TVLok

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TVLok Changelog

What changed in the latest TVLok releases for Android TV, Fire TV, phones, and tablets.

Release notes

TVLok 1.0.104

September 6, 2026 · Build 124

Remote fixes in full screen, a Home button that leaves the app, a new settings layout, and a History lane in the live guide.

Fixes

  • The remote works again inside Recent Channels, History and the channel list when full screen was opened from the guide. Recent Channels moves with Left and Right; History moves with Up and Down.
  • Pressing Home on TV now leaves the app instead of shrinking the channel into a floating window. Picture-in-picture on Home is off by default and can be turned on in Settings.
  • On the side menu, Up from the top row wraps to Exit and Down from Exit wraps to the top row.

New

  • Settings are grouped into nine sections with subtitles, including a new Live TV & Guide screen and a single audio output picker. Account now holds subscription, backup, sync and sign out.
  • The live guide gains a History lane under All Playlists, next to Favorites, with your merged watch order and no duplicates.
  • Recordings on Home show clearer states: stopped and partly saved captures are never marked failed, saved rows show length and start time, and failures collapse into one chip.

Improvements

  • The guide rail keeps a focused row in an empty lane, and presses during the cross-playlist preview land one row per press.
  • Guide schedule fallback fetches far less from the provider when switching categories.
  • Fire TV Cube: background work is bounded while an import runs, so the app is no longer killed and restarted every 30 seconds in the background.
  • The catalog database drops redundant indexes, which lowers import cost. Large custom groups and hidden lists no longer hit a database limit.

Release notes

TVLok 1.0.103

September 6, 2026 · Build 123

A hotfix for in-app updates on Fire TV and Google TV. It includes everything in 1.0.102.

Fixes

  • The in-app Download and install button works again on Fire TV and Google TV. Builds 1.0.100 to 1.0.102 wrongly reported that no package installer was available before the download started.
  • Back in the live guide reaches the exit prompt again after watching a channel, Back from fullscreen returns to the lane the channel was opened from, and the side menu has an Exit entry (from 1.0.102).

Release notes

TVLok 1.0.102

September 6, 2026 · Build 122

A hotfix for the Back button on Android TV.

Fixes

  • Back in the live guide reaches the exit prompt again after watching a channel; the guide no longer sends every Back straight back into the player.
  • Back from fullscreen returns to the lane the channel was opened from, including the All Playlists Favorites and History lanes.
  • A new Exit entry at the bottom of the side menu opens the exit prompt directly.

Release notes

TVLok 1.0.100

September 6, 2026 · Build 120

A refreshed TV experience, easier setup, and reliability improvements across the app.

Watching and browsing

  • Improved Live TV guide navigation, playlist switching, and remote controls.
  • More reliable live, catch-up, movie, and series playback, with improvements to pause, seek, resume, and TV viewing options.
  • Improved Movies and Shows browsing, details, and Continue Watching.
  • A refreshed Home screen brings favorites, recordings, and recent additions together, with new episode discovery and optional alerts in Settings.
  • Search now includes TV programs alongside channels, movies, and shows.

New episode alerts

  • Add shows to Favorites to follow them. Shows you have started watching are included automatically too.
  • On Android TV, Fire TV, phones, and tablets, open Settings > General, scroll to Notifications, and check that New episode alerts is on. It is enabled by default and is set separately on each device.
  • On phones and tablets, also turn on Allow notifications in that section and accept the Android permission prompt.
  • Newly detected episodes appear under Home > New episodes. Supported devices can also show a notification.
  • This works with supported Xtream playlists. TVLok checks periodically, so alerts are not instant. The first check records the episodes already available; later checks detect new additions.

Setup and everyday improvements

  • Easier first-time setup, clearer playlist management, and better playlist compatibility.
  • More efficient playlist and guide updates, with clearer progress and status information.
  • Improved syncing of favorites, watch history, hidden items, and playlist changes across devices.
  • Recording and pause-live improvements, including better support for shared recording folders.
  • Stability, startup, and update improvements for Fire TV and Android devices, with better handling of large libraries and limited storage.

Windows and website

  • TVLok for Windows is available in public beta for Windows 10 and 11.
  • A simpler website download experience, with improvements to account, channel, and device management.
Download and release information

Previous release notes

TVLok 1.0.87

August 15, 2026 · Build 107

Guide-aware channel switching

  • Fullscreen Up and Down now stay inside the guide list you opened, including provider categories, Favorites, and History.
  • Super Favorites keeps its exact cross-playlist channel order instead of falling back to a provider category.
  • Preview, fullscreen playback, Back, focus restoration, and one-command-per-key behavior received focused TV fixes.

Profile-safe cloud sync

  • Favorites, watch history, search history, hidden channels, settings, PIN state, and reminders now stay bound to the exact account and profile.
  • Profile changes refresh authoritative settings and profile state while protecting newer local edits from stale acknowledgements.
  • Durable retries and stricter cache fencing improve recovery after reconnects, restarts, and account or profile switches.

Large-library reliability

  • Improved import, guide, and category handling for large multi-playlist libraries.
  • Movies and Shows browsing, details, playback return focus, Favorites, History, and Resume received regression coverage.
  • The update dialog remains scrollable on compact phone screens so its actions stay reachable.

Known issue

Hidden categories may show an internal identifier instead of the friendly category name. This is display-only and does not remove hidden-category data. Multiview remains in testing and is not part of this release.

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