GitHub Directory: Clean Up Your TV with Open Source

The project that started the October 2026 wave. Debloats almost any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and replaces the ad-heavy stock home with a calm, Apple TV-style launcher. Ships per-brand package lists covering 150+ models.

Best for: Start here if you want one guided flow instead of hand-picking tools.

The long-standing cross-platform GUI for removing pre-installed packages over ADB without root. Community-maintained package lists label what is safe to remove, what is questionable, and what will break things.

Best for: Power users who want a visual package manager for any Android device, TV included.

A fast, ad-free home screen that goes beyond Android: it also covers LG webOS and Samsung Tizen sets that ADB tools cannot touch. Every change has a one-button undo.

Best for: LG and Samsung owners who are locked out of the Android TV toolbox.

A lightweight Python toolkit to debloat a TV, sideload APKs and apply common tweaks from one menu-driven script.

Best for: A small, readable script you can audit before you run it.

Plain ADB shell scripts plus a step-by-step guide to debloat and speed up an Android TV. Nothing hidden: every command is in the open.

Best for: Minimalists who prefer raw ADB commands over GUI tools.

A TCL-focused debloat script set: the exact packages one TCL owner removed, with notes on what each one does.

Best for: TCL owners who want a model-family-specific list instead of a generic one.

A second, independent TCL bloatware removal list. Useful as a cross-check before disabling anything on a TCL set.

Best for: Cross-checking a TCL package before you disable it.

A tvOS-inspired open-source launcher built for China-market TVs (Xiaomi, TCL and others): no ads, no recommendations row, and it takes over the home button on boot.

Best for: Xiaomi / TCL owners who want a clean Chinese-market-friendly home screen.

One of the oldest open Leanback-style launchers. Plain grid, no feeds, no ads — a safe baseline replacement for the stock home on older boxes.

Best for: Older Android TV boxes that struggle with heavier launchers.

An experimental, deliberately simple big-screen launcher from a Jellyfin contributor. Clean rows, quick search, nothing trying to sell you content.

Best for: Trying a lightweight modern launcher that stays out of the way.

A minimal open-source launcher with a Wi-Fi data-usage widget and an OLED-friendly built-in screensaver. Built for calm, dark living rooms.

Best for: OLED owners who want burn-in-aware, minimal home screens.

A tvOS 26-style launcher with a Liquid Glass dock, Top Shelf and a glass control center, plus photo screensavers. The most design-forward option in this wave.

Best for: If the Apple TV look is the whole point, this is the closest match.

An Android TV launcher with Material You dynamic colors. Ships sideloadable APKs for devices the Play Store refuses to serve.

Best for: Google TV sticks where the Play Store marks other launchers incompatible.

A simple big-text Android home screen tuned for Xiaomi TVs in China: large-type lists, wallpaper rotation and one-tap HDMI inputs for parents and grandparents.

Best for: Setting up a TV for older family members on a Xiaomi set.

An Apple TV-style launcher for Android TV with a ready-to-install APK — no building from source. Chinese-language build of the tv-home idea.

Best for: You want the tv-home look with a prebuilt APK and Chinese UI.

Debloats your TV over Wi-Fi, then lands you on a glass-style home screen. Part of the October wave of CleanYourTV-inspired all-in-ones.

Best for: A newer all-in-one alternative if CleanYourTV does not fit your model.

The Fire TV counterpart of the wave: removes ads, tracking and clutter over ADB with no root, and every step can be undone. Ends on a quiet, minimal home screen.

Best for: Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Edition owners — start here.

Debloats a Fire TV Stick and replaces Amazon's home screen with Glass, a small and fast launcher that does not phone home.

Best for: A launcher-only swap after you have already debloated.

Native launcher replacement, bloatware disablement and an in-memory root toolkit for Fire OS 7 devices. Advanced and device-specific — read the warnings first.

Best for: Advanced users on Fire OS 7 who understand the root risks.

Debloat a slow, ad-filled TV over Wi-Fi and give it a fast Apple TV-style home — driven by a single prompt to your coding agent, with the repo holding the resulting setup.

Best for: Seeing how the one-prompt workflow compares with CleanYourTV.

Make an old Android TV fast again with Claude Code or Codex: a tiny ad-free home screen plus the exact prompt used to clean the TV up.

Best for: You already use Claude Code / Codex and want the prompt, not an app.

Reverse-engineers your TV's stock behaviour: fail-safe direct-boot launcher, remote hotkey remapping and deep settings access, all agent-driven.

Best for: Tinkerers who want to remap remote buttons and boot straight into a clean home.

An Arabic home screen and Saudi screensaver for Android / Google TV plus a safe speed-up pass, set up by your AI agent.

Best for: Arabic-speaking households — the only localized option in this wave.

A community-built phone companion for CleanYourTV: clean up an Android TV from your phone, with no laptop and no coding agent in the loop.

Best for: No computer available — run the cleanup from your phone instead.

The most popular open YouTube client for TVs: no ads, SponsorBlock built in, and a UI designed for the remote. The natural finishing touch after a debloat.

Best for: Replacing the stock YouTube app on any Android TV or Fire TV.

The award-winning open media center. Heavy, endlessly extensible, and completely free of the recommendation feeds that clutter stock TV homes.

Best for: A full media-center hub for local files and your own library.

The official Android TV client for the Jellyfin media server. Your library, your home screen, no tracking and no upsells.

Best for: You run (or want) a Jellyfin server for your own media.

Mirror and control an Android device from your computer over USB or Wi-Fi. Indispensable while setting up a TV: type, click and install with keyboard and mouse.

Best for: Driving the TV setup from your laptop instead of the remote.

The Apple TV aerial videos as a proper screensaver for Android TV, Google TV, Shield and Fire TV — including Dolby Vision clips on supported sets.

Best for: Finishing the Apple TV look with the matching screensaver.

A Windows batch-file toolkit collecting common smart-TV ADB jobs: debloat batches, APK installs and launcher swaps in menu form.

Best for: Windows users who want the common jobs pre-scripted.

A brand-agnostic debugging and tuning toolbox: ADB authorization helpers, per-brand sideloading notes, ad removal and a status HUD.

Best for: Troubleshooting ADB authorization across different TV brands.