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Indie
Every App Comrade review tagged Indie, across every platform.
Warriors is a Fire tablet listing with almost nothing to say for itself.
A free Lifestyle app from a publisher called JuanitaApp, shipped to the Amazon Appstore with three screenshots, no description, and no review count. What's actually inside is harder to verify than it should be.
MAY 11, 2026
EMS ePCR is a paramedic's clipboard reimagined as a 99-cent Fire app.
An indie electronic patient care report tool that lives on a Fire tablet in the back of an ambulance. The price is right; the scope is narrow; the workflow questions are real.
MAY 11, 2026
Benefits of Cucumber is a free app about exactly one vegetable.
A health-reference app with the narrowest topic on the Amazon Appstore — and an editorial honesty most wellness apps could learn from.
MAY 11, 2026
OverRustle's Fire TV app is a tombstone for a livestream era.
A 2015 Fire TV wrapper for a Twitch aggregator that no longer exists. The app still installs. The service it pointed at does not.
MAY 11, 2026
Iain Abernethy's app is a karate library hiding behind a Fire-tablet wrapper.
A single-instructor teaching channel built for practitioners who already know who Abernethy is. The Fire app is functional, dated, and entirely about the content inside it.
MAY 11, 2026
KURANI SHQIP brings the Albanian Quran to Fire tablets without fuss.
A free, single-purpose reader from an independent developer named Kliton, built for Albanian-speaking households who want the translated text on their Amazon tablet.
MAY 11, 2026
Table Tennis TV is the lone Fire app for a sport that already streams itself.
A free, single-developer Fire TV channel built around a niche the major sports apps refuse to cover — useful precisely because nobody else bothered to ship it.
MAY 11, 2026
Spot The Words is a quiet word search that doesn't beg for your money.
F Permadi's indie puzzler ships every category for free, scrambles words in any direction, and never once asks you to watch a video for a hint.
MAY 11, 2026
Drafts is the iPhone capture app that earns its second decade.
Greg Pierce's text-first notebook still opens to a blinking cursor and an empty page. What's grown around that opening screen — actions, JavaScript, on-device AI — is what makes the app feel essential in 2026.
MAY 11, 2026 · EDITOR'S PICK
Gacha Life is the dress-up game that ate a generation's iPad time.
Lunime's 2018 character-maker still runs on iOS in 2026, and the kids who grew up making mini-movies on it have not moved on.
MAY 11, 2026
cARscan turns the phone in your pocket into a vehicle inspector.
An indie AR utility aimed at the moment you walk around a car with a clipboard — useful when it works, opaque about almost everything else.
MAY 11, 2026
Video Compressor & Editor App keeps the work on your phone.
A no-frills offline compressor with five quality presets, basic edits, and the rare promise that nothing gets uploaded anywhere.
MAY 11, 2026
Stickman Ninja Bullet Master borrows a famous premise and runs with it.
A free 37-level stickman shooter that opens by name-dropping My Friend Pedro and proceeds to flip, fire, and never update again.
MAY 11, 2026
BookBuddy Pro is the personal-library app that refused to die.
Fifteen years in, BookBuddy still beats Goodreads at the one job most readers actually have — keeping track of the books on their own shelves.
MAY 11, 2026
Strong is the gym log that gets out of your way between sets.
A workout tracker built for the rest interval — fast entry, plate math, and a history view that actually loads — without the social-network bloat the category keeps trying to add.
MAY 11, 2026
Stronglifts 5x5 is the novice barbell program with the chrome stripped off.
Mehdi Hadim took the most-recommended beginner lifting routine on the internet and built the simplest possible app around it. The discipline is in what he refuses to add.
MAY 11, 2026
Facing Death is an earnest indie attempt at the subject most apps refuse to touch.
A free iPhone app for writing your own farewell card, drafting an epitaph, and keeping an end-of-life checklist — sincere, small, and clearly the work of one developer.
MAY 11, 2026
Padmi turns a padel match into a stat sheet — when you can find a club that runs it.
Real-time hit tracking, heat maps, ball speed, and a PAD Card that follows you between matches. The catch is that someone has to install the cameras first.
MAY 11, 2026
AvMath is the no-frills flight-math calculator pilots actually open.
A focused aviation reference that replaces the cross-check between an E6B, a unit converter, and a scratch pad with a single screen — for the small audience that needs exactly that.
MAY 11, 2026
TypeMaster is a one-developer bet that iOS will let an AI keyboard be useful.
A 99-cent AI keyboard from an indie shop runs into the same wall Gboard and SwiftKey did — and then asks who's paying for the tokens.
MAY 11, 2026
SpeedOmeter SP is a one-developer speedometer that does the one thing.
A free GPS speedometer from an independent developer. No subscription, no account, no ambition beyond reading your current speed off Core Location.
MAY 11, 2026
Easy Sudoku Classic Offline keeps the genre stripped to the wood.
An indie iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro sudoku app that asks for nothing — no account, no network, no in-app purchase — and largely earns the trust that asks for.
MAY 11, 2026
GlowUpAI sells the AI-stylist pitch with very little behind it.
An indie iOS wrapper aimed at the for-you-page fashion crowd. Free to install, light on detail, and short on the evidence a stylist app needs.
MAY 11, 2026
Geometry Dash Lite is still the cleanest free demo in mobile gaming.
RobTop's rhythm-platformer has been the same elegant trade for over a decade: a handful of fully playable levels, then a paid upgrade if the timing gets under your skin.
