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For iPhone users: a one-tap app that strips ads and preinstalls from Android / Google TV and turns it into a clean home screen; one-time purchase or small subscription.
Open Worth chasing · Demand is there but supply is thin / Turn open-source hits into products First spotted 2026-10-31 · Last updated 2026-11-08
- Status
- Running on Android (a free community version already exists there and is narrowing); iOS is still empty
- Why now, and how long the window lasts
- Media just hyped "smart TVs going dumb" (412 articles in two weeks). The free Android version isn't on the store yet, and nobody is doing iOS. I'd guess someone ships an iOS version within 1–3 months, or an open-source app hits the store and locks in "free" as the expectation for this.
- Confidence
- Medium. Demand signals are strong (stars, media coverage, paid desktop apps on GP). Whether it can be built for iOS and pass review is unverified. This would be overturned if: the community edition ships on GP and an iOS version comes out; Google blocks pm disable-user in a Google TV system update; or App Store review sets a rejection precedent.
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
GitHub7 evidence · 19 products with curves
GitHub · created 2026-10-17 · 53,831 stars · 7 days +6,000
Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
Data 2026-10-19 → 2026-11-08 (21 days, 21 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-20 · 10,551 stars · 7 days +2,237
A clean home screen for Chinese-made TVs: an open-source Android TV launcher modeled on tvOS, with no ads, taking over automatically at boot. A tvOS-style launcher for Xiaomi, TCL and other China-market TVs.
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 18 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-21 · 1,786 stars · 7 days +514
A community-built phone app for Clean Your TV: clean up an Android TV from your phone. No laptop, no coding agent, nothing uninstalled.
Data 2026-10-24 → 2026-11-08 (16 days, 16 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-26 · 494 stars · 7 days +89
Omarchy-styled tiling launcher ecosystem for Android TV, Google TV, LG webOS, Android Mobile & Linux/macOS/Omarchy PCs
Data 2026-10-27 → 2026-11-08 (13 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-28 · 334 stars · 7 days +125
A fast, lightweight tvOS 26 & macOS–inspired launcher for Android TV with a Liquid Glass dock, rotating depth scenes, universal Control Panel overlay, Recent Ap
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 9 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-26 · 239 stars · 7 days +98
Your own Google TV home screen and phone remote, with an optional Claude assistant. Set it up by handing this repo to your AI agent.
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-28 · 153 stars · 7 days +31
Ad-free DLNA / UPnP cast receiver for Android TV · Minimal, no-ads screen-cast receiver
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-27 · 194 stars · 7 days +115
Free, open-source smart TV remote for Android and iPhone. Custom layouts, local Wi-Fi control, and English/Russian interfaces. MIT licensed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-08 (11 days, 11 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
11 more products' curves
GitHub · created 2026-10-19 · 236 stars · 7 days +12
Arabic home screen and Saudi screensaver for Android TV / Google TV, plus a safe speed-up. Your AI agent sets it all up. واجهة عربية وشاشة توقف سعودية لتلفزيونا
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 19 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-21 · 76 stars · 7 days +17
Телевизор без рекламы и YouTube без тормозов: Яндекс ТВ, Салют ТВ, Xiaomi, TCL, Haier, Google TV — по Wi-Fi, без root, с откатом
Data 2026-10-26 → 2026-11-08 (14 days, 14 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-22 · 47 stars · 7 days +11
CleanTV by VGS — dọn quảng cáo, app rác trên Android TV / Google TV qua Wi-Fi, Home sạch (lịch âm, thời tiết, 7 giao diện), Khoá trẻ em, tivi tự canh gác Home,
Data 2026-10-27 → 2026-11-08 (13 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-24 · 22 stars · 7 days +2
Mi5G TV: تطبيق أندرويد باللغة العربية لتنظيف أجهزة Android TV و Google TV و Fire TV
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 9 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-23 · 89 stars · 7 days +10
Glass TV Launcher — Android TV launcher bergaya tvOS dengan waktu solat, cuaca, API indeks pencemaran & screensaver StandBy
Data 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-08 (15 days, 15 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-21 · 49 stars · 7 days +1
Afnon (أفنون): Android TV launcher and home screen for Muslims. Offline prayer times (74 cities), Qibla, adhan/azan, prayer reminders, Ramadan and Friday modes,
Data 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-08 (15 days, 15 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-19 · 6,021 stars · 7 days +458
A fast, ad-free home screen for Google TV, LG webOS and Samsung Tizen. One button to undo.
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 19 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-18 · 1,979 stars · 7 days +157
Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
Data 2026-10-18 → 2026-11-08 (22 days, 21 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-20 · 1,010 stars · 7 days +173
A personal home screen for Samsung The Frame. A starting point to fork and adapt.
