Supported devices
Two sides to ShowHaven: the child's screen, which runs the ShowHaven Kids app, and your controls, which run wherever you are. Here is what works today, what is in testing, and what is not supported.
Your child's screen
Supported
Android phones and tablets
- Android 6.0 or newer
- Tablets
- Phones
Rolling out
Google TV and Android TV
- Walmart onn Full HD (2K) — verified on our bench
- Walmart onn 4K — verification in progress
- TVs from Sony, TCL, Hisense and Philips — should work, not yet verified
- Chromecast with Google TV, Google TV Streamer, Nvidia Shield — should work, not yet verified
Not currently supported
Other TV platforms
- Fire TV
- Roku
- Samsung (Tizen)
- LG (webOS)
- Vizio SmartCast
- Apple TV
To check a TV: if it has the Google Play Store on it, it is Android TV or Google TV underneath. The TV app is rolling out through Google Play early access — “verified” means we watched shows open correctly on that exact hardware, and we add devices to that list as they pass on our bench.
Your controls
- Android phones — the ShowHaven parent app, from Google Play. Search, approve, pair devices, get a heads-up when your child wanders, grant more time.
- Any browser — the web parent app at showhaven.tv/app does everything the phone app does, from an iPhone, a laptop, or the computer at work. Creating your account, building the grid, pairing your child's device: all of it works from a browser alone.
An iPhone household is a first-class ShowHaven household: your controls live in the browser, your child's screen runs the Kids app, and subscribing on the web needs no Android device at all.
The streaming apps themselves
ShowHaven opens shows in the streaming apps you already pay for — Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and Crave in Canada. Those apps must be installed and signed in on the child's device. ShowHaven never plays video itself and never asks for your streaming passwords.