Best IPTV Switzerland: Serafe, SRG Apps, blue TV, Salt and IPTV Sellers Weighed Up

A word on who is writing: Vivimate, the IPTV subscription we sell, appears in this comparison, so we don't rank anyone. This page reports no measurements of our own. Swiss franc prices come from each company's site, read on November 9, 2026unless a line says otherwise, and where a site wouldn't load we leave the gap open. Readers who have settled on IPTV can skip ahead to our checklist for vetting an IPTV seller.

Begin with what you already pay: Serafe and SRG

Switzerland is unusual in that every household pays for public broadcasting whether it watches or not. The radio and TV fee collected by Serafe was CHF 335 a year for a private household and CHF 670 for a collective one, set by the Federal Council, with the private rate due to drop to CHF 312 from 1 January 2027. That money funds SRG SSR, and two of its apps are worth opening before you buy anything else. Play SRF streams SRF's programmes on demand. Play Suisse, according to its own FAQ read November 10, 2026, is a free Swiss streaming platform with productions from RTS, RSI, RTR and SRF in the original language with subtitles; you need an account to use it.

If most of your evenings are news, Swiss drama and documentaries in your own language region, those apps may be enough. Everything below is spending on top of the fee, which the next diagram makes visible.

Telecom TV: Swisscom, Salt and Sunrise

Swisscom sells blue TV in steps. The entry tier, blue TV S, cost CHF 15.80 a month for more than 150 channels with 30 hours of replay and no recordings. blue TV M at CHF 25.80 lifted that to more than 290 channels and 7 days of replay, and blue TV L at CHF 35.80 to more than 330. The XL Sport tier, CHF 70.70, added blue Sport. A second or third TV costs extra: Swisscom's multiroom option was CHF 9.90 a month for up to four additional streams.

Salt folds television into Salt Home, a bundle of internet, TV and calls with more than 300 channels and a TV box. It was CHF 39.95 a month for customers who also have a Salt mobile plan and CHF 49.95 for those who don't, and 7-day replay was a CHF 3.95 add-on. Because the internet line is inside that price, Salt Home doesn't sit neatly beside Swisscom's TV-only tiers in the diagram above. Sunrise sells TV too, but its site blocked our reader, so it has no figure here.

• Fits: households that want one company, one invoice and a seller whose rights aren't in question.
• Read closely: discounts tied to a mobile plan, and replay, recordings or extra TVs sold as separate monthly items.
• Language regions: confirm that the tier carries the German, French or Italian channels your household actually watches.

Super League football: blue Sport, with two free windows

The domestic league has one paid home. blue's announcement says blue Sport shows every Super League and Challenge League match until 2030, under the Swiss Football League's agreement with blue Sport and SRG, with commentary in German, French and Italian. SRG keeps one Super League match a round on free television, and blue Zoom shows the top Challenge League game. blue Sport is sold by the year or the month, and customers of other providers can reach it through the blue TV app. Its price page didn't load for us, so check the figure there.

Independent IPTV sellers

The fourth route is an IPTV seller: you pay, usually in US dollars, and receive a login for a player app on a smart TV, streaming stick or phone. The draw is a long list at a low price. The question that matters is rights. IPTV is only a way of delivering television, and Swisscom uses it too; whether a given service is lawful depends on the rights its seller holds. We couldn't load the Swiss Copyright Act on the federal law site, so we don't quote it. Our guide to whether IPTV is legal explains how to judge a seller.

• Fits: viewers who want many channels in one app for less and accept that a seller may not publish its rights.
• Be wary of: every Super League match offered for a few francs, and long plans paid up front with no trial.
• During a trial: search for each channel you watch, in each language you use, at the hour it's on.

Swiss TV from the US or Canada

Many of our readers are Swiss living in North America who want news and series from home rather than a Swisscom contract. The franc prices above are for households in Switzerland, and SRG's apps follow its broadcasting rights. Play Suisse's FAQ is explicit: access abroad is available only to people who live in Switzerland and are staying temporarily in an EU country, and opening it from countries outside the EU isn't currently possible. We don't advise working around a broadcaster's regional limits.

Whatever app you end up using, budget about 10 Mbps per HD stream, 15 for Full HD and 25 for 4K; our guide to IPTV internet speed shows how to check your line, and how simultaneous connections work matters once two people watch at the same time.

Matching the option to the household

1. Public TV in your language is most of it: Play SRF and Play Suisse, already funded by the fee.
2. One bill and settled rights: Swisscom, Salt or Sunrise, compared with and without their internet and mobile plans.
3. Every Super League match: blue Sport, or SRG's free match each round if one game is enough.
4. A big list for little money: an IPTV seller, after a trial and a question about rights.

Where Vivimate fits

Vivimate is an IPTV subscription seller billing in US dollars, prepaid, with no contract and no auto-renewal. We don't publish the rights agreements behind our channels, and we don't promise any named Swiss channel, league or event. A franc card converts the dollar price and your bank may add a fee. If a service problem you report can't be fixed, our refund policy gives a 7-day refund window.

Start with the 24-hour Vivimate trial, which needs no card, and search its guide for the Swiss channels you follow. You can also message us on WhatsApp, compare every Vivimate plan, or read our guide to IPTV in Germany and the rest of our IPTV guides by country.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Read November 9, 2026: Swisscom, blue TV subscriptions; Salt, internet and TV; Serafe, radio and TV fee; Play SRF; blue News, blue Sport's rights to 2030. Read November 10, 2026: Play Suisse FAQ. Speed figures: our internet speed guide. Vivimate prices: our pricing page. Yearly totals are our arithmetic on the listed prices.

Couldn't read: sunrise.ch (bot check), blue Sport's own price page (didn't load), the Swiss Copyright Act on fedlex.admin.ch (didn't render), and a broadcaster list on sfl.ch (none shown).