The IPTV player that just plays
No ads, ever. Adless plays the M3U link or Xtream login from the subscription you already pay for, on Android phone, tablet and TV.
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What it does
M3U and Xtream Codes
Paste a URL, scan a QR code or open a file. Xtream logins go into the Android keystore, never into the app database and never into a log line.
Lists that stay usable
Several thousand channels scroll, search and filter without a spinner. The parser and the schema were sized for that case first rather than adapted to it later.
Programme guide
XMLTV from your playlist or a URL you set, matched to channels by id and by name, with catch-up on providers that offer it.
Favourites and groups
Reorder, rename and hide channels, build your own groups, and lock any of it behind a PIN.
One app, three screens
Phone, tablet and Android TV from one APK. On a TV it installs into the leanback launcher and every control answers to the D-pad.
Backup, if you want it
Off by default. What it stores is encrypted on your device with a key derived from a recovery code that is never sent, so the server holds ciphertext it cannot read.
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Playback
Two engines. Media3 handles standard streams; libVLC handles the ones that were never going to be standard. When a stream fails to decode the app walks down its own ladder - hardware, then software, then libVLC - and remembers which rung worked for that channel, so the next time it starts there.
Every failure that survives all three shows a code rather than a shrug.
E-PLAY-403 is the provider refusing the stream, E-PLAY-CODEC is
a format neither engine can decode, and both are things you can act on.
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What it collects
Nothing, on its own. Continuous integration fails the build if an advertising, analytics or crash-reporting SDK is ever added, and the advertising-identifier permission is blocked in the manifest so a dependency cannot pull one in quietly.
- Provider usernames and passwords are stored in the Android keystore.
- What you watch is recorded on your device and nowhere else.
- Two features can send data and both are off until you use them: encrypted backup, and a problem report you read in full before pressing Send.
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Price
Seven days free, then $1 a month or $11 a year, covering every device on your store account. There is no ad-supported tier, because the ads are the thing this app exists to not have.
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What it does not do
- Not on Google Play yet, so there is nothing to install from this page.
- No recording and no offline downloads.
- No Chromecast and no DLNA.
- No Stalker portals. M3U and Xtream Codes work.
- No iOS and no tvOS build.