Your TV. Your taste. No ads.

An Android TV hub with a personalized slideshow, trending content from your apps, and title recommendations from your ratings instead of their pocketbooks.

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Your TV came with a billboard.

Google TV's home screen is 50% ads. Sponsored content you didn't ask for. Recommendations for things you'd never watch. A "Top Picks" row that top-picks whatever paid the most.

It's been replaced.

Personalized Slideshow

A living art gallery that learns your taste

Mountains or cityscapes. Moody or vibrant. Aurora or architecture. Thumb up what you love, and VelvetTV builds a visual aesthetic that's uniquely yours.

180,000+ curated photos from Unsplash, Pexels, Wikimedia, and NASA
AI-powered learning across 83 visual attributes, tagged by Google Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite vision
Privacy-first design — your taste profile lives on your TV, not the server
Cloud sync — turn it on and your profile follows you, fully encrypted
Your own photos, too (Pro & Premium) — mix personal photos into the rotation, encrypted and private. Photos you upload are end-to-end encrypted — even I can't see them.

Sergey Guk

Mount Assiniboine, Canada

from Pexels

VelvetTV trending rows with Trending, For You, and Leaving pills above per-app rows

See what's actually trending

Netflix knows what's popular. Now, so do you — without the paid positioning. VelvetTV shows real, measured popularity data from 18 streaming apps, all in one place.

Per-app trending rows for Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, and more
Flip every row between Trending, For You picks, and what's Leaving soon
Tap a title, jump straight onto its title page — no searching
Choose between all apps or just what you've installed

Recommendations that learn from you

Not from ad budgets. The more you vote, the smarter it gets. VelvetTV surfaces titles you'll actually want to watch — filtered to apps you already have.

Rate what you watch

Thumbs up or down builds your taste profile — right from the home rows, or in bulk on the dedicated Recommendations page

Instant learning

Every vote retunes your taste across a 1,013-tag vocabulary — assigned to each title by Claude Sonnet 4.6

Only watchable titles

Filtered to apps you have — no recommendations you can't access, unless you choose to show them all

VelvetTV recommendations grid with match percentages, series status chips, and watchlist bookmarks

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Contribute to the gallery

Love a photo? Share it with everyone. Submit your own shots to the VelvetTV slideshow — if your finger's not covering half the lens, they join the rotation for all users.

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Submit your photos to appear in everyone's slideshow. Approved shots join the 180K+ photo library.

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Thanks for checking out VelvetTV 💜 Thanks for being part of VelvetTV 💜

It's a one-person labor of love — a calm, personal, ad-free home screen for your TV, with none of the usual clutter.

Questions, feedback, or just want to know when something ships? I read every message myself — say hi.

Seriously — it means a lot. VelvetTV is built by one person who cares a ridiculous amount about making your TV feel calm, personal, and ad-free, and you being here is what makes it worth doing.

If something's broken, confusing, or you've just got an idea, I'd genuinely love to hear it. Every message lands straight in my inbox — no ticket queue, no bots, just me.

Email [email protected]

Credits & thanks 💜

VelvetTV leans on a lot of talented people and generous open projects. Thank you to everyone whose work helps it feel calm, personal, and ad-free.

Team

Created by Terry Weiss
Logo by David Gamble

Photography

Slideshow photos come from the photographers and public collections at:

Unsplash
Pexels
NASA
Wikimedia Commons
VelvetTV community contributions

Each photo credits its photographer in the slideshow. Wikimedia images are used under their respective Creative Commons / public-domain licenses.

Weather

National Weather Service (US)
OpenWeatherMap
AccuWeather

AccuWeather's weather icons are used across all of the above sources.

Film & TV data

Catalog, trending titles, watch availability, and deep-links come from the Streaming Availability API (Movie of the Night). Title metadata and artwork are sourced from TMDB.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Recommendations & personalization

Recommendations aren't bought or outsourced to a third-party recommender. Every title is tagged by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) against a 1,013-tag vocabulary and enriched with Wikidata; slideshow photos are tagged by Google Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite vision across 83 visual attributes. Your taste profile scores those tags — on your device.

Anthropic and Google Gemini are used as tagging services only; your taste profile and votes are never sent to them.

Made with care by one person. Spot a credit that needs fixing? Reach out via Support.