Android TV & Google TV

Your IPTV subscription, on a telly that finally behaves.

The Telly is a player built for the remote in your hand — a real programme guide, instant channel zapping, recordings, and a catalogue that loads when you ask it to. No ads. No tracking. No account with us.

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The Telly is a player, not a provider. It ships with no channels, no playlists and no preconfigured services. You connect it to an IPTV subscription you already pay for — via Xtream Codes, an M3U playlist or an XMLTV guide — and it plays what your provider sends. We are not affiliated with any provider, and we don't sell, host or index content.

What it looks like

Screenshots are taken from the real app on a 1080p Android TV device. The channel lineup shown is a demonstration lineup, not a real provider's.

The programme guide: a grid of channels down the left and programmes across a timeline, with the current programme highlighted and a preview panel above.
A proper guide — a scrolling timeline with what's on now, and what's on next.
The home screen with a featured channel, a Continue Watching shelf of part-watched films, and a Recently Watched shelf.
Home picks up where you left off, across live TV and on-demand.
The player with its overlay open, showing channel number, resolution and frame-rate chips, the programme title, playback controls and a timeline.
The player overlay: resolution, frame rate, and the programme you're in.
A grid of TV show posters with episode counts, sortable by title or year.
Your provider's catalogue, sorted and searchable instead of endless.
Search results for the word great, split into a TV Shows section and a Movies section of poster cards.
Search spans live channels, films and shows at once.
A show's episode list, with a column of seasons on the left and numbered episodes on the right.
Seasons down one side, episodes down the other — and it remembers where you stopped.
The themes screen offering four colour palettes: Blue, Red, Greyscale and Purple.
Four palettes, because not every living room wants blue.

Built for the ten-foot view

Every screen is designed around a D-pad. Nothing here expects a mouse.

A guide worth using

A scrolling EPG with hold-to-scrub fast scrolling, category filters and favourites. It loads a rolling window rather than the whole week, so it opens now instead of eventually.

Pause and record live TV

A built-in timeshift buffer lets you pause, rewind and keep recordings of live channels on the device.

Films and series, properly grouped

Episodes are gathered into real shows with seasons, a scroll-spy season index, resume points and automatic next-episode playback.

Multiple sources per channel

Pair backup streams to a channel and let the app measure and rank them, switching to whichever is actually holding up.

Profiles

Separate favourites, history, resume points and recordings per person in the house.

Subtitles and audio tracks

Full track selection with subtitles that stay on as you change channel, rather than resetting every time.

Ten languages

English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Simplified Chinese — including right-to-left layout.

Parental controls

Lock categories and channels behind a PIN, and hide what you don't want on the guide at all.

Privacy, stated plainly

The Telly has no servers. There is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, and nowhere for your viewing to be sent — because we don't run anywhere to send it.

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Android permission requested: internet access. That's the entire list.

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Analytics, crash-reporting, advertising and tracking libraries in the app.

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Accounts, logins or personal details collected by us — there is no "us" to collect them.

Your provider's address and credentials are stored on your device and sent only to that provider. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

Community

The Discord is where releases get announced, bugs get triaged and feature requests get argued about. It's the fastest way to reach someone who can actually help.

One house rule above all others: no playlists, no provider credentials, no reseller links. Bring the app, not the content.

Open the invite

QR code linking to thetelly.org/discord
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