About HoneStream
A pan-European streaming operator run out of Amsterdam, built for households that live across more than one language.
Europe moves. Television did not follow.
Roughly fourteen million EU citizens live in a member state other than the one they were born in, and the number climbs every year. Those households share a recurring irritation: the day you move, half your television disappears. Your national broadcaster geo-blocks you. Your new provider carries none of your old channels. Your parents call about a programme you cannot watch.
HoneStream started in 2017 as an answer to exactly that problem. We were not trying to undercut anyone — we were trying to put a Dutch household in Vienna, a Polish household in Dublin and a Portuguese household in Hamburg back in front of their own programming, on the television they already own, without a dish on the balcony.
Nine years later that remains the entire brief. Twenty-plus national bouquets, 65,000 live channels, 140,000 on-demand titles, one login.
Four principles we will not trade away
Every awkward decision on this site traces back to one of these.
One device, guaranteed
A subscription authorises one device. Splitting a line across three screens is how providers quietly degrade everybody's picture at peak hour. We would rather sell a second subscription than sell a worse first one.
One application
IBO Player, and nothing else. A single supported client means our engineers know the exact behaviour of every installation they are asked to debug, which is why the support desk resolves most tickets in one exchange.
Published prices
Five durations, printed rates, no hidden sports tier and no add-on that mysteriously appears at the final screen. The cheapest plan carries the identical catalogue to the most expensive one.
Honest answers before money
If your connection cannot carry 4K, we say so before you pay. A subscriber who understood what they were buying is worth more than a refund request three days later.
What sits behind the picture
HoneStream runs on distributed edge capacity anchored in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris — the three points where European internet traffic genuinely concentrates. Capacity is reserved against the one hour that matters: 20:45 CET on a midweek continental fixture, when demand across the industry spikes simultaneously.
Our anti-freeze layer monitors each session continuously. If a node degrades mid-broadcast, the session migrates to a healthy one without the viewer seeing a buffering wheel. Independent monitoring across the 2025–26 season recorded 99.9% verified uptime and a mean channel-zap time of under 1.4 seconds — figures we publish precisely because they are checkable.
Encoding is HEVC end to end, which is the unglamorous reason a 4K stream sits comfortably on a 25 Mbps line rather than demanding forty. The full quality ladder is set out on the channels page.
Where we are
Our operations desk is registered in Amsterdam, which is also where most of our transit capacity terminates. Support, however, is deliberately follow-the-sun: whether you message at nine in the morning from Lisbon or half past eleven at night from Tallinn, a human reads it.
What we are not
We are not a broadcaster and we do not own the content we deliver. Every channel and every title belongs to its respective rights holder; HoneStream operates the delivery infrastructure that carries it to your device. Our position on copyright is set out plainly in the DMCA and copyright policy, and rights holders who believe something has been carried in error get a response within five business days.
We also do not carry adult content, do not resell your personal data, and do not run the kind of affiliate network that ends up spamming your inbox. What we collect and why is documented in the privacy policy.
See whether we are any good
Nine years of operating history is a claim. The introductory month at €7.99 is evidence.