Triaminoguanidine is a kind of non-azide nitrogen-rich flammable compound,which has some advantages of high nitrogen,good thermal stability,and high positive formation enthalpy,etc. In order to provide references of developing the triaminoguanidine energetic compounds,the current situation about molecular structure feature,preparation,physicochemical properties,explosion characteristics and application of triaminoguanidine energetic compounds in energetic materials was reviewed with 53 references.