MAY 11, 2026
Darkroom is the iPhone photo editor that respects the photo.
Bergen Co's indie editor stayed non-destructive, kept RAW handling honest, and charges a subscription you can actually walk away from.
MAY 11, 2026
Slither.io is still the snake game that started a genre, and still showing every year of it.
Steve Howse's 2016 multiplayer-snake breakout invented the .io-game template the rest of the industry copied. The core loop holds up; almost everything around it shows its age.
MAY 11, 2026
Gacha Life is the dress-up app that quietly built a generation of young storytellers.
Lunime's 2018 character-creator-plus-studio became the seedbed for the Gacha YouTube and TikTok wave. Eight years on, it still gets opened daily even though its successor exists.
MAY 11, 2026
Bid Wars turns reality-TV storage auctions into a tidy little number game.
Tapps Games' decade-old auction simulator keeps the Storage Wars fantasy intact: outbid the rival, crack the locker, sell the haul, repeat.
MAY 11, 2026
Egg, Inc. is the idle clicker that refused to age.
AuxBrain's industrial-chicken-farm simulator has been quietly compounding since 2016 — a one-developer indie that outlasted most of the genre by taking its own pacing seriously.
MAY 11, 2026
Frisky Freaks is a tiny indie casual game with almost no public footprint.
Released in May 2024 by a solo developer credited as Mohammad Alizadeh, the game has accumulated six Play Store ratings and no store-side description. It is, in every measurable sense, a long-tail listing.
MAY 11, 2026
Privacy Policy Creator solves a chore nobody wants to think about, then asks you to think about it less.
A boilerplate generator for the legal page every Play Store submission requires. Useful exactly once per app, and that's the whole pitch.
MAY 11, 2026
Dont Forget The Weather is a one-screen hourly forecast with a typo for a name.
An indie Android weather app from Ten Digit Grid that strips the category back to nine hourly variables, scrolls them sideways, and asks nothing else of you.
MAY 11, 2026
Bag It! still bags groceries better than any physics puzzler should.
Hidden Variable's 2011 grocery-stacking puzzle game has outlasted every mobile gaming trend since, and the free Android version still nails the core loop.
MAY 11, 2026
Plague Inc. is still the strategy sim that turned mass extinction into a design lesson.
James Vaughan's pathogen simulator has aged into a genre fixture — recursive, replayable, and weirdly elegant a decade after release.
MAY 11, 2026
Ice Hockey Scoreboard does one job for the bench coach with a phone.
An indie Android utility that turns a spare handset into a working scoreboard for amateur and youth hockey games. No accounts, no league integration, no fuss.
MAY 11, 2026
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator is a 2016 time capsule that keeps shipping updates.
Outerminds' clicker about climbing the YouTube rankings launched at the absolute peak of PewDiePie's cultural footprint. A decade later, it's still on the store, still patched, and still a strange little artefact of internet history.
MAY 11, 2026
Toca Boca World is the open-ended dollhouse a generation of kids actually built itself.
Sweden's Toca Boca rolled twenty years of standalone Toca apps into one persistent sandbox. There are no scores, no quests, and no fail states — and kids cannot put it down.
MAY 11, 2026
Impossible Off-Road is a coffee-break climbing game that knows exactly what it is.
A free Android off-roader from Orange Rabbit! built around one loop — climb further, upgrade the truck, climb further again. Nothing more, and that restraint is the point.
MAY 11, 2026
Barvee Spark is a tidy reflex test that overstays its welcome by ten minutes.
A free LG webOS casual game from the same studio behind Barvee Jumpland — tap-to-react mechanics, an unbroken five-star rating, and a session length that runs out before the controller cools down.
MAY 11, 2026
Coconut Swing is a TV-couch time-waster that knows its lane.
Omshy's free physics-swing game on LG webOS is a one-button arcade loop that delivers about 20 minutes of pleasant living-room distraction and not much more.
MAY 11, 2026
Wolly Bounce is a tidy webOS time-killer with the depth of one.
Omshy Inc.'s free LG TV bouncer asks one question of its player — how long can you keep the timing — and answers it competently.
MAY 11, 2026
Magic Ball turns the LG remote into a five-foot novelty toy.
Valeriy Skachko's free webOS app is a TV-sized Magic 8-Ball — point, click, get an answer. That is the entire product, and on its own modest terms it works.
MAY 11, 2026
Geo Quiz is the solo capitals-trainer that earns its slot on a quiet evening.
Valeriy Skachko's free webOS trivia app strips the genre to a single-player drill loop — no menus, no modes, no fuss — and that restraint is most of what makes it work.
MAY 11, 2026
Jungle Grab is a couch-friendly collect-em-up that does one thing well.
Omshy's free webOS game asks you to scoop jungle loot with the Magic Remote and call it a night — a low-stakes ten minutes that fits the form factor.
MAY 11, 2026
Lights Out on LG webOS is a faithful port of a thirty-year-old puzzle.
Valeriy Skachko's webOS build of the 1995 Tiger Electronics handheld classic — toggle a tile, flip its neighbors, turn every light off. Free, ad-free as far as the listing shows, and small enough to feel like a coffee-break.
MAY 11, 2026
Inua brings an Inuit folktale to the LG living room.
The Pixel Hunt and ARTE France's IGF-nominated narrative adventure lands on webOS via Blacknut's cloud-gaming stream — a quiet, text-driven story that earns its slot on a TV more than most cloud-game ports do.
MAY 11, 2026
Burger Fall is a five-minute snack of a webOS game.
