Apps2Samsung

Install any app on your Samsung TV.

Apps2Samsung side-loads apps onto Samsung devices that run Tizen OS: Smart TVs, projectors and smart monitors. Jellyfin, Moonfin, Litefin, TizenTube, the community catalog of 130+ apps, or your own .wgt or .tpk. It finds the TV, makes the signing certificate and installs, so you never open Tizen Studio. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iPhone, in 30 languages, and starts in yours. Missing a word, or your language? Help translate on Crowdin.

Versions

Channel	Version	Notes
Stable	v3.1.0	Recommended for most users
Beta	v3.2.0-beta	Includes new features

All releases: https://github.com/Apps2Samsung/Apps2Samsung/releases

Get it

Where	How
Windows	winget install Apps2Samsung.Apps2Samsung, or the -win-x64.zip from a release.
Linux	The .deb, .rpm, AppImage or .tar.gz from a release, for x64 and ARM64. NixOS: clone the repository and run nix-shell.
macOS	The -macos-arm64.dmg (Apple silicon) or -macos-x64.dmg (Intel) from a release.
Android	Add to Obtainium for automatic updates, or add https://apps2samsung.com/fdroid/repo as a repository in F-Droid, Droid-ify or Neo Store. Or sideload the -android.apk from a release.
iPhone	Through SideStore, see below.
Terminal	apps2samsung-cli, one binary per platform on every release, Termux on Android included. See Command line.

The desktop and Android apps update themselves, with an optional beta channel. Packaging the desktop app yourself (Nix, Homebrew, a read-only install)? Build it with -p:DisableSelfUpdate=true and it points at your package manager instead of replacing its own files.

iPhone

The iPhone app has the same screens as the Android one. It is not on the App Store: SideStore signs it on the phone with your own Apple ID, a free one works.

1. Install SideStore once, following their guide. It needs a computer and a cable that one time, Developer Mode on the iPhone, and the VPN app SideStore asks for.
2. In SideStore, go to Sources and add https://apps2samsung.com/sidestore/apps.json (https://apps2samsung.com/sidestore/beta/apps.json for the beta), then install Apps2Samsung from it. Or download the -ios-unsigned.ipa from a release and add it under My Apps.
3. Allow Local Network access when iOS asks, or the app cannot find your TV.

A free Apple ID signs apps for 7 days (SideStore refreshes them; if the app stops opening, refresh it there) and allows 3 sideloaded apps at once. Keep the app in front during an install, iOS pauses it in the background.

How it works

1. Put the TV in Developer Mode: how to. The app tells you exactly what is still wrong when a TV is not ready (Developer Mode off, Host PC IP pointing elsewhere, a restart needed).
2. Open Apps2Samsung on your computer or phone and pick the TV.
3. Pick an app from the catalog, or your own .wgt or .tpk, and press Install.

The first install signs you in to Samsung once to make a signing certificate; it is reused for every install after that. A video walkthrough shows the whole thing.

What it does

• Installs anything Tizen: the community catalog, the Jellyfin builds, or your own .wgt or .tpk. Apps that gain root on the TV carry a root badge and ask first; adult apps stay hidden until you opt in.
• Your own sources: add a GitHub repository, a release, a direct .wgt/.tpk link or a .json feed, and its apps sit in the catalog next to the community ones.
• Asks what an app needs: an API key, a server address, a port, in a short form before the install, remembered for the next update. Jellyfin gets its server, auto-login, themes and plugins.
• Handles the certificate: one Samsung sign-in, reused per TV; Public or Partner picked by what the app needs; extra TVs pre-authorized by DUID; export and import between devices. Or a Tizen certificate from the SDK's own CA, with no Samsung account at all.
• Manages installed apps: the catalog's newest version next to the installed one, update in one click, launch, uninstall, debug through chrome://inspect. Apps that need a newer Tizen than the TV has say so before they install.
• Doubles as a TV remote: D-pad, playback, volume, channels, power, and typing from your keyboard, also into apps that draw their own keyboard. No Developer Mode needed.
• Diagnoses the TV: DUID, Tizen version, model, Developer Mode state and a live log console.
• Backup and restore: settings and certificates to another PC, Mac or phone in one file.
• TV-Store on the TV itself: install TV-Store from the catalog and arm it once from the toolbox; the TV then browses and installs catalog apps on its own, and Apps2Samsung keeps reaching it through TV-Store's relay.

Command line

Every release ships apps2samsung-cli as Apps2Samsung-cli-<version>-<platform>.zip or .tar.gz. It runs the same catalog, certificate and install pipeline as the apps, from a terminal, a script or an AI agent with a shell. Started without arguments on a terminal it opens a menu that shows the command for every step before it runs it.

apps2samsung-cli scan                                   # find TVs, and whether each is ready
apps2samsung-cli catalog jellyfin                       # what can be installed (name, description, files)
apps2samsung-cli install "Moonfin" --tv 192.168.1.50    # download, sign, install, launch
apps2samsung-cli installed --tv 192.168.1.50            # what is on the TV, with catalog versions
apps2samsung-cli cert --tv 192.168.1.50                 # which certificate covers this TV
apps2samsung-cli sign app.wgt -o signed.wgt --tv 192.168.1.50   # sign only, for installing another way
apps2samsung-cli sources add github.com/owner/repo      # a source of your own, listed by catalog

• --json prints one JSON document on stdout, progress stays on stderr. Exit codes: 0 done, 1 failed, 2 usage, 3 stopped at a pre-install check that --yes continues past.
• The first install for a TV opens the Samsung sign-in in a browser on the same machine (--no-browser prints the address). Certificates are shared with the desktop app's folder.
• --set key=value answers what an app asks for before it installs; catalog lists the keys. --allow-root is needed for apps marked (root).
• macOS blocks a downloaded binary until xattr -d com.apple.quarantine apps2samsung-cli has run once.
• On Android the linux-bionic-arm64 build runs in Termux on Termux's own .NET runtime: pkg install dotnet-runtime-10.0, unpack the tarball and run ./apps2samsung-cli/apps2samsung-cli. The Samsung sign-in opens in the phone's browser.

apps2samsung-cli --help and <command> --help have the rest.

Documentation

• Quick start, FAQ, Configuration and Jellyfin settings, Screenshots, Alternative install methods, Uninstall
• Community .wgt builds and the catalog's manifests: tizen-community-packages
• Orsay-based TVs (before 2015) are not supported.

Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests go to Issues, ideas and questions to Discussions or Discord. Code is welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.md; translations happen on Crowdin and sync back here by themselves.

If this tool helped you, you can support its development:

Thanks

• jeppevinkel for the Jellyfin Tizen builds
• RadicalMuffinMan for Moonfin
• MoazSalem for Litefin
• reisxd for TizenTube

License

Apps2Samsung is released under the MIT License. Third-party components redistributed in the builds (bundled binaries, Samsung CA certificates, NuGet dependencies, fonts and app artwork) are listed in NOTICE.md.