Every free TV debloat tool does the same thing underneath: it connects to the TV over ADB and disables apps for your user. They differ in which TVs they support, whether they replace the home screen, and whether you click buttons, run scripts or let an AI assistant do it.
| Tool | Works on | What it does | Replaces the home screen | License | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CleanYourTV | Google TV, Android TV; Fire OS (debloat only) | Tested package lists for 400+ TVs and boxes, scripts to apply and undo them, optional ad-free home screen | Yes, on Google TV / Android TV | MIT | 2026-11-01 |
| dumbtv | Fire TV sticks, Cube, Fire TV Edition TVs | Scripts that ask before each step, a small DNS filter on the TV, its own home screen | Yes (opens over Amazon's Home) | MIT | 2026-10-27 |
| tv-detox | Android TV, Google TV | A prompt for an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Codex) that lists, explains and disables apps, plus a tiny home screen | Yes | MIT | 2026-10-30 |
| Free My TV | Google TV, Android TV, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen | An ad-free home screen app; one button brings the factory home screen back | Yes, that is the point | MIT | 2026-10-31 |
| Android TV Toolkit | Android TV, Google TV (TCL focus) | A small Python desktop app with buttons for debloat, APK install and launcher swap | Yes | MIT | 2026-10-30 |
| TV Slim | Android TV, Google TV | A Windows and Android-phone app: finds the TV on your network, explains each package with a risk level, refuses packages that break boot or the remote, and re-applies your choices after updates | Can switch to another launcher (Projectivy, Startlight) | Apache-2.0 | 2026-10-20 |
| TV Tweak | Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2nd gen), one Sharp Google TV | One shell script with per-device profiles taken from each device's own package list; never touches playback or DRM packages | No | MIT | 2026-10-19 |
| debloatfiretv | Fire TV on Fire OS 7 | Plain package lists for ADB, each package documented with what breaks without it | No | MIT | 2026-10-21 |
| Fire Tools | Mainly Fire tablets | A desktop app to debloat Fire tablets and install Google Play | Partly (on tablets) | MIT | 2026-08-23 |
| This site's command generator | Google TV, Android TV, Fire TV (tested devices on this site) | Runs in your browser: tick packages, copy the ADB commands and the matching undo | No | Lists from CleanYourTV (MIT) | 2026-11-02 |
For a Fire TV Stick or Fire TV Edition TV, dumbtv is the most complete open source option (debloat, DNS filter and a home screen in one run), and CleanYourTV has tested Fire OS lists if you only want the debloat. Smaller projects such as TV Tweak (Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd gen) and debloatfiretv (Fire OS 7) cover fewer devices. Either way you need a computer with ADB on the same Wi-Fi. Our Fire TV guide lists what can and can't be removed.
Not one that can disable system apps. Android and Fire OS only allow that from an ADB shell, so every tool here runs on a computer and talks to the TV over Wi-Fi. On Fire TV, Amazon also blocked the local ADB connection that on-device tools used to rely on.
Amazon Fire Toolbox by Datastream33 is a long-running Windows freeware tool, built mainly for Fire tablets and closed source. We have not tested it on Fire TV; check that it supports your exact model before you run it.
All the open source ones disable apps instead of deleting them and can undo every change. Download them only from their GitHub pages, read what a script will do before you run it, and keep the undo commands. Android TV Toolkit's old Windows .exe was flagged by antivirus tools; the author calls it a false positive and now ships source code only.
No. All of them use ADB with developer options switched on.
We have no affiliation with any of these projects. Facts checked 2026-11-02 against each project's README and GitHub page; stars and update dates change quickly.