Roku / apps / FAV VIDEOS
REVIEW
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.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Roku’s channel store has two populations. The first is the publisher tier — Netflix, Disney+, the big sports apps, the news brands — channels with marketing departments and dedicated TV teams. The second is everything else: a few thousand single-developer entries built by hobbyists, side projects, and people who wanted their family videos to play on the living room TV without futzing with a USB stick. fav videos is the second kind.
The channel was published in June 2025 by a developer credited as jrock517 and last updated in March 2026. It carries a five-star rating that, on a private channel with no visible review volume, is closer to a placeholder than a verdict. There is no store description. There is no developer URL. There is an icon, three screenshots, and a name written in lowercase.
That is genuinely all the information available before install — which is itself the most important thing to say about the channel.
There is no description, no developer site, and no review count. The channel is exactly as documented as its name suggests.
FEATURES
The Roku Channel Store lists fav videos under Apps, free to install, published by a developer who goes by jrock517. The channel went live on the Roku store in June 2025 and was last updated in March 2026, which puts it inside the active-maintenance window most abandoned hobby channels never reach.
There is no in-store description, no linked developer website, and no review count surfaced through Roku's metadata. The icon is a plain wordmark; the three preview screenshots are the only window into the interface before installation. The name — lowercase, generic, two words — is the signal the developer has chosen to send.
What you get on launch is what every minimal Roku channel of this shape gives you: a directional-pad-navigated grid of videos, presumably curated or sideloaded by the developer, played back through Roku's standard video player. The category is "Apps" rather than a content vertical, which usually means the channel is a personal video collection or a utility wrapper rather than a publisher-style streaming service.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Two things are working in fav videos' favour. The first is that it exists at all — Roku's certification process is meaningful, and a private developer submitting a channel and shipping an update nine months later is a stronger sign of intent than the average self-published Roku entry. The second is that the developer is iterating; the March 2026 update means somebody is still touching this code.
Free, ad-free in the storefront sense, and small. If the curated video list happens to be one you want, the channel does its job without asking you to log in, register, or sit through a sponsorship reel.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The storefront is the problem, not the channel. A Roku app with no description gets installed by people who think it's something else — and uninstalled by them the next minute. A single sentence about what's inside (home movies? favourite YouTube embeds? a friend's wedding videos?) would do more for the channel's audience-fit than another code update. Roku Developer Console allows up to 500 characters in the long description; using zero of them is a choice.
The five-star rating is also not what it looks like. Roku's rating system is gameable on low-volume channels — five stars on an unknown number of reviews is closer to "nobody has rated it yet" than "everyone loves it." Treat it as no signal at all.
CONCLUSION
fav videos is what Roku's developer ecosystem looks like at the long-tail end — one person, one channel, no marketing. If the name means something to you, install it. If you found this review because you were searching for a video app, keep looking; this is almost certainly not the channel you meant to find.