The main app has 4.29 stars and nearly 16k ratings. In late October it added 45k installs in one day, then settled in early November to just over 10k a day. At least two other same-named packages have already been pulled, including com.bix.plus.tv, which lasted 32 days and reached 2,700 installs before disappearing (AppBrain).

Note the categories: Events and House & Home. A streaming app parked there works because almost nobody competes in those categories in Argentina or Mexico, so it's easy to get into the top 50, and a chart spot brings extra organic exposure.

Why it caught these users

Timing. In January 2026, Amazon pulled Xuper and Magis from Fire TV, and in February Argentine local channels disappeared from Magis (Clarín, 02-09). Millions of people used to watching free local TV and football had to switch, and in community groups they named BIXPLUS directly.

It's findable on Play. Magis, Xuper, and FlixVision have long required sideloading: enable "unknown sources" and enter a code in Downloader. With BIXPLUS, you search Play, tap install, and open +18. For an average user, that's a world of difference. Notably, Argentine outlet El Destape published a warning on Apr 16 that "BixPlus Max is an illegal app, don't download it," saying it "is usually not on Google Play and must be downloaded from external sites." In fact it is on Play, and more and more people are installing it.

Hard to kill. Multiple developer accounts and multiple package names, plus APK-site pages on Uptodown, APKPure, and Softonic as backup (whether they were set up by the same people is unverified). If one package is banned, searching the brand name still lands on another. player13 is one node in that network.

Almost no paid acquisition. On TikTok, the only promotion found comes from small accounts with a few hundred to a few thousand followers, getting tens of thousands of views. For example, @gabrielcpeda's Feb 24 post "check out this app, it's so good #xuper #bixplus" got 9,868 views. Mainstream ad platforms generally don't accept pirate apps, and no ad spend was visible.

Where the money comes from. Play lists it as containing ads with no in-app purchases. Threads users say "now you have to pay a little, but it's worth it and not expensive," which suggests a paid membership outside Play (inference; price unknown).

Who's competing

  • Xuper TV is back on its own: In Oct 11 it listed a new package on Play, with 76k installs in a month and 57k more in one week. The old rival learned the same playbook, making it BIXPLUS's most direct threat.
  • Copycat shells: CiloPlay "+18 CINE, SERIES, TV" (87k installs) copied the name almost exactly. Cineplay, Xuplay TV, PlayPeliculas, and a string of "film resource" shell packages, some even repurposed from PDF readers.
  • Legit free options: Pluto TV, ViX, and Tubi each have well over 100 million installs, but none offer Argentine local channels, live football, or new releases. That gap is where the piracy demand comes from.

If it were you

E, stay away. This isn't a product opportunity; it's a pirate distribution playbook: the content is unlicensed, listings pass review with misleading descriptions, and survival comes from rotating accounts and reskinned packages. player13 itself gets a couple hundred installs a day, not enough to even justify "cloning a backup."

Who it's not for: Everyone. If you copy it, you take on copyright lawsuits and account-linked bans (Google links and suspends accounts tied to the same people), and you won't get what BIXPLUS already has: the brand's reputation in community groups and millions of users' search habits. Xuper has already come back the same way, and the window is narrowing.

Two legitimate lessons worth taking:

  1. The week a rival gets delisted, go recruit its users in their community. A reply with 220 likes on Threads is worth more than any ad. If you're building a legal product (say, an aggregator of legal free channels, a football schedule and scores app, or a real player for paid IPTV subscribers), watch news about similar apps getting pulled and show up in their comment sections and Facebook groups that same day.
  2. Obscure categories + small-country charts. A streaming app parked in Events or House & Home can reach the top 20 in Argentina. Legal products can use this too: check whether your app has a plausible but far less competitive category that could earn you visibility on a small country's chart.

What would prove this read wrong: If the main app com.bixmax.global is still live in 2027 and Google hasn't broadly cleaned out this batch of "TMDB resource + hidden switch" packages, that means Play enforces far more loosely on this category than we assumed, and these gray-area players will keep earning. Even so, that only changes whether they get caught, not whether it's worth doing.

