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Reelbox
Video player for Telegram

Play your Telegram videos without downloading

Press play and the video streams from your own chats as you watch. MKV, HEVC, several audio tracks and subtitles play right in the browser.

  • Free, with no ads
  • Nothing saved to your device
  • No account to create
The player showing a video of a lake at sunset with an English subtitle line, the timeline and the controls.
The audio menu listing two tracks: English, E-AC-3 stereo, and Hindi, AC-3 stereo.The subtitles menu with English selected, Español below it, and Look and timing.Streams as you watch
The player

Built for the files
people keep in Telegram

Browsers play a few kinds of video. We built our own player so the rest play too, with every track inside the file.

Starts in seconds

Nothing to download

The video streams from Telegram while you watch. Skip ahead and it fetches from that point; nothing is saved to your device.

MKV, HEVC, AV1

Plays what browsers refuse

Matroska files, HEVC and AV1 video, and AC-3, DTS or TrueHD sound, with no plugin or app to install.

Audio and subtitles

Every track in the file

Switch the language or the commentary track, and the choice is picked again for the next video.

Size, colour, timing

Subtitles you can read

Tracks from the file or found online, in the size, colour and position you choose. Z and X fix lines that arrive early or late.

J, K, L and more

Keys you already know

The shortcuts of the big video sites. Leave the page and the video keeps playing in a corner, or pop it out above your other apps.

Private by design

Between you and Telegram

Reelbox has no server that sees your account or your videos. Your session and your history stay in this browser.

Subtitle look and timing: timing for this video, size, colour, background, edge, position and typeface.The subtitles menu with English selected.
Subtitles

Set them up once.
Every video follows.

Pick a track from the file or find one online, then set it up the way you like. The look applies to every video.

  • Size and colourFour sizes and five colours, changed with + and - as you watch.
  • Background and edgeA dark box, an outline or a shadow for bright scenes.
  • PositionLift lines clear of text already burned into the picture.
  • TimingZ and X move lines earlier or later, a tenth of a second at a time.
How subtitles work
Your account, your files

It plays your videos.
It hosts none of its own.

Reelbox shows what is already in your Telegram account: your chats, groups, channels and Saved Messages. There is no catalogue and no feed, so a new account shows an empty list.

FAQ

Questions,
answered

Does Reelbox provide any videos?

No. Reelbox has no catalogue, library or feed of its own and hosts no videos. It only plays what is already in your own Telegram account: your chats, groups, channels and Saved Messages. A new Telegram account with no videos in it shows an empty list.

Legal notice

Is it free?

Yes. There are no ads, no paid tier and no Reelbox account. It is made by one person, and if it helps you, you can buy them a coffee.

Buy me a coffee

Is it safe to sign in with my Telegram account?

Your phone number, the code and your two-step verification password go straight from your browser to Telegram. No other server receives them.

Telegram then creates a session for Reelbox, as it does for each of your devices. The session is kept in this browser only. You can see it and end it at any time in Telegram under Settings, Devices.

Privacy Policy

Do I have to download a video before I can watch it?

No. Press play and the video streams from Telegram as you watch, usually starting within a few seconds. Skip ahead and it fetches from that point, so you never wait for the whole file.

Nothing is written to your disk or copied to a server. The part being played is held in memory, and closing the tab lets it go.

All questions

Blog

Guides to the player

All posts

Your videos are already in Telegram. Press play.

Sign in by scanning a QR code or with your phone number. Reelbox is free, has no ads and keeps nothing on a server.