FAQ
No. GateswayIPTV is a player only. It includes no channels, no playlists, no guide data and no subscription of any kind, and it is not affiliated with or connected to any IPTV provider. You bring your own IPTV account.
On first launch the app asks for the server address, username and password your own provider gave you. Until you enter those, there is nothing to watch. Think of it the way you would a web browser: the browser is the software, the websites are not part of it.
An IPTV subscription from a provider of your choosing, and a device to watch on — a Windows PC, a Fire TV Stick or Cube, or an Android TV box. If you do not already have a subscription, GateswayIPTV is not much use to you yet, and we cannot sell you one or point you at one.
Any provider that gives you standard Xtream Codes login details, or a plain M3U playlist with an XMLTV guide URL. That covers most of them. We do not keep a list of providers and we do not recommend any.
Most players show you one channel's schedule at a time, so finding something to watch means clicking through channels one by one. GateswayIPTV draws a proper grid: every channel is a row, time runs across the top, and each programme is a block as wide as it is long. A live line marks the current moment and each block shows how many minutes are left, so you can tell at a glance whether you have missed the start of something.
Not as-is, which is why curation is built in. You pick which channels appear in your guide and hide everything else, and you can switch off whole languages or categories in one action rather than ticking thousands of boxes. The guide then only draws what you chose.
It tries each channel in turn and records what happened — whether it played, timed out, was not found, was refused, or returned no video. When the provider says the line is busy, the channel is left as not yet tested rather than marked dead, and tried again later. Channels come and go on any provider; this is how you find out before you sit down to watch.
Many providers issue several logins, or run mirror servers for the same account. If the one you are on stops responding, GateswayIPTV moves to another rather than showing you a spinner. It also means a household can run more than one device without reshuffling credentials.
Yes. If your provider includes adult categories, they are hidden behind a PIN and kept out of the guide, search and recently-watched until the PIN is entered. The app does not add any such content — this only controls what your own provider is already sending.
GateswayIPTV is paid software. The price has not been published yet and will appear on this site before it goes on sale. Your IPTV subscription is a separate cost paid to your own provider, and nothing to do with us.
Not at the moment. The Fire TV and Android TV build is installed from the APK on our downloads page, using the free Downloader app. The step-by-step instructions are there.
Your provider's login details are stored on your own device and used to talk to your provider. There is no GateswayIPTV account to create. Guide data is cached locally so the grid is already filled in when you open it.
Usually not. Picture quality, buffering and channels disappearing come from your provider's servers and your own connection. Playback here runs on mpv, which is about as tolerant of awkward streams as software gets, but it cannot invent data that is not arriving. If one channel stutters and the rest are fine, that channel is the problem.
Quite a bit, and it is all credited inside the app under Settings → Open-source licences. Playback uses libmpv and FFmpeg under the LGPL, shipped as separate shared libraries with their licence texts included. The interface is built with Flutter.
Email contact@gateswayiptv.com. For anything about your channels, your login or your billing, contact your IPTV provider; we have no access to your account with them.
