Samsung TV Plus on Firestick
& Android TV — What Works in 2026

What Is Samsung TV Plus?

Samsung TV Plus is Samsung's free, ad-supported streaming service that gives viewers access to over 300 live channels without a subscription or credit card. It launched in 2015 and has grown into one of the largest free streaming services in the United States. The service is entirely ad-supported, meaning Samsung earns revenue from advertising while you watch for free.

The channel lineup spans news, entertainment, sports highlights, food, music, lifestyle, and movies. Channels include major network news streams, entertainment channels, and specialty content. The catch? Samsung TV Plus was designed as a competitive differentiator for Samsung hardware and has not been widely ported to third-party devices.

Where Samsung TV Plus Is (and Is Not) Available

Why Is Samsung TV Plus Not on Firestick?

The absence of Samsung TV Plus on Firestick comes down to business strategy. Amazon and Samsung are direct competitors in the smart TV and streaming device market. Amazon has its own free streaming service (Freevee, now integrated into Prime Video), and Samsung has little commercial incentive to help Amazon devices attract more users. Samsung TV Plus exists partly to drive consumers toward Samsung TVs — making it available everywhere would undercut that value proposition.

There have been no public announcements from Samsung about plans to bring Samsung TV Plus to Firestick or Fire TV in 2026.

Workarounds for Firestick Users

While there is no official app, Firestick users have two unofficial options — though both have significant drawbacks:

How Do You Try the Browser Method on a Firestick?

Install Amazon Silk Browser from the Appstore, open the Samsung TV Plus website, then switch the player to full screen. It takes about five minutes and changes nothing on your device, so it is the safer workaround to try first.

1. From the Fire TV home screen, open Find, then Search, type Silk and install Amazon Silk Browser.
2. Open Silk and enter the Samsung TV Plus web address using the on-screen keyboard.
3. If the site shows a mobile layout, open the Silk menu and request the desktop site.
4. Pick a channel, then select the full-screen icon on the player. Use the remote's circle pad to move the cursor.
5. If the site says it is unavailable in your region, the web player is not offered where you are and no setting on the Firestick will change that.

Expect slower channel changes than in a native app, and no proper TV guide. If the picture stutters, close other apps first; our guide to fixing buffering on streaming sticks covers memory and Wi-Fi checks that help in a browser too.

Is Sideloading the Samsung TV Plus APK Safe?

Sideloading is only as safe as the file you download, and there is no official Samsung TV Plus APK for Fire TV, so any copy you find comes from a third party. If you still want to try it, use a well-known APK archive and remove the app if it asks for permissions a TV app does not need.

• Enable installs only for Downloader: go to Settings, My Fire TV, Developer Options, Install Unknown Apps, and switch on Downloader alone rather than every app.
• Expect a phone interface: the mobile app is built for touch, so some buttons may be unreachable with a remote. A Bluetooth mouse helps.
• Turn installs back off afterwards: switch Install Unknown Apps off again once you have finished, to keep the device locked down.
• Expect it to break: mobile builds can check the device model and stop working after an update.

Our Downloader app guide walks through the Developer Options menu in more detail, including where it hides on newer Fire TV models.

What Gives You a Similar Free Channel Guide on Firestick?

Free ad-supported apps that run natively on Fire TV give you the same kind of scrolling channel guide that Samsung TV Plus offers, without workarounds. Several of them carry overlapping news, film and lifestyle channels, so you lose less than you might expect.

• Plex: a free Live TV section alongside your own media. See how Plex Live TV works.
• DistroTV: a free app with many international and niche channels; read our DistroTV setup guide.
• A roundup of the rest: our list of free live TV apps for Firestick compares the main options side by side.

If you have a Samsung TV elsewhere in the house, Samsung TV Plus is already on it. For the Firestick, pick one or two free apps and add a paid service only if you need live league sport or channels from another country.

What Channels Are on Samsung TV Plus?

Samsung TV Plus groups its free channels by genre, and the lineup varies by country and changes often. The names below are examples reported for the US lineup; check the guide on your Samsung TV for what is live today.

Note that Samsung TV Plus does not carry live NFL games, NBA, NHL, or MLB — it focuses on highlights and secondary sports content. For live sports on Firestick, a premium IPTV service like TVNado is necessary.

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