Free Popular & Public IPTV Playlists
Download free, ready-to-use M3U playlists of popular, publicly available live TV channels. Copy or export, then open in VLC, Kodi, TiviMate or any IPTV app - no sign-up.
Popular Free IPTV Playlists by Category
Open a category for a ready-made M3U playlist. Each list is generated from the public iptv-org index, health-checked, with adult content excluded.
News
Free live news channels from broadcasters worldwide
Sports
Free live sports channels and event streams
Movies
Free movie and film channels
Music
Free music video and radio-TV channels
Kids
Free family-friendly kids channels
Entertainment
Free general entertainment channels
Documentary
Free documentary and factual channels
Comedy
Free comedy channels
Business
Free business and finance news channels
Science
Free science and technology channels
Travel
Free travel and lifestyle channels
Religion
Free religious broadcast channels
Free IPTV Playlists by Country
Pick a country for a ready-made M3U playlist of its publicly available live TV channels.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
India
Brazil
Canada
Australia
Turkey
Romania
Poland
Netherlands
Mexico
Argentina
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Russia
Portugal
Indonesia
Japan
South Korea
Greece
Czech Republic
Hungary
Serbia
Croatia
Bulgaria
Morocco
Iran
Philippines
Malaysia
Thailand
Ukraine
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Ireland
Israel
Pakistan
Nigeria
South Africa
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Vietnam
Need another country? The full IPTV Channel Finder covers 90+ countries and lets you mix channels into one playlist.
Set up IPTV in your app
Step-by-step guides for loading a free playlist in the most popular players.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a free IPTV M3U playlist?
An M3U playlist is a plain-text file listing live TV stream URLs. Free, public IPTV playlists contain channels that broadcasters make publicly available online - news, public television and similar streams. You open the .m3u file in a player like VLC, Kodi or TiviMate to watch the channels.
Are these IPTV playlists legal and free?
The channels come from the open-source iptv-org project, which indexes only streams that broadcasters publish openly. Most are news, public, government or sports channels that stream freely. Legality can vary by country, so you are responsible for compliance with local copyright law. Streams are not hosted on our servers.
How do I open a downloaded M3U playlist?
On desktop, open the .m3u file in VLC (Media, Open File) or add it as an IPTV source in Kodi. On mobile, use IPTV Smarters, GSE Smart IPTV, TiviMate or Televizo and load the file or paste the copied playlist text.
Why do some channels not work, and how do you reduce that?
Public IPTV streams are maintained by individual broadcasters, not by us, so they can go offline, change URL or be geo-blocked. iptv-org itself no longer checks whether streams are live, so we run our own automatic health check and prefer verified-working streams. Run any playlist through the M3U Checker tool to re-test which streams are live before you commit to them.
