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 DirecTV Stream, and you can watch it free for DirecTV Stream'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 Stream plans
Our breakdown of DirecTV Stream →
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 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 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.
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 |
| DirecTV Stream |
$86.99/mo | 5 days | 3 | Get it |
| Philo |
$28/mo | 7 days | 1 | Get it |
| Hulu + Live TV |
$82.99/mo | 3 days | 2 | Get it |
| Frndly TV |
$8.99/mo | 7 days | 3 | Get it |
| YouTube TV |
$9.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
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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