- Let's talk about the top 10 free apps
on your Fire TV device.
Whether you have a Fire Stick or a Fire Cube or a smart TV,
whatever the case may be, I've got 10 free apps for you,
so that, frankly, if you don't want to,
you never have to pay for your entertainment ever again.
Yeah, this video is for anybody who wants to save money
on their entertainment.
Okay, so whether you're paying a bajillion dollars for cable
or whether you're paying a bunch of little fees
for lots of streaming services,
if you use these free services,
yeah, you can save quite a bit of dough.
So let's dive in.
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Okay, let's get into it.
The first thing I'm gonna show you here is how to find apps
on your Fire TV device.
Okay, so I'm gonna go up here to my home screen,
and what I'm looking for is this button right over here.
This is your apps button.
You'll see the My Apps or the Appstore.
Now you can click a bunch of times
to get over there to the right,
or you can simply click to the left and go that way.
It's a little bit quicker to get there.
And I'm gonna go, instead of to My Apps,
I'm gonna go to the Appstore,
and you can find all sorts of stuff here.
This is where you can go to find free apps,
paid apps, whatever,
you can find games on here, all sorts of stuff.
And this is where I found most of my options for today.
So if you find something you like
like Bon Appetit, for instance,
okay, you're gonna click on this,
and it takes you to this screen.
You simply hit the Download button,
and it will download that,
and it'll show up in your apps.
Okay, so if I go back there, you can see it's downloading.
But I'm gonna go back to the home screen,
go to the list of My Apps,
and voila, there you go, Bon Appetit right there.
That one's not actually on my top 10 list,
it's not a bad app,
so you can check that one out.
But let's actually get started with the list.
I'm gonna start with a couple of big ones.
The first one is Tubi.
Tubi is one of the first free streamers out there,
and it's still one of the best.
Now the thing about Tubi that you need to understand,
and this is gonna go
for just about all of these free apps is that,
it is commercial-supported.
As people like to say, there's no such thing as free, right,
so you're either gonna pay with money
or in this case time.
So you do have to sit through commercials
in most of these apps.
All right, but let's get back to Tubi.
Tubi is sort of a,
it started out as a Netflix imitator.
And you can see that, yeah,
it's got these horizontal rows of content
that you can click through
and you can find something to watch.
The thing about Tubi is that,
it actually has a pretty darn good library compared
to a lot of other free streaming apps out there.
All of the apps I'm gonna talk
about today have decent libraries.
But if this is a Netflix imitator,
you'll actually find some Tubi imitators
that have kind of terrible libraries.
And that might be what you're after,
who knows, a little camp never heard anybody.
But yeah, they do have some pretty good stuff here on Tubi.
So check it out.
Now, if you go up here to the top, you'll see, yeah,
they have things separated by movies and TV shows,
and they have a Live TV tab,
but this one came out in the last year or so.
And Tubi, yeah, they do have these Live TV channels.
These are not gonna be the same channels
that you're used to getting with cable or satellite,
but they're gonna be similar.
And you're gonna find a lot of the same kind of content.
Again, you don't have to pay for it
'cause it's commercial-supported.
And now let's go over to another big one, Pluto TV.
Okay, so Tubi started out as a Netflix imitator
that's on-demand content that you can watch anytime,
and they added the Live TV stuff later.
Pluto is exactly the opposite.
So if we go into Pluto, Pluto started as a live TV streamer.
This is kind of a cable imitator or a satellite imitator,
so it's gonna have a lot of those same kinds of channels
that we saw over on Tubi where, yeah,
you're not getting the same cable channels,
but you are getting the same type of content
that you would there.
But Pluto TV, yeah, it started with live TV,
and you get a lot of that,
but they actually expanded to on-demand content eventually.
If you ask longtime cord-cutters,
longtime streamers what is the best free app out there?
This one is a very popular choice.
A lot of people love Pluto TV.
And so do I, I think it's really, really great.
But again, just like Tubi,
if we go up to the top on Pluto TV,
I'm gonna keep hitting my back button,
and there, we get On Demand.
So it's not just the Live TV,
they also tacked on the On Demand.
And once again, you can see,
yeah, we've got some decent titles here to work with.
I think I might just have to do a "Matlock" marathon,
I didn't know they had that.
Next up is an app that comes pre-installed
on your Fire Stick, your Fire Cube, what have you,
the News app.
If we click in here,
I actually think that Fire TV has done a great job
of bringing together a bunch of news sources into one spot.
So when I do these top 10 lists on other devices
like a Roku or a Chromecast or an Apple TV,
I often highlight a really specific news source.
But with the Fire TV, you don't have to do that.
It's all right here.
It's actually really pretty fantastic
with a bunch of different categories here up top.
So you can check out the trending stuff,
you can check out your preferred channels.
Okay, you can see them all listed here.
That's really quite a bit of national news,
local news, really a lot to go through.
I myself often go here to the Categories section.
And when I come down to Categories,
yeah, it's not that there's a ton of categories
that you have to wade through,
but it does funnel you into what's most important to you
at the moment.