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Data and sources: Google Play store pages and install counts (2026-10-29 to 11-06), early install counts are third-party estimates; Threads posts and replies, 2026-01-26; Argentine Facebook groups, 2026-02-11; El Destape, 2026-04-16; Clarín, 2026-02-09; AppBrain (com.bix.plus.tv delisting record); public TikTok videos (checked 11-06).

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Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
Competitors
NameWhereLaunchedScaleHow it differs from this one
Magis TV / Xuper TV (sideloaded versions)Other2020 earlyLatin America's biggest pirate TV APK; 2026-01 removed by Amazon from Fire TV, 2026-02 Argentine channels disappearedSideload only; BIXPLUS is searchable and one-tap installable on Play
Xuper TV(com.xuper.tvapp)Android2026-10-1176k installs, 7 days +57kThe old rival has also returned with Play shell packages, a direct threat
Gopelis ver peliculas hdAndroidUnknown6.87M installs, +34k in 7 daysSame gray-area streaming app on Play, but without the +18 and live streams
CiloPlay: +18 CINE, SERIES, TVAndroidUnknown87k installsAlmost identical copycats
FlixVision and other Downloader-code APKsOther—Not verifiedSideload only, high barrier
Pluto TV / ViX / TubiBig-company features2014 / 2021 / 2014295M / 133M / 237M installsLegal and free, but no Argentine local channels, live football, or new releases
Netflix / Disney+ / HBO MaxBig-company features—Hundreds of millions of installsPaid; BIXPLUS is free and has more content (piracy)
Where users come from
  • Verified Platform event: users picked up after a rival was delisted: Threads 2026-01-26, under a post about Amazon pulling XuperTV, a reply said "Ahora es bixplus" (220 likes); someone asked where to get it, and the answer was "Google play" and "Activa el +18"; an Argentine Facebook group 2026-02-11 said "stop messing with xuper / Magis, download Bixplus, all the Argentine channels are there"; a Reddit r/MAGISTV alternatives thread had someone mentioning they use Bix Plus
  • Verified Play Store search + compliant-looking shell + obscure category climb: the store copy claims it only shows TMDB metadata and trailers, which helps pass review; same-brand packages sit in the VIDEO_PLAYERS, EVENTS, and HOUSE_AND_HOME categories and reached the top 50 in small Argentine and Mexican category charts; the community's advice was "search bixplus on Play"
  • Verified Multi-package matrix / reskin revival (this package's traffic source): at least 5 live packages with the same name, listed under TrailAFCS, MERY LABS, Lucles, CaminarCuban, and TMSoudure; com.bix.plus.tv was delisted 32 days after listing; this package is named player13, and its landing page is a generic player template
  • Inferred APK-site SEO: Uptodown, Aptoide, APKPure, Softonic, CNET, androforever and others have BIXPLUS pages; whether these were set up by the operators is unverified
  • Inferred TikTok small-account promotion: install recommendations from accounts like @gabrielcpeda, with 1–20k views; the "LIVE incentive paid recruitment" tag in the recall reason turned out to be a TikTok official program label, unrelated to BIXPLUS
  • Verified Media warning article: El Destape 2026-04-16 published a piece saying BixPlus Max is an illegal app, which indirectly brought it exposure

BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIES (com.tmsoudure.player13): why it took off

Channel: Google Play; developer name CaminarCuban (package prefix, website, and email all point to tmsoudure); first listed 2026-07-18; today 2026-11-06.

