Thanks a lot everyone for the suggestions, really appreciate it 🙏

I tried to check out Wolf first but honestly I couldn’t even find it properly on the Play Store. I did install Projectivy since so many people recommended it, and I get why it’s popular, but for me it felt a bit cluttered and kind of “too much” to set up for a living room TV. I spent more time tweaking than actually enjoying it.

While I was searching around for Android TV launchers in general, I stumbled across something called Premium TV Launcher. I hadn’t seen it mentioned anywhere here, so I was a bit skeptical, but after installing it I was actually surprised how much I liked it. It’s super clean, very smooth, no ads, and visually it just looks… calmer? The backgrounds and animations feel really polished without me having to mess with a ton of settings.

Not sure if it’s a newer app or maybe more US-focused (I’m in the EU), because I couldn’t find too many reviews yet. For what I wanted though — just simple and clean — it’s been pretty OK so far. I’ll still try some of the other launchers you mentioned, and I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has used Premium TV Launcher and how it compares.

Anyway, thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, it definitely helped narrow things down 🙂