You don't need a cable bill to keep watching Hallmark Channel. Here's every way to stream it online, and how to do it for free.
Reviewed and updated July 2026 by our cord-cutting team · 12 options
You can stream Hallmark Channel live without cable on Fubo, DIRECTV, Philo, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV + Lifestyle Extra Bundle, Frndly TV, Spectrum TV Stream, Youtube TV Entertainment Plan , YouTube TV Sports + News + Entertainment Plan, Youtube TV News + Entertainment + Family Plan , or YouTube TV.
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Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on Fubo, and you can watch it free for Fubo's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
The cable alternative Fubo offers a good mix of entertainment and sports — admittedly, it offers more of the latter, but you’ll see a lot of the former too in channels like Hallmark, Bravo, and FMC. It used to have more, but after a carriage dispute with some companies, it’s since had to drop popular channels like HGTV, Lifetime, CNN, and TNT. Still, it’s a great option if you’re watching with sports fans. Fubo has more regional sports networks (RSNs) than most of the services in this list.
It leans heavily on sports, and a regional sports fee of a few dollars up to about $17 by ZIP gets added on top.
Fubo plans
Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on Hulu + Live TV, and you can watch it free for Hulu + Live TV's 3-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Hulu with Live TV is a streaming bundle that combines about a hundred live channels with on-demand services like Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+ at no extra cost. Along with Hallmark, Hulu with Live TV subscribers can also enjoy Hallmark Mystery, although you might have to pay extra to watch Hallmark Family.
It caps you at two simultaneous streams, the fewest of the big live-TV services; lifting that cap costs about $10 more a month.
Hulu + Live TV plans
Our breakdown of Hulu + Live TV →
Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on DIRECTV, and you can watch it free for DIRECTV's 5-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
If you’re looking for an all-in-one solution to cutting the cord, DirecTV Stream is a good place to start. The live TV package, which you can cancel anytime, offers hundreds of channels, a useful program guide, unlimited DVR, and some of the best picture quality in the game. It carries Hallmark as well as similar channels like Lifetime and Magnolia. However, not all DirecTV Stream plans carry sister channel Hallmark Mystery. Hallmark Family, meanwhile, is only available through an add-on.
The price climbs steeply between tiers, and a regional sports fee gets added on top.
DIRECTV plans
Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on Philo, and you can watch it free for Philo's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Philo is a live TV streaming service that only offers 70 channels, but pairing it with unlimited DVR and four simultaneous streams, all for just $28/month, makes it a pretty good deal for many cord-cutters. Among those channels are all three Hallmark channels, as well as HGTV, weTV, Lifetime, and Magnolia. For an extra $8/month, you can also add Hallmark+ to your lineup.
It carries no sports and no local channels, so it only covers entertainment and lifestyle networks.
Philo plans
Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on Frndly TV, and you can watch it free for Frndly TV's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
Frndly TV has a lean channel lineup, but it’s hard to complain when prices start at just $8.99/month. The live TV plan gives you access to all three Hallmark channels, plus Lifetime, GAC, FMC, and other similar channels. Upgrading to the Classic plan ($10.99/month) also gets you unlimited DVR, so you can record as many programs as you please. As with Philo, Frndly TV gives you the option to watch Hallmark+ on the Frndly app for $8/month.
It carries only a small set of mostly lifestyle and family channels, with no sports and no major news networks.
Frndly TV plans
Yes, with a free trial. Hallmark Channel is on YouTube TV, and you can watch it free for YouTube TV's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
YouTube TV is a live TV service that has nearly everything — local and popular channels like Hallmark, unlimited DVR, and multiple simultaneous streams. And in case you’re not satisfied, it also offers premium add-ons that give you access to channels like HBO and Starz. Though it’s received complaints over the years about its inconsistent streaming quality and its tendency to hike up prices along with other services, YouTube TV remains flexible, easy-to-use, and varied enough to be an ideal service for beginner cord-cutters.
At around $83 a month it's one of the priciest options, and add-ons push the bill past $100 fast.
YouTube TV plans
No. Sling TV doesn't carry Hallmark Channel.
No. Paramount+ doesn't carry Hallmark Channel.
No. Peacock doesn't carry Hallmark Channel.
No. Disney+ only streams the Disney family (ABC, FX, Nat Geo, ESPN and the Disney kids channels), and Hallmark Channel isn’t part of it. For Hallmark Channel on demand, the Hallmark+ add-on on Amazon Prime (below) is your best bet.
