A free, open-source IPTV player for Android TV, Fire TV, phones and tablets.
No account. No subscription. No server of ours between you and your provider.
Support OpenTV — it's free and always will be. If it saved you from a dead "lifetime" app, you can chip in via GitHub Sponsors or PayPal. Entirely optional; the app is never paywalled.
There is a recurring pattern in this corner of the app world. A promising IPTV player appears. It looks good. It sells a "lifetime" subscription. The lifetime turns out to be shorter than the buyer's — the developer burns out, or moves on, or simply stops replying, and everyone who paid is left with an app that no longer works and no way to fix it.
The people affected are not helpless. They are often technical. What they lack is not skill but access: the code is closed, so nobody else can pick it up.
OpenTV is the same category of app built so that cannot happen. The source is public and GPL-licensed. If the current maintainers vanish tomorrow, anyone can fork it, build it and keep it alive. That is the entire point.
OpenTV is not a fork or a decompilation of any existing app. It is written from scratch.
- Live TV from Xtream Codes logins and plain M3U/M3U8 playlists
- A guide that stays put — XMLTV EPG that survives restarts, refreshes incrementally, and never wipes itself
- Recording (DVR) — record to the box, a USB drive or your NAS (SMB); schedule from the guide; series-link a whole show; play back in-app with full seeking
- Catch-up / archive where your provider offers it, plus programme reminders
- Movies and series with resume and per-profile watch history
- Favourites, categories, hide channels, search, picture-in-picture, aspect control, and hand-off to an external player
- Free sync between your own devices — favourites, watch history and NAS recordings, over your wifi or Tailscale, with no server of ours
- Multiple languages (fully translated to Spanish), a parental PIN, profiles, and self-updates
- D-pad first — designed for a remote, works with a touchscreen
- One APK for Android TV, Fire TV, phones and tablets
The live TV guide — programme grid, favourites, and a live preview:
| Recordings & reminders | Free cloud sync — your own NAS, no server |
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| Movies & series | Settings |
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Open-source through and through — the About screen carries the licence, the links, and a donation QR:
- No servers of ours, no web dashboard, no account. Your provider credentials never leave your device, and syncing happens directly between your devices — or through your own NAS — never through a machine we run. This is a feature, not a gap — see docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the reasoning, and note that "sync your channel list to our servers" is precisely the feature whose hosting bill makes a one-off payment unsustainable.
- No content. OpenTV is a player. You bring a service you already pay for. The project has no affiliation with any provider and does not help you find one.
→ Install page — step-by-step for Chromecast with Google TV, Android TV boxes, Fire TV Sticks, and phones.
On a TV, the quickest route is the Downloader app — enter the code:
6398449
That code (or aftv.news/6398449 in a browser) always points at the newest APK, so it never
goes stale. On a phone, the install page is a
one-tap download. Or grab the APK straight from Releases.
Every release is built by GitHub Actions from a tagged commit, and the workflow that built it is public — you can check the APK against the source, or rebuild it yourself, rather than trusting anyone's word.
New to this? SETUP.md walks through getting the repo, the install page and the first build running.
git clone https://github.com/opentvproject/opentv.git
cd opentv
./gradlew assembleDebugYou need JDK 17+ and the Android SDK (API 35). Android Studio will fetch it for you. The debug
APK lands in app/build/outputs/apk/debug/.
Run the tests:
./gradlew testOpenTV was written with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, working from a human's direction — the design decisions, the priorities, the "no server, ever" rule, and every review of what shipped were the maintainer's; Claude did the bulk of the drafting, wiring and debugging against that direction.
That is relevant here for one specific reason: it kept the project genuinely clean-room. Nothing was decompiled or copied from any existing IPTV app. The code was written from public specifications (the Xtream Codes request format, the XMLTV and M3U formats, the Kodi catch-up tags) and from describing how other apps behave as a user — never from their source. That is the legal footing that lets anyone fork this and keep it alive, which is the whole point.
Please do. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
The project is explicitly looking for people who own devices the maintainers do not. Most "works for me" bugs in this category are device-specific — an Ugoos box, a first-gen ONN, a Fire Stick Lite — and a bug report from someone who owns one is worth more than a week of guessing. If a channel fails on your setup, open an issue.
OpenTV is free and always will be. There is nothing to buy, no premium tier, and no lifetime subscription — the failure mode this project was built in response to is a promise nobody could keep, so we are not making one.
If it saves you money or annoyance and you want to say thanks, you can sponsor the project via GitHub Sponsors or PayPal — see .github/FUNDING.yml. Tips fund nothing except spare-evening development; nobody is owed a feature for one, and nothing is gated behind one.
Chosen deliberately. GPL means anyone can take this code, but if they ship it they must ship their source too. Nobody gets to close it, rebrand it, and sell a lifetime subscription on top of work the community did for free.
OpenTV is a media player, comparable to VLC. It ships with no channels, no playlists, and no links to any. What you point it at, and whether you are entitled to, is between you and your provider.