Turn the picture off. Keep the sound on.

Blackout gives a button on your TV remote a new job: one press turns the screen black while your music, podcast or show keeps playing underneath. Press any button and the picture is back, right where you left it.

It's an audio-only mode for your TV, one button away.

GREAT FOR
• Music, podcasts, audiobooks and radio through your TV speakers
• Falling asleep to a show or ambient sounds without a bright screen
• Following a match or the news by sound alone
• Keeping the TV on in a dark room without the glow

HOW IT WORKS

Pick a remote button you rarely use.
Choose how it triggers: press, double-press or hold.
Decide whether the button keeps its usual job or works only for Blackout.
That's it. Your button now blacks out the screen from any app, and any button brings the picture back.

Already use a button mapper or a TV shortcut? Point it at Blackout instead.

NOT SLEEP MODE
Blackout doesn't turn your TV off or put it to sleep. Your apps keep running, so there's nothing to restart and no waiting when the picture comes back.

PRICING
Free for 7 days. After that, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks Blackout for good. No subscription.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads, no tracking
• The button works offline, with no connection needed
• Remembers only your button settings and whether you've unlocked it

WHY BLACKOUT ASKS FOR PERMISSIONS
• Display over other apps: to draw the black layer on top of whatever is playing.
• Accessibility service: to notice the remote button you picked, and the press that brings the picture back. Blackout never reads what's on your screen, and your key presses never leave your device.
• Internet: used only by Google Play's billing library to handle the one-time unlock.

Requires Android TV or Google TV running Android 8.0 or later.