TMPlayer

Free and open source, for Android

Your Telegram videos, on the TV.

TMPlayer is a free, open source Telegram media player for Android. Press play and it starts in seconds. The rest downloads while you watch.

Download the APK

One universal APK, one sign-in, both screens. How to install All releases

TMPlayer on a television, showing the videos in a Telegram chat as a grid of tiles with running times and file sizes.
Platform
Android 8.0 and above, TV or phone
Sign in
QR code, your own account
Tested on
Mi TV Stick with 1 GB of RAM, and a phone
Costs
Nothing. No server, no bot

A player, pointed at an account you already have

Telegram is where a lot of people keep the things they mean to watch later, and then watch on a phone held at arm's length because getting the file onto the television is more trouble than it is worth. TMPlayer is the missing half of that: a Telegram media player that signs in as you, lists the videos in your chats, and plays them on the big screen without moving a file anywhere.

What it does

Streams while it downloads, seeks properly, plays MKV, MP4, AVI and TS with subtitles and several audio tracks, and starts the next episode on its own.

The full list

On Android TV

A ten-foot layout built for a remote: a navigation rail, cards you can read across a room, focus you can always see, and a QR code instead of typing a phone number.

Made for the television

What it is not

Not a media service, not a channel directory, not a Telegram client. It hosts nothing, recommends nothing, and cannot read or send a message.

Questions and limits

Three things, once

Then it is a television app like any other.

  1. Get the APK

    One universal file for every supported device, television or phone, 32-bit and 64-bit alike. There is no chip type to look up and nothing to pay.

    Go to the download page

  2. Sideload it

    On a phone you open the file and say yes when Android asks. On a television it is a free helper app from the Play Store, or adb from a computer on the same wifi.

    Read the four install steps

  3. Scan the QR code

    Telegram's own Link Desktop Device flow, signed in as you through Telegram's official library. No account of mine, no bot, and nothing in between.

    What that does and does not mean

If it earned its place on your telly, star it

A star costs you one click and it is the whole marketing budget. It is what tells the next person, reading a GitHub page cold before sideloading an APK onto a device signed into their Telegram account, that somebody else trusted this first. Forking is just as welcome: the licence is GPL-3.0 and every line is there to read.

Star on GitHub Fork the repository Report a problem

GPL-3.0, and free for good

Missing something?

If the app will not do what you wanted, or your TV stick or handset misbehaves, I would rather hear about it.

Tell me what you wanted the app to do, and it might do it next release.

Say what you were trying to watch, what happened instead, and which device you are on. That is usually enough to find the problem.

Email me nevilnicks4321@gmail.com Public and trackable Open an issue on GitHub

Built by Nevil. More of what I make is at nevil.dev.