Omshy's free LG TV casual game stacks falling burger ingredients with the Magic Remote. The premise is one joke, told with restraint, and it lands for about as long as you'd expect.
MAY 11, 2026
Narrato is a quiet entertainment channel on LG webOS.
An independent entertainment app from peppernspice.tv, sitting low-profile in the LG Content Store with a perfect-five rating and almost no public footprint.
MAY 11, 2026
fav videos is a one-developer Roku channel that does exactly what its name promises.
A 2025 hobby channel from a single developer with no store description, no marketing site, and a name written in lowercase. Install it knowing what that means.
MAY 11, 2026
Good Life Network is a streaming service for one state, and that's the point.
Nebraska's hyperlocal answer to the prestige-streaming arms race is a $6.99 channel of original Nebraska series and films. The catalogue is small, the mission is real, and the audience is exactly as wide as a license plate.
MAY 11, 2026
MultiBox is a Roku channel that asks you to take it on faith.
A free, unknown movies-and-TV channel from a single developer with no store description, no screenshots of UI in motion, and no track record. The metadata is the whole pitch.
MAY 11, 2026
BijouTheater turns the Roku into a small-town repertory screen.
A free, ad-supported channel from Wintree Corporation that leans into its name — bijou meaning a jewel-box cinema — and programmes a thin but watchable run of films you would not otherwise wander into on Roku Home.
MAY 11, 2026
Mississippi Live Weather is a single-state radar feed on the TV.
A free indie Roku channel built for households in Mississippi who want the local forecast on the big screen — no subscription, no ads, no account.
MAY 11, 2026
Angel 11:11 is a niche numerology channel that knows exactly who it's for.
A small, free Roku channel from independent developer Akansha that streams angel-number teachings and meditative content for the spiritual-curious viewer. It's narrow, it's earnest, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else.
MAY 11, 2026
Dream Inspirer turns the TV into a small, well-meaning sleep machine.
A free Roku channel from a solo developer that loops sleep tips and ambient soundscapes. It does what it says, with the rough edges of a one-person project.
MAY 11, 2026
WHO?MAG Multimedia is a niche indie-music channel that asks for nothing in return.
A small multimedia outlet pushing independent music and video to a Roku tile. Free, ad-free, no account — and that scope is the entire pitch.
MAY 11, 2026
Love Kim Rizzo TV is a personal-brand food channel hiding on Roku.
A single-creator lifestyle channel in the food and home aisle, built on Gideo's white-label Roku platform. Quiet, free, and entirely a vehicle for one host's library.
MAY 11, 2026
Screamify is the small, scrappy horror channel Roku users actually click on.
A free, ad-free indie horror channel from Oh Gosh Yeah Entertainment with a punchy logo, three screenshots, and a thesis: queue up a B-movie and get out of the way.
MAY 11, 2026
On-the-Marc-TV is a personal channel that asks you to trust the name on the door.
A free, ad-free Roku channel from iVOD TV Developer with no store description and no public catalogue preview. You install it on faith, or you don't.
MAY 11, 2026
Fall Screensaver turns the TV into a window onto a slow-moving forest.
A 99-cent channel from a one-name developer that does exactly one thing — paint autumn foliage across the living room when nobody is watching. The whole pitch fits on a postcard, and that's the appeal.
MAY 11, 2026
Moon Light Screensaver turns an idle TV into a quiet bedroom nightlight.
A free Roku channel from a developer called JP that fills the screen with lunar imagery when nothing else is on. The use case isn't decor — it's the room being dark.
MAY 11, 2026
ATMTV is a Roku channel that asks you to trust the name.
A free movies-and-TV channel from Acquired Taste Media, published in September 2025, with three screenshots and no store description. There is not much to go on, and that is part of the review.
MAY 11, 2026
SGBrightKit Demo is a developer's scratchpad shipped to the public channel store.
A naked demo of the SceneGraph BrightKit component library, listed under Educational by default. Useful if you're learning to build Roku channels. Pointless if you're not.
MAY 11, 2026
SweetspireTV arrives on Roku with almost nothing on the marquee.
A new movies-and-TV channel from Sweetspire TV, launched in late 2025, lands on the platform with a five-star rating, a free price tag, and a store listing that tells the viewer very little about what they are about to install.
MAY 11, 2026
Partnership Dominoes brings the four-handed table to a phone that can only seat one.
ALGOTECH's third Galaxy Store outing picks the team variant of dominoes — the social one — and asks an AI to fill the three empty chairs. The conversion is honest, if quieter than the bar version.
MAY 11, 2026
FDwall wants to be Wallpaper Engine on your phone, and gets surprisingly close.
An ambitious live-wallpaper app from a solo developer that openly models itself on the Steam-era PC favourite. The ambition is real; the polish is not always there to match.
MAY 11, 2026
Match 3 Warriors grafts a combat layer onto the tile grid, with mixed results.
A match-three puzzler from indie studio Parallel Realities that bolts RPG-style fights onto the board. The hybrid has been done before, and better, but the bones here are honest.
MAY 11, 2026
Meeting Room Schedule turns a spare Galaxy tablet into office signage.
An indie meeting-room display app aimed at the conference-door tablet job. Cheap to deploy, modest in ambition, and exactly as opinionated as a single-developer utility tends to be.
MAY 11, 2026
ArtVue is a lightweight art-frame app for Samsung TVs that don't have one built in.
Baraview's free Tizen channel turns any 2018-or-later Samsung set into an always-on picture-frame display, without the Frame-TV hardware premium and without Samsung's Art Store subscription.
