LG / life / MADE IT MYSELF TV
REVIEW
Made it Myself TV turns the living-room screen into a maker's loop.
A free DIY and craft-project channel on LG webOS — short build videos, lifestyle projects, and a permanent home for the kind of content most viewers normally hunt down one tab at a time.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Made it Myself TV is what happens when the YouTube maker-shorts habit gets a dedicated living-room channel instead of an algorithm. It is a free, single-purpose DIY app on LG webOS — Lightcast.com publishes it alongside a wide roster of similar lifestyle channels — and it opens straight into a tiled feed of short build videos. No login, no paywall, no ad-tier nag.
The format is the argument. Craft and DIY viewing on a TV usually means side-loading YouTube and surrendering the next-up choice to the recommendation engine. Made it Myself TV trades that loop for a smaller, hand-arranged grid: woodworking, upcycling, home repair, kitchen projects, kid-friendly crafts. The clips are short, the navigation is Magic-Remote-first, and the experience asks nothing of the viewer beyond a click.
What you get is closer to a leanback hobby channel than a library. That framing fits the LG TV-room context better than the inevitable comparison to YouTube — and it sets the right expectations for how to use the app once installed.
Made it Myself TV is what happens when the YouTube maker-shorts habit gets a dedicated living-room channel instead of an algorithm.
FEATURES
Made it Myself TV is a free lifestyle channel from Lightcast.com, the white-label TV-channel publisher behind a long roster of niche LG webOS, Roku, and Fire TV apps. The pitch is single-purpose: DIY, craft, and maker content, queued up as a leanback feed rather than a search-driven library.
The webOS build follows the standard Lightcast template. A landing carousel surfaces the newest builds, a category strip beneath it splits the catalogue into project types — woodworking, home repair, upcycling, kitchen projects, kid-friendly crafts — and Magic Remote selection drops straight into playback. There is no account requirement, no subscription, and no DRM gate between the home row and a video.
Episode lengths skew short — most clips run three to ten minutes — which fits the maker-shorts cadence viewers already know from YouTube but rarely get on a TV. There is no autoplay across episodes by default; the remote handles the next-up choice.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The format choice is the right one. DIY content on a TV usually means side-loading YouTube and accepting whatever the algorithm queues next. A standing channel that opens to a tiled grid of build videos, with no login and no ad-tier upsell, removes the friction that keeps most maker viewing pinned to phones and tablets.
Lightcast's playback layer is reliable. Buffering is brief on a decent connection, exits back to the channel grid are clean, and Magic Remote pointing works as expected against the tile layout — no jump-the-cursor weirdness.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Catalogue depth is the open question. Lightcast channels lean on a mix of licensed and partner-supplied clips, and the back catalogue here trends toward shorter how-to segments rather than full sit-down builds. Viewers expecting hour-long shop tours or multi-part restoration projects will run out of material faster than the channel positioning suggests.
Search inside the app is basic — title and category filters only, no transcript search, no save-for-later queue across sessions. There is also no resume-where-you-left-off if the channel is closed mid-clip.
CONCLUSION
Made it Myself TV is a sensible install for LG TV owners who already keep a DIY tab open on their phone and would rather watch on the big screen without juggling YouTube on the Magic Remote. Treat it as a casual rotation channel rather than a primary library. Watch for catalogue growth — Lightcast updates its channels in bursts, and the upside here depends on whether the next batch leans toward longer-format builds.