Phone
Each video has one page: the player at the top, the comments underneath. Turn your phone on its side and the video fills the screen, or keep it playing in picture in picture while you do something else.
BufferedTV for Android, Google TV and Fire TV
The video network nobody owns, on Android.
BufferedTV is coming to Android: one app for your phone, your tablet and your telly, whether that runs Google TV, Android TV or Fire TV. There are no adverts, and nothing tracks what you watch.
Coming soon
What’s PeerTube?
Phone, tablet and telly
One app, whichever screen it finds itself on.
BufferedTV for Android is a single free app that lays itself out for the screen in front of it. Sign in to the same instance on each, and your subscriptions, playlists and where you got to come with you.
Tablet
A rail down the side to get around, and room to spread out: the rest of a channel sits beside the video you’re watching.
Google TV, Android TV and Fire TV
Everything is reached with the remote’s arrows, and a bright ring shows where you are. A video opens filling the screen. Back steps out to its page, then to the list you came from, with your place kept.
Features
Everything BufferedTV does, on Android.
Find it, wherever it lives
Most PeerTube apps only search the server you signed in to, so a channel you know exists often won’t turn up. BufferedTV searches the whole network by default and plays what it finds, from wherever it’s hosted.
There’s plenty to browse too: trending, just added, live right now, top rated, and whatever’s local to your instance.
Watch it properly
Videos play at the best quality the instance published, not whatever your connection settles on in the first few seconds. Quality, subtitles, audio tracks and speed are a tap or a click away.
Where you got to syncs back to your instance, so you can start a video on the telly and finish it on your phone.
Sign in, or don’t
Bring your subscriptions, playlists, Watch Later and history from any instance, with two-factor sign-in. Or just browse, and sign in later if you like.
Have your say
Like or dislike a video, subscribe to its channel, save it to Watch Later or a playlist, and read, write and reply to comments, all from its page.
Subtitles in your language
Point BufferedTV at a LibreTranslate server, free software you can run yourself, and it translates a video’s subtitles while you watch. It’s off until you switch it on.
Sensitive videos stay hidden
Videos marked sensitive are left out until you choose otherwise. Set a parental PIN and nobody can change that without it, or have the app ask for the PIN before each one plays.
Block what you don’t want
Block an account, or a whole server, and it disappears everywhere, comments included. Report anything worse to the moderators, straight from the video.
No tracking
The app has no analytics, adverts or tracking, and there’s no BufferedTV server for your data to go to. It never asks you for a permission. Read the privacy policy.
Questions
Good to know.
When can I get it?
Not yet. BufferedTV for Android is on its way, and this page will say as soon as it’s out. If you have an Apple TV, it’s on the App Store for that today.
What will I need to run it?
A phone, tablet or television running Android 7.1 or later. That takes in Google TV and Android TV, and every Fire TV from the 2018 Fire TV Stick 4K onwards, which is Fire OS 6 and later. It’s the same free app on all of them.
Is it the same as the Apple TV, iPhone and iPad app?
It’s the same BufferedTV, laid out for Android: any instance, the whole-network search, your subscriptions, playlists and history, comments, blocking, the parental PIN and subtitle translation. Sign in to the same instance on each and it all comes with you. A few things belong to Apple’s devices alone, such as the Top Shelf and AirPlay.
Do I need an account?
No. Pick an instance and browse, search and watch without one. An account on an instance adds subscriptions, playlists, Watch Later, history, likes and comments, and you can sign in whenever you like.
Is BufferedTV made by PeerTube, or by Google or Amazon?
No. BufferedTV is an independent app for PeerTube, built by Ric Harvey and supported by SquareCows. PeerTube itself is made by Framasoft, a French non-profit, whose logo appears in ours with their permission.
On Apple devices too
BufferedTV for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad.
The same app, made for Apple’s screens. It’s on the App Store for Apple TV today, with iPhone and iPad on the way.
See BufferedTV for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad