Linux
runs on any distro — no install
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How to installdopeIPTV The IPTV player for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Instant channel changes, smooth playback and an interface that stays out of the way.
Linux · macOS · Windows — free & open source
Xtream CodesM3U / M3U8
XMLTV EPGTimeshift / catch-up
MultiviewChromecastDLNAOpenSubtitlesTrakt27 languages
Built for how people actually watch TV.
Timeshift & catch-up
Scrub back into a channel's archive on a live timeline, or jump straight to a past programme from the guide.
Multiview
Watch up to nine live channels at once in a grid — mix different playlists, click any one for audio, with per-window timeshift and subtitles.
Pause live TV
Pause and rewind any live channel — minutes in memory, hours on disk, or with dopeIPTV's own buffer, which keeps downloading while you pause.
Full EPG guide
A real programme grid with search, reminders and a configurable list of what's coming up next.
One-click recording
Record the stream you're watching over a single connection, with timers, size caps and a Recordings library.
Multi-provider
Xtream Codes, M3U playlists and Stalker portals side by side, each with its own EPG, auto-refresh and custom guide URL.
Smooth playback
A built-in mpv engine, with Chromecast, Trakt sync, themes and full keyboard control.
Your own files too
Point it at a folder or a mounted share and your videos sit beside the provider's — with posters, resume, series built from the file names, and a play queue for music.
Cast to your TV
Send a channel, a film or your own file to a Chromecast or straight to a smart TV over DLNA — with pause, seek and volume in the app.
Subtitles on demand
Find subtitles for what you're watching on OpenSubtitles, right from the player — and next time they're already there.
Media keys & controls
Your keyboard's media keys, headphone buttons, the GNOME and KDE media controls and KDE Connect all drive the player.
A Home that knows what's on
This week's most popular films and series that your provider has, what you were watching, what is on your channels now — and new episodes of the series you follow.
Take a closer look.
Channels & player — the list, the guide and the video in one layout.
Programme guide — grid view with catch-up markers.
Multiview — up to nine channels at once, one with the sound.
Timeshift timeline — scrub the archive, live edge marked.
Download the latest release.
dopeIPTV is an app for computers — Linux, macOS and Windows. Open this page on your computer to download it, or send yourself the link.
macOS
.dmg — drag to Applications
How to installWindows
.zip — unzip & run, no install
Other formats.zip ARM64
How to installThree formats, all self-contained — Python, Qt, libmpv and ffmpeg are inside the download, so there is nothing to install alongside it.
AppImage — the one to take if you are not sure. It runs on any distribution:
chmod +x dopeIPTV-*.AppImage
./dopeIPTV-*.AppImage.deb on Debian or Ubuntu:
sudo apt install ./dopeiptv_*_amd64.debFlatpak:
flatpak install --user dopeIPTV-*.flatpakThe AppImage and the .deb also come as arm64 builds, for a Raspberry Pi or an ARM server.
Open the .dmg and drag dopeIPTV to Applications. There is one for Apple Silicon, which needs macOS 15 or later, and one for Intel Macs, which needs macOS 14 or later.
The first launch is refused because the app is not notarised by Apple. Close the message, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to the note about dopeIPTV and click Open Anyway, then confirm with your password. From then on it opens like any other app. See “macOS says the app cannot be opened” below if that does not clear it.
There is no installer. Unzip dopeIPTV-*-windows-x64.zip anywhere you like — your user folder is fine, no admin rights needed — and run dopeiptv.exe inside it.
There is a native arm64 build for Snapdragon laptops; the x64 one also runs there under emulation, just slower.
For a Start-menu or desktop shortcut: Settings → Advanced → Create shortcut. The README.txt in the zip lists everything to delete if you want the app gone without a trace.
dopeIPTV comes with no channels — you connect your own IPTV provider.
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A few fixes after 1.4.2: no spinning pointer on Home, and a tidier About.
- No spinning pointer on Home (GNOME). In 1.4.2 the pointer spun for a while each time Home opened, or when Home was switched off in Settings. It no longer does.
