Open source Apache 2.0
Free forever
Free live TV in your pocket
Thousands of channels. Zero cost. BoredTV is a free, open-source IPTV player for Android — browse, save favourites, and start watching in seconds.
Available on the Play Store
Everything you need to watch more
BoredTV is built for Android from the ground up — lightweight, fast, and completely free
Thousands of Live Channels
Browse a massive catalogue of free IPTV channels — news, sports, movies, and more — sourced from open community playlists
Instant Playback
Tap a channel and it starts. No buffering screens, no loading spinners — BoredTV launches streams at full speed using ExoPlayer under the hood
Save Your Favourites
Bookmark the channels you love and jump back to them instantly. Your favourites live on-device and sync with nothing — total privacy
Completely Free & Open Source
No paywalls, no ads, no subscriptions. BoredTV is licensed under Apache 2.0 — the full source is on GitHub and contributions are welcome
Up and running in under a minute
No account, no credit card — just install, browse, and watch
Install from the Play Store
Tap the 'Get on Google Play' button below and install BoredTV on any Android device running Android 6.0 or later.
Open the App
Launch BoredTV — no sign-in required. The channel catalogue loads automatically from the latest public IPTV index.
Browse the Catalogue
Scroll through categories or search by name to find the channels you want. The list updates itself in the background.
Tap to Watch
Tap any channel to start streaming instantly. The built-in ExoPlayer handles every major stream format without extra codecs.
Bookmark Your Favourites
Long-press a channel to save it to your Favourites tab. Your list is stored on-device — no account, no cloud, no tracking.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — BoredTV is completely free to download and use. There is no paid tier, no subscription, and no in-app purchases. The app and all its features are free forever.
BoredTV itself contains no ads. Some IPTV channels in the public catalogue may carry their own broadcast advertisements (just like regular TV), but BoredTV does not inject or sell ads of any kind.
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) delivers live TV streams over the internet instead of cable or satellite. BoredTV uses publicly available M3U playlists to let you watch free-to-air channels without a set-top box or antenna.
The Play Store badge uses a standard Google Play deep link (market://) that opens the Play Store app directly. If the Play Store app is not installed, Android falls back to the browser version of the listing automatically.
Absolutely. BoredTV is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. You can browse the code, report issues, and contribute pull requests on GitHub at github.com/bored-brothers/bored_tv.
Watch more. Do less.
BoredTV brings thousands of free live channels to your Android phone. No sign-up, no subscription — just tap and play.