Entertainment
Xumo Play: Stream TV & Movies
Free streaming with more than 350 live channels and thousands of on-demand titles, no login needed.
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- Developer
- Xumo LLC
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 1K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 17+
- Version
- 4.4.4
- Price
- Free
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About this app
No login, no subscription: Xumo Play streams for free to people who want something to watch without signing up for anything. There are more than 350 live channels covering movies, TV series, news and sports, plus around 15,000 titles available on demand, and it runs on phones, tablets and other devices. Channels are grouped into 26 genres. Among them are Local News, Weather, Latino, Crime TV, Horror & Sci-Fi, Westerns & Country TV, Game Shows & Daytime TV and Action & Drama TV. New and exclusive movies are added every month, a guide shows what is on now and what's coming up, and recommendations adjust to your viewing habits over time. Local and national news channels carry breaking news through the day. Since it is free, expect the trade-off to be ad breaks rather than a bill.
Xumo Play: Stream TV & Movies: the full guide
What the app is
Free television in the old sense: you turn it on and something is playing. Xumo Play offers more than 350 live channels and around 15,000 on-demand titles with no account, no subscription and no credit card, on phones, tablets and other devices. Ads pay for it.
Channels are sorted into 26 genres, from Local News and Weather to Crime TV, Horror and Sci-Fi, Westerns and Country, Game Shows and Daytime, and Action and Drama. A guide lists what's playing now and next, new and exclusive films arrive monthly, and recommendations shift with what you watch. National and local news channels run breaking coverage through the day.
How it works day to day
You open the app and land on a channel already playing. Flicking through the guide is closer to channel-surfing than to picking a title from a menu, and that is the mood: background television, something on while cooking, a news channel during breakfast.
When you do want to choose, the on-demand library has thousands of films and series to browse by genre. Ad breaks interrupt at roughly broadcast intervals. There is no watchlist to log into, no profile to set up, and nothing to cancel, which makes it the kind of app that gets installed on a spare tablet and left there.
Why people look for it
Cutting the cable bill without losing the feeling of live TV. People searching for free streaming want channels rather than a catalogue, and want to skip the sign-up forms. Xumo's news channels are a particular draw for people who miss having a 24-hour news feed. Only about a thousand ratings are logged on this listing, though the 4.6 average is healthy.
Look and feel
The five screenshots will almost certainly show the live guide grid, a playing channel and the on-demand poster rows, which are the three screens that matter. Free ad-supported TV apps tend to use a dark theme with a horizontal guide, and the 26-genre organisation suggests a tabbed or filtered guide rather than one long list.
Updates and upkeep
Version 4.4.4 from Xumo LLC suggests a maintained app with several major revisions behind it. The rating base of roughly a thousand on this listing is small relative to the scale of the service, which may mean this is one listing among several. Monthly content additions are stated in the listing, though nothing about app update frequency is. App Store only here.
