Make your Android TV or Google TV fast and ad-free again: strip out the bloat and ads, free up memory, and come home to just your apps, with a new place to visit behind them every week.

Glass TV debloats any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, with no root and nothing that can't be undone, then swaps the ad-filled home screen for a light one in frosted glass, with a new set of places behind your apps every week.

• Keeps itself clean. Every 15 days, while Home sits idle, the TV clears its app caches, where the Play Store leaves gigabytes of download leftovers that can make apps open to a blank screen. No computer needed, sign-ins and app data are never touched; the TV asks once to allow it.
• Glass, like Apple's. The dock's tray, the top-bar buttons and the menus show the picture behind them softened, with a shine along their edges. Android 10 has no live blur, so the picture is blurred once each time it changes and the glass draws its patch of it.
• One selection that glides. Between apps it is a pane of glass with the app's shadow under it; on the top bar and in the menus it is dark. It glides and changes shape from one to the next, never jumps.
• Places to visit that renew themselves. Once a week the TV takes the pictures Bing has shown on its home page over the past days — landmarks, landscapes, wildlife — deletes last week's and rotates through them, dimmed so the clock and tiles stay readable. The shelf above the dock names each one, its country and a few lines about it. Pictures with people in them are skipped: by the words in their caption, and by Android's own face detector on the TV. No key, no account, nothing to set up.
• Every app tints the room. The glow behind Home, and the glass with it, blends to the colour of whichever app is selected.
• Arrange your apps from the remote. Hold OK on an app for a glass menu with Move and App info. Move picks the app up: it wiggles, the arrows carry it (into or out of the dock too) and the other apps slide aside; OK puts it down. The order is kept, and apps installed later join at the end.
• An Inputs menu in glass. The selection glides out of the Inputs button into the list of HDMI and AV inputs, and Up from the top of the list glides it back.
• Comes back as you left it. Back from an app, the app you left is still selected; pressing Home on Home goes to the first app. When Android has closed Home to free memory, it comes back whole in one frame, with no black screen and no half-built dock.
• A clock screensaver. A grey analog dial with a yellow-orange second hand that ticks, the time and date beneath, drifting a little each minute so nothing burns in.
• Rows feather out under the top bar instead of being cut off when you scroll, and the Wi-Fi / Ethernet button can be hidden (show_network_pill).
• Rotating wallpapers of your own instead, with "places": false: put pictures in a theme's wallpapers/ folder and choose how often they change, down to every 5 seconds. Each picture is decoded in the background and cross-faded.

Home, with this week's place	Every app, feathering out under the top bar
Inputs, in glass	The clock screensaver

Still light: on a Xiaomi Mi TV with 1.8 GB of RAM the launcher uses about 80–100 MB and stays there over hours of use, one wallpaper is in memory at a time, the week's places take about 2 MB of storage, and nothing runs while you are inside an app.

Using an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot…)? Point it at this repository and ask it to set up your TV. AGENTS.md tells any agent, even a small model, how to do it safely on any Android TV or Google TV: it first works out which Glass TV your TV can run (the Android launcher, the LG webOS app, or neither on Samsung and Roku), then asks before each change, backs up first, never uninstalls, and checks each step with you as it goes.

The full step-by-step guide for debloating and installing is in docs/CLEANYOURTV-README.md, and PROMPT.md lets a coding assistant do it for you. In short:

python3 -m venv tools/venv && tools/venv/bin/pip install -r tools/requirements.txt
export TV_HOST=192.168.1.50                                   # your TV's IP address
tools/disable.sh examples/<your tv>/debloat.txt               # debloat
launcher/build-and-install.sh                                 # build the launcher and make it Home
tools/theme.sh themes/<your theme>                            # push your settings and wallpapers

Glass TV clears the TV's caches by itself every 15 days (how). To clean several TVs from one computer instead, tools/cache-clean.sh finds the TVs on your network and clears their caches, leaving sign-ins and app data untouched.

Android TV and Google TV, Android 8 or newer, on the TV or on a box plugged into any TV. docs/DEVICES.md lists every tested model and how far each was tested: end to end with Glass TV, with the original launcher, or debloat only, plus what is expected to work and what cannot.

LG TVs run webOS and Samsung TVs run Tizen; neither can run Android apps, and neither lets any app replace its home screen or the Home button. For the full Glass TV, plug in a Google TV or Android TV box (Chromecast with Google TV, Xiaomi Mi Box, NVIDIA Shield): the TV becomes the screen and Glass TV is Home. On LG, a version you open as an app is in preview in webos/. A Samsung version that comes back after Samsung's home is planned: see docs/ROADMAP.md.

Places are on from the start. To change how often the picture changes, or to use your own pictures and keep the launcher offline, make a theme folder with a config.json like this and push it with tools/theme.sh:

{
  "places": false,
  "wallpaper_seconds": 15,
  "show_network_pill": false
}

All keys are listed in themes/README.md. With "places": false, the launcher never goes online.

• Built on CleanYourTV © 2026 Gathin, MIT licence — see LICENSE. Its debloat lists, tools and launcher are the foundation of this project.
• The Outfit typeface is under the SIL Open Font License (launcher/FONT-LICENSE-OFL.txt).
• The Inputs icon is from Google's Material Icons (Apache 2.0).
• Pictures of places and their captions are Bing's daily images (Microsoft). The launcher fetches them on your own TV; the promo pictures above show three of them.
• Gotham, used in the promo pictures only, is a Hoefler&Co. typeface and is not part of this repository.