Your library, as a TV app
The groups and channels you follow, as a grid of their photos. Continue watching and your Pinned chats sit at the top. Hold OK on a chat to pin it or hide it.
Free and open source
Android TV & Google TV
Your Telegram channels,
Your Telegram channels,
on the big screen.
VueGram shows the groups and channels you follow as a grid of their photos, and plays their videos on your TV, streamed straight from Telegram. Made for the remote. No bots, no middlemen, no analytics.
Unofficial app. Not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Telegram.
Features
Everything you follow,
one remote away.
VueGram is built for the couch: big cards, a D-pad that always knows where it is, and nothing in the way between you and the video.
A player made for the remote
OK pauses. Left and right jump 10 seconds back and 30 forward; hold to keep adding. Back leaves.
Every video in a chat
A chat's videos and video files as a 16:9 grid with thumbnails, length, date and size, newest first, with a search field for that chat.
Search all channels
Telegram's own search, across every group and channel you follow at once.
Picks up where you stopped
Resume any video at the second you left it. Finished videos get a watched mark. All of it stays on the TV.
Plays the stubborn files
When the TV's hardware decoder refuses a file, VueGram tries another decoder, then Android's software decoders. Still no luck? It opens the video in mpv at the same spot.
Log in with a QR code
VueGram shows a code on the TV; you scan it with Telegram on your phone under Settings › Devices › Link Desktop Device. No SMS, no login email, and the code refreshes itself until it is scanned. Phone number and 2-step verification work too.
Updates that check themselves
VueGram looks for a new release at most every 12 hours. When there is one, an Update button appears in the library. Nothing is installed unless it passes every check.
- Downloads the new version from GitHub
- Its SHA-256 matches the one published with the release
- It is signed with the same key as your VueGram
- Android asks you to confirm
Open source, all the way down
MIT licensed. Even TDLib, the Telegram library inside, is built from its own source at a pinned commit, so anyone can check what runs on their TV.
How it works
Straight from Telegram
to your TV.
VueGram is built on TDLib, Telegram's own library. A video is fetched from Telegram
by the app itself and handed to the player through a tiny server that lives inside the app and only
answers on the TV's own address, 127.0.0.1.
Telegram
your account's groups, channels and videos
Your TV
TDLib in VueGram
talks to Telegram, nothing else
127.0.0.1
a one-time link for each video
Player
built in, or mpv
No bots
Nothing is forwarded to a bot or a download service. Your account talks to Telegram directly.
No third-party servers
Video goes from Telegram to the TV and nowhere else. There is no VueGram server in the middle.
Streams, not downloads
The parts you watch are deleted afterwards, so videos never pile up on the TV's storage.
Privacy
Your viewing is
nobody's business.
VueGram has no account of its own, no analytics and no tracking. Here is everything that leaves the TV, and everything that doesn't.
Stays on the TV
- Where you stopped in each video
- What you have watched
- The chats you pinned or hid
- Your settings
Goes to Telegram only
- Your login, through Telegram's own library
- Loading your chats, videos and searches
- Your own API ID and hash, from my.telegram.org
One question to GitHub
- At most every 12 hours: "is there a newer VueGram?"
- Nothing about you or the TV is sent
This website is the same: no cookies, no analytics, no trackers. The only outside requests are the Outfit font from Google Fonts and GitHub's public API for the latest version number.
Install
On your TV in
three steps.
For Android TV and Google TV, Android 6.0 or newer. VueGram is installed from its GitHub releases page.
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1
Get your API keys
Sign in at my.telegram.org and create an app to get your own API ID and hash. VueGram asks for them on first start.
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2
Install the APK
Download the latest
.apkfrom GitHub releases and install it with ADB or a downloader app on the TV. -
3
Scan and watch
Scan the QR code on the TV with Telegram on your phone. Your groups and channels appear, ready to play.
VueGram for Android TV
The latest release is on GitHub · free · MIT
licensed
Is VueGram an official Telegram app?
No. VueGram is an unofficial client built on Telegram's own library, TDLib. It is not made by, affiliated with or endorsed by Telegram.
Does it cost anything?
No. VueGram is free and open source under the MIT license.
Why do I need my own API ID and hash?
Every app that talks to Telegram identifies itself with an API ID and hash. VueGram asks you for your own, which you get for free at my.telegram.org, so your copy talks to Telegram as itself. How to get them.
Why log in with a QR code?
It needs no SMS and no login email. Telegram sometimes asks for a paid SMS or a login email before it sends a code to a phone number; the QR code avoids both. You scan it with Telegram on your phone, under Settings › Devices › Link Desktop Device.
Do videos fill up my TV's storage?
No. Videos are streamed, and the parts you watch are deleted afterwards.
A video won't play. What now?
VueGram's player tries other decoders by itself. For the rare file none of them can play, install mpv-android: VueGram then opens the video there, at the same position. See troubleshooting.
Is it on the Play Store?
No. VueGram is installed from its GitHub releases, and after that it can update itself.