Peacock is an app that has to make a list like this.
Okay, Peacock is NBCUniversal streaming service,
and there is a premium version.
There's actually two tiers of a premium version
where you can pay for even more content
or for no commercials,
but they have a free tier that's really quite good.
So if you log in to Peacock here,
I create a profile,
you come in here, and you can watch,
I believe, over half of their library
right here for free, again, commercial-supported.
So they will put some stuff behind the paywall,
and I know that can get frustrating.
But because they do have so much good stuff
out in the free version,
yeah, it's gotta make this top 10 list for sure.
One thing that Peacock does
especially well is wrestling content.
So if you're a wrestling fan,
you've gotta get this app right here.
You can see "WWE,"
and they have a whole lot of wrestling content
for you right here.
All right, let's move on to Plex.
Plex is known as a place
where you can bring your own content.
So you go onto your computer,
you sign up for a Plex profile,
and then you can actually upload your own content.
So if you have DVDs, you have music,
you have photos that you want to load onto the Plex server,
then you can access it here on your Fire TV.
It's really slick, really nice that way.
But what people may not know is that,
Plex now has their own library of live TV
and on-demand movies and shows
just like we saw over on Pluto and on Tubi.
And there's even more to Plex nowadays,
there was actually an update that lets you bring in shows
and movies from your watch list on other streaming services.
But this isn't a deep dive,
I'm not really gonna go into that,
but you can check out the video
that we had earlier this week that Juan did deep diving
into Plex's new services.
So go check that out.
All right, how about we do a twofer?
Okay, this is kids content.
Now you're probably familiar with PBS KIDS, right?
It's fantastic, it's a great place to get kids content.
But you may not know that there is a LEGO Channel as well.
This is all LEGO content all the time.
On this homepage, we can go right past all this stuff.
You can see all the different categories they've got,
but you can also say Skip this Screen,
and it'll take you to all of their content.
On the LEGO Channel,
a lot of this is going to focus on shorter content,
you know, kid-friendly stuff,
but they've got LEGO animated series,
they've got people building LEGOS,
they've got people talking about LEGOS,
they've got all sorts of LEGO content.
And I'll tell you what,
my kids love this channel.
YouTube should need no explanation, right?
It's YouTube, you're probably watching me
on YouTube right now.
Like and subscribe.
But while there was a spat a while ago
between Amazon and Google,
and YouTube wasn't available
on the Fire TV devices, it is now.
And so you should definitely have it
as part of your streaming arsenal.
Let's talk about Twitch.
Twitch is a very niche streaming service.
This one is all about video games.
Yeah, there is some other content on there,
but mostly, it's about watching video games.
For instance, I'm a big "StarCraft" fan,
and I can watch international "StarCraft" tournaments
here on Twitch on my Fire TV.
Or you can watch people streaming
themselves playing video games.
You can watch people talking about video games.
There's a ton of video game content on Twitch.
And the nice thing about highlighting it here
on the Fire TV is that,
Twitch, for whatever reason, is not available on Roku.
So if you're a Roku user
or you're trying to decide between the two,
then this one is not available there.
It is available, however, on Fire TV.
Freevee, as you can see, was formerly IMDB TV.
Okay, so this is the free version of Prime Video.
You can kind of think of it that way.
I don't know why they call it Freevee,
I guess because it rhymes with TV,
but regardless, it's a stupid name.
But that doesn't mean it's a stupid app,
they've got a lot of good content on here.
One thing I will warn you about is that,
the Freevee app is a bit glitchy.
When they switched it over from IMDB TV,
they changed the format,
and the software got a little bit glitchy.
It's not too bad,
but you may run into problems where the app resets
or it sends you back to your Fire TV home screen,
something like that.
So watch out for that.
That's why it's not highest on this list
is because of stuff like that.
But the content is good enough,
and I'm sure that they'll work out those kinks soon enough.
Hopefully, that won't be too much of an issue
for much longer.
Last but not least,
and this one may come as a surprise, is the Roku Channel.
Yeah, it is in fact available on Fire TV.
So if you click on the Roku Channel,
yeah, it's exactly what you would get on a Roku,
just available here on Fire TV.
And I highlight this one
because Roku is actually doing some really cool stuff
with their originals,
with the content that they have acquired,
or that they are now making.
So if you wanna see some stuff
that you can't see anywhere else,
the Roku Channel is a good place for that.
It's also got a Live TV section, it's got news,
it's got a family-friendly section, all sorts of stuff.
The Roku Channel really is trying to be a one-stop shop
for all sorts of content,
for all your content needs.
And I think they do a pretty good job at it.
So definitely check this one out
even if you're a Fire TV user.
So there you have it.
Like I said, you never have to pay for content again
because there's plenty for you to consume
right here on this free list.
Hopefully, this helps you out.
Let me know in the comments below
what your favorite might be
or what you would add to the list
if you're an experienced streamer, let me know.
Don't forget to like and subscribe
and all that YouTube stuff.
Thanks so much for watching everybody,
and I will see you next time.