TAG · 16 REVIEWS
Channels
Every App Comrade review tagged Channels, across every platform.
Ben Azelart on webOS is a single-creator channel hunting for a TV reason.
A dedicated LG app for the prank-and-stunt YouTuber's catalogue. The content travels well to a 65-inch screen; the app around it does not add much beyond a remote-friendly grid.
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
AICulture Network is a curiosity, not a destination.
A small, recent music-and-podcasts channel built around AI culture as a topic. There's an audience for that. There just isn't much on the channel yet.
MAY 10, 2026
Give Hope and Love TV is the kind of small faith channel Roku quietly fills up with.
A January 2026 listing from TV App Builder, sitting in Roku's music and podcasts shelf with no description and no reviews. It is less an app than a sign of how the platform's faith corner actually works.
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
Valentine Cupids is a tiny seasonal screensaver doing exactly one job.
A holiday-bound Roku channel built around a single visual conceit — cupids drifting across the screen for a few weeks each February. It is not a streaming service, and it does not pretend to be.
MAY 10, 2026
The HR Channel is a niche bet on workplace TV nobody asked for.
A streaming network built entirely around hiring, leadership, and the future of work arrives on Roku as a curious experiment in vertical-interest television.
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
Law by Mike on webOS turns a phone-shaped lawyer into a couch lecture.
Mike Mandell's TikTok-native legal explainers get a TV channel app on LG. The format survives the jump to a 55-inch screen, but only barely.
MAY 9, 2026
The Herprenuer Media Network is a niche Roku channel betting on women-founder content.
A small, focused channel store entry aimed squarely at the women-in-business audience. Earnest, unpolished, and thin on volume — but it knows who it's for.
MAY 9, 2026
ActiviTV is built for the dayroom, not the living room.
A niche Roku channel aimed at skilled-nursing and assisted-living activity directors. Useful where it lands, baffling everywhere else.
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
WhatsApp finally lets you have a name. The phone number stays.
The 2026 username rollout decouples WhatsApp identity from the SIM card for the first time since 2009. End-to-end encryption is intact. Meta's role in your contact graph is not.
MAY 8, 2026
Telegram still pretends end-to-end encryption is the same as default privacy.
The fastest, most feature-dense messenger on Android remains the only major one where one-to-one chats are not encrypted by default. After Pavel Durov's 2024 arrest, the gap matters more than ever.
MAY 7, 2026