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M3U player

Paste an M3U link. Watch.

Yagi plays the M3U playlist from your provider on iPhone, iPad and Mac: paste its address once and its channels, movies and shows are ready on all your devices, with favourites, pause and rewind, and Picture in Picture.

Download on the App Store How to add one on a Mac

Free for 7 days. Then £0.99 a month or £9.99 a year, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Cancel any time in your App Store settings. Prices in your App Store may differ by country. Works with Family Sharing.

What an M3U playlist is.

An M3U playlist is a list of streams, one after another, each with a name and often a group and a logo. Providers share it as a link that usually ends in .m3u or .m3u8, like https://tv.example.com/playlist.m3u.

In Yagi, choose M3U Link, paste the address, and give it a name if you like. Yagi reads the channels, sorts them into their groups, and checks the link again by itself once a day, so new channels just appear.

Yagi's Add your playlist window on the Mac with M3U Link chosen and an example playlist address
An example address: use the one from your provider.

What you get from an M3U link

  • Everything in the playlist

    Every channel, movie and show in the playlist, in its groups, ready to play.

  • Pause and rewind

    Pause live TV and skip back up to 2 hours, then catch up.

  • Favourites

    Star the channels you come back to; they're at the top on every device.

  • Rename and hide

    Give channels and groups names you recognise, and hide the rest.

  • Picture in Picture

    Keep a channel in the corner while you do something else.

  • iCloud sync

    Your playlist and favourites on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Good to know: with an M3U link, Yagi plays everything in the playlist, movies and shows included, but they aren't sorted into Movies and TV Shows, and there's no TV guide. If your provider also gives you an Xtream Codes login, use that instead to get movies and series in their own sections, the guide and reminders. More on Xtream Codes.

Yagi spots an Xtream login in disguise.

Some M3U links carry a username and password, like …/get.php?username=…&password=…&type=m3u_plus. Those come from an Xtream Codes server. Paste one and Yagi says so, with a button to switch to Xtream Codes, so you get the guide, movies and series from the same login.

Yagi on iPhone noting that a pasted M3U link is an Xtream Codes link, with a Use Xtream Codes button

Questions

Can Yagi open an M3U file saved on my device?

Yagi plays M3U playlists from a link, so it can refresh them by itself every day. If you have a file, ask your provider for its address.

What's the difference between .m3u and .m3u8?

For a playlist they're the same list of channels; .m3u8 just says the text is UTF-8. Paste either one.

Does Yagi show a TV guide for M3U playlists?

Not today. The guide and reminders come with an Xtream Codes login.

Does Yagi come with an M3U playlist?

No. Yagi is a player and doesn't provide any channels. Use a playlist from a provider you're entitled to use.

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On iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the Xtream or M3U playlist from your own provider. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Download on the App Store

Free for 7 days. Then £0.99 a month or £9.99 a year, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Cancel any time in your App Store settings. Prices in your App Store may differ by country. Works with Family Sharing.

Yagi doesn't come with channels: it plays the playlist from your own provider.