ProgTV 2.93.5 / 3.52.1 beta for Android

This page carries both current builds: the stable 2.93.5 release and the 3.52.1 beta for those who want the newest features first.

Unlike most IPTV apps, ProgTV's interface adapts to phones, tablets and Android TV boxes alike, so one app covers the couch and the commute.

What ProgTV Actually Does - in Plain Terms

IPTV means live television delivered over the internet instead of an antenna or a cable box.

ProgTV is the screen for it: you feed it a channel list, and it gives you a proper program guide (EPG), favorites, subtitles, teletext, and per-channel picture settings.

It reads the common playlist formats - M3U, M3U8 and XSPF - plus Xtream Codes logins from IPTV providers, and it pulls guide data in XMLTV and JTV formats, zipped or not.

The app itself includes no TV channels. That's normal for this category and worth saying plainly: you bring the content, ProgTV plays it.

The developer does maintain a starter list of internet TV and radio channels collected by ProgDVB users, handy for a first test, but it comes with no working-channel guarantees.

The ProgDVB Connection - Watch Your PC's Tuner on Your Phone

Here's the feature that separates ProgTV from every lookalike: it can act as a client of ProgDVB, the developer's Windows TV application.

If your PC has a DVB satellite, cable or terrestrial tuner card, ProgDVB can broadcast those channels over your home network - and ProgTV picks them up on your phone or Android TV box. Real broadcast television, streamed room to room, no subscription involved.

Beyond that, ProgTV speaks DVB-over-IP and SAT>IP directly, so it also works with network tuner boxes without a PC in the middle.

If you already run ProgDVB on Windows, installing ProgTV is the natural next step; if you don't, the Windows page explains what the desktop side can do.

Stable or Beta: Which Version to Grab

The 2.93.5 build is the safe pick - it's the version most users should install.

The 3.x beta line (currently 3.52.1) is where new features land first, updated frequently, with the occasional rough edge that word implies.

Both are on the ProgTV's download page; if a beta build misbehaves on your device, dropping back to stable takes two minutes.

What's Free and What Isn't

Nearly everything in ProgTV costs nothing - playback, playlists, the EPG, favorites, subtitles, timeshift-style controls and the whole interface.

The developer keeps a short list of extras behind an in-app purchase, most notably recording and its scheduler.

If you never record, you'll never see a payment screen. That's a friendlier deal than most IPTV players, which lock multiple playlists or the guide itself behind a subscription.

Getting a Playlist Into ProgTV

If you don't have a provider playlist yet, start with our guide to free popular IPTV playlists - it covers legal, regularly refreshed M3U sources with free-to-air news, public TV and music channels. Prefer to hand-pick? Browse public channels by country and category in the IPTV Channel Finder and export exactly the ones you want, or assemble and tidy a list in the Playlist Builder.

Before loading anything into the app, run the file through the M3U Checker to strip out dead streams, and spot-test any single channel in the Web Player right in your browser.

If you've found a stream playing on a webpage and want its direct address, the Stream Extractor can dig it out. Then in ProgTV, open the TV Sources dialog, choose Import or paste your playlist URL, and the channel list fills in.

Sideloading the APK on a TV box? You can inspect any Android package's permissions and signature first with our APK Checker.

ProgTV vs TiviMate and Friends

Choosing between the big Android IPTV players comes down to what you value. TiviMate has the slicker big-screen interface, but it's TV-only and locks recording and multiple playlists behind a paid Premium tier. ProgTV looks plainer, runs on phones too, keeps multiple playlists free, and is the only one that talks to a ProgDVB tuner setup.

For casual playback rather than a full TV experience, VLC for Android opens M3U playlists with zero setup, and MX Player handles streams well once paired with the MX Player Custom Codec for AC3 and EAC3 audio. On the desktop side, Kodi folds IPTV into a whole media center. More options live in our Android APK section.
 

ProgTV 2.93.5 is the tinkerer's IPTV player: less glossy than TiviMate, more generous with free features, and genuinely unique in bridging Android to a real TV tuner through ProgDVB.

If your setup is just one provider playlist on a TV box, TiviMate may suit you better - but if you juggle playlists, watch on a phone, or own a tuner card, ProgTV earns its 72MB. Grab the stable APK, load a tested playlist, and you're watching in minutes.