Use the Google TV Home app to launch and control your Google TV entertainment…
Google LLCSome warnings 12 users report an aggressive ad load; 1 thing we found but could not confirm. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code and the store listing.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.0.775915464 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-22.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Use the Google TV Home app to launch and control your Google TV entertainment device. Browse your movies, shows, and live TV channels without having to jump between apps. Get more personalized recommendations on what to watch by combining all your services in one place.
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 33 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
The app requests QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which lets the app enumerate every other app installed on the device.
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:5e9232d6a9883831fb401c2408828a6dd4e4a755e438e30d0c487900d3e1d689The app's own text says: "To hide a specific movie or show in your Library, press and hold the title then select Hide."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Package artefact
sha256:5e9232d6a9883831fb401c2408828a6dd4e4a755e438e30d0c487900d3e1d689The app's own text says: "Browse movies, shows, news, sports, and more. App installation required to watch."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:5e9232d6a9883831fb401c2408828a6dd4e4a755e438e30d0c487900d3e1d689The app's own text says: "Removing this account will switch this device to signed-out offline mode, meaning you won’t get personalized recommendations for what to watch on this TV. To enable internet and get the full Google TV experience, …
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:5e9232d6a9883831fb401c2408828a6dd4e4a755e438e30d0c487900d3e1d689Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
All the ADVERTISEMENT completely RUIN the "Google TV" experience. The Home app used to be very lightweight and it only had your apps and content from your apps. Now it doesn't matter which apps you use you always get ads, which is bad…
frequently throwing pop up ads harmful contains
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.0.775915464, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.0.775915464 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-22.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
google-tv-homeAssessed 2026-10-24 from 400 user reviews, the app's package and the store listing.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Five independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest and the store listing — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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