- The pop-out player's bars stay above its controls. The DVR row and the timeshift timeline no longer lie over the control bar when it comes back after fading.
- Back in your dock icon after an update. After Update now restarts the AppImage, the window belongs to the icon you started it from, not a second one beside it.
- About says who makes dopeIPTV - Solecraft - and its release notes show only what is new to you.
- Home's back and heart buttons are round again.
On the AppImage from 1.2.15 or later? Click Update now in the banner.
Settings that are quicker to find and apply as you change them, a programme guide with every channel, and a quiet way to support dopeIPTV.
- Settings, rebuilt. Every setting is where you would look for it, in sections down each page, and a change applies at once - there is no Save button any more, only Close. The search at the top finds a setting on any page. Picture and sound share one page, **Picture & sound**; Home's shelves are chips to switch on and off; numbers have − and + buttons.
- The guide shows every channel. In All, the programme guide stopped at the first 300 channels; now it lists them all. Categories named after a country get its flag.
- Multiview's button opens and closes the window - a second click closes it.
- Links open in front on Linux. On GNOME a link from the app - the website, GitHub, a Trakt sign-in - could open behind the app; the browser now comes to the front.
- A small heart for supporting dopeIPTV, beside the logo in the sidebar and at the top right of Home, and Support dopeIPTV… in the menu and in About. After you have watched for a while, Home asks once: Donate, Not now or I've already donated. Right-click the heart to hide it for three months, or for good if you have donated - nothing ever pops up over what you watch.
- The app icon's play arrow now sits in the middle by its weight.
- Fixed: the rewind buffer no longer writes an error when mpv hangs up before it answers.
On the AppImage from 1.2.15 or later? Click Update now in the banner.
Subtitles on at once in any language, and themes that really look different.
- Subtitles on, at once - in any language. 1.4.0 made turning subtitles on instant, but only when the language you wanted was the film's first subtitle track. Now the film opens ready with the language you set under Settings → Audio & subtitles, or else the one you turned on last, or else the app's own - so turning it on is instant however many languages the film has. A track the film marks to be shown still shows by itself.
- Eight new themes with a colour of their own: Ocean, Forest, Bordeaux, Synthwave, Amber terminal, Espresso and the light Sand and Sky - 25 in all. Pick one under Settings → Appearance, and choose the theme's own accent colour for the whole look.
- Readable buttons on light colours. On themes and accent colours that are light - Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin, Everforest, gold, mint and others - buttons, menus and selections now have dark text instead of white that was hard to read.
Like dopeIPTV? It is free, with no ads and no paid version, but making it and keeping the website and downloads running has its costs - there is now a Donate button on iptv.dope.rs and on GitHub, for any amount, in your own currency.
On the AppImage from 1.2.15 or later? Click Update now in the banner.
Rewind with dopeIPTV's own buffer, and a programme guide that keeps itself up to date.
- Pause as long as you like (experimental). Turn on **Settings → Playback → Rewind with dopeIPTV's own buffer**: dopeIPTV keeps the channel itself, on disk, and goes on downloading while you pause - so LIVE takes you back to live without reconnecting, and you can go back as far as you set, within the space you give it. Each channel you leave keeps its history for when you come back, and Record records from the buffer - whole even while you pause, and from where you are when you have gone back. Without it, a recording stands still while you pause, and the app now tells you so.
- A new Home. A featured strip at the top with this week's most popular titles your provider has - big artwork, Play and More info - continue watching with the time left, your favourite channels with what is on now and how far it has got, the popular rows with their chart position, and arrows instead of scrollbars.
- Subtitles on, at once. Turning subtitles on in a film or an episode froze the picture for several seconds while the provider sent it again; now it is instant (a different language still takes a moment).
- The guide no longer stays on yesterday. Left open overnight - or on a Mac that slept - the app kept yesterday's guide until it was started again. It now looks at the guide every 20 minutes and when you come back to the app, and fetches it again when it is old or about to run out: when your provider updates its guide, the new programmes show up within the hour.
- A clearer note where the provider's guide ends. When a channel's guide stops before now, the detail panel says so, instead of suggesting that the times were wrong.