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 18 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-22 · 1,712 stars · 7 days +722
Debloat your Android TV, install apps, browse and transfer files on it, all from your phone. Just 3 MB, no tracking, no root, no PC.
Data 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-08 (15 days, 15 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-24 · 691 stars · 7 days +156
tv-fresh TV refresh: Agent Skill for Xiaomi TVs (MIUI TV) to remove ads, clear preinstalled apps, change the launcher, and set up proxies and media-hub apps. Root-free and reversible, with firmware reverse-engineering notes and a one-click script.
Data 2026-10-26 → 2026-11-08 (14 days, 14 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
- GitHub: Gathin23/cleanyourtv “Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home”, created 10-17, at 10-19 it had 1,259 stars, as of 10-31 it has 46,520 stars; 10-22 single-day +7,120, latest day +1,337; forks 5,731 (fork-to-star ratio 12.3%, close to the median for new repos; suspect column has no red flags). github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv
- The other repo from the same wave: pengchujin/aerial-tv (a tvOS-style desktop for Xiaomi and other Chinese TVs), created 11 days ago, 8,031 stars.
- A community-built Android phone app (udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app, MIT): phone and TV on the same Wi-Fi, done in about 5 minutes with one tap; the page says the Google Play and F-Droid versions are "on the way". cleanyour.tv/app/android
- GitHub (TV repo weekly stats, GitHub report §1.2, as of 11-01): cleanyourtv 10-17. In the 10 days since the repo was created, about 90 TV desktop / ad-removal repos appeared: 7 with ≥500 stars, 2 with ≥5,000. Weekly build (new / now ≥500 stars / gained ≥100 within 4 days): week 10-12 15 / 4 / 3,10-19 week 77 / 7 / 5,10-26 week 8 / 0 / 2. The English Android TV launcher wave lasted two weeks, from open to shut.
- GitHub (check 11-02, 10-26 weeks later): no new TV-related repos created since 10-26 have passed 500 stars yet. Top: piermark/omarchytv 427, techgenius1/tvOS-Launcher 230, Seagey/couch-tv (with Claude assistant) 185, addozhang/leancast 130, levhakobyan/OpenTV-Remote 104. The close call still holds today.
- GitHub (localized, 11-02 cores): pengchujin/aerial-tv (a tvOS-style home screen for Chinese TV brands like Xiaomi and TCL) 8,656 stars (reported 8,314), +3,731 in 7 days, still climbing; Arabic tshi-dev/UrTV 224 (11-02 +0), Russian by-sonic/chistytv 68, Vietnamese vgscity/vgs-cleantv 38, Arabic al3nkboot/mi5g-tv 20, Indonesian aqmangge/glass-tv-home 83, Muslim launcher egyjs/afnon-android-tv-launcher 48. Someone is building these, but nobody's doing it well. Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi aren't in the library at all.
- GitHub (other forms, 11-02 core): free-my-tv (covers Google TV, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen) simbasjungles/free-my-tv 5,649 stars (reported 5,563); Fire TV's humblemuzzu/dumbtv 1,849 (7 days +316, last week +1,478, fading); Samsung The Frame's nthnclrk/CleanFrame 861; mobile app form udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app 1,351, man15h/tellyscope (3 MB mobile app) 1,049,7 days +955; Xiaomi TV Agent Skill version wangrongding/tv-fresh 539.
Other sources (official sites, press releases, web pages) 2 pieces of evidence
- Website cleanyour.tv (scraped 10-31): You paste a prompt into Claude Code, and it controls the TV through ADB. Claims to have tested 387 TVs from 103 brands. 412 articles across 54 countries (TechCrunch 10-19, Tom's Guide, XDA, etc.). Only has Buy me a coffee, no fee.
- Roundup (§3.2, as of 11-01): the TV ad-blocker desktop app is one of five examples of taking a validated category to another language market. The English general desktop version has been full for two weeks. The localized version has open slots.
Google Play1 evidence items · 2 products with curves
Projectivy Launcher Spocky
Google Play · Launched 2020-08-06 · 11-07 installs 1,789,307
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
AT4K Launcher Cute Little Apps
Google Play · Launched 2026-01-17 · 11-07 installs 115,088
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.
Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)
- Google Play (2026-10-31, installs are cumulative global totals, gains are observed deltas since 10-29, about two days): TV home screen apps are making people pay. Projectivy Launcher 1,749,610 installs, +29,171, #2 in fr, #3 in de, #6 in us on the personalization Top Grossing chart, in-app purchases $0.99–7.49; Monet Launcher (launched 2026-05) 114,866 installs, +5,867, #11 in br on the personalization Top Grossing chart, $4.99; AT4K Launcher (launched 2026-01) 110,996, +3,251, #63 in us on the personalization Top Grossing chart; Capybaba Launcher (launched 9-28) 20,007, +6,239.
