Home screen for Android TV and Google TV
Light as a feather.
Your apps and what you were watching. No ads, no sponsored rows, no account. Nothing else.
Free and open source · Android 8.0 or newer · GPL-3.0
Measured on a Hisense Google TV (Android 12). The stock Google TV launcher is ~25 MB and uses ~93 MB of RAM.
Everything you use. Nothing you don't.
Tiny and fast
No third-party libraries and no extra background services. Home is there the moment you press it.
No ads, no tracking
No sponsored rows, no account, no analytics. Your settings stay on your TV.
Continue Watching
Resume shows and films from your apps, including Stremio, right from the home screen.
A clean apps row
Monochrome or colour logos. Reorder, sort by most used, hide apps, or lock the layout with a PIN.
Your Home button
The Home button on your remote opens Plume, even on Google TV. Hold it for the Google TV dashboard.
Your look
Frosted or clear glass over your wallpaper. Photos, video scenes, light, dark or automatic with the sun.
Install in a minute
Plume isn't on the Play Store. Install it straight on your TV with the free Downloader app.
Downloader code
Always points to the latest release.
- Get DownloaderSearch the Play Store on your TV for Downloader by AFTVnews and install it.
- Enter the codeOpen Downloader, type 2125356 and select Go. Allow Downloader to install apps when asked.
- Open PlumeInstall, then open Plume from your apps. Its settings open on first launch to set the Home button and default launcher.
Other ways to install
USB drive. Download the APK, copy it to a USB drive and open it with a file manager on the TV.
adb. From a computer on the same network:
adb install Plume-1.7.apkAndroid 13 and newer. Android greys out the Home button switch for apps installed outside the Play Store. The README explains the one-time fix.
After that, Plume updates itself from Plume settings → Updates.