Replace your TV's ad-heavy home screen with a calm, age-picked catalog for kids
My Kids TV swaps the stock smart-TV launcher for a quiet, PIN-protected home screen that surfaces only vetted titles from apps you already own.
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- Free
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- Unknown
What you get from it
What it does
Most smart-TV home screens are engineered to keep eyes on ads and autoplay. My Kids TV replaces that launcher with a single large window showing one title at a time — its name, a one-line summary, and why it's worth watching (Must-watch, Learn something, or Kids love it). Three thumbnails below preview what's next. The display rotates every 10 seconds and refreshes fully every 30, but freezes the instant a remote button is pressed so a child can browse without distraction.
Titles come from curated catalogs split by age band: 4–6 (86 titles), 7–10 (314), and 11–13 (400). A title only appears if it lives in an app already installed on the TV — Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, JioHotstar, and others — and launches straight into that app. Once opened, it drops off future suggestions. Behind a parent PIN sit controls for switching age bands, hiding specific apps from the home screen, disabling the YouTube button on supported remotes (Haier, TCL, Hisense, Sony), setting a sleep timer from 5 minutes to 4 hours, and restoring the TV's original launcher with no root required.
Who it helps
Families who want a dedicated kid-friendly TV interface without buying separate hardware. It runs on Google TV and Android TV as a launcher replacement, and on LG (webOS) and Samsung (Tizen) as a standalone app.
Getting started
Install from the project's GitHub repository. The app communicates only with TMDB for title metadata and Open-Meteo for weather; viewing history stays local on the device. No account creation is needed.
Limits and costs
The software is MIT-licensed and free. Hosting and distribution through each TV platform's store may impose their own requirements not covered here. The catalog size per age band is fixed at the counts above; expanding it depends on the maintainers' review pipeline, which combines best-of lists, TMDB sweeps, automated scoring via TypeSafe's Jev model, and human review of borderline picks. App-hiding disables apps rather than uninstalling them. Sleep timer range caps at four hours.
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