No. Firestick doesn't include a recorder, and neither do the player apps you install on it. A live channel arrives as a stream of short video segments, usually around six seconds long, that the app plays and then discards. Nothing gets written to storage unless an app is built specifically to do that, and most player apps aren't. Firestick's own onboard storage is also limited on several models, which rules out saving hours of 4K video even if an app tried. When someone says they "recorded" a show from an IPTV app, they usually mean they found it in the provider's on-demand library afterward, not that they captured the live broadcast as it aired.

Search for this and most of the actual questions aren't about recording, they're about catching a show that already aired. That's a video-on-demand problem, not a DVR problem, and it has a much simpler fix. A provider with a deep on-demand catalog solves it without any recording software at all: you open the library, find the title, and watch it whenever you want, the same as any streaming app. IP4KTV's catalog runs past 219,577 titles across movies and series, which covers most of what people are actually trying to solve when they type this question into Reddit. If a service's on-demand library is thin, no recording workaround closes that gap for you.

Amazon periodically removes apps from its store that bundle pirated content directly inside the app itself, since that breaks its developer terms. That's a different situation from a login-only player app, one that just connects to a subscription you already own and doesn't ship any content of its own. Those apps are far less likely to get pulled, since there's nothing inside them for Amazon to flag in the first place. If an app you use disappears from the store, check whether it was a content-bundling app or a plain player, because the two get treated very differently. A subscription service and its player app are separate things, and only one of them is the actual target.

Before hunting for a recording workaround, check what a provider's on-demand catalog covers. Ask how many titles it lists, whether it updates regularly, and whether new releases show up close to their release date. A provider that won't say how large its library is, or one that only advertises live channels, is telling you it can't cover the catch-up use case you're trying to solve. IP4KTV publishes its on-demand count (219,577+) and channel count (54,000+ live) up front, so you can check the actual number instead of taking a vague claim on faith before you sign up for anything.