Bottom line

This package didn't take off on its own: after 3.5 months listed, it has only 11.3k installs and recently gets 100–180 a day. It's worth a look because it is a backup shell package for the BIXPLUS brand. BIXPLUS is a pirate film/sports-streaming app for Spanish-speaking Latin America (mainly Argentina and Mexico): on Play it's packaged as a "TMDB film metadata + trailers" tool, and turning on the "+18" switch unlocks sources and live streams. In 2026, from 1 to February, Amazon removed Xuper TV and Magis TV, and Argentine channels disappeared from Magis again. BIXPLUS caught those displaced users, and the main app com.bixmax.global now has about 3.93M installs and gets 1–45k installs a day. Shell packages like player13 are the "backup" set up in case the main app is delisted, relying on the brand name being searchable on Play to siphon a bit of the main app's search traffic.

1. Data

This package (Googleplay library + AppstoreSpy estimates)

DateTotal installsNotes
2026-07-180Store launch
2026-07-312,013AppstoreSpy estimate, first two weeks 150–350 a day
2026-08-174,489
2026-09-157,130
2026-10-058,540About 60–110 a day
2026-10-2910,408Our library started observing
2026-11-0311,2945 days +886, about 177 a day
  • No rating count, review sample of 0, no in-app purchases, contains ads; only charted in Argentina's VIDEO_PLAYERS Free chart, peaking at #193 (11-03; googleplay chart_rank).
  • The store lists the category as "Video Players" and the package is named player13; the official site apps.tmsoudure.com/player13/ uses a generic player landing-page template ("Play every video format! / picture-in-picture / casting"), which doesn't match the store's TMDB-metadata app description. It looks like it was first listed as a video player, then renamed and reskinned.

Same-brand packages (Googleplay library, 11-06)

Bundle IDStore nameDeveloperInstalls7-day gainCharts
com.bixmax.global (main app)BIXPLUS: +18, REELS, PELIS, TVTrailAFCS (the Spanish store page shows ZuperAddons)3,931,126+97,792Argentina overall Free chart #95→#35 (11-03/04)→#70
com.smithtommy.xuper2BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIESMERY LABS37,611+648Mexico EVENTS Free #26–44
com.bixplus.maxtvshowsBIXPLUS MAX: yPeliculas SeriesLucles32,770+4,043Argentina HOUSE_AND_HOME free 12–23
com.tmsoudure.player13 (this package)BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIESCaminarCuban11,294+886Argentina VIDEO_PLAYERS 193–200
com.tmsoudure.player16BIXPLUS MAX: +18, PELIS SERIESTMSoudure8,297+563Mexico EVENTS Free #27–41
  • Delisted sibling packages under the same brand: com.bix.plus.tv (listed 32 days, about 2,700 installs, delisted 2026-08, per AppBrain), com.bixplus.centreflixs (AppBrain shows delisted). Other package names still turn up in search: com.bixplusmovieapp.app, com.bixmax.movies, com.bixplus.max.movies.tv (AppBrain / APKPure / Play search results).
  • Main package daily installs: 10-31 +44,821,11-03 +31,192,11-05 +11,410,11-06 +10,369; rating 15,691→15,938,4.29 stars (googleplay app_day). The main package shows no listing date (the store doesn't display one), so the listing time is unconfirmed.
  • The main package's developer name has changed: the library lists TrailAFCS, the developer site is bigxie.xyz (the landing page is an IPTV player called "Bigplayer"), the email is protonmail, and the Spanish store page shows ZuperAddons.

The tmsoudure shell factory

apps.tmsoudure.com hosts a series of player1…player16 packages spread across 4 different developer names: TV77.Space (Japanese TV, Famelack TV), AIStreamingApps (TV Garden – Live World TV, 80.5k installs, 7 days +16k), CaminarCuban (this package), TMSoudure (player16, 日本のテレビ). All are gray-market "free TV / movies" players built on the same landing-page template. It looks like a studio that mass-produces player shell packages and then rents or sells them to different content operators; BIXPLUS is just one of its clients (inferred, unverified).