MAY 11, 2026
Sunset Cruiser is the lean-back driving game Tizen needed.
A low-stakes endless-road racer built for big-screen idling — pretty enough at sunset, thin enough that the novelty wears off inside an hour.
MAY 11, 2026
Botstorm Rush keeps the lane busy and the meter honest.
Desoline's free Tizen runner trades the slow build-up of its sibling Botstorm Uprise for a lap-based score chase — short sessions, a single bot, no menu wall before you can press start.
MAY 11, 2026
Botstorm Uprise turns the Samsung remote into a workable fight stick.
Desoline's free Tizen arena-combat game asks for a sit-down session and a small progression loop — the longer-form sibling to Botstorm Rush, built around bot upgrades and wave clears rather than a lane chase.
MAY 11, 2026
Pengy Dash is a five-minute penguin runner that knows what it is.
Desoline's free Tizen runner sends a penguin sliding down infinite ice with one-button controls. It's slight, polished enough, and exactly long enough for the ad break it's competing with.
MAY 11, 2026
Astro Express is a small space arcade that knows what a TV remote can do.
Desoline's free Tizen casual game is a short-loop space chase built around the four-direction limits of a Samsung remote — modest, friendly, and over before it overstays.
MAY 11, 2026
Slither.io is a 2016 Snake clone that refuses to die.
Steve Howse's browser-game-turned-mobile-phenomenon still works, still ships the same loop it shipped a decade ago, and still has just enough chaos to be worth fifteen minutes on a Fire tablet.
MAY 10, 2026
Pou is a 2012 hit aging in plain sight.
Zakeh's blob-shaped Tamagotchi descendant still feeds, bathes, and plays mini-games the way it did fourteen years ago. The loop holds up; the chrome around it does not.
MAY 10, 2026
Hill Climb Racing still rolls because the physics never stopped being funny.
Fingersoft's 2012 ragdoll racer crossed two billion downloads in January and shows up on Fire tablets as the same wobbly, one-finger commitment device it always was.
MAY 10, 2026
Potters News+ is the kind of fan app the official club never bothered to build.
A free, single-developer news aggregator for Stoke City supporters on Amazon Fire — narrow in ambition, honest about it, and useful if you happen to be in the audience of one.
MAY 10, 2026
BJ Design and Embroidery is a storefront, not an experience.
A small custom-embroidery business in a Fire-tablet wrapper. It does the job a bookmark would do, with an icon and slightly fewer taps.
MAY 10, 2026
Just As You Are arrives with no description and asks you to trust the title.
A free Novelty listing from ShoutStreaming with three screenshots, no copy, and a perfect rating built on a sample size the store won't disclose.
MAY 10, 2026
Nigel Jones's Messenger borrows the name and almost nothing else.
A free third-party messaging app filed under Novelty on the Amazon Appstore, sharing a name with Meta's product and very little of its install base, polish, or reason to exist.
MAY 10, 2026
Simple Timer 2 is exactly as advertised, for better and worse.
An indie countdown timer for Fire tablets that does one thing, charges nothing, and asks nothing in return — which is the strength and the limit.
MAY 10, 2026
Caret turns your Fire device's sensors into a status broadcaster.
A small free utility from Wallrust that listens to your tablet's accelerometer, light sensor, and battery and pushes a context-aware status message out the other side. The premise is sharper than the execution.
MAY 10, 2026
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins is a small indie storybook with a big heart.
A free, hand-drawn picture-book app from a tiny studio that knows its audience is four years old and forgives a lot in exchange for a friendly rabbit.
MAY 10, 2026
ChemMathsDroid is a working engineer's pocket reference, not a polished one.
A free chemical and process-engineering calculator from a tiny developer that bundles dozens of single-purpose tools into one app — useful, dense, and visibly built by someone who has actually solved the problems it solves.
MAY 10, 2026
Notes is exactly what its name promises and nothing more.
A free, no-frills jotter from solo developer Sea.Xiao that has sat in the Amazon Appstore Utilities shelf since 2016. It is small, it is fast, it is unambiguous about what it isn't.
MAY 10, 2026
Needlework is a quiet little reference shelf for crafters who already know what they're doing.
A free Amazon-only reference app aimed at embroiderers, cross-stitchers, and knitters who want stitch diagrams and pattern notes on a Fire tablet near the work table.
MAY 10, 2026
Boccerball is a niche sport looking for a niche audience.
A free Fire-side rulebook and scorekeeper for a bocce-soccer hybrid almost no one has heard of, from a single developer who clearly plays it.
MAY 10, 2026
My Device Info 2018 tells you what your Fire tablet is. Not much else.
A free, single-purpose spec reader from an indie developer that still does its one job — and still wears its 2018 release year in the name eight years later.
MAY 10, 2026
Fake Call Scary Halloween is a one-night gag, priced like one.
A free Halloween prank-call app from a solo developer on Amazon's Fire store, built around a single joke: your phone rings, something spooky is on the other end.
MAY 10, 2026
Black Screen does one thing and charges two dollars for it.
A paid Fire utility that turns the tablet into a flat, dark rectangle — useful in the exact scenarios its developer imagined, and nothing else.
MAY 10, 2026
ShopAid is the kind of utility that lives or dies on its listing page.
A free Shopping-category helper from JDO Group with no store description, three screenshots, and a generic name competing for the same shelf as Amazon's own app.
MAY 10, 2026
Daily Checklist is a free recurring to-do list that does the one thing it advertises.
