Sparkle TV - IPTV Player

HKAB

In-app purchases

About this app

Sparkle TV is a DVR/PVR player that lets you stream and watch Live TV from your IPTV provider on your Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV stick. Supports provider formats such as m3u, xtream codes and xmltv but also over-the-air antenna using HdHomeRun or Jellyfin.


Important:
- Sparkle does not provide any channels, sources or media. All content is provided legally by the individual user.
- Sparkle has no affiliation with any content provider.
- Sparkle does not support streaming of copyrighted material without permission from the copyrighter.


Features:
- Support for the most common formats such as m3u, xtream codes and xmltv (complete list below)
- Program guide (EPG)
- Logotypes and program images in EPG (*)
- Favorites (*)
- Sorting of channels and categories (*)
- Show/hide channels and categories (*)
- Multiple audio tracks
- Subtitles (cc/dvbsub/teletext)
- Auto Frame Rate (AFR)
- Multiple languages
- Timeshift (play/pause live streams) (*)
- Search for channels, programs, movies or series
- DVR to schedule and watch recorded programs and series (*)
- Multiview to watch multiple streams simultaneously (*)
- VOD - catchup, movies and series (*)
- Themes
- Home screen integration for "Play next", recent channels and recorded programs
- Use multiple sources at the same time (*)
- Parental controls for protecting settings
- Remote control customization

(*) requires Plus-version


Supported PVR sources:
- DVBLink (6.x+)
- DVBViewer (Recording Services or Media Server)
- Enigma2 (VU+, Dreambox and more)
- HdHomeRun (gen 4+)(including Storage Engine for server side timeshift)
- Jellyfin
- Playlist/IPTV (m3u/m3u8 and xmltv)
- Stalker Portal
- Tvheadend (4.2+)
- Tvheadend HTSP (api 24+)
- TVMosaic
- Xtream Codes Api/IPTV


Made in Sweden


Note:
- Most app features are only available on Android TV/Google TV
- Mobile version can be used to purchase Sparkle TV Plus to be used with compatible devices


All product names (Android TV, DVBLink, DVBViewer, Enigma2, Fire TV, Google TV, HdHomeRun, Jellyfin, Stalker, Tvheadend, TVMosaic) are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Sparkle TV. Images are (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org

Ratings and reviews

Pleasant surprise. This app is doing everything right. Only IPTV app that flawlessly Integrates HDhomerun natively. Wish to have are: quick acces to list of channels and/or mosaic of logos without the full EPG (update: Developer reported that channel list feature is on the works!). Also access to categories and list change by left button press. (Update: mapped OK long press to EPG launch) Now I can have access to categories with left. Good work. I found this app to be better than Tivimate.

Best IPTV player on the market. ExoPlayer has local time shift, but the visuals of the stream decreases when it's activated (needs to use VLC inside of app and makes buffering awful with bad visuals). This is the only IPTV player to implement time shift flawlessly. That's the most important feature to me. IDGAF about customization and it's a stupid reason to down vote this app. It does the hardest thing better than everybody else.

UPDATE: 6/15/23: Setting Audio Decoder to software fixed BT. Also, use the IP address for "Host" when setting up a DVR network share. THANKS LINUS. 6/10/23: After a few days I purchased the app because it is pretty good and has a lot of promise. One problem: after pairing with a bluetooth headset, some channels would not play and gave an error message related to an audio codec problem. Contacted developer who responded and is working on it.

What's new

Version 2.0.1:
- Updated player (fixed pixelation/glitch issue)
- Stability and performance improvements