ChannelSurf
14-day personal trial
Start once with your email. No card is required, and nothing is charged when the trial ends.
The player is free — no ads, no tracking, no locked basics. Premium adds the connected and whole-home features for about $1.25 a month, billed annually.
Start the free trial from Settings → Subscription in a supported ChannelSurf app — email only, no payment details.
Free offline downloads, DVR, internet Watch Party hosting, Mirror, and Watch from Anywhere require a ChannelSurf desktop host. Device-local offline playback is available on supported iOS and Android phones and tablets; desktop, TV, and browser clients use host-library copies. Playback capabilities vary by device, provider, and source.
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Live TV, guide & catch-up | ✓ | ✓ |
| Movies & series library | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple providers in one color-coded profile | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline movies & episodes via a paired home desktop | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cast & Transfer to TV | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiview (desktop) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Device-supported native playback, HDR & surround | ✓ | ✓ |
| Profiles & parental controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unified search & local favorites/history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Program reminders on supported phones | ✓ | ✓ |
| Companion remote & Audio Only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-stream desktop PiP: drag, snap, instant swap & audio focus | ✓ | ✓ |
| Desktop Multiview & supported network antenna | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watch Party — follow a host on your home Wi-Fi | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watch Party — join with a code (app or browser) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud Sync for favorites, progress & reminders across devices | — | ✓ |
| Watch Party — host internet guests + Mirror multi-room | — | ✓ |
| DVR: record, schedule, series rules & desktop live pause/rewind | — | ✓ |
| Watch from Anywhere — direct or secure relay, with data-use estimates (Beta) | — | ✓ |
| Price | $0 | $14.99 / year |
Premium is $14.99 per year and renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel a web subscription from Settings → Subscription → Manage and keep Premium until the end of the paid period.
Today, buy Premium on this website through secure Paddle checkout, with supported wallet and card options shown at checkout. Store billing will arrive with the public iOS and Android releases.
The free app needs no account at all. Premium uses your email as the account — no password to remember; you sign in on a device with a one-time code we email you.
Premium is a household license for up to 10 connected devices. Sign in on supported desktop, phone, tablet, and TV apps with the same email.
Web purchases have a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked — details are in our refund policy.
No fixed timing result is promised. ChannelSurf continually measures and corrects drift, but the outcome depends on network stability, source quality, host capacity, and guest devices.
No. ChannelSurf is a player. Free and Premium are app features only — you connect the IPTV service you already subscribe to, and we never sell or provide content.