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Tubi TV is Fox Corporation's free streaming app for Android, carrying tens of thousands of films, TV episodes and live channels with no subscription and no card details, paid for entirely by the ad breaks between them.
Tubi is free in the way broadcast television used to be free.
There is no subscription, no trial that converts, and no card to enter at any point.
The ad breaks pay for all of it, which is the entire arrangement and the only thing you give up.
What You Get
The library runs to tens of thousands of films and TV episodes, alongside more than 250 live channels streaming on a schedule the way a broadcast channel does.
The catalogue is licensed from the major studios rather than being Fox's own back catalogue, so Paramount, MGM, Sony, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and NBCUniversal titles all appear. It leans towards older films and complete TV runs rather than new releases, which is the trade for costing nothing.
Fox says the service passed 100 million monthly active users during 2025. That scale matters mainly because it is why the licensing keeps improving rather than shrinking.
Ad breaks are shorter than broadcast television and cannot be skipped. There is no paid tier that removes them, so nobody is being upsold.
The APK Will Not Change Your Country
This is the part worth reading before you download anything.
Tubi is licensed country by country, and the restriction is enforced when the app streams rather than when it installs. Sideloading the APK onto a device in an unsupported country gets you a working app with an empty library.
Where Tubi actually works
The service runs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Mexico and a growing list of Latin American markets. The catalogue differs in each - the American library is the largest, and a title available in one country is regularly missing in another. Outside those markets the app installs and then shows you nothing.
Our Play Store check will tell you whether an app depends on Google's services before you commit to the download, which is a related question and a common cause of the same disappointment.
Phone App or TV App?
Tubi publishes two separate Android applications and picking the wrong one is the commonest installation mistake.
- The phone and tablet build is the one on this page. It is touch-driven, and it casts to a television if you want the picture on a bigger screen.
- The TV build is a separate package for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV devices, laid out for a directional remote rather than a finger.
They are not interchangeable. The phone build installed on a TV box will launch and then leave you unable to move the selection with a remote, because nothing in it responds to a D-pad.
Installing the APK
Sideloading is straightforward but Android will stop you once on the way through, and that prompt is not an error.
You have to allow installation from unknown sources for whichever app is doing the installing - usually your file manager or browser - and Android 8 onwards asks per app rather than as a single global switch.
Our guide on installing an APK safely on Android covers the whole sequence, including how to check a file before you run it.
If the installer refuses
An APK that will not open is usually an architecture or Android-version mismatch rather than a damaged download. Our piece on why some APKs refuse to open works through the causes, and the APK Checker will read the file's requirements back to you before you install it.
Watching It Somewhere Other Than the Phone
Casting from the phone app to a Chromecast or a smart television is built in and needs nothing extra.
If the destination is a media centre rather than a television, Kodi for Android and its desktop version both run on the same box and cover local files that Tubi never will.
And if you only want to watch on a computer, Tubi runs in any browser without an app at all, which is usually simpler than sideloading anything.
Who Should Look Elsewhere
The tell is what you expect to find in it. If you are looking for a film that reached cinemas in the last year or two, it will not be there, and no amount of searching changes that.
If you want to play your own downloaded files rather than stream, this is the wrong category of app entirely.
MX Player and VLC for Android both handle almost any file you throw at them.
KMPlayer is a third option, and if it is AC3 or DTS audio that keeps failing, the MX Player custom codec add-on covers it.
If it is live channels you are after rather than a film library, an IPTV player fed by a playlist covers far more ground - our guide to free IPTV playlists is the starting point.
And if you are outside the supported countries, none of this applies and the honest answer is that Tubi is not currently for you. The rest of the Android section has apps that work everywhere, YouTube for Android among them.
Quick questions
Is Tubi really free, or is there a catch?
It is genuinely free. There is no subscription, no trial period and no card required, and there is no paid tier to be upsold to. The advertising is the entire business model.
Will the APK work outside the supported countries?
No. The app installs anywhere but the streaming is licensed by territory, so outside the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Mexico and the Latin American markets you get an app with nothing to play.
Do I need an account?
Not to start watching. Registering keeps your watchlist and your resume points in sync across devices, which is worth it if you use Tubi on more than one screen.
Can I download shows to watch offline?
On supported titles, yes, though the selection available for download is narrower than the streaming catalogue because it depends on the licence for each title.
Is this the right build for my Android TV box?
No. This is the phone and tablet app. Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV devices need Tubi's separate TV package, which is built for a remote rather than a touchscreen.
Does it need Google Play services?
On most devices yes, which matters on hardware without them. Our Play Store check will confirm before you install.
Download Tubi TV 10.34.0 and see what the library looks like where you are, or tell us how you got on - this page has no reviews yet.