2. Competitors

NameWhereLaunchedScaleHow it differs
Magis TV / Xuper TV (the veterans)Sideloaded APKs, once listed on Fire TV2020 earlyLatin America's biggest pirate TV APK. 2026-01 was removed from Fire TV by Amazon, and 2026-02 Argentine channels disappeared (Threads, Clarín 2026-02-09).Relied on sideloading all along, never on Play. BIXPLUS's edge is that it's directly searchable on Play.
Xuper TV (new Play package com.xuper.tvapp)Android2026-10-1176k installs, 7 days +57k, Argentina Entertainment free chart (googleplay)The old rival has also come back on Play with a shell package. It's the most direct threat.
Gopelis ver peliculas hdAndroidUnknown6.87M installs, 7 days +34k (googleplay)Another gray "watch movies" app on Play, without the +18 / live-TV angle.
CiloPlay: +18 CINE, SERIES, TVAndroidUnknown87k installs, 7 days +2,373 (googleplay)Its name, the "+18" selling point, and the document-reader shell are nearly identical. A copycat.
CineReel / Cineplay / Xuplay TV / PlayPeliculas / Ver PeliculasAndroid2025–202613k–570k installsSame-category "document reader" shells. Some package names are just old PDF-reader packages repurposed (Cineplay's package name is alldocumentreader).
Sideloaded apps like FlixVisionSideloaded APKs (Downloader code)—Not verifiedSideload only, high barrier
Pluto TV / ViX / TubiBig brands / legitimate free2014 / 2021 / 2014295M / 133M / 237M installs (googleplay)Legitimate and free, but without Argentine local channels, live football, or new releases. That gap is why pirate apps exist.
Netflix / Disney+ / HBO Maxbig tech—Hundreds of millions of installsPaid. In high-inflation markets like Argentina, the price is what drives demand for piracy.

3. Growth tactics

  1. Demand from a platform event (strongest evidence): On Threads, a post from 2026-01-26 says "Amazon removed XuperTV (formerly Magis TV) from Fire TV", with 1.7K likes. A reply underneath, "Ahora es bixplus" (now it's bixplus), has 220 likes, and someone asks where to download it. The answer: "Google play" and "Activa el +18" (turn on +18). In an Argentine local Facebook group with 2026-02-11 members, a post reads "Stop fighting with xuper tv / Magis, download Bixplus, all the Argentine channels are there", with 50 reactions and 28 comments. Some commenters say they can't find it in the store, and others reply "use a VPN and switch to another country". So it appears to be geo-restricted in some countries. On Reddit r/MAGISTV there's a thread on "Magis / Xuper replacement apps" that also mentions "I'm using Bix Plus" (seen only in the search snippet; the Reddit body couldn't be fetched).
  2. Play store search + compliant shell: The store copy says it "only shows TMDB data and trailers, it is not a streaming platform", which gets it through review. It's categorized under VIDEO_PLAYERS, EVENTS, HOUSE_AND_HOME and other low-competition categories, reaching the top 50 in small category charts in Argentina and Mexico, which brings in organic traffic. Users spread the word in communities as "search bixplus on Play".
  3. Multi-package matrix / reskin revival: The same name has at least 5 live packages and 2+ delisted ones, spread across different developer accounts. When the main package is banned, searching "BIXPLUS" still lands on a backup. player13 is one such spare, catching overflow from brand searches.
  4. APK-site SEO: Uptodown, Aptoide, APKPure, Softonic, CNET, FileHippo, LDPlayer, apktodo and androforever ("BIXPLUS APK Premium no ads") all have pages, giving users who were delisted or geo-blocked a sideloading route. Whether these pages are auto-generated by the APK sites or set up by BIXPLUS is unverified.
  5. TikTok / short video: Small volume. What turns up are a few small accounts (a few hundred to a few thousand followers) recommending the install, with 10k–20k views, e.g. @gabrielcpeda's 2026-02-24「atentos a esta app está buenísima #xuper #bixplus」9,868 views, and 04-13「Descarga esta app!!」21,378 views; there's also @keylacon_y saying "I watch it on Bix Plus." The recall reason on the data card, "Bix Plus LIVE Incentive Program paid recruitment of low-follower creators," doesn't hold up: that video (@antoniopulus) carries the tags #LIVEIncentiveProgram #PaidPartnership, which belong to TikTok's official live incentive program. Nothing shows a paid partnership with BIXPLUS.
  6. Media: Argentine outlet El Destape ran 2026-04-16 a piece titled "What is BixPlus Max: a free illegal movie app, and why you shouldn't download it". The warning gave the brand exposure. Infobae and Clarín cover the "Magis / Xuper alternative" angle.
  7. Paid acquisition: No evidence. Our Meta / TikTok ad libraries don't track it, and pirate apps generally can't buy mainstream ads.

