Sports and search
Type a team the way you'd say it, typo and all. Theia searches your channels and guide alongside a public sports schedule, then lines up every channel in your playlists that carries the game, live score included.
Free Search, scores, your teams and reminders are all in the free app.
Sample lineup Made-up channels and teams
Open a game and Theia lists each channel in your playlists that shows it: the network's stations, with your local one first once Theia knows your area, the event channels your provider renamed for the night, and any channel whose guide lists it.
Best feed marks the channel the schedule says carries the game, in your language first. If it starts to freeze, Theia offers another channel carrying the same game, so you stay with the play.
Many providers rename a handful of channels every day with the teams and a start time, and leave them out of the guide. Theia reads those names, so the game turns up even when nothing else lists it.
Games often land on those channels about an hour before the start. Theia reads your playlist again every hour while it's open, and Remind me works before any feed shows.
In your playlist In Theia
Made-up channels and teams from Theia's demo source.
Live scores follow every game on Sports, on Home and in search. Running a little behind live? Delay scores to match my stream holds each change back, from 30 seconds up to 5 minutes, so the score never gets there before the play does.
Saving the game for later? Hide scores keeps every score and game clock out of sight until you turn them back on.
Live now
2 channels in your playlist carry it
Scores refresh every 30 seconds, on Sports, Home and in search.
Follow a team and its next game waits on the Sports screen, with a star beside it wherever it appears and its games at the top of search.
Remind me sets a note for 10 minutes before the start. When it's time, Open game is one click away.
Your teams
Make the most of it
Click Add a team under Your teams on the Sports screen, type a team, city or nickname, and choose Follow.
Type your city or state under Home area in Settings > Sports. Your local station then comes first on a game’s page.
If your stream runs a minute behind, set Delay scores to match my stream to about the same, and the score lands with the play.
Type a sport or league with a time, like college football tonight, and press Enter to see every game on one page.
Turn on Open Theia on this screen at the top of Sports. On a TV the switch says Start on Sports.
On a game’s page, Check feeds tries the top three feeds on a spare stream and marks each one Works or Not responding.
The long read
The game is in your playlist somewhere, behind a renamed event channel and a name full of tags. Here's why, and what helps in any player.
Theia started with a playlist of 9,737 channels and a game that took twenty minutes to find. Search in every player we tried was slow and mostly useless, and switching channels felt like a chore. We wanted a player as good as the streaming services people already pay for, fast and clean, with a search you can trust. Nobody was making one, so we built it.
The name comes from Theia, the Greek goddess of sight and of the bright, clear sky. It felt right for something you look at every night.
No. Theia plays the channels in your own playlists. A public sports schedule supplies game times, networks and live scores, and Theia matches them to channels you already have. A game none of them carries still shows, marked no feeds yet.
No. Search, the Sports screen, live scores, your teams and reminders are all in the free app. See what Premium adds.
Many providers post games on event channels close to the start, usually about an hour before. Theia reads your playlist again every hour while it’s open, so the feeds appear on their own. Set Remind me and you’ll get a note 10 minutes before the start.
Reminders go off while Theia is open. If it was closed at the time, the reminder shows when you next open Theia, up to 2 hours later.
Your IP address, as any website would. Turn off Public sports schedule in Settings > Sports and nothing is fetched from it. Sports then lists the games found in your own channels and guide, without live scores.