IPTV player · Android TV, Fire TV, phone & tablet
Bring your Xtream Codes or M3U. Sidstuga handles the rest, with a clean interface that looks the same on phone, tablet or Android TV — and an optional Cloud Sync that keeps favourites and history aligned across every screen, end-to-end encrypted.
NEW · Cloud Sync — pick up right where you left off, on any screen
€0.99/month · no ads · no signup
Cancel anytime in the Play Store · No card needed for the 3-day trial
On Android TV or Fire TV? Open the Play Store on your device and search “Sidstuga”.
Everything you need, nothing extra
Pick up right where you left off, on any screen. Watch progress, history and favourites stay in sync across TV, phone and Fire TV, end-to-end encrypted with Argon2id + AES-GCM. Your IPTV provider, Google and even we never see what you watch. No other IPTV player on Play Store offers this. Included in the €0.99/month subscription.
The movies & series in your own playlist get a proper details screen — cast, ratings, artwork and synopsis, with seasons & episodes laid out and watched markers. Built for both touch and d-pad.
Even huge TV and VOD catalogues now scroll buttery-smooth, with no stutter. Lazy-loaded lists and on-device caching keep zapping and browsing your own content instant.
A cleaner, fully native look — Android TV tuned for d-pad navigation, mobile built on Material 3. Smoother focus, calmer surfaces, the same feel on every screen.
Settings rebuilt around clear groups so everything is easier to find and faster to change — fewer taps to what you actually need, on both phone and TV.
Record any live channel directly to your device — on Android TV and mobile. Schedule future recordings from the EPG guide or channel menu. Full playback library with seek bar. The only IPTV player with TV+mobile DVR parity.
Plays live channels from any Xtream Codes API server or M3U/M3U8 playlist. URL or local file. You bring the source.
Programme guide for the next 24 hours — what's on now, next, and the past 7 days. Refreshes automatically in the background.
Mark a programme, get a notification at the exact time. Works with the app closed via SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM.
Rewind up to 7 days on channels where your Xtream provider supports it. One click and you're back in last Thursday's match. Quick reset if a programme starts late.
Keep watching while you use other apps. One tap to enable. Single player instance, no reload, no lost position.
4-digit PIN. Lock individual channels, not just categories. Session expires when you close the app.
Export everything to a JSON file, import on another device. Credentials and PIN stay out for security.
Every feature on one surface ships on the other — touch on phone, d-pad on Android TV. Tested every release on real TCL Android TV boxes, not just an emulator.
English, Português (PT & BR), Español, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, العربية (RTL). Built-in selector, no need to change system settings.
Premium Purple, Ocean Blue, Forest Green, Crimson Red and Sunset Orange. Switch any time without restart.
Last 5 played channels at the top of the list, one tap to retune. On TV the yellow remote button jumps straight to the previous channel.
Top 5 most-played channels, lifetime sessions and channels watched. Reset any time. All on-device — these stats are never uploaded.
Sidstuga re-downloads your channel list every 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours in the background. New channels appear without you lifting a finger; gone channels disappear quietly.
Live bitrate, dropped frames and buffer health overlay on demand during playback. The numbers your provider hopes you won't check.
Prefer VLC, MX Player or Just Player? Hand any stream off in two taps — credentials are decrypted in memory and passed through a single intent, never written to disk.
8 s first-frame watchdog, URL fallback ladder (.ts ↔ .m3u8, http ↔ https), surface rebind for TCL/Realtek decoders, persistent health indicator. When everything fails, a clear dialog offers Retry · Next channel · Report.
Set a countdown of 15 min, 30 min, 1 h, 2 h or 3 h. Playback stops gracefully when time runs out — no alarm needed.
Your channel list appears the moment the app opens — cached on-device in a native database. The network refresh runs silently in the background.
Search any programme across all channels in milliseconds. Native full-text search — works even while the guide is still loading in the background.
If your TV decoder freezes for a split second (common on some Android TV boxes), the player silently rebinds the surface and resumes — no spinner, no manual zap-out.
How it looks
Real captures of Sidstuga running on Android TV, Fire TV, phones and tablets. Same experience, adapted to each platform.
Android TV
Android phone & tablet
Privacy-first
Your IPTV credentials, playlists and settings never leave your device. No ads, no account, no sign-up. The app uses Firebase Crashlytics & Analytics (Google) for crash diagnostics and basic usage stats — nothing else.
Full privacy policy →EncryptedSharedPreferencesFor the demanding user
SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARMFrequently asked
Yes. You can record any live channel directly to your device storage — on both Android TV and Android mobile (phone/tablet). Schedule recordings in advance from the EPG programme guide or via long-press on any channel. Recorded files appear in a library with full playback and seek bar. No server or subscription beyond Sidstuga required — recordings go to your device, not a cloud server.
Yes, and this is where Sidstuga was specifically optimised. Budget Android TV boxes often have Realtek or Amlogic chipsets that can lose their hardware decoder mid-stream. Sidstuga has a dedicated surface-recovery loop that silently rebinds the decoder and resumes playback — no manual zap-out needed. Tested on real TCL hardware at every release.
Sidstuga uses Media3 (ExoPlayer) with hardware video and audio decoding enabled by default — the same path used by Netflix and YouTube on Android. Hardware decode means video is processed by the dedicated chip, not the CPU, so streams that would buffer on a software decoder play smoothly. For persistent buffering, the stream stats overlay (hold OK / long-press) shows live bitrate and buffer health so you can tell immediately whether it's a device or provider issue.
No. Sidstuga is just a player. You bring your own Xtream Codes or M3U file/URL from a provider you've already subscribed to. The app does not host, index, recommend or include channels or playlists.
IPTV is by nature an online service — you need a connection to your provider. The app detects connection drops automatically and shows a discreet banner + reconnects on its own when network returns.
Yes. In Settings → Sources you can add multiple lists (Xtream and/or M3U) and switch between them. Each one keeps its own history, favourites and channel order.
The PIN is stored hashed with SHA-256 + a unique salt — never plain-text. Enough to prevent casual home browsing. Not bank-vault security; no consumer app is. Plenty for household use.
3-day free trial via Google Play, then €0.99/month or €7.99/year (about €0.67/month — save 33% vs monthly). Cancel anytime in the Play Store. No ads, no account, no upsells, no hidden tiers.
No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your Xtream/M3U credentials, playlists and settings stay encrypted on your device. The app does send anonymous crash reports and basic usage statistics to Firebase (Google) so we can find and fix bugs — no personal data, no advertising profiles. Full detail in the privacy policy.
The repository is currently private. Medium-term intention is to open parts that make sense (reusable UI components), keeping the app distributed via Play Store.
No. Sidstuga is a native Android app — uses Media3 (ExoPlayer), Compose and several platform-specific APIs. Porting to iOS or web would essentially mean rewriting.
Email support@sidstuga.app. Typical reply in 1-3 working days. Bugs with a logcat attached get prioritised.
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