An indie checklist utility on Fire that resets your tasks every day. No cloud, no clutter, no surprises — and very little beyond that.
MAY 10, 2026
Scoreboard Baseball turns a Fire tablet into a dugout scoreboard.
A free utility from Solutech Panama that does one job — keep score for a baseball game — and asks nothing more of the device than to stay propped up where the bench can see it.
MAY 10, 2026
Dave is an Amazon Fire listing with almost nothing to listen for.
A free Movies & TV app from Consolidated Braincells with no description, no rating, no reviews, and a one-word name. The store page tells you everything and almost nothing.
MAY 10, 2026
Wish is a one-developer side project on a store that doesn't usually host them.
A free hobbyist app from a developer who goes by snowfox, parked in the Fire tablet Social category with no reviews and no description to explain itself.
MAY 10, 2026
BitLife turns the choose-your-own-adventure into a casual-game empire.
Candywriter's text-only life simulator keeps adding careers, royalty arcs, and crime ladders without ever pretending to be more than a list of buttons. That restraint is the point.
MAY 10, 2026
Line-3 turns a centuries-old board game into a ray-traced pocket puzzle.
Nicolas Schulz's tiny indie reskins Picaria — the Native American ancestor of Tic-Tac-Toe — as a 15-round score chase rendered with realtime ray tracing on iOS.
MAY 10, 2026
SoundCloud still owns the underground, and still trips over its own feet.
Version 8.56 keeps the deepest crate of indie and unreleased music on any streaming app. It also keeps the long unskippable ads, the missing follower lists, and a year of AI-policy whiplash.
MAY 10, 2026
Plague Inc. is still the cleanest strategy game on iPhone.
Ndemic's pandemic sim has barely changed in years, and that restraint is the point. The mechanics still hold up, the upgrade trees still teach themselves, and the price still beats almost anything else in the genre.
MAY 10, 2026
Crossy Road is still the cleanest free-to-play game on the App Store.
More than a decade after launch, Hipster Whale's chicken-and-traffic game remains the rare iOS hit that never tipped into the dark patterns its imitators did.
MAY 10, 2026
Egg, Inc. is the idle game that respects your wallet.
Auxbrain's nine-year-old hen-farming sim keeps shipping content while refusing the dark patterns that define its genre. Ads are optional, IAPs are voluntary, and the long-tail loop still rewards showing up.
MAY 10, 2026
Among Us is still a great party game waiting for friends to show up.
Five years past its pandemic peak, Innersloth's social-deduction hit on Android is a polished, cheap, content-fed game whose biggest problem is that the lobbies have thinned out.
MAY 10, 2026
Geometry Dash Lite is the cleanest free demo on the Play Store.
RobTop's rhythm-platformer trims thirteen years of content into a free, ad-supported sampler — same input model, same level editor browsing, fewer levels, occasional banners. As demos go, this is how it should be done.
MAY 10, 2026
SoundCloud on Android is still where the next rapper lives before the algorithm finds him.
Sixteen years after the orange waveform shipped, SoundCloud is half major-label streamer, half open-uploads farm. The Android app is where the two halves rub against each other hardest.
MAY 10, 2026
Crossy Road is still the cleanest one-tap arcade game on Android a decade in.
Hipster Whale's voxel Frogger came out in late 2014, made Andy Sum and Matt Hall famously rich without a single forced ad, and on Android in 2026 it still plays exactly the way it did. That's the compliment and the caveat.
MAY 10, 2026
Pou is the early-2010s Android phenomenon that never quite left.
Zakeh's potato-shaped alien pet went viral on Google Play in 2012, hit number-one in market after market, and has been coasting on inertia ever since. Fourteen years later it still works, still charms, and still feels frozen in amber.
MAY 10, 2026
2048 Maniac is a competent webOS take on a twelve-year-old puzzle.
Retinmount's free 2048 clone for LG TVs is faithful, remote-friendly, and entirely uninterested in surprising anyone who has already played the original.
MAY 10, 2026
Acrostic on LG webOS is a quiet word puzzle in the wrong room.
An indie webOS port of the classic acrostic-quotation puzzle — free, unhurried, and pleasant to solve, but plainly designed for a format that doesn't quite belong on a television.
MAY 10, 2026
LOTUS on LG webOS is a generically-named entertainment app with almost no listing to judge.
A free LG Content Store entry from utmplay tagged Entertainment, with three preview screenshots, no description, and no developer-supplied context. Install at your own pace.
MAY 10, 2026
Geometry Rush turns the LG remote into a one-button rhythm pad.
Inlogic Software's webOS take on the Geometry Dash-style one-button reaction runner — competent, brutally simple, and notably not the real Geometry Dash.
MAY 10, 2026
Crossword on LG webOS is a generic-titled puzzle filler from an indie developer.
A free crossword game from Valeriy Skachko, shipped to the LG Content Store without a descriptive listing or branded identity — a no-frills TV puzzle that lives or dies on whether the grid library and remote handling hold up.
MAY 10, 2026
Snow Dash is a free winter dodger built for the Magic Remote.
MlvFun's casual snow-runner for LG webOS asks one thing of you — dodge the trees — and asks it for free. The premise is thin; the execution is competent.
MAY 10, 2026
Gnomes Forest Leaf is a small woodland diversion for the living-room TV.
Desoline's free webOS casual game leans on a storybook forest aesthetic and short play loops, more screensaver-with-input than full TV game.
MAY 10, 2026
Beaver Stack is a coffee-break stacker for the LG remote.
