A curated list of FOSS Android TV apps

• Legend:
  • 🖱️ Partial remote support
    • Some UI elements cannot be accessible with the TV remote
  • 📺 Missing TV launcher icon
    • Create custom launcher icon with Android TV App Launcher Builder
  • 🤖 Requires ROOT
  • 🚫 Incompatible with some devices

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Apps
  • Launcher
  • App Store
  • Web Browser
  • Media Player
  • YouTube
  • Streaming
  • File Browser
  • Download Manager
  • Connectivity
  • Gallery
  • Notfications
  • Screen Saver
  • DNS Proxy
  • System Utilities
• Contributing
• More Awesome Lists
• License

Apps

Launcher

• FLauncher: Alternative launcher for Android TV [Source] [Google Play]

App Store

• Aurora Store: An alternate to Google's Play Store [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] 🖱️
• Neo Store: The modern and feature-rich F-Droid client for everyone! [Source] [F-Droid] 🖱️

Web Browser

• TV Bro: Simple web browser optimized to use with TV remote [Source] [Google Play]
• DTVfree: Simple, fast and lightweight Web browser for Android TV [Source]

Media Player

• Kodi: An award-winning free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media [Source] [Website] [Google Play]
• VLC: A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• MPV: A free and open source cross-platform media player and video player [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• Nova Player: Video player for local/network content with subtitle/metadata download support [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• Fermata: a free, open source audio, video and TV player with a simple and intuitive interface [Source] [Google Play]
• Just (Video) Player: Simple video player based on ExoPlayer library [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play]

YouTube

• SmartTube: An advanced (YouTube) player for Android TVs and TV boxes [Source] [Website]
• NewPipe: Lightweight YouTube frontend [Source] [Website] [F-Droid]
• Clipious: Client for Invidious, the privacy focused YouTube front end [Source] [F-Droid]

Streaming

• Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• S0undTV: An alternative app to watch the Twitch streaming service for Android TV devices [Source] [Google Play]
• SmartTwitchTV: A Twitch web client that works on Android TVs [Source] [Google Play]
• DSub: Connect to your Subsonic server and listen to your music wherever you go [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play] 🖱️
• Stremio: A video streaming application, that allows you to watch and organize video content from different services [Source] [Website] [Google Play]
• Streamflix: An Android TV app to stream movies and TV shows for free [Source]
• CloudStream: app for streaming and downloading media [Source] [IzzyOnDroid]
• M3U: Stream media player on Android devices [Source] [F-Droid]

File Browser

• Ghost Commander: Dual-panel file manager [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• Amaze: Simple and attractive Material Design file manager for Android [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• Material Files: Material Design file manager for Android [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play] 📺

Download Manager

• Download Navi: A free and Open Source download manager [Source] [F-Droid] [Google play]
• BiglyBT: fully featured open source bittorrent client and remote control [Source] [Website] [F-Droid]

Connectivity

• LinkLoom: A Android TV Application To Show Browsers, History, Save Web Pages Links, Share Links Between Android Mobile app and TV [Source]
• KDE Connect: A multi-platform app that allows your devices to communicate with each other [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play] 🚫📺
• LocalSend: Allows you to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play]

Gallery

• Aves: Gallery and metadata explorer [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play]

Notfications

• Heads-up: Get the new heads-up notifications [Source] [Google Play] 🚫

Screen Saver

• Aerial Views: A screen saver for Android TV [Source] [Google Play]

DNS Proxy

• InviZible Pro: Comprehensive application for on-line privacy and security [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play]

System Utilities

• Launch-On-Boot: Launches a TV app when the device boots [Source] [F-Droid] [Google Play]
• Neo Backup: open-source tool to backup your apps and data [Source] [F-Droid] 🤖
• App Manager: A full-featured open source package manager for android [Source] [F-Droid] 🤖🖱️
• Termux: A free and open source cross-platform terminal emulator and IDE [Source] [F-Droid] 🖱️
• Key Mapper: An Android app that change what the buttons do on your devices [Source] [Website] [F-Droid] [Google Play] 🚫
• Shizuku: Using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps [Source] [Website] [IzzyOnDroid] [Google Play] 🚫

Contributing

• Submit an App

More Awesome Lists

• albertomosconi/foss-apps
• offa/android-foss
• LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-android

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.