The invention discloses a program list providing method and device and belongs to the technical field of household appliances. The method comprises that a background server receives a program adding request, which corresponds to a household account and is sent by a household multimedia playing device and/or at least one user device; the user device is the device separately used by every household member, and the household account is an account, which is bound by the household multimedia playing device and shared by the household members; the background server obtains multimedia programs to be added according to the program adding request; the background server adds the multimedia programs to a program list corresponding to the household account; the background server provides the program list to equipment corresponding to the household account, which can be multimedia equipment with the household account logging on and/or the user device separately used by every household member sharing the household account. The program list providing method and device solves the problem that the program list may be inapplicable to users in the related technologies.