Unlimited backups • No subscriptions • Your data, your control

🌐 Website • 💬 Telegram

Telephoto is a simple, privacy-focused Android app that backs up your photos to Telegram using a bot you control.

Unlike traditional cloud services, your images go directly to your own Telegram chat — giving you unlimited storage, fast access, and full ownership of your data.

Key capabilities:

1. Custom Telegram bot backup — your media is stored in your own Telegram chat
2. Unlimited cloud-style storage model — no subscription lock-in
3. Manual Backup and Smart Sync — upload all files or only new/missing ones
4. High-resolution uploads — supports images up to 10 MB each
5. Folder include/exclude controls — choose exactly what gets backed up
6. Library overview — quick summary of your media library
7. Infocards in Gallery — see useful status and media insights at a glance
8. Memories card — reminders from past photos
9. Cloud Collection and Cloud Favorite — organize cloud media more easily
10. Collection cloud option — create/use cloud collections directly in Collection
11. Card pinning — keep important cards at the top
12. Cloud preview UI improvements — added Favorite and Info buttons
13. Cloud view options — grouping, sorting, filtering, grid view, and list view
14. Local tab view options — group, sort, filter, grid view, list view, and tree view
15. Grid column control — adjustable 2 to 6 columns
16. Offline OCR (100+ languages) — search screenshots, documents, and text photos
17. Parallel OCR and improved OCR workflow — faster, cleaner recognition and updates
18. Per-image OCR reprocessing — refresh OCR for selected images when needed
19. Image pre-conversion before upload — improves compatibility and upload reliability
20. Improved upload/delete/OCR pipeline — better overall media processing flow
21. Improved background operation — more reliable long-running tasks
22. Improved delayed cloud deletion algorithm — safer cloud cleanup handling
23. Auto migration for local image collections — smoother upgrades
24. Encrypted database backup and restore — secure metadata/settings portability
25. Database backup reminder card — prompts you to protect app data
26. Use Telephoto as a viewer from other apps — open and view images directly
27. Video Backup — back up videos to your Telegram cloud workflow
28. Video Player — play videos directly inside Telephoto
29. Reel Mode — short-video style continuous viewing experience
30. Video Player Gesture Control — quick gestures for seek, volume, and brightness
31. Video Favorites — mark important videos for fast access
32. Video Collections — organize videos into custom collections

• Video Backup
• Video Player
• Reel Mode
• Video Player Gesture Control
• Video Favorites
• Video Collections

• Infocards in the Gallery screen
• New Backup card — reminds you to back up your database
• Library overview
• New Memories card — reminds you of past photos
• Card pinning
• New Cloud Collection
• New Cloud Favorite
• Improved upload / delete / OCR workflow
• Improved background operation
• Cloud preview UI updated — added Favorite and Info buttons
• Auto migration for local image collections
• Improved delayed algorithm for deleting cloud images
• New cloud collection option inside Collection
• Encrypted database backup and restore
• Use the app as a photo viewer from other apps
• New Cloud View options — grouping, sorting, grid view, list view, and filtering
• New Local Tab view options — group, sort, filter, grid view, list view, and tree view
• Grid column control — change columns from 2 to 6
• Pre-conversion of images before upload

⚠️ Major update notice: Some previous data may not be fully detected or restorable after upgrading.

Install the APK on your Android device using the Download button above.

1. Message @BotFather and create a new bot
2. Copy the Bot API Token
3. Start a chat with your bot (/start)
4. Retrieve your Chat ID using @Check_Telegram_IDBot
5. Paste both values into the app settings

🛑 Telephoto does not auto-request permissions. You must grant them manually:

Storage / Files Access is required — photos & videos permission is not.

Grant permission:

Settings > Apps > Special app access > All files access

• Manual Backup — upload everything immediately
• Sync Mode — upload only new or missing photos

Smart scanning saves battery and bandwidth. First-time OCR may take some minutes depending on image content.

• Automatically detect text inside images
• Search screenshots, documents, and photos containing text
• Offline, multi-language support (100+ languages)
• Re-run OCR on specific images when needed

• Back up photo metadata (for sync tracking & OCR)
• Save app settings and configuration

• Flutter & Dart
• Telegram Bot API
• On-device OCR (Tesseract)

🌐 Website • 📢 Telegram Channel • 💬 Discussion Group • 📥 Download APK