Samsung TV / videos / HUNTER PLAYER
REVIEW
Hunter Player arrives on Tizen as a generic IPTV shell with no published spec sheet.
A self-published video app from a single-name developer with no description, no screenshots, and no rating data — the format of every URL-loader IPTV client that turns up on Samsung's store and disappears again.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Hunter Player
HUNTER PLAYER
OUR SCORE
6.0
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Hunter Player landed on Samsung’s Tizen store on 30 March 2026 with the documentation profile of an app that may not be there next quarter. No description. No screenshots. No developer website. No third-party coverage anywhere this desk could find. The publisher name on the listing is “Hunter Player” — the same string as the app title, the developer’s only credit on the store.
The category is video, and the name pattern matches a long-running family of generic Tizen media players built to load an external M3U playlist or Xtream Codes login and turn it into a channel grid. There are a dozen apps with similar profiles on the Samsung store at any given time. Most of them work fine as a thin shell over the Tizen media framework underneath. A few don’t. None publish their spec sheet on the listing, and Hunter Player is no exception.
Hunter Player ships into a category that lives or dies on what URL you paste into it. The app itself is the smallest part of the experience — the Tizen media framework handles the codecs, the playlist provider handles the catalogue, and the player in between is a parser, a grid layout, and a remote-control mapping. Whether Hunter Player’s version of those three things is competent will be visible in the first ten minutes of use. There’s no way to tell from the store page alone.
Hunter Player ships into a category that lives or dies on what URL you paste into it. The app itself is the smallest part of the experience.
FEATURES
Hunter Player is a video-player listing on Samsung's Tizen store from a self-named developer with no website on file, no screenshots in the store page, no long description, and no user rating data. The metadata fits a familiar Tizen pattern: a free, generic media-player shell that accepts an external playlist URL — typically an M3U file for IPTV, sometimes an Xtream Codes login, occasionally a raw HLS stream.
Without a published spec sheet from the developer, the working assumption from category and naming is: paste a playlist URL, the app parses channels into a grid, and tapping a channel hands the stream to Tizen's underlying media framework. Codec support, EPG ingestion, multi-playlist storage, parental controls, and transcoding capability are not documented anywhere this desk could verify.
The Tizen media framework underneath does the heavy lifting for any player of this class — H.264 and H.265 in the standard containers, AAC and AC-3 audio, HLS and DASH adaptive streaming. What Hunter Player layers on top is whatever its own parser and UI handle. With no description and no review history, that surface is a black box.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app is free, installs on stock Tizen without sideloading, and exists on the official store rather than as an unsigned APK. For the Samsung TV owner who already has a playlist URL and a strong preference against the major paid players (Smart IPTV, IPTV Smarters Pro, GSE Smart IPTV), having another free option in the store is genuinely useful — sometimes one player handles a particular feed better than another, and rotating between two or three is normal practice in this category.
Being on the official Samsung store also means automatic updates and no developer-mode setup, which is the friction point that turns most casual users away from sideloaded alternatives.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Everything about the listing reads as provisional. No screenshots, no description, no developer site, no third-party coverage, no rating data — a profile that on Samsung's store usually means either a brand-new release that hasn't accumulated reviews yet (it shipped 2026-03-30, which fits) or an app destined to be pulled when a takedown notice arrives. The Tizen IPTV-player category turns over constantly for the second reason. Anyone evaluating Hunter Player should plan for the listing to disappear without warning and have their playlist URLs backed up somewhere they can paste into a successor.
The bigger structural issue is the category. IPTV-player apps on smart-TV stores exist in a grey zone — the apps themselves are legal, but the playlists users typically load into them often aren't. App Comrade does not endorse loading unlicensed feeds. If you're using a player like this for a paid IPTV service from a legitimate provider, that's the use case the category was built for.
CONCLUSION
Hunter Player is a brand-new Tizen video-player listing with no documentation and no track record. For an experienced IPTV-player user looking for another free option to rotate alongside the established names, it's worth a try — install it, paste a playlist, see whether the grid layout and channel switching suit you. For anyone else, there's no reason to start here. Try Smart IPTV or IPTV Smarters Pro first; they have years of feature history and active support.