Rediscover your Jellyfin Music Library like never before with a truly native macOS experience.
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Free Plex Alternatives
The best free alternative to Plex is Jellyfin, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Plex and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Plex are Emby, Universal Media Server, Meelo and Infuse.
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Plex alternatives are mainly Media Servers, but if you're looking for Media Centers or Media Players you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Apple TV, Android, Open Source, Linux, Mac, Chrome OS and iPhone. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Plex.
Alternatives list
LimboMedia is a free and easy-to-use information and media server making your bookmarks, todos, notes, images, music, videos and files available everywhere: At home via DLNA/UPnP and outside in your browser with a nice HTML5 web-interface.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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Flinger.co is a web app that enables interaction between just about any connected TV that has a web browser and a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Simply create a new channel on the big screen at Flinger.co.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Windows Phone
Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.
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uShare is a UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients.
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
Easy-Data Mediacenter is a video and audio player with lots of tools. It is able to deliver bit perfect audio, and does not require any external codecs. It is able to run from a memorystick and does not require installation.
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Watch the latest news, live sports events, YouTube and music videos on TV. Requires only phone/tablet and an optional connected TV. Supports Samsung TV, LG TV, Sony TV, Apple TV, XBox, Chromecast... and of course your mobile screen.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
13 iStream alternativesStream allows you to stream your media onto your big TV screen with no configuration at all! Just throw in some files and iStream will do the rest! iStream supports a vast number of media formats and playback devices: From modern SmartTVs via set-top boxes or network-enabled...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
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simpleVID allows watching videos from various online sources on your Apple TV. Add a link to a channel and watch what you like. Create channels for your websites and provide a simple and clean way to watch videos on Apple TV.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Apple TV
PseudoTV Live is channel-surfing for your media center. Never again will you have to actually pick what you want to watch. Use an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) to view what's on or select a show to watch.
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France
EU
Norway
United States
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simpleVID supports external plugins that allow watching videos from random websites on Apple TV