BeeTV Overview for Android, Fire TV & Android TV

BeeTV is an unofficial Android application that presents a browsable catalogue of films and television series, then searches third-party websites for a playable link when you select a title. It hosts no video of its own and licenses none of the catalogue it displays.

The catalogue itself comes from public movie metadata databases, which is why titles appear whether or not any source exists. The scraper layer that follows is where the app's legal and reliability problems both originate.

There is no authoritative version number, because there is no single publisher. Distributors increment independently and repackagers inflate numbers to appear current. Community discussion has centred on 3.x builds, with development intermittent for years.

• Platform: Android package only — no iOS, Windows, macOS or Roku build exists.
• Practical Android baseline: Android 7 or newer; very old builds fail to install on Android 14 and 15.
• Reported install size: roughly 20–40 MB, growing to 60–120 MB installed.
• Developer: unverified and anonymous.
• Store listing: none on Google Play, the Amazon Appstore or the App Store.
• Update channel: none that can be cryptographically verified.

• A large catalogue, which reflects metadata breadth rather than licensed content.
• Subtitle support sourced from community databases, with frequent timing and encoding mismatches.
• External player handoff to VLC or MX Player using a standard Android intent.
• Chromecast support, reported as inconsistent.
• Resume watching, stored locally only — nothing survives a reinstall.
• Search and favourites, both operating on metadata rather than availability.

Because it is an Android package, only Android-derived platforms are relevant: phones, tablets, Android TV, Google TV and Fire OS devices. Fire TV compatibility is incidental to Fire OS being an Android fork, not a supported configuration.

Claims of iPhone, iPad, Windows or Roku versions are false. Roku OS is unrelated to Android and has no sideloading path at all, and Microsoft ended Windows Subsystem for Android support in March 2025.

We document requirements, limitations and known failure modes per device class. We do not publish package links, mirror sites, downloader codes or step-by-step sideloading instructions, because the practical purpose of those steps is access to unlicensed content.

If you want a working streaming setup on the same hardware, every device listed on this site has licensed, store-published options that install in a couple of clicks and update themselves.

Safety here is not unknown so much as unverifiable. With no publisher signing identity, no store review and no tamper-evident update path, two files with the same name and version can contain entirely different code. Repackaged builds with injected adware are the most commonly documented outcome.

• Never grant accessibility or display-over-other-apps permission to a media app.
• Keep install-from-unknown-sources disabled.
• Leave Play Protect enabled and act on its warnings.
• Treat any build advertised as ad-free or modded as hostile.

A media player is generally lawful software; liability attaches to the content accessed. European case law has held that knowingly accessing infringing streams falls outside the temporary-copy exception, and similar reasoning applies elsewhere. Practical consequences for users range from ISP notices to, in some countries, settlement demand campaigns.

This is background information, not legal advice, and rules differ by jurisdiction.

Distinguish local faults from upstream failure first. Low storage, corrupted cache and version incompatibility are local and fixable. Empty catalogues and 'no links found' are upstream and are not fixable on your device by any means.

The honest summary is that BeeTV is an abandoned app in a category defined by unverifiable binaries, chronic breakage and legal exposure, and the free licensed alternatives have improved enormously since it was popular. If you came here for a download link, the most useful thing this page can give you instead is a working, lawful setup that keeps working.