TV Bro

Fedir Tsapana

About this app

Web browser optimised to use with TV remote.
Features:
- working with TV remote
- tabs and bookmarks support
- voice search support
- switch user agent support
- two switchable web rendering engines
- built-in download manager
- browsing history
- shortcuts

Now opensource:
https://github.com/truefedex/tv-bro

Ratings and reviews

It worked well enough for what I needed and I didn’t have any major problems with it. Ultimately, though, I found other options that worked better for me, so I didn’t end up keeping it installed. Nothing necessarily bad about the app—it just wasn’t the best fit for what I needed.

If possible, please add a built-in video player capable of automatically detecting videos up to 4K resolution, especially when playing Dailymotion videos embedded within a website. Currently, playing these videos directly inside the web browser puts a heavy strain on the TV's processing power. Furthermore, simply moving the cursor across the screen often causes the video playback speed to accidentally change to 2x, which leads to constant buffering.

Really great app! Much better than Puffin Browser IMO, which was preinstalled on my Chinese, very-hard-to-find-support-for TV. Only giving it 4 stars coz the UI was unintuitive at first. Home page shows common websites, but no URL bar, no search, nothing I'd expect to see in a web browser. So had to pick Netflix before I realised you can hit the back button to open a menu. The rest was easy to figure out. I especially love being able to customise buttons in the settings. Keep up the good work!

What’s new

* Several bugfixes (handling physical keyboards, page preview rendering)