Channels - Watch TV Your Way
Watch, record, organize, and curate your favorite shows and movies with Channels. From your living room, second home, hotel room, or even on your commute, Channels lets you watch your personal media your way.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple TV
- Fire TV
- Android TV
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Docker
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Watch Live TV
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- File Tagging
- Hardware Accelerated
- Support for 4K
- No Tracking
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Commercial Skipping
- Stream video to Apple TV
- Remote Media Access
- DVR
- Channel guide
- Media Center
- Media Server
- Support for IPTV
- Streaming
Tags
- Customer Support
- pvr
- self-hosted-apps
- apple-tv
- cordcutter
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What is Channels - Watch TV Your Way?
Channels is a multi-platform app that lets you watch, record, organize, and curate your favorite shows and movies. Record your favorite shows or add personal media from your computer. Channels provides a single library for everything, so you can watch it anywhere, anytime.
Channels uses multiple sources to drive its TV watching experience. Import movies and TV shows directly from your computer's hard drive to make them available in your Channels Library. Or add a live TV source to watch and record live TV.
Channels both provides a wide range of ways to get content into its library, and an incredible level of customization to let you curate your own experience.
-- Live TV Sources --
• Use an HDHomeRun networked TV tuner via cable or antenna to add hundreds of channels you can watch or record. • Log in with your cable provider to gain access to hundreds of live TV channels via the TV Everywhere service. • Create unlimited live TV channels by creating a channel out of any live streaming video URL from the Internet.
-- Record Your Shows --
• Record in one place, watch on every TV & iOS device. • Pause in one room and resume in another, or on your iPhone or iPad. • Pick your favorite shows or teams, and choose to record all or just their new airings. • Your recordings get their commercials indexed, and can be automatically skipped.
-- Watch Live TV --
• Pause, rewind, and fast forward live TV. • Curate your own groups of channels to optimize your guide. • Full support for VoiceOver. Browse and watch TV with ease. • Watch up to 4 channels at once with Multiview on iPad and Apple TV.
-- Add your Personal Media --
• Channels will import your personal media right from your computer. • Full support for HDR, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos. • Trailer and Movie Extras support.
-- Remote Streaming & Downloads --
• Best in class remote streaming so you can cath up on your favorite shows while away from home. • Download your TV Shows and movies to your iPhone or iPad for offline viewing.
-- Unrivaled Customizability --
• Customize the sidebar navigation to get to your favorite content faster. • Set seek speeds based on what you're watching, Sports, Movies, or TV shows. • Personal Sections let you design your own sections in the app to browse how you want. • Hundreds of settings to customize your experience just the way you want.
-- Standout Features --
• Virtual Channels let you create your own live TV channels from the content in your library. • Multiview support on iPad and Apple TV lets you watch up to 4 channels at once. • Kids Section lets you keep your content separate from theirs. • Browse your movies by franchise.
-- Thriving Community --
• Our community forum is very active and full of helpful and kind fans. • The developers routinely participate and engage with the community. • Community driven open source projects are built and maintained to enhance the Channels experience.
Channels - Watch TV Your Way information
Developed by
Fancy Bits, LLC Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
Subscription that costs $8 per month.Rating
Average rating of 5Alternatives
9 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Video & Movies, Business & Commerce, File Management, System & HardwareApple AppStore
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Comments and Reviews
The 'Platinum Standard' in user interfaces, ease of use, and rich feature set. Highly recommended and well worth the price!
It just works with minimal complications and none of the annoying limitations found in every other media server/client I tried.
I was a PLEX user, but found a happy place with Channels! I do all my TV through the Apple TV and was running in to constant issues with PLEX. I searched for alternatives and tried several, but once I found Channels I was done looking. I have run into exactly zero issues. Everything just works! And they are constantly adding new features that I love! If you are experiencing issues with other live tv /DVR options or looking for to start... give Channels a try... You won't be disappointed you did! Oh and the community is great too. They help you learn all there is and give you updates for new features and answer questions.
Easy to use, setup and navigate. I quit YouTube tv for this.
A great app on my Nvidia Shield! Better than Plex for Live TV and Recording.
Amazing customer support. Great software. Lots of innovation.
I resisted Channels for a few months. I thought the price point was a big high.
I signed up for the 30 day evaluation and never looked back. Channels DVR is everything that you could ever want in a television DVR solution.
Add to that a super responsive staff of developers.
This is an all-around AMAZING program. Smooth experience. Problem free. I will never go back to HD Homerun and Kodi.