Omshy's free casual stacker drops onto LG webOS as a no-fuss pick-up game — light, free, and exactly as deep as a TV-app stacker should be.
MAY 10, 2026
World of Hue is a color-sorting puzzle that the TV doesn't need.
An I Love Hue-shaped gradient puzzle from indie developer Valeriy Skachko, ported to a 65-inch screen and a directional remote that punish every interaction the format depends on.
MAY 10, 2026
Bus Jam on LG webOS is a thin casual time-killer.
An indie passenger-sorting puzzler ported to LG TVs — free, unobjectionable, and forgettable within a session.
MAY 10, 2026
Nightwolf is a webOS curio with almost no public footprint.
A free game from Desoline Inc. that ships on the LG Content Store with so little metadata, marketing, or coverage that the install itself is most of the experience.
MAY 10, 2026
Rainbow Helper is the kind of LG webOS utility you only find by accident.
A small indie helper app for LG smart TVs that lives in the long tail of the Content Store, where ambition is modest and expectations should match.
MAY 10, 2026
Peacock Screensaver is a bird, not the streaming service.
A small indie channel by a developer called JP that paints peacocks across your idle TV. Worth knowing what it isn't before you install.
MAY 10, 2026
Channel Indie is the kind of small Roku channel the platform quietly needs.
A free indie-film curation channel from a one-developer shop. The catalogue is small and the design is plain, but the films on the carousel aren't ones you'll find queued up on Netflix's home row.
MAY 10, 2026
Play Audio Network is a thin Roku audio channel that hides what it actually plays.
A free music and podcasts channel from Magna Union Enterprises that arrived on the Roku store in late 2025 with three screenshots, no written description, and almost no signal about what's inside.
MAY 10, 2026
Storm Jam's Halloween Screensaver charges a dollar extra for the same idle pumpkins.
There are at least a dozen Halloween screensavers on the Roku channel store. This one costs $2.99, ships three stills, and asks the buyer to take the developer's word on the rest.
MAY 10, 2026
New Muse TV is a small music-video channel still finding its programming.
An independent Roku channel from Market Research Design LLC pitches itself as a 24/7 music-video and original-show network for emerging artists. The promise is bigger than what's currently on screen.
MAY 10, 2026
Aurora Screensaver turns the idle TV into a slow weather report from the Arctic.
A free single-developer channel from a maker known only as JP that loops aurora borealis footage during Roku's idle state. It is exactly what it says it is, and almost nothing more.
MAY 10, 2026
Stars and Stripes Screensaver is a flag loop that runs on national holidays and stops there.
A free Roku channel from JP that loops American-flag imagery to the TV. Built for the four or five days a year people actually want a flag on the wall, and honest enough to be useful only then.
MAY 10, 2026
Outer Space Screensaver is the year-round version of Roku's seasonal wallpaper economy.
A free Roku channel from a developer credited only as JP. It pushes still and lightly-animated space imagery to the TV and does nothing else, which is the entire promise.
MAY 10, 2026
Beach Screensaver is the Roku channel you install before guests arrive.
A free loop of shoreline footage that turns the TV into ambient furniture. It works, it's quiet, and it asks for nothing — which is exactly the brief.
MAY 10, 2026
Free Movies Club is a small free-movie channel with a single developer behind it.
An ad-supported Roku channel from a solo developer, launched late 2025. Take it on its own scale — not as a Tubi or Pluto alternative.
MAY 10, 2026
Lighthouse Screensaver turns an idle Roku into a coastal painting.
A free channel from a solo developer that loops still photography of lighthouses across the living-room TV. It does one thing, and the one thing is calmer than whatever the Roku home screen wants to show you.
MAY 10, 2026
WAVE TV is an indie Roku channel chasing a crowded name.
A free, ad-free movies and TV channel from an independent developer called Thomas, listed under the tagline Connect, create, share. The pitch is broader than the catalogue.
MAY 10, 2026
IMUTV is a small free music-video channel still finding its shape.
Independent Music Universe's Roku channel arrived in late 2025 with a music-and-TV remit and not much else to go on. It's free, ad-supported, and very much a first draft.
MAY 10, 2026
ON AIR LIVE is a quiet faith-broadcast channel that asks almost nothing of you.
A small ministry-run Roku channel from Gifts From The Giver In Christ Min, Inc — free, ad-free, and stripped to the single job of putting their broadcast on your TV.
MAY 10, 2026
PRTV PREMIUM is a Roku channel that tells you almost nothing before you install it.
An individually-developed channel published in late 2025 with no description, no developer site link, and two screenshots. It costs nothing to try and almost nothing to walk away from.
MAY 10, 2026
Panhandle Weather turns the living-room TV into a regional radar.
A free indie Roku channel from a single developer, aimed at people who want the local forecast on the big screen without opening a phone or a browser.
MAY 10, 2026
Escape is a generic-named small-publisher channel doing the bare minimum.
A free, ad-supported movies-and-TV channel from a UK indie publisher, released November 2025. The icon and name promise more than the catalogue delivers.
MAY 10, 2026
Santa Screensaver turns a Roku into a $2 December decoration.
A paid seasonal screensaver from a one-person developer. It does one thing for six weeks of the year and then sits dormant on the channel list.
MAY 10, 2026
Yoga Shala TV picks a lane and stays in it.
A free, single-purpose yoga channel from a small studio operator. Nothing flashy, no subscription wall — just classes streamed to the TV in the room you'd actually unroll a mat in.
