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RussianAndroid TV launchers come in two schools: the minimal school — Projectivy, AT4K, Monet and Arc — builds a clean Apple-TV-style grid, and the premium school, where Premium TV Launcher UI (PLUI) builds a complete living-room home screen. Minimal is a style. Premium is an experience.
Which launcher belongs in your living room?
An honest answer, with the other launchers named and praised. Because they deserve it — and because you deserve a straight comparison, not a sales pitch.
Projectivy, AT4K, Monet, Arc — they are fantastic launchers. Projectivy is the serious one: a million installs, rich features, free, on the Play Store. AT4K and Arc give you a beautiful Apple-TV-style screen that flies on any box. Monet brings Material You colors to the big screen. All of them share one philosophy: minimal, clean, fast, out of the way.
If that is the style you want — genuinely, use them. They are great, and you will be happy.
Premium TV Launcher UI (PLUI) is not a minimal launcher. It is a complete, luxurious environment that transforms your TV: a widget dashboard you compose yourself, live weather drawn as art, security cameras on the home screen, ten profiles with "Who's watching?", a sidebar you build slot by slot, aerial video backgrounds up to 8K. Very few launchers even attempt what PLUI does.
These are two different categories, not two ranks. One is a style. The other is an experience.
A clean shirt for your TV
Projectivy, AT4K, Monet, Arc. Quiet, elegant, fast. Your apps in a tidy grid, nothing more — and that restraint is exactly the point. If your ideal home screen is the one you notice least, this school has perfected it.
minimal · clean · fast · Apple TV style
A tuxedo
PLUI fills the seat nobody else takes: design-first luxury with everything in it. Glass over your own wallpaper, widgets that feel like objects, profiles for the whole family, your house on the screen. Not quieter — richer, and coherent about it.
premium · luxurious · complete · it transforms
Three apps, because one would have been a lie
Every custom launcher on Android TV holds the HOME button the same way: an accessibility service that listens for the key. It works, right up until the system switches the service off — and the system does, routinely. Android TV 14 switches off every accessibility service by itself. Android 13 and newer will not let a sideloaded app keep that switch on until you allow restricted settings. Any force-stop takes the permission with it. You press HOME one morning and the stock home screen is back, and nothing in the launcher broke.
We could have put that mechanism inside Premium TV Launcher and let you discover the fragility yourself. We did not. A launcher is the app the system stops and restarts all day, and Google Play forbids a Play-build launcher from catching system buttons anyway — so the mapping lives in Button Mapper TV, a small app that does one job and is not in that cycle.
Then we built the thing that removes the service altogether: TV Launcher Manager sets Android’s own Home app from outside the TV, once, and it holds through reboots, updates and Android TV 14. It is free, and it works with any launcher — Projectivy, Monet, AT4K, ATV Launcher, Arc, ours. Fixing this only for our own users would have been the smaller, easier thing to do.
We give it a tuxedo."
No promises, no superlatives. Put it on your screen for two minutes — complimentary, no account — and judge for yourself what belongs in your living room.
See it on your TV