- Refresh the guide from the guide. A ↻ button in the programme guide, and "Refresh guide now" when you right-click it.
- One bar for rewinding. On a channel with your provider's catch-up, the DVR row and the timeshift timeline no longer lie one above the other: DVR | TIMESHIFT at the left of the bar switches between them, and the app remembers which you like.
- Stalker / Ministra portals (experimental). Add a provider that gave you a portal address and a MAC address: **Settings → Playlists → Add → Stalker / Ministra portal**. Channels, films, series and the guide's now and next; catch-up from a portal is not there yet.
- Intel Macs are back. A
.dmgfor Intel (x86_64) Macs again, beside the Apple Silicon one. - Help test what is coming. **Settings → General → Update channel → Test builds** offers the test builds of the next version as soon as they are built. They can have faults a release does not; back on Releases, you keep the test build until the next release.
Fullscreen video flickering around its edges on Linux? That is variable refresh rate (VRR): turn it off in your display settings and it stops.
On the AppImage from 1.2.15 or later? Click Update now in the banner. Coming from an older version, what changed since is below - from 1.2.14 or earlier, everything new in 1.2.15 as well.
Pause and rewind live TV, a new look, subtitles your way, a taller video and country flags in the category list on every system - and an app that stays quick with a big provider while its guide and lists load.
- Rewind live TV. Move the pointer over the video and a bar takes you back in the channel you are watching; LIVE brings you back, and the arrow keys and pause work too. Settings → Playback → Rewind live channels sets how far back - 2 minutes by default. Turn on Keep the rewind buffer on disk to go back up to 6 hours without using memory. Paused for long, the button reads ↻ LIVE: it opens the channel again at live, and the rewind starts over.
- A new look. Eight new themes - Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine, One Dark, Everforest, Kanagawa, High contrast and two light ones - picked from small pictures of the app under Settings → Appearance. The accent is a row of colours: three new ones, the theme's own, or any colour you like. The app can follow your desktop's light and dark mode, corners can be sharp or extra rounded, and text and controls can be made larger or smaller.
- Subtitles your way: size, colour and a dark box behind them - under Settings → Audio & subtitles, or right-click the video → Subtitles.
- Make the video taller. Drag the small handle under the video; the height is remembered. On Windows the detached player now resizes from its edges and corners.
- Country flags in the category list, on Windows too, for categories named with a flag or a country code ("SE | Sport", "DE: News").
- Quick with a big provider. Opening Movies while the guide loaded could take 20 seconds and is now instant. Search, "All" with tens of thousands of films and the list/grid switch react at once, and the window and the playing video no longer stall while the guide, the lists or the poster cache load or save in the background.
- About dopeIPTV on Wayland no longer lays the release notes over its buttons.
The live rewind, the video height and the flags are a contribution by Luca Merega (lmerega on GitHub) - thank you!
What is popular right now, on Home - and fixes for the AppImage and .deb on a current Linux distro and for subtitles with the full stop in front.
- Popular right now, on Home. Two new shelves, **Popular movies right now and Popular series right now**: this week's most popular films and series on TMDB that your provider has. Either can be switched off under Settings → Home.
- The AppImage and .deb on a current Linux distro (Arch, and others as they update) printed a page of font and Mesa errors at every start. They now use the system's own font and graphics libraries.
- Subtitles with the full stop in front (".Hej då"). A subtitle translated from Arabic or Hebrew could put the full stop at the start of a Swedish or English line. It is at the end again.
The series you follow get a place in Settings, and OpenSubtitles' daily limit is explained.
- Followed series in Settings. Settings → Home → Followed series lists the series you follow, and Stop following series stops one without having to find it first. A switch there turns the notifications about new episodes off - new episodes still show on Home under **New episodes**, and with a dot in the episode list.
- OpenSubtitles' daily limit, explained. Without an account OpenSubtitles allows 5 subtitles a day per internet connection, with a free account 20. Settings → Audio & subtitles says so, and when the day's downloads are used up the search tells you so in your language, with where to enter a free account.
