This is the comparison nobody offered you the last time you bought. Rather than cancelling one provider on the strength of a sales page and hoping, you run both at once for 24 hours and watch the same channels on each. What you get is a real account — every channel, the whole on-demand catalogue, the programme guide and the 4K feeds — not a trimmed demo arranged to look good.
Getting one
- Send the form beside this, or message WhatsApp, and say what you are watching on now.
- A username, password and server address come back, usually within a quarter of an hour. A person writes it, so you can ask questions in the same breath.
- In your player, add it as a second playlist rather than replacing the first. TiViMate calls it Add playlist; IPTV Smarters lets you add another user. Both hold several.
- Leave your current subscription exactly as it is. Nothing gets cancelled during this.
How to run the comparison properly
Three things decide it, and none of them is the channel count. First, write down the ten channels you would genuinely miss and open every one of them on both lines. A line-up of 25,000+ is irrelevant if your ten are not in it, and the ones that go missing at cheap providers are usually the regional and international feeds rather than the famous ones. Second, do it at the hour you actually watch, on a weekend, with something live running — capacity is only ever tested when everybody wants the same feed at once, which is precisely when the last service probably failed you. Third, test on the television you use rather than the laptop that happens to be nearest, because a surprising share of problems belong to the device or the wifi rather than to any provider.
What a fair test looks like
Switch between the two playlists on the same channel, one after the other, during the same match. If ours holds and the other stutters, you have your answer in about ninety seconds. If both stutter identically, the problem is your connection and changing provider will not fix it — we would rather tell you that during a free trial than take a year's payment and have you discover it in week three.
Why the free playlists are not the alternative
Some people arrive here having tried the free M3U lists posted on code-sharing sites. Those are scraped feeds republished for anyone to take, so thousands of strangers hit one source at once and it folds, usually inside a week. No guide comes with them, nobody is answerable when they stop, and the sites distributing them have a long record of carrying malware alongside. If that is what went wrong last time, a maintained service is the comparison worth making.
What we ask in return
Nothing, and no card. One per household, because the line exists to settle a comparison rather than to supply free television indefinitely. If the first attempt was genuinely wasted — a quiet night with nothing worth testing on, or a device that turned out to be the obstacle — say so and we will usually extend it rather than argue about it.
What people ask about running two at once
Can it really run alongside my current subscription?
Yes, and that is the point of it. TiViMate, IPTV Smarters and most other players hold more than one playlist, so you add ours as a second entry and switch between them with a couple of clicks. Nothing about your existing line is touched, and you cancel nothing until you have seen both.
Is the test line cut down?
No. It carries everything a paid account does: all 25,000+ channels, the full on-demand catalogue, the programme guide and the 4K feeds, for 24 hours. A trimmed demo would make the comparison worthless, which is presumably why the service you are leaving may have offered you one.
Do I hand over card details?
No card, no billing information, nothing to remember to cancel. The line is arranged over WhatsApp or through the form here, runs for 24 hours and expires by itself. It cannot convert into a paid plan because there is nothing on file to charge.
How quickly does it arrive?
Usually a few minutes. Lines are issued by hand in the conversation rather than by an automated system, which is fractionally slower at four in the morning but means the same person can help you add it as a second playlist while you are already talking to them.
What should I be looking for during the test?
Three things. Whether your own ten channels are present. Whether the picture holds at the hour you actually watch, with something live on. And whether it behaves on the television you use rather than the laptop that happens to be nearest. Compare each against the same channel on your current line, side by side.
Can I have a second one?
Generally one per household, because the line exists to settle a comparison rather than to supply free television. If the first attempt was genuinely wasted — a quiet night with nothing worth testing on, or a device that turned out to be the obstacle — say so and we will usually extend it rather than argue.