A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA Media Renderer. You can push videos, pictures or musics from your mobile phone to your computer.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Plex Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Plex is Kodi, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Jellyfin, Emby, Universal Media Server and Infuse. Media Servers like Plex are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone.
filter to