Welcome everybody to today's video.
Today we're going over the Amazon Fire Stick apps
that you have available
and today we're gonna do it a little different.
The last time I did one of these
it was the top 10 absolute best apps, the must-haves.
Well, today, I'm looking at a few hidden gems
that we found on the Amazon Fire Stick.
What we're not going to do is talk about,
all the hidden stuff for sideloading apps
and stuff like that.
So, if you're a power user, if you're an advanced user,
I know, it's pretty cool.
You can do some great stuff with the Fire Stick,
that's just not quite what we're going over today.
We're gonna talk about stuff that is available
right out of the box on your Fire Stick.
So, if you are just starting out,
and you wanna see
kinda what this Fire Stick can get you right out of the box.
That's what we'll go over today.
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Now, if you check this video right up here,
I kinda go over how to install these apps.
I'm gonna skip over that for today.
Now, I'm on the home screen here on my Fire,
you can see the little preview
of what we're gonna be talking about.
But I'm gonna go down to your apps and channels
and click left to where it says, see all.
And this is where we're gonna be heading for most of today.
Now, like I said, we're skipping past the big name stuff
so I'm gonna right past Netflix and Disney+ and HBO
and all that stuff and go right down here
and start with Xumo.
You may have heard of this, you may not.
Xumo is kind of.
Yeah, if you've ever heard of Tubi,
this is like the free version of Netflix.
It's commercial supported Netflix.
It's kind of the way you think of it.
Xumo, it kind of mirrors your cable experience.
So in this case we can go through
a bunch of different channels and not all of them are,
channels you've never heard.
We're on the History channel.
We've got ABC News Live, Bloomberg, all that sort of stuff.
So, there is stuff that you've heard of in here,
stuff that will be interesting for you to watch.
It's all free, all commercial supported
and they do have on-demand
so you can click over there and get,
a similar experience to a cable on-demand type of thing.
Okay, let's move on and go to Stirr.
This is our number two option here.
Well, these aren't rank ordered,
I just have it number two. (laughs)
So Stirr, is the Sinclair Broadcasting free app.
So, Sinclair is a company
that owns a ton of media networks out there.
And so, a lot of local news stations and other things.
So, it's got suggested cities based on where I live.
So if I choose Salt Lake City,
KUTV is our Sinclair station here.
It's gonna have a lot of content from that
and other Sinclair properties.
So, we'll have some live feeds
of local news and that sort of thing
but it'll also give you some on-demand content as well.
Anything that's owned by Sinclair,
they could put right on to this app.
Again, like most free apps,
it's gonna be commercial supported.
But it's all there for you to watch as you would like.
Next up is Popcornflix
and a lot of these are gonna fit into that same category.
TV shows and movies that are commercial supported,
that you don't have to pay for, for that reason.
So as you go through Popcorn Netflix,
you'll see that there is plenty to watch here
and it's not all stuff that you've never heard of before.
This is going to be, some names that you know.
21 Jump Street and Kitchen Nightmares, all that stuff.
You can get plenty of stuff here to watch.
So, this will be similar to something like Tubi.
But, the difference here is
they just have a different library.
And so, it's nice to have a few apps,
very similar to that where,
if you're not quite finding what you wanna watch on one,
you can jump over to the other.
So, Popcornflix is a good one.
Next up we've got a couple of apps that I really enjoy.
And these kinda fit into the very specific niche category.
So Western Mania.
If you like Westerns, then this is gonna be fun for you.
If you don't, if this isn't quite your thing,
then you can find a lot of apps like this.
If you go to the download page for something like this,
it'll give you the see more option
or others that people have downloaded
and it'll give you a lot of ideas for these niche apps.
So, this one is all about Westerns
you can see what's available here, McLintock!
Come on, everybody loves McLintock!
Don't you?
Come on.
Or, if we pop back out Gravitas Movies,
is another one that's kind of in that super niche category.
In this case, it's going to be kind of independent films,
documentaries, that sort of thing.
I kinda think of it as,
the Sundance type of stuff.
And again, this is stuff that is going
to be interesting to you if you like those indie films.
And so, we have stuff with people you've actually heard of.
Stuff that maybe you haven't heard of, that,
if you're not really plugged into the indie film circuit,
you may not have heard of some of these.
A lot of great documentaries.
So, that channel is going to be,
good for somebody who enjoys that sort of thing.
All right, this is one that actually is a bit of a crossover
from our top 10 list.
I absolutely love this channel
and I think not enough people know about it.
Rakuten Viki is Asian TV.
So, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea.
It's got all these different categories
from all these different places
and these shows are, they're simply brought over from there,
lovingly dubbed or subbed by mega fans
and then put here on Viki.
And so, you can go check out popular shows,
popular actors, et cetera.
And, you can even search by country, if you pop over,
we could see just TV shows from Taiwan.
And that'll show you, those.
FilmRise TV is the last one on the,
kind of catch all, everything for everyone list.
And there are a few different versions of FilmRise.
In this case it's FilmRise TV
then you've got FilmRise Kids and FilmRise Movies,
there's a ton of crossover between the apps,
so you can check out which one you like the most.
But again, this one is gonna
kinda function a bit like Netflix.
You've got different categories
and a lot of titles within those.
And again, these are not just titles
that you've never heard of
that you would never wanna watch again.
Who doesn't wanna watch the original Batman series?
I mean, you can go watch it here on FilmRise.
Again, commercial supported so watch out for that,
but there is some pretty great stuff on here.
All right, coming up on our last three.
WeatherNation, is exactly what it sounds like.
It's a weather channel.
You can technically get Alexa to tell you the weather
but in this case, you can also access feeds
for live weather reports and all of that.
So, WeatherNation is a good one,
if you wanna stay plugged in.
Maybe you have family around the country
and you wanna set different favorite zones
and really quickly get a report on each of those.
So, WeatherNation is my favorite weather app.
All right, back into the niche stuff.
Court TV.
If you love courtroom dramas, try the real thing.
Court TV gives you live feeds and recent coverage
from different trials, and these are the real thing.
These are not courtroom dramas.
So, if you wanna go check out the Weinstein trial,
New York versus Weinstein, you can see updates on that
and it'll walk you through the whole thing.
So, if you're addicted to courtroom stuff,
this is gonna be a fantastic one for you.
And last but well maybe least,
I mean I guess that's up to you.
You can decide which ones you like.
CW Seed is exactly what it sounds like.
It's the CW but in this case it's going to be,
more than what you would find just on the app.
Which is gonna concentrate more on current shows
that are going on right now.
This is gonna have some stuff that's already off the air
like Hellcats or L.A. Complex or others.
So there you go, that's our top 10 hidden gems on Fire TV.
Let me know in the comments what I missed.
If there's something that you absolutely love.
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We'll be back with more hidden gems,
not just for the Fire TV but on Chromecast, Roku and others.
So, stay tuned for those.
Thanks for watching everybody.
See you next time.