Plex Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Plex for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Jellyfin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Plex and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Plex are Emby, Universal Media Server, Serviio and MediaChips.

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Plex alternatives are mainly Media Servers, but if you're looking for Media Centers or Audio Players you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Open Source, Apple TV, Linux, Mac, Chrome OS and Self-Hosted. 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.
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  1. Channels - Watch TV Your Way icon

    Channels - Watch TV Your Way

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    Watch, record, organize, and curate your favorite shows and movies with Channels. From your living room, second home, hotel room, or even on your commute, Channels lets you watch your personal media your way.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
    • Fire TV
    • Android TV
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  2. Polaris icon

    Polaris

     1 like

    Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    forked-daapd

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    A re-write of the firefly media server (mt-daapd). It's released under GPLv2+. Please note that this git repository is a mirror of the official one at git://git.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd.git

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Rygel icon

    Rygel

     12 likes

    Rygel is a home media solution that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network. In technical terms it is both a UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer implemented through a plug-in mechanism.

    18 Rygel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Jinzora Media Server icon

    Jinzora Media Server

     12 likes

    Jinzora Media Server is a web based media streaming and management system, allowing you to stream your music and videos to any device with a web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Gerbera icon

    Gerbera

     6 likes

    Gerbera is a free UPnP media server forked from the now discontinued MediaTomb project. It's highly compatible and works with many devices including TVs, Playstation, Android & iOS phones and tablets.

    28 Gerbera alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    LimboMedia

     4 likes

    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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  11. Ushare uPnP media server icon

    Ushare uPnP media server

     10 likes

    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.

    29 Ushare uPnP media server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Enna

     6 likes

    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
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  14. Girens for Plex icon

    Girens for Plex

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    Girens is a Plex media player client. You can watch and listen to your music, shows and movies with this GTK app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
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