Be it movies, web series, sports, or news, the Amazon firestick has taken over the world of entertainment in a few years!
Having a good time with your friends and family at your home has become even easier, thanks to these technological advancements. However, do you know which channels to surf for free? Stay tuned to find out!
- Kodi
Kodi is a simple and free application for the Amazon firestick, that has a very elegant and delicate user interface. With several variations of options for entertainment, this free application caters to all of your needs and has the perfect pre-curated version of music, TV shows, movies, etc. An added advantage is that you can record things here.
Although Kodi is not present in the Amazon store, it works on all the major Operating Systems and has a variety of web series, movies, music, and games. You can add on and it can even be customized according to your wishes. Kodi also supports various remote controls. Installing Kodi requires jailbreaking your Firestick and here’s how you can jailbreak your Firestick!
- Ditto TV
Ditto TV is one of the budding live-streaming applications that can be connected to your Amazon Firestick at just 20 rupees per month. Apart from being one of the most affordable applications on this list, Ditto TV comes with various channels and is safe against any virus that could enter your device.
Ditto offers multiple packages to its users, which can be chosen according to their wishes from the lot. This user-friendly application is capable of safeguarding your device against malware and has been proven to be one of the easy-to-use applications for Amazon Firestick.
- Typhoon TV
Typhoon TV is available for Android, iOS, PC, and Firestick and can be easily interacted with, thanks to its user-friendly interface. The several titles housed here are well organized based on their genre, language, and category, thus reducing the time viewers waste time on searching tirelessly for the content they want.
Typhoon TV provides high-grade services to all its users and is ad-free. It has an organized user-friendly interface that has content of several genres with language and subtitle support. The content can also be downloaded and watched without any buffering as well!
- Plex
Plex is a similar application to Kodi and is one of the best for your Amazon firestick, as it is a streamer for your locally saved media to the screens. This application can be connected to several devices around the house and be used by many members at the same time.
A premium version of plex is also available, known as Plex Pass which gives the user access to their content from any remote area of the world as well. It has a collection of the best TV shows and movies with an organized interface that streams videos in HD quality for its users.
- Pluto TV
Pluto is the perfect streaming application for live TV channels and offers more than 100 free live channels for your Amazon firestick. Donning over 400 global content partners, Pluto TV allows its users to pick any genre of movie or web series to be streamed live. Additionally, it does not require any password or payment.
The content present here can also be downloaded without any problems and later streamed at the desired time without any issues or buffering. It has content from different servers and a content library that is often updated to contain the most recent entertainment.
- Skill Browser
Skill browser is a substitute for google chrome, the only difference being that it is better than google chrome.
It is Amazon’s in-house browser that was specially made for Amazon’s firestick. It allows its users to control videos, and music through various features of pause, play and skip buttons which are protected by a password and browsing history.
- VLC for Fire
VLC for Fire offers a variety of free media players for your Amazon Firestick to stream your locally stored videos in high quality.
Videos stored on the network or on the firestick itself can be played on this streaming application. There are many formats that help this application run smoothly, offering subtitles, and several playback options to its users.
This application is connected to your firestick and has been optimized to run smoothly without any disturbances or bugs. VLC for Fire has a highly stable and user-friendly interface that is easy to use for users across all ages. It also supports subtitles so that videos from across the world can be streamed with ease.
Final Thoughts
There are many paid apps on Firestick, but if you don’t want to pay the subscription fees you can opt for the above-mentioned applications!
David Prior
David Prior is the editor of Today News, responsible for the overall editorial strategy. He is an NCTJ-qualified journalist with over 20 years’ experience, and is also editor of the award-winning hyperlocal news title Altrincham Today. His LinkedIn profile is here.
