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A canvas-rendered grid, dirty-region repaints and a cached feed. Remote presses land in roughly 50–80 ms on a Fire TV Stick.
Free · self-hosted · no account
Movies, shows and anime.
One quiet app.
Akira is a fast catalog and player for your living room and your pocket. It runs entirely on your device — a small local server inside the app serves the interface, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Fire TV & Android TV · Windows · iPhone & iPad
- Fire TV
- Android TV
- Google TV
- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
Live preview
The real app, in this page.
Scroll a little and Akira loads below — the same build that ships in the downloads. Browse the catalog, open a title, and move around with your keyboard.
Loading the app…
The preview talks to an Akira API. If nothing loads, the server behind this page is not configured yet — the downloads below work regardless.
Features
Built for the tenth rewatch.
The catalog is drawn on a single canvas, so it stays smooth on hardware that other apps give up on.
Remote-first
Full D-pad navigation, correct Back handling, media keys, and a 1280 px television layout that scales cleanly to 1080p and 4K.
4K, hardware decoded
Streams are handed to your device's own decoder, so 4K HEVC and AVC play where the hardware supports it — no software transcode.
Anime, episode by episode
Sub and dub tracks, an episode picker, next-episode flow and resume, alongside movies and TV.
Yours alone
No accounts, no analytics, no cloud. The app runs a loopback-only gateway on your own device and keeps its cache there.
One app, every screen
The same interface on Fire TV, Android TV, Windows and iPhone or iPad — ported from a single shared codebase.
Download
Pick your screen.
Builds are hosted right here. Every file includes a checksum so you can verify what you installed.
Fire TV & Android TV
Android 5.0+ · arm64 and arm32 · remote ready
Download APKSHA-256
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Windows
Windows 10 / 11 x64 · portable · no installer
Download for WindowsSHA-256
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iPhone & iPad
iOS 15+ · sideload with Sideloadly or AltStore
Download IPA Install over the airSigned build only — open this page in Safari on the iPhone or iPad.
SHA-256
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Install
Three minutes, start to finish.
- Allow sideloading. On the TV open Settings → My Fire TV → Developer Options → Install unknown apps and enable it for the app you will use (Downloader, for example).
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Get the APK onto the device. Either open
akirastreaming.lolin Downloader and grab the APK, or push it from a computer:adb connect <tv-ip>:5555 adb install -r Akira-TV.apk - Launch Akira from the TV app row and drive it with the remote.
- Run the executable. There is no installer — Akira is a single portable file.
- Dismiss SmartScreen if it appears. The build is unsigned, so Windows may warn you the first time. Choose More info → Run anyway.
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Verify the file against the SHA-256 on the download card if you
want to be sure:
Get-FileHash Akira-Windows.exe -Algorithm SHA256
- Install Sideloadly or AltStore on your PC or Mac.
- Drop the IPA in and sign it with your Apple ID (free accounts work, but the app expires every 7 days) or your own developer certificate.
- Trust the developer. On the iPhone go to Settings → General → VPN & Device Management, trust the profile, then open Akira.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
Do I need to run a server?
On Fire TV, Android TV, Windows and iPhone the app runs its own gateway on the device, in a loopback port nothing else can reach. To play anything it still needs an Akira API to resolve streams — either one you host yourself, or one you point the app at.
Is it really free?
Yes. Akira is self-hosted software with no accounts, no subscriptions and no telemetry. The source is public and you can build every target yourself.
Where does my data go?
Nowhere. Playback history, settings and the stream cache stay on the device. The app writes its cache to its own private directory and never phones home.
Why does Windows warn me about the executable?
The Windows build is unsigned, so SmartScreen flags any file it has not seen before. That is expected; the checksum above lets you confirm the file is the one published here.
Why does the iOS app need re-signing?
Apple only installs apps signed by a developer identity, so the IPA is distributed unsigned and Sideloadly or AltStore re-signs it with your Apple ID or certificate. A free Apple ID signature lasts 7 days; a paid one lasts a year.
What can it play?
HLS and progressive streams through the Akira gateway, with subtitles and multiple audio tracks. Playback uses the platform's native decoder wherever possible.