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title: For users
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parent: null
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order: 1
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# Cloudstream
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An Android app to stream and download Movies, TV-Shows and Animes
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This [open source app](https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream) can stream any media content from various sources
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Check out the [FAQ](../faq.md) first!
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Also check out [Troubleshooting](../troubleshooting.md) if you have any issues.
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### Disclaimer ⚠️
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The app is purely for educational and personal use.
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CloudStream 3 does not host any content on the app, and has no control over what media is put up or taken down. CloudStream 3 functions like any other search engine, such as Google. CloudStream 3 does not host, upload or manage any videos, films or content. It simply crawls, aggregates and displayes links in a convenient, user-friendly interface.
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It merely scrapes 3rd-party websites that are publicly accessible via any regular web browser.
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It is the responsibility of the user to avoid any actions that might violate the laws governing his or her locality.
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### What are the risks in practice?
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Basically none. The content is hosted by the "providers", and if you don't distribute the content yourself, you are pretty much safe
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A lot of misleading articles online try to scare people into buying a VPN subscription when the authors are earning a big commission (sometimes 100% of the VPN subscription).
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VPNs are useful for certain things but aren't a magical tool and most people don't need those
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## Features
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### Streaming
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You can stream media from various sources (developed by the community)
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### Downloading
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You can download media (movies, series and animes) files anywhere on your phone or external storage
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### Searching
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When you search for a media, Cloudstream will search every provider to see if it has that media or not.
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You can change the list of used providers with the settings button in the search page
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You can also enable foreign language providers (such as French) under:
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Settings page > Provider Languages
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and tick the ones you want there
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### 100% free and no ads!
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Cloudstream-3 (also refered to as Cs3) is open-source, that means that anyone can look at the code, there isn't any invasive data collection and anyone can create their own modifed version
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This app doesn't contain any ads and is completely free to download, as a result this app doesn't make any money from someone using the app.
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But you can still help it's development:
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- By contributing to the code of the app itself (requires knowledge of Kotlin)
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- By translating the app in another language
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- By adding a star to the project on github
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- By donating money to dependencies of the project (requires money) *The devs of Cloudstream-3 don't accept donations*
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## Availability
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You can download this app on Android, Android TV, and FireTV Stick. However, it is unfortunately not avaliable on IOS or on desktop, but you can use tools like:
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- [WSA](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/) on Windows
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- [Waydroid](https://waydro.id/) or [Anbox](https://anbox.io/) on Linux
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to emulate Android on desktop.
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