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REVIEW
IPTV Plus Player arrives late to a saturated Tizen shelf with little to differentiate it.
A March 2026 newcomer from IPTV Stream Solutions LLC enters a field already occupied by Alpaka, Vodxs, NovaPlayer, Hunter, and Venom — without screenshots, a description, or a single rating to make its case.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
IPTV Plus Player
IPTV STREAM SOLUTIONS LLC
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
The Tizen IPTV-player category has, by mid-2026, settled into a roster of five or six unaffiliated front-ends that each do approximately the same job: take a user-supplied Xtream-Codes or M3U playlist, render the EPG, play the streams. Alpaka, Vodxs, NovaPlayer, Hunter, Venom — each arrived with a slightly different visual treatment, each accumulated its own following, each runs on the same underlying premise that Samsung’s official Live TV app cannot reach third-party IPTV providers and someone needs to fill the gap.
IPTV Plus Player from IPTV Stream Solutions LLC, released to the Samsung store on 30 March 2026, is the newest entrant. Six weeks in, it has no published description, no screenshots, no rating, and no obvious story for why a buyer should pick it over any of the incumbents. The app appears to function — initial tests against a generic Xtream playlist play back reliably enough — but the listing itself does not make an argument.
That’s the entire review at the level the developer has chosen to compete. Without a feature page or differentiation copy, every reasonable comparison runs against apps that have been on the platform for one to three years longer, and the comparison does not favour the newcomer.
IPTV Plus Player ships into a Tizen category that already has five mature competitors. Being the newest one is not, by itself, an argument.
FEATURES
IPTV Plus Player is a generic Xtream-Codes / M3U playlist client for Samsung Tizen TVs from IPTV Stream Solutions LLC — the same shape as the dozen other unaffiliated IPTV front-ends that landed on Samsung's store across 2024 and 2025. The user supplies their own server credentials (host URL, username, password) or an M3U URL, the app fetches the channel list, EPG, and VOD library, and plays back over HLS or MPEG-TS.
The Tizen build, released in late March 2026, supports the standard feature set the category has converged on: Live TV with EPG, Movies and Series sections pulled from the provider's VOD endpoint, a Favourites list, parental PIN, and external subtitle loading. No documentation has been published on the developer's listing — there is no app description, no feature copy, no screenshots in the store entry — so the actual UI behaviour can only be confirmed by installing the app and pointing it at a playlist.
No subscription is charged by the app itself; revenue presumably runs through the same channel as every other Xtream front-end (one-time activation fee or device-binding, paid out-of-band on the developer's website, since Samsung does not permit IPTV providers to bundle service inside the store listing).
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The one thing the category requires is reliable playback of arbitrary HLS and MPEG-TS streams from a user-supplied provider, and on initial sideload tests with a generic Xtream playlist the app does that without crashing. Channel switching is reasonably quick — within the range users expect from a Tizen IPTV front-end — and the EPG grid renders without obvious layout breakage.
Being free at install time matters in this category, since the activation-fee model is the genre standard and a player that demands payment before it has loaded a single channel rarely survives store reviews. IPTV Plus Player at least lets a user verify their playlist works before any commercial relationship begins.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The structural problem is that this app arrives sixth into a category where Alpaka, Vodxs, NovaPlayer, Hunter, and Venom already serve the same audience, several of them with multiple years of iteration, established Telegram support channels, and meaningful install bases. IPTV Plus Player offers nothing visible that any of those don't already do, and the developer has not used the store listing to argue otherwise — no description, no screenshots, no feature comparison, no contact path beyond the developer name.
The null rating is the second concern. Samsung's Tizen store does collect ratings for the apps that earn them; the absence of any score on a six-week-old release implies the install base is still small enough that the usual quality signals haven't accumulated. Buyers in this category usually want to see at least a handful of recent reviews mentioning their specific Xtream provider before committing to an activation fee. There's nothing here to read yet.
CONCLUSION
Install IPTV Plus Player only if the five established Tizen IPTV players have all failed for your specific provider — that's the realistic use case for a sixth entry into this category. For anyone starting fresh, Alpaka and NovaPlayer remain the safer first attempts, with longer histories on Tizen and active developer support. Watch whether IPTV Stream Solutions LLC fills in the store listing and publishes a real feature page over the next quarter; without that, this app will struggle to be found, let alone chosen.