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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
Solid Rock Radio does one job, plays one signal, and gets out of the way.
A single-stream Christian rock channel built by Invubu, the studio behind a long shelf of Roku radio apps. No menus, no playlists, no fuss — just the station, on the TV, when you want it on.
MAY 10, 2026
Baba Blast is a free Roku kids channel that earns its place on the second row.
Future Today's latest free-with-ads channel for kids slots in next to HappyKids and Kabillion. The catalogue is shallow but the on-ramp is genuinely zero-friction — no signup, no profile, no PIN.
MAY 10, 2026
Haunted Castle is a free Roku game that knows its place.
A small directional-pad adventure made for the only controller the platform offers. It is not the reason you bought a Roku, and it never pretends to be.
MAY 10, 2026
WQED+ on Roku is Pittsburgh public TV finishing the streaming triangle.
The Pittsburgh PBS station's free channel reaches Roku Home alongside its LG webOS and Samsung Tizen builds — a small-market broadcaster now installable on whichever TV the household already owns.
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
Birthday Celebration Saver turns the TV into a $3.99 party prop.
A single-purpose Roku channel from Storm Jam LLC that fills the screen with celebratory imagery while the cake comes out. It does one thing, and it's honest about it.
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
Life Of Christ PDO Ministry brings a small congregation's broadcast to the living-room TV.
A focused ministry channel that streams sermons, services, and devotional content from the Life Of Christ PDO Ministry community — built for the faithful first, the tech enthusiast second.
MAY 10, 2026
Nick Jr. on Roku is a strong library hiding behind a cable login.
PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Blaze, Blue's Clues — the catalogue is exactly the one a four-year-old will sit through. The TV-provider gate is the catch.
MAY 10, 2026
NuTV World is a free Roku channel that asks you to take it on faith.
A late-2025 movies-and-TV channel from NOWCAST with no store description, no ad load, and no IAP. What's inside is whatever NOWCAST decides to broadcast that day.
MAY 10, 2026
Halloween Screensaver turns the TV into a $1.99 mantelpiece for October.
JP's seasonal channel does one thing — fill the screen with Halloween imagery when the box goes idle — and the question is whether one-thing-for-six-weeks is worth two dollars.
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
Sport Cars Screensaver turns the TV into a quiet auto-show wall.
A no-frills photo rotation of supercars and exotics, designed to fill an idle Roku with something more interesting than the Roku City clock.
MAY 10, 2026
Lightning Screensaver turns the TV into a thunderstorm without the thunder.
A free Roku channel that loops storm footage as ambient wallpaper. The visuals carry weight; the audio and controls are the part the developer hasn't finished yet.
MAY 10, 2026
Anime Verse arrives on Roku without a single sentence of self-description.
A new free-with-IAP anime channel from Tech Sky Systems, listed in September 2025 and quietly updated since. The Roku page leaves the licensing question completely unanswered, and that matters.
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
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