MAY 10, 2026
You Share Video is a small utility channel asking to be taken on faith.
A generically named video-sharing tool from a small developer, released late 2025. The premise is reasonable; the surface area you can verify before installing is not.
MAY 10, 2026
Fireside Comfort turns the TV into a competent fake fireplace.
A $2.99 ambient loop channel from Storm Jam LLC. It does the one thing it advertises, and the question is whether you want that thing badly enough to pay for it instead of using YouTube.
MAY 10, 2026
TVYou is a small Roku channel that asks you to take it on faith.
A free, ad-free, in-app-purchase-free channel from Cre8ive Innovations with three screenshots, no store description, and a December 2025 launch. There isn't much to go on, and that itself is the review.
MAY 10, 2026
DisplayHUB is the kind of Roku side-project channel the platform quietly keeps alive.
A free utility channel from a solo developer, shipped in late 2025 and still being patched. The bar is whether it earns its tile on your Home screen.
MAY 10, 2026
Animated Moon is a single-loop ambient channel that does exactly what its name says.
A free Roku channel that puts a moving moon on your TV. There is nothing else in the box, and the question is whether you wanted anything else.
MAY 10, 2026
RokInSpace is a curio that proves Roku can still run a game.
An endless-runner set in the Solar System, free on the Channel Store, controlled with a five-button remote. Charming for ten minutes, thin after twenty.
MAY 10, 2026
Sawyer's Animal Wallpapers is a hobby project on a TV-app shelf.
A free, single-developer kids-and-family channel that puts animal images on the screen. There is not much more to say about it, and that is fine.
MAY 10, 2026
Nova Network Television is the kind of small Roku channel the platform quietly runs on.
A free lifestyle-and-culture network from a TvStartup-built channel, launched in January. It's modest, earnest, and exactly the long-tail Roku programming the big guides ignore.
MAY 10, 2026
Mogul TV is the kind of channel Roku quietly runs on.
A free, ad-supported network of culture, business, and lifestyle shows aimed at an audience the bigger platforms keep underserving. The catalogue is real; the channel itself is unmistakably indie.
MAY 10, 2026
Music from the 412 turns Pittsburgh's scene into a Roku channel.
An on-demand companion to the 24/7 video stream, built around interviews, sets, and shows from a single American city.
MAY 10, 2026
The Naomi Joy Network is the indie Roku channel done earnestly.
A faith-and-music vehicle for saxophonist and TV host Naomi Joy Nelson, the channel lives at the small end of the Roku store — a single show, a clear point of view, and the production budget of a labor of love.
MAY 10, 2026
Sultan Solitaire picks a harder variant and mostly respects it.
An eight-column, eight-foundation solitaire with no stock pile — a stricter cousin of Klondike that rewards patience over reshuffles. The Galaxy Store build is plain but honest.
MAY 10, 2026
Forager's Buddy is a sincere indie waypoint app that the bigger GPS tools have outgrown.
A small, earnest GPS marker for mushroom hunters and edible-plant scouts. It does the basic job, but Gaia GPS and the new wave of foraging maps have moved the bar.
MAY 10, 2026
1941 Frozen Front Premium is Panzer General on a Galaxy phone, ads and all stripped out.
HandyGames' hex-grid Eastern Front campaign is dated, deliberate, and one of the few paid wargames worth installing from the Galaxy Store.
MAY 10, 2026
Tips for Organizing and Managing Time is a leaflet, not an app.
A free, ad-light reading app built from a short stack of time-management advice. The content is fine; the format is a brochure stretched into an install.
MAY 10, 2026
Black And White Wallpapers is a single-aesthetic shelf that knows exactly what it is.
A narrow catalogue of monochrome backgrounds for Galaxy phones. No theming, no editor, no community — just a feed of black-and-white images to set as a wallpaper.
MAY 10, 2026
Vivid Collection Irregular Verbs is a narrow, useful drill for Russian-speaking English learners.
A single-purpose flashcard trainer for the 150-or-so English irregular verbs. Built for a Russian audience and shaped around that one job.
MAY 10, 2026
InspireBook is a quiet little quote library hiding on the Galaxy Store.
A bare-bones inspirational reader from IDS ANO with almost no storefront copy to its name. What's installed is small, free, and exactly as ambitious as it looks.
MAY 10, 2026
Zanthium is a novelty fortune-teller that knows exactly what it is.
An indie horoscope curio on the Galaxy Store with no ambitions beyond a quick laugh. Score it for what it tries to be, not what it isn't.
MAY 10, 2026
Dynoxe is a one-developer Tizen video app with almost nothing to go on.
An April 2026 submission from independent developer Arun Konda, listed under Samsung's videos category with no screenshots, no description, and no public footprint. There is very little here to evaluate, and that itself is the review.
MAY 10, 2026
AubergCollectionTV is a small curated-collection channel with almost no public surface.
A free Tizen channel from an independent developer, listed under Information, with no store description, no screenshots, and no ratings on file. The catalogue is the product, and the catalogue isn't documented anywhere a viewer can see before installing.
MAY 10, 2026
MyOnlineCalendar is a generic-named calendar tile on Samsung TVs.
A free Tizen utility from a developer called Deuse, filed under Information, with no store description and no screenshots — almost everything about it has to be inferred from the name.
MAY 10, 2026
BouncePlus arrives on Tizen with almost nothing to go on.
A free sports app from Bounce Multimedia LLC, listed on the Samsung TV store in March 2026 with no description, no screenshots, no rating, and no store-side context. Buyer-beware until the channel page fills out.
