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RussianAT4K and Premium TV Launcher UI (PLUI) are both ad-free Android TV launchers, from two different schools. AT4K, by Cute Little Apps, is the minimal school's content-row launcher: a Google-TV-like home screen without the ads, and the highest rated on the shelf. PLUI, by Smartago, is the premium school: a complete living-room home screen with a widget dashboard, up to ten user profiles, parental controls and live security cameras, with the Elite edition included at no cost. One perfects the familiar; the other transforms the TV.
PLUI vs AT4K
Two excellent launchers from two different schools — compared on facts from each app's public listing, with respect where it is deserved. Which is most places.
AT4K is the one users rate highest. It rebuilds the Google-TV-style home screen — rows of content, familiar at a glance — and strips out everything people dislike about the original: the ads, the sponsored rows, the clutter. Add a weather widget, a clock, channels, even 2048, and you have a launcher that feels like the TV you already know, only respectful. That is a genuinely hard thing to pull off.
Premium TV Launcher UI plays a different game. It does not rebuild the familiar — it replaces it: glass panels over your own wallpaper, a widget dashboard you compose yourself, live weather drawn as art, your security cameras beside the clock, and a profile for every person in the house. Where AT4K perfects the home screen you know, PLUI builds the one you did not know a TV could have.
Neither school is wrong. The table below is the same 17 facts as our five-launcher comparison, reduced to these two.
| Compare | AT4K Cute Little Apps Minimal | Premium TV Launcher UI Smartago Premium |
|---|---|---|
| StyleThe look the launcher is built around | Content rows, Google-TV-like | Glass panels over your wallpaper, widgets, rail |
| Ads / sponsored rows | None | None |
| Price | Free + Pro (one-time) | Free · Elite included |
| Publisher | Cute Little Apps — independent developer | Smartago — a named company with a privacy policy and a support desk |
| Support | GitHub issues, subreddit | Email answered by a person in 24–48 h · GitHub issues · in-app feedback |
| Account required | No | No |
| Source code | Closed · GitHub holds APKs and issues | Closed · focus layer published as TV Focus Kit (MIT) |
| Live widgets | Weather, clock, channels, 2048 and more | Hundreds: 82 weather faces, 38 clocks, forecast, radio, media, system, cameras |
| Wallpapers | Own images, gradients | Curated gallery to 8K, aerial video, fine art, NASA, Reddit, own photos |
| ProfilesSeparate home screens per person | — | Up to 10, “Who’s watching?”, 100+ avatars |
| Parental control | Not listed | PIN per category, daily screen-time limit, admin permissions |
| Security cameras on the home screen | — | Yes, beside clock and weather (viewer, no recording) |
| HOME button on locked TVs | Default Home app setting · Launcher Manager if missing | Button Mapper TV QuickActions (Play build) · built-in on the full build |
| Remote shortcut buttons | Yes (accessibility) | Yes — single, double, long press (inside the launcher) |
| Sidebar / categories | Rows per category | 100 slots you build, each with icon, layout, lock |
| Languages | Many | 45 |
| Backup / restore | Local export | Cloud backup, one Device ID |
| Devices | Android TV 8+ | Android TV 8+, Google TV, Fire TV (sideload, Android models), projectors |
Sources: each app’s Google Play listing and public documentation, checked September 2026. “—” means not offered. Corrections: info@smartago.net — we will fix it within a week. Full five-launcher table: Android TV launchers compared.
You like Google TV — minus the ads
Content rows you already know how to browse, nothing sponsored, the highest rating on the shelf, and the clean HOME route through Android’s own default-Home setting. The familiar home screen, done right.
You want the TV to feel like the room
A widget dashboard you compose, weather drawn as art, a profile for every person behind “Who’s watching?”, your cameras beside the clock, glass over your own wallpaper. The premium school — complete, luxurious, and included at no cost.
PLUI vs AT4K, in plain answers
Is AT4K better than PLUI?▾
They are different categories. AT4K is the content-row launcher: a Google-TV-like home screen without the ads, the highest rated on the shelf, with playful extras like a 2048 widget. PLUI is the premium school: a complete living-room home screen with a widget dashboard, up to ten profiles, parental controls and live security cameras. If you like Google TV's layout and just want the ads gone, AT4K is probably the better pick; if you want the TV transformed, PLUI is built for exactly that.
What does PLUI have that AT4K doesn't?▾
User profiles (up to ten, behind a "Who's watching?" screen with 100+ avatars — AT4K has none), live security cameras on the home screen (ONVIF/RTSP), a widget dashboard with hundreds of widgets including 82 weather faces and 38 clocks, parental controls with a PIN per category and daily screen-time limits, a curated wallpaper gallery to 8K with aerial video and fine art, cloud backup under one Device ID, and 45 languages. The full Elite edition is included at no cost.
What does AT4K do better than PLUI?▾
Content rows: AT4K rebuilds the Google-TV-style home screen — rows of shows and apps — without sponsored content, and that is a layout PLUI deliberately does not copy. It is the highest-rated launcher on the shelf, its widget set has playful surprises like 2048, and its HOME-button route uses Android's own default-Home setting, which is the clean way. If rows of content are how you browse, AT4K does it best.
Are both free? Do they show ads?▾
Both are free and neither shows ads or sponsored rows. AT4K offers an optional one-time Pro upgrade. PLUI includes its full Elite edition at no cost — no unlock, no trial, no account.
Can I install both and switch between them?▾
Yes. Android TV launchers coexist: installing one changes nothing you cannot undo, and the free TV Launcher Manager sets either one — or the stock launcher — as the real Home app with one tap, including a one-tap restore. Trying both costs two minutes each.
Keep the one you love.
No promises, no superlatives. Two minutes on your screen — complimentary, no account — and judge for yourself what belongs in your living room.
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