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Country Music on Roku is a generic-named channel that asks you to trust it sight unseen.
A free music_and_podcasts channel from ByteWiseApps LLC with no description, no developer site to cross-check, and in-app purchases behind a name so common it could be anything. The install bar is low; the trust bar is not.
MAY 11, 2026
The Lake Church on Roku is a pew on the living-room wall.
A single-congregation Roku channel built on the Subsplash platform — sermons, livestreams, and series on the largest screen in the house, for people who already attend.
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
Voice Games turns the Roku remote's microphone into a controller.
A small, free channel that uses the voice button on the Roku remote as its only input. The premise is more interesting than the execution, but the premise is real.
MAY 11, 2026
Lionsgate Screeners is a genre studio's awards-season pitch in living-room form.
The Hunger Games and John Wick distributor runs its own FYC channel on Roku — and the slate it surfaces is a useful reminder that the studio campaigns on craft as well as box office.
MAY 11, 2026
Apple TV FYC is the streamer's awards-season door, propped open just wide enough.
Apple's For Your Consideration channel on Roku is the credentialed screening room behind the campaign that put CODA on the Best Picture stage. It is also the most recognisably Apple thing in the FYC aisle.
MAY 11, 2026
Bitcoin Price Screensaver turns an idle TV into a market ticker.
A $1.99 Roku channel that does exactly one thing — show the current Bitcoin price when nothing else is on the screen. Niche, honest, and oddly compelling.
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
First Baptist Church Chula puts a small Georgia congregation on the family TV.
A Subsplash-built Roku channel for a single Baptist church in Chula, Georgia. It does one thing — bring this week's service to the living room — and it does that thing without asking anything of the viewer.
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
Redeeming Grace TV is a stewardship-minded faith channel that asks the viewer to bring their own context.
A free Roku channel from Profitable Stewardship Inc., live since late 2025. The catalogue is faith-oriented; the store listing leaves almost everything else to the install.
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
The Lightning's Roku channel is a fan lounge with the live game cut out.
An official team channel for Tampa Bay Lightning followers — behind-the-scenes, classic game replays, and pre/post coverage. NHL's national rights deals carve the live broadcast out of it, which is the whole reason most people would install it.
MAY 11, 2026
Mountains Screensaver turns the living-room TV into a slow window.
Two photographs of alpine ridgelines, cycled at a pace that respects the room. It is not ambitious and it does not need to be.
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
WPC Hattiesburg brings a Mississippi pulpit onto the family TV.
A single-congregation Roku channel from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Hattiesburg, built on Subsplash's template. Quiet, free, and aimed squarely at the people who already sit in the pews.
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
Ib Smarter IPTV Player is a quiet Roku-certified playlist client that earns its slot.
A free public channel from SIGNA AI CORP, certified through Roku's review process rather than side-loaded. Paste your M3U URL, point it at an XMLTV guide, and the BrightScript UI gets out of the way.
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
Happy Birthday TV Screensaver turns the living-room TV into a six-dollar party prop.
Storm Jam's $5.99 channel replaces the Roku default screensaver with a loop of birthday imagery — cake, candles, balloons, confetti. It does one job, charges once, and stays out of the way the rest of the year.
MAY 11, 2026
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