MAY 10, 2026
Cranked Up arrives on Tizen with a generic name and very little to go on.
A free video channel from Cranked Up Ventures LLC launched on Samsung TVs in late March 2026 with no store description, no screenshots, and no public footprint to verify against.
MAY 10, 2026
IPTV Smart Cast leans on the phone, and that's the only smart thing about it.
A March 2026 Tizen IPTV player whose pitch is in its name — pair from a phone, push playlists to the TV, skip the on-screen keyboard. The pairing works. Everything around it is generic.
MAY 10, 2026
Rainbow Helper is a tiny colour-matching diversion for the Samsung TV remote.
A free April 2026 release from Desoline, Rainbow Helper is the kind of thumbnail-sized casual game that lives in the Tizen store's long tail — short, simple, and unlikely to anchor a viewing night.
MAY 10, 2026
Target Rift is a free Tizen shooter that bets everything on the remote.
A casual target-shooting game built around the Samsung TV remote's directional pad and OK button. Free, light on assets, light on ambition — but it loads, it scores, it works.
MAY 10, 2026
Hunter Player arrives on Tizen as a generic IPTV shell with no published spec sheet.
A self-published video app from a single-name developer with no description, no screenshots, and no rating data — the format of every URL-loader IPTV client that turns up on Samsung's store and disappears again.
MAY 10, 2026
Yogacure brings a small studio's yoga catalogue to the Samsung TV.
A free Tizen app from Radiance that turns the living-room screen into a follow-along mat space. Niche, lightly produced, and refreshingly free of the subscription scaffolding.
MAY 10, 2026
CuratedTV arrives on Tizen with a name and not much else.
A free March 2026 release from Palaver Labs that ships to the Samsung TV store without a description, screenshots, or rating — the listing itself is the entire pitch.
MAY 10, 2026
Easy Photo Player is a brand-new Tizen photo viewer with little to verify yet.
A Finnish developer's photo-slideshow channel published in late March 2026 to the Samsung TV store, with no public description, no screenshots in the store metadata, and no user ratings — judged on what's knowable, the answer is mostly to wait.
MAY 10, 2026
WHFF Bluegrass Classics turns a Samsung TV into a steady-state bluegrass station.
A single-stream Tizen radio app from a small Pennsylvania broadcaster. One genre, one button, no algorithm — and that is the entire pitch.
MAY 10, 2026
Dr Rachel Levitch 24/7 is a single-host linear channel on your Samsung TV.
A free Tizen app from independent broadcaster WHFF that pipes a continuous Dr Rachel Levitch stream to Samsung TVs — closer to a radio station than a video service.
MAY 10, 2026
Milo Bolt is a free Tizen runner that asks for very little and offers about that much.
Desoline's casual TV game shows up on Samsung sets without a price tag, without a rating count, and without much ambition beyond being a thing to launch when nothing else is.
MAY 10, 2026
Bee Quest is a small free Tizen time-killer that lives or dies on its first ten minutes.
A March 2026 release from Desoline, this casual TV game is the kind of free Samsung Smart TV download that makes sense for a single sitting and rarely earns a second.
MAY 10, 2026
Crossy Road on Fire TV is the indie hit that aged gracefully.
Hipster Whale's 2014 voxel Frogger is still on Fire TV, still free, still funny, and still — by some distance — the best one-touch arcade game on the platform.
MAY 9, 2026
The B Stream is a love letter to the films polite streamers won't touch.
Director Brad Leo Lyon's subscription channel hauls B movies, horror oddities, and cult flotsam onto Roku without ad breaks or content edits. It's narrow, scrappy, and cheerfully weird.
MAY 9, 2026
The CCE Network is the long tail of Roku in one channel.
A small, undocumented music-and-podcasts channel built on TvStartup's white-label stack. Worth a look as a window into how indie Roku gets made — less so as a destination.
MAY 9, 2026
Jason's Media Network Group is the kind of channel Roku quietly makes room for.
A long-tail entry in Roku's open submission catalogue, with no public press, no website footprint, and no way to verify what's inside without installing it. That's the genre, not the exception.
MAY 9, 2026
EnSound TV is a small Roku channel filed under Apps with no public footprint to speak of.
TVAppBuilder produced another templated channel in January 2026. The publisher is anonymous, the listing is sparse, and there is no external context to anchor a recommendation.
MAY 9, 2026
RTV Channel is a small Roku publisher's channel filed under the broadest possible name.
NOWCAST's Roku channel launched February 2026 in the Movies & TV category. The name is generic, the listing is sparse, and the audience is wherever NOWCAST's existing distribution lives.
MAY 9, 2026
JT JR TECH is a single-developer Roku channel with an audience to match.
RCMX Mexico's tech-themed Roku channel launched February 2026. The store listing is sparse, the screenshots are templated, and the audience is whoever stumbled in from search.
MAY 9, 2026
Bear stayed great by refusing to become an everything app.
The 2023 rebuild added tables, footnotes, and offline files without losing the singular focus that made the original feel like a real writing app.
MAY 7, 2026
Halide is the iPhone camera app that disagrees with Apple.
Process Zero strips out every AI shortcut Apple has added since the iPhone 11. The photos look stranger, sometimes worse — and the photographers it's for have started caring again.
MAY 7, 2026
Things 3 has been the same app for nine years. That's the point.
Cultured Code's task manager hasn't changed shape since 2017. In an era where every productivity app is rebuilding itself around AI, the one that didn't is starting to look like the smart one.
MAY 7, 2026