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Open-source Android TV browser with remote navigation, tabs, video playback, ad blocking, and customizable privacy filters. Includes parental PIN controls and TalkBack support.
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About this app
Sofa TV Browser Overview & Feature Summary:
- Core Identity: A lightweight (~2 MB), open-source private web browser built specifically for Android TV and Google TV. - Remote Navigation: Uses an on-screen pointer controlled via directional remote arrows, with Back-key menu access and full gamepad support. - Video Integration: Dedicated "Press Play" function automatically extracts and plays main page videos full screen. Includes Sofa Player for 4K/HDR support, quality/audio/subtitle selection, speed adjustments, picture-in-picture, and casting ("Play in..."). Note: DRM-protected streaming services are limited to standard definition due to hardware limitations. - Privacy & Blocking: Completely ad-free with zero accounts, telemetry, analytics, or crash reporting. Features built-in ad/pop-up blocking, support for custom filter lists (uBlock Origin, EasyList), encrypted Custom DNS, category-based site filtering (adult, gambling, etc.), and password-protected settings backups. - Tab Management & Performance: Supports up to 10 active tabs with inactive tab sleeping to preserve system resources. Features background downloads, dark/light themes, TalkBack accessibility support, and voice search. - Customization: Fully customizable start page layouts and backgrounds, desktop bookmark importing, and user-selectable search engines. - Updates: Optional daily update checks with manual approval prompts.
Licence:
Sofa TV Browser is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only (GPL-3.0-only).
What's new
Tabs. Hold OK on a link and pick "Open in new tab". You can have up to 10, and they're still there the next time you open Sofa. Site filters, if you want them: block adult, gambling, drug or unsafe sites, or a list of your own. Off until you turn it on. A parental PIN, so nobody can open Settings or switch the blockers off without it. Your own menu: put the buttons in the order you like and hide the ones you never use. Your own start page: move or hide its rows, and give it a colour or one of your photos. Pick what Sofa opens on: the start page, a site you choose, or wherever you left off. Bring your bookmarks over from a computer's browser, or take them back out the same way. Back up all your settings to one file, locked with a password. Handy for a second TV, or after a reset. Custom DNS, for the privacy-minded: Sofa can look sites up through a private DNS service instead of the one your TV uses. TalkBack, the TV's screen reader, now reads Sofa's menus and settings out loud. Smaller things A page you leave goes quiet. Its video pauses, and it can't sneak off to another site behind your back. Fewer surprise pop-up ads when you press on a picture. A tab you haven't looked at for 10 minutes goes to sleep to save memory. It wakes up when you pick it. Bookmarks and History stay quick, even with thousands of them. When the TV can't play a video, Sofa suggests opening it in another player app. If your TV's web engine is missing or broken, Sofa tells you what to install instead of just closing. You can now support Sofa with a donation, from Settings → Support Sofa. Plenty of small fixes.
About this version
- Version
- 1.3.0 (10300)
- Size
- 2.24 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- universal
- Downloads
- 76
- Updated
- Nov 8, 2026
- Package
- app.sofabrowser
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