Monetization: Ads on Play, no in-app purchases. A Threads reply says "you now pay a little, but it's worth it and not expensive". That suggests there may be an off-store paid membership (unverified; likely paid outside Play).

4. Why it broke out (the BIXPLUS brand; this package just rides along)

  • Timing: 2026-01 Amazon removed Xuper / Magis from Fire TV, and 2026-02 Argentine channels then vanished from Magis. Millions of Latin American users used to free local channels and football now need a new home. BIXPLUS was on Play, and communities (Threads, Facebook groups) treated it as the successor.
  • Searchable and one-tap installable on Play: Rivals are sideloaded APKs, which means entering a Downloader code and enabling unknown sources. BIXPLUS passed review on Play with a "TMDB info app + hidden +18 toggle" setup, so mainstream users face a much lower install barrier. This is its biggest difference from Magis / Xuper and the main reason it broke out.
  • Ban resistance: Multiple developer accounts + multiple package names + APK-site fallback, so delisting one package doesn't cut off the flow (com.bix.plus.tv was delisted after 32 days, and the brand carried on).
  • Small-category climbing: Placing it in cold categories like EVENTS and HOUSE_AND_HOME makes it easy to reach the top 50 in Argentina and Mexico, which brings extra exposure.

5. Differentiation

  • Versus Magis / Xuper / FlixVision: same piracy content, but the difference is in distribution: listed on Play, disguised as an info app, with the toggle hidden. That's why it broke out.
  • Versus Pluto / ViX / Tubi: those have local channels, live football and new releases, and they're free. That demand drives the whole piracy category; it's not unique to BIXPLUS.
  • The product itself shows no visible differentiation. It uses TMDB metadata plus third-party streams.
  • Compared with the main package, player13 shows no differences. It's just a backup entry point.

6. Visibility and copycats

  • Visibility: spread within Spanish-speaking Latin American piracy circles, with a warning piece from an Argentine outlet. Almost nobody in English, on X, or in tech media covers it (x-radar: 0 posts in the last 90 days). Revenue is not public.
  • Copycats: CiloPlay +18 (the same "+18 CINE, SERIES, TV" naming and info-app shell). Xuper TV also came back via a new Play package in 2026-10. Cineplay, Xuplay, PlayPeliculas, Ver Peliculas and many other similar shell packages exist.

7. What others can learn (only the distribution mechanics; not a recommendation to do piracy)

  • The "compliant shell + runtime toggle" listing approach, plus the multi-account, multi-package, APK-site-fallback matrix against takedowns. This is gray-market practice that violates Play policy and copyright law, and it will keep getting accounts banned.
  • Two legitimate lessons: first, move straight to the community that a rival's takedown leaves behind; second, use small-country charts in cold categories to get exposure.

8. Uncertain

  • The main package's listing date and who actually runs it (what the relationship is between TrailAFCS / ZuperAddons / bigxie.xyz / tmsoudure).
  • Whether tmsoudure is BIXPLUS's own team, or a third party renting packages or selling accounts to BIXPLUS.
  • Whether the off-store paid membership really exists, and at what price.
  • Whether the main package is geo-blocked in some countries (Facebook comments mention needing a VPN).
  • Whether there's paid promotion. The TikTok "paid partnership recruitment" claim has no evidence.

Sources

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.