App Store1 evidence items · 1 products with curves
Remote for Android TV Raghav Ahuja
App Store · Launched 2023-02-13 · Saudi rating 40,453 · 11-08 best overall Top Free rank #134 (VE) · 11-08 charted in 58 stores
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations)
- App Store (all stores, 2026-10-31): No App charting for ADB cleanup or launcher swaps on TV. Yet "Remote for Android TV" (1668755298), an iPhone remote for Android TV, has 40,218 ratings. Plenty of people use an iPhone with an Android TV.
Already doing it
cleanyourtv (command line + Claude Code, free), a community Android app (free, not on the store), desktop apps like Projectivy (only swap the launcher, don't remove preinstalled apps, no ADB needed). Backfill additions (11-02): free-my-tv (one-click restore on all three platforms, free), dumbtv (Fire TV), CleanFrame (Samsung The Frame), tellyscope (phone app), tv-fresh (Xiaomi TV Agent Skill), UrTV / chistytv / vgs-cleantv (localized into Arabic, Russian and Vietnamese, all with tens to a couple hundred stars).
The hardest step
On iOS you'd have to build the ADB over Wi-Fi protocol yourself (including RSA pairing and wireless debugging pairing for Android 11+), and maintain a blacklist of system packages that must never be disabled. cleanyourtv's issues already include cases of TVs being bricked (#884, #1578), and every failure brings refunds and bad reviews. Also, how App Store review treats "operating someone else's device" is uncertain (my inference).
Who it's for
Indie devs who know Android and can ship iOS; one-time purchases of $4.99–9.99 or small subscriptions for "re-clean after every TV OS update"; focused on English-speaking markets and Europe (where TCL, Xiaomi, Hisense, and Sony TVs are common).
Should every product builder know this?
No, it's pretty niche. But the play of "take a hit GitHub project that runs on Claude Code → turn it into a consumer app that needs no coding" is worth knowing.
Change log
2026-11-08
Related small sample (threshold list, "first Top Chart entry"): Roku Photo Stream Screensaver (GP, Apex Point Management, launched 7-18) reached the US personalization category Top Grossing #19 with only 5,835 installs. The paywall for TV personalization (screensavers, wallpapers) is very low and competition is thin. Together with Projectivy (+68,868% over 7 days), it shows people will pay for personalization utilities on TV. iOS still has no equivalent cleaning tool.
2026-11-05
GP has its first 7-day window (6-day span): Projectivy +63,413, Monet +14,085, Capybaba +12,450, AT4K +6,094. Paid TV desktop apps added 96k installs combined over the week, so demand is holding. cleanyourtv has 51,934 stars, +7,942 over 7 days (status: cooling). aerial-tv 9,614 (+2,169 over 7 days, cooling). Open-source buzz is fading, but paid installs aren't. Still no equivalent on iOS. Status unchanged.
2026-11-04
cleanyourtv 51,204 stars, 7 days +8,654 (third straight day slowing). Unchanged.
2026-11-03
cleanyourtv 50,244 stars (7 days +11,916, still slowing); community app 1,449 stars. Same-category spillover on the passing list: Verlintas/NOIR (adb scans Android app permissions and reporting endpoints; database built 3 days ago, 1,217 stars) merged into [057]. GP 11-02 Projectivy 1,776,970 installs, +27,360 (this is the one-day count after refresh; GP refreshes are staggered per app, not a full stop). Status unchanged.
2026-11-02
Backfill (from GitHub New Opportunities (Batch 1) §1.2 and the overview report §3.2): cleanyourtv 48,962, aerial-tv 8,656, free-my-tv 5,649. TV repos created 10-26 weeks later top out at 427 stars today, and only 0 have passed 500. The two-week gate holds. The gaps left are localization (none in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, or Hindi) and device switching (see [057]).
2026-11-02
cleanyourtv 48,962 stars (+14,873 in 7 days, growth is slowing); community Android app 1,351 stars. The GP 11-01 install batch is all 0 increments (the page hasn't refreshed, same as 10-30), so don't read it as growth stopping. Still no iOS equivalent. Status unchanged.
2026-11-01
cleanyourtv 47,831 stars (10-31 today +1,311,7 over 17,147 days; still growing, just slower than its 10-22 peak). Community Android app (udhaykumarbala/cleanyourtv-app) 1,272 stars, 7 days +1,036, not yet on GP. aerial-tv 8,314 stars. Among apps first released after October on the App Store, there are still no similar TV-cleaning apps. No new GP data today. Status unchanged.
2026-10-31
First recorded.
Original: Scanner opportunity library #002 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.