No. HBO Max only streams the Warner Bros. Discovery family (HBO, Discovery, HGTV, TNT, CNN and the rest), and Hallmark Channel isn’t part of it. For Hallmark Channel on demand, the Hallmark+ add-on on Amazon Prime (below) is your best bet.
Yes, with the Hallmark+ add-on. Add it through Prime Video Channels for $8.99/mo and you get Hallmark movies and originals on demand without leaving the Prime app. It’s on-demand, so there’s still no live Hallmark Channel feed, and you need a Prime membership ($14.99/mo) or standalone Prime Video ($8.99/mo) underneath it.
Prime Video itself won’t have the live channel, but its Channels store rents the network’s own app as an on-demand add-on, billed through Amazon.
The honest way to watch Hallmark Channel for free is a free trial, and the trick is not to spend them one at a time. Start one, then start the next when it ends, and you can string together a few weeks of free live TV back to back, usually enough to cover a tournament or a playoff run without paying for a month.
If you're cutting cable for Hallmark Channel, odds are you want Hallmark Family too. It's a sister channel, so every service above that carries Hallmark Channel carries Hallmark Family as well, and the same free trials get you both. See our full guide to watching Hallmark Family without cable for the per-service breakdown.
| Service | From | Free trial | Plans | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fubo |
$84.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
| Hulu + Live TV |
$82.99/mo | 3 days | 2 | Get it |
| DIRECTV |
$94.99/mo | 5 days | 4 | Get it |
| Philo |
$28/mo | 7 days | 1 | Get it |
| Frndly TV |
$8.99/mo | 7 days | 3 | Get it |
| YouTube TV |
$9.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
Hallmark Channel and the US services that carry it are geo-locked to the United States, so your login stops working the moment you leave the country. A VPN fixes that: connect to a US server and the service sees a US address again. The catch is that streaming platforms actively block most VPN traffic, so the VPN you pick matters far more than the service does. These three reliably get back in:
A huge US server network (thousands of IPs across 15-plus cities) with SmartPlay DNS baked into every server, so streaming just works without extra setup. The best value of the top tier on a two-year plan.
Best for streaming Hallmark Channel with: Hulu + Live TV, Philo
Get NordVPN →The budget pick, and the one to get if the whole household travels: it allows unlimited simultaneous devices on one account, plus a Smart DNS for TVs. Reliable with the on-demand and lifestyle services.
Best for streaming Hallmark Channel with: Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV, Philo
Get Surfshark →Whichever you pick, connect to a US city first, then sign in to Hallmark Channel or the service that carries it as normal. Choose a VPN with a money-back window so you can confirm it un-blocks Hallmark Channel before you commit.
No. Hallmark Channel is a cable channel and doesn't broadcast over the air, so an antenna can't pick it up. An antenna only gets the free broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, The CW), which pair nicely with one of the services above; check which of those reach your address here.
Every service that carries Hallmark Channel runs on the major streaming platforms, so you can watch on just about any TV, phone, or console. Here's how, device by device:
On Roku, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, add the channel from the Roku Channel Store, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On Amazon Fire TV, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the Amazon Appstore, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On Apple TV, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, install the app from the App Store, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On Android TV & Google TV, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, grab the app from the Google Play Store, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On Chromecast, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, Philo, and Frndly TV. The gap: DIRECTV and YouTube TV don't offer a Chromecast app. To set it up, cast it from your phone or use the built-in Google TV app, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On Samsung & LG smart TVs, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. The gap: Fubo doesn't offer a Samsung & LG smart TVs app. To set it up, install the app from your TV's own store (Tizen or webOS), sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On phones & tablets, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, Philo, Frndly TV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the App Store or Google Play, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
On game consoles, you can watch Hallmark Channel through Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV. The gap: Fubo, DIRECTV, Philo, and Frndly TV don't offer a game consoles app. To set it up, download the app from the Xbox or PlayStation store, sign in, and open Hallmark Channel in the live guide.
Cheapest is the question everyone starts with, and it's the wrong place to stop. A $35 plan that drops Hallmark Channel the month after you sign up hasn't saved you anything. So the first number we pay attention to is the real one, what you owe after the introductory month ends, not the figure in the ad. From there it comes down to whether the channels you actually want sit in the base plan or get stranded in an add-on, how the service behaves day to day (a slow app and a useless DVR wear on you faster than you'd expect), and how much of a fight it puts up when you decide to leave.
Whatever lands at the top of a list like this is the service that gets most of that right for the most people. Once in a while that's also the cheapest one. Usually it isn't.
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