Unlimited backups • No subscriptions • Your data, your control

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

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

• AI auto caption - integrated Gemini chatgpt API to give you context about the image transcription translation and many more.

• Custom Telegram bot backup — your media is stored in your own Telegram chat
• Unlimited cloud-style storage — no subscription lock-in
• Video Backup — back up videos to your Telegram cloud
• Manual Backup and Smart Sync — upload all files or only new/missing ones
• High-resolution uploads — supports images up to 40 MB each
• Image pre-conversion before upload — improves compatibility and upload reliability
• Folder include/exclude controls — choose exactly what gets backed up

• Video Player — play videos directly inside Telephoto
• Reel Mode — short-video style continuous viewing experience
• Video Player Gesture Control — quick gestures for seek, volume, and brightness
• Library overview — quick summary of your media library
• Infocards in Gallery — see useful status and media insights at a glance
• Memories card — reminders from past photos
• Cloud Collection and Cloud Favorite — organize cloud media more easily
• Collection cloud option — create/use cloud collections directly in Collection
• Video Favorites — mark important videos for fast access
• Video Collections — organize videos into custom collections
• Card pinning — keep important cards at the top
• Cloud preview UI — added Favorite and Info buttons

• Cloud view options — grouping, sorting, filtering, grid view, and list view
• Local tab view options — group, sort, filter, grid view, list view, and tree view
• Grid column control — adjustable 2 to 6 columns

• Offline OCR (100+ languages) — search screenshots, documents, and text photos
• Parallel OCR and improved OCR workflow — faster, cleaner recognition and updates
• Per-image OCR reprocessing — refresh OCR for selected images when needed

• Improved upload/delete/OCR pipeline — better overall media processing flow
• Improved background operation — more reliable long-running tasks
• Improved delayed cloud deletion algorithm — safer cloud cleanup handling
• Auto migration for local image collections — smoother upgrades
• Encrypted database backup and restore — secure metadata/settings portability
• Database backup reminder card — prompts you to protect app data
• Use Telephoto as a viewer from other apps — open and view images directly

Sync your media seamlessly across all your devices — changes made on one device reflect everywhere

Faster, smoother, and more intuitive collection management

• Image Captions — add descriptive text to your photos
• Markdown Support — format your captions with bold, italic, links, and more
• Tags & Hashtags — organize and discover photos with #tags
• Common Caption — apply the same caption to multiple images at once

New optimized search algorithm for faster and more accurate results

• Optimized Image Viewer — smoother zooming and navigation
• QR Code Scanner — scan QR codes directly from images
• Revamped UI — fresh new look for image preview and cloud image preview
• Thumbnail Wheel — quickly scrub through images with an intuitive thumbnail slider

• Tap to Scroll to Top — quickly return to the top of any list with a single tap
• Recent Favorites — quickly access your most recently favorited items
• Sync ID Implementation — improved backend tracking for reliable synchronization

Official widget support — view your memories and recent photos right from your home screen

Version 60 brings powerful cross-device sync, rich Markdown captions with hashtags, a completely revamped UI, and official Android 16+ widget support. Update today to experience the future of privacy-first cloud backup.

Download the latest APK and install it on your Android device.

Latest on GitHub: 60.0

1. Open @BotFather and send /newbot
2. After bot creation, copy only the HTTP API token from BotFather reply (format: 123456:ABC-DEF...)
3. Open your new bot chat and send /start
4. Open @Check_Telegram_IDBot (or @ScanIDBot) and choose which ID you want: User ID or Group ID
   • If you choose User ID, copy your numeric ID (example: 987654321) and use it directly in Telephoto
   • If you choose Group ID, first add your created bot to that group and set it as admin, then copy the group ID (usually starts with -)
5. Paste the bot token + selected ID into Telephoto Settings

What to copy: Copy only the bot token and one ID value (user ID or group ID). Do not copy bot usernames, labels, or extra reply text.

Example:

• 123456:ABC-DEF... (bot token)
• 987654321 (user ID) or -1001234567890 (group ID)

🛑 Manual Action Required

Settings > Apps > Telephoto > Permissions → Enable "Files and media"

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

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