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

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.

Would give it 5 stars. But there seems to be a bug when using the search feature. If you click on the search bar right away and search, nothing shows up. You need to hit back then go back to search, select the microphone on the left, and then go to the search bar, then you can use the search feature. Also, it would be nice if it updated playlist upon opening the app.

I give ** simply because it tries to be better than most other apps - TRIES. It attempts to mimick TiViMate without apology, and falls far to short. It's unintuitive, design is obviously stolen, can't create own groups (at least not in the free version), and switching between groups on this app is much slower. If you're going to purchase & use this app, forget it. Just download TiViMate instead!

What's new

Version 1.9.6:
- Support custom categories
- Add many channels to favorites/category at a time
- Ability to move and show/hide "All channels" and "Favorites"
- Settings:
* Use index as channel number
* Size of program image/preview
* Show Series recording option for series recordings
* User Agent in source configuration
* Turn off autostart of next series episode
- Support for "cuid" in playlists
- Improved preview feature
- Improved Stalker source
- Stability and performance improvements