The free IPTV player made for Android TV

Keel TV is an IPTV player for Android TV and Google TV. You add the Xtream Codes account or M3U playlist you already have, and it turns it into live TV with a guide, a film catalogue and a series library, all driven from your remote.

Yes. Keel TV is free and open source, under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. Every feature is included and there is nothing to buy. If you would like to help it keep improving, you can buy the developer a coffee, but it is entirely optional.

No. Keel TV is only a player. It comes with no channels, no playlists and no subscriptions, and it does not sell or recommend any. It plays what your own provider sends.

Any Android TV or Google TV device running Android 8.0 or later. That covers streaming players such as Chromecast with Google TV, Google TV Streamer and NVIDIA Shield TV, and televisions from Sony, TCL, Hisense and Philips with Google TV or Android TV built in.

Install the free Downloader app by AFTVnews from the Google Play Store on your TV. Open it, enter the code 8462484, and choose Install when the download finishes. The first time, your TV asks you to allow Downloader to install apps. Some Google TV devices only show that setting after you turn on developer options, which you do by pressing OK seven times on the build number under Settings, System, About.

No. Keel TV is installed with the Downloader app, and each new version is offered inside Keel TV under Settings, About.

Open Keel TV and choose Xtream Codes or M3U playlist. For Xtream Codes, enter your server address, username and password. For M3U, enter your playlist URL and, if you have one, an XMLTV guide URL. Keel TV reads your channels, films, series and guide, then you can start watching.

Yes. Every channel row shows what is on now and next, and there is a full EPG grid you can move through by day. Keel TV reads your provider's guide first, then fills the channels it leaves out from public guides for the countries in your lineup. It chooses those countries itself, and you can add any XMLTV URL of your own.

Yes. Choose a language in Settings or from the filter on Live TV, Movies, TV Shows and search, and Keel TV shows only that language on all of them. It knows more than 50 languages and reads them from the language and country tags your provider puts on its titles and categories. Anything your provider has not tagged is listed under Unknown language.

Yes, on Xtream Codes channels where your provider keeps an archive. Open a finished programme in the guide and it plays from the start with a seek bar. M3U playlists do not carry the information catch-up needs, so it is not offered there.

MPEG-TS, HLS, MKV and MP4 streams, including HEVC and MPEG-2 video, play natively. MP2, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, FLAC, Opus and Vorbis audio is decoded in software when your device has no decoder of its own, so those channels still have sound. Dolby TrueHD audio is not supported.

Yes. Add as many Xtream Codes accounts and M3U playlists as you like, and switch between them in Settings.

Yes. There is no Keel TV account, no analytics and no advertising. Your logins, playlists, favourites and watch history are stored on your TV, and your login is only ever sent to your own provider.

Yes. Keel TV is built for the slow processors and small memory of most Android TV devices. It keeps your catalogue in a database on the TV, loads only what is on screen, downloads posters at the size it shows them, and loads the guide in the background while you watch.

Yes. The catalogue is kept in a database on your TV and pages in as you scroll, so even a very large playlist stays quick to move through with a remote.