- Settings → Local files lists your folders properly, each with its full path when you point at it.
A fix for subtitles from OpenSubtitles on macOS, Windows and the Flatpak.
- Subtitles from OpenSubtitles load again. The subtitle you picked was downloaded and loaded, but the app said "OpenSubtitles did not send a usable subtitle file" and kept the search open. The setting "On - forced subtitles only" works there again as well, and a subtitle you picked for a title is always shown when you play it again.
Cast to your smart TV, subtitles from OpenSubtitles, your desktop's media controls, and word when a series you follow gets a new episode - plus a new Settings window, the whole app in your own language, Trakt working again, and an AppImage that updates itself.
Four new things
- Cast to your smart TV. Most smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Sony, Philips, Panasonic) now show up in Cast to TV… next to your Chromecasts, marked "(DLNA)". Pause, seek and volume work from the cast strip, and local files can be cast too. Nothing extra to install.
- Subtitles from OpenSubtitles. In the player's Subtitles menu, Find subtitles online… searches for the film or episode you are watching and loads the one you pick - and it comes back with that title next time. If it asks for an API key, get a free one at opensubtitles.com and enter it under Settings → Audio & subtitles. You can also load a subtitle file from disk.
- Your desktop's media controls (Linux). The media keys on your keyboard, headphone buttons, GNOME's and KDE's media controls and KDE Connect on your phone now pause, play and skip - and show what is playing, with its logo.
- Follow a series. Right-click a series → Follow series. When new episodes arrive they appear on Home under New episodes, with a notification, and opening the series takes you to the first new one.
A new Settings window
- Easier to find things. A sidebar with fifteen pages - General, Appearance, Playback, Audio & subtitles, Video, Guide, Playlists and more - replaces the long row of tabs, and the search field at the top finds any setting by name.
- Clearer pages. Settings are grouped in titled cards, with a short explanation under the ones that need it, and every yes/no choice is a switch.
- Playlists at a glance. Each playlist shows its server and an "In use" badge. Drag playlists into the order you want - the playlist menu follows it.
- Your existing settings are kept exactly as they were.
In your language
- About 200 texts that were still in English are now translated into all 27 languages: recording messages and why a recording stopped, timeshift, list counts, the detail panel, player badges, and error messages from your provider, Trakt, Chromecast and the updater.
- Dates and weekdays in the guide and recordings follow the app's language, and so do the standard buttons in dialogs (OK, Cancel, Yes, No).
New
- The AppImage updates itself. "Update now" in the new-version banner downloads the new AppImage, checks it, test-starts it and only then swaps it in - your dock icon keeps working.
- Drop a playlist on the window. Drag an
.m3ufile or a provider link onto dopeIPTV to add it as a playlist.
Fixes
- A rare crash under heavy load is fixed. Cleaning up memory on a background thread could pull a timer out from under the interface; that cleanup now always happens on the interface's own thread.
- Trakt sign-in works again. Connecting ended with "invalid_client: client_id is required": Trakt had retired the app dopeIPTV signed in through. dopeIPTV has a new one, set up for Trakt's 2026 sign-in, so if you were connected before, connect once more under Settings → Trakt.
- M3U playlists with å, ä, ö and other letters no longer show "Ã¥" when a server names the wrong character set.
- Multiview: Space, M and F act on the window you are watching, and the screen no longer sleeps while multiview plays.
- Favorites: renaming a folder onto another no longer duplicates channels, and a folder's colour follows it.
- The guide recovers by itself from a damaged cache instead of failing on every start.
- A pop-out player saved on a monitor that is no longer connected opens on this one, and Windows no longer crashes in the detail pane's schedule.
- macOS, first start: right-click → Open no longer works since macOS 15. Open the app once, then allow it under **System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway** and confirm with your password.
Full details in the changelog.
Linux is and remains the primary target - Windows and macOS are a bonus.
Free, but not without costs.
dopeIPTV is free — no ads, no tracking, no paid version. Developing it, running the website and serving the downloads comes with some costs. If the app works well for you, a donation of any size helps keep it going.
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