Samsung TV / videos / EASY PHOTO PLAYER
REVIEW
Easy Photo Player is a brand-new Tizen photo viewer with little to verify yet.
A Finnish developer's photo-slideshow channel published in late March 2026 to the Samsung TV store, with no public description, no screenshots in the store metadata, and no user ratings — judged on what's knowable, the answer is mostly to wait.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Easy Photo Player
HD SOFT OY
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
A photo player on a TV is supposed to be the most boring software in the room. You stick a USB drive into the side of the set, point the channel at it, and your kid’s birthday party plays in a loop on the wall for the relatives. The category has barely changed since 2012, the bar for success is whether the slideshow runs without crashing, and the entire user-facing surface is roughly four buttons.
Easy Photo Player landed on the Samsung TV store on 30 March 2026, refreshed two weeks later, and as of mid-May it carries no public description, no screenshots in the store metadata, and no user ratings. It is published by HD SofT Oy, a small Finnish developer who has chosen to enter a category Samsung’s own built-in Gallery channel has occupied for the better part of a decade. That’s a credible-enough starting position to take the app seriously, but with this little public information to work from, it is also impossible to recommend it over what’s already on the TV.
So this is a placeholder of a review. The app exists, it is free, and it appears to have been built by a real developer with real intentions. Whether it actually plays your USB stick of holiday photos better than the channel Samsung shipped with the set is, today, a question only an installer can answer for themselves.
A photo player on a TV is supposed to be the most boring software in the room. Easy Photo Player doesn't yet give us enough to know whether it manages that.
FEATURES
Easy Photo Player is a free Tizen channel from HD SofT Oy, a small Finnish developer, published to the Samsung TV store on 30 March 2026 and most recently refreshed on 15 April. The store listing carries no long description, no short blurb, and no screenshot gallery in the metadata we crawl — only the app icon, the category ("videos", which is where Samsung files most photo and slideshow apps on Tizen), and the developer name.
In the absence of a published feature list, what we can say is what the category requires of a Tizen photo viewer: read a USB stick plugged into the TV's side port, pull pictures off a phone or NAS over the local network (typically DLNA or SMB), or sign into a cloud photo account like Google Photos or OneDrive. Easy Photo Player may do some, all, or none of these. The store listing does not yet say.
Pricing is straightforward — free, no in-app purchases flagged in the Tizen metadata, no ad-supported flag set. For a 2026 photo channel that's a clean starting position.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Shipping a Samsung TV channel at all is more work than it looks. The Tizen submission pipeline is unfriendly to small developers, the certification cycle is slow, and most niche photo apps on the platform are either Samsung's own Gallery or relics from 2015-2018 that have not been touched in years. A new entry from an independent Finnish studio in 2026 is a small act of effort that deserves acknowledgement.
Free with no ad flag and no IAP flag is also the right entry-level posture for an app whose competitor is the TV's built-in photo viewer. Users will not pay for a slideshow channel unless it does something the built-in tool cannot, and pricing at zero while building that case is the correct move.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The store listing is the problem. No description, no screenshots, no rating means a prospective installer has nothing to evaluate before downloading. Samsung's TV store search is shallow at the best of times — apps without screenshots and copy effectively do not exist to users who don't already know the name. Even one paragraph of plain English ("plays JPEG and PNG slideshows from a USB stick, with timer and shuffle") plus two screen captures would change the install funnel meaningfully.
We also can't verify any of the questions a Tizen photo viewer needs to answer in 2026: HEIC support for photos shot on a recent iPhone, RAW handling, network share browsing, cloud account login, 4K-resolution playback on QLED panels, or aspect-ratio handling for vertical phone photos on a horizontal TV. Until the developer publishes feature copy or a release-notes post, all of those are open questions.
CONCLUSION
Bookmark Easy Photo Player and check back in a few months. The release is too recent and too undocumented to judge against Samsung's own Gallery channel or the handful of older third-party Tizen photo viewers still on the store. If HD SofT Oy publishes a real store description and screenshots, this review gets an update; until then, the safer pick for most Samsung TV households is the built-in photo tool that ships with Tizen.