A player for your Android TV box, with a TV guide and catch-up
The channels are yours — from the M3U playlist your provider gave you: tvista neither broadcasts nor sells them. The player adds a three-day guide, catch-up rewind and a second channel in the corner of the screen, and it's driven by the D-pad and the OK button.
Download the appAPK package for Android TV 5.0 and newer · other builds
How to start
Install the app, connect your playlist, watch. No sign-up, no email, no card needed.
Install the app
Download the package onto the box and open it. Android asks for permission once — after that the player updates itself.
no store needed, no Google account either
Connect your playlist
A file from a USB stick, an M3U link or a six-character code. The code is the easiest: six characters on the remote instead of a long address.
Watch
The TV guide loads by itself: three days ahead and search by title. Channels are grouped, and you switch by typing the number on the remote.
the first 40 channels play free, with no time limit
What premium adds →Everything you need to watch
The basics of tvista work without a subscription. Connect your own playlist — the app contains no channels and sells no access to television.
Any playlist of yours
Connect an M3U or M3U8 playlist from your provider — as a file, by link or with a six-character code. Nothing else to configure.
Three-day TV guide
The whole schedule in one grid: what's on now, what's next and what has already aired. XMLTV is picked up automatically or added by hand.
Catch-up and rewind
If your provider supports catch-up, you can go back to a programme that has already aired and start from any point — straight from the guide.
Only the channels you want
Hide what you don't need, keep your favourites and set the order yourself. Switch by number or with the D-pad, the way you would on an ordinary TV.
A second channel in the corner
Watch the main channel and keep a second one in a small window. Handy for following two broadcasts at once without losing what you're watching.
No store, no extra apps
A new version installs over the old one from inside the app. No hunting for updates on a website, no handling APK files by hand.
Side by side
The free version isn't a three-day demo — it's a working player with no time limit. Premium lifts the 40-channel cap and adds catch-up, a second window and cameras.
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Channels from your playlist | first 40 | all |
| TV guide and grid | ||
| Favourites, groups, hiding | ||
| Parental control | ||
| Playlist by code | ||
| App updates | ||
| Catch-up archive | ||
| Picture-in-picture, two channels at once | ||
| Baby-monitor cameras |
Pricing
A subscription belongs to the box: the device code is derived from the box itself. A second box needs a second subscription.
Free
forever, no time limit
$0.00
DownloadPremium · one year
$0.83 a month
$9.90
ActivatePremium · one-time purchase
10 years, paid once, no renewals
$24.90
ActivatePayment is temporarily unavailable while we carry out maintenance. In the meantime the extended version switches on automatically for 14 days on new boxes.
Prices are shown at a fixed rate of ₽100 to the dollar. The charge itself is made in roubles, so your bank converts at its own rate.
Questions
Try it on your own box
The free version installs in a minute and asks for nothing in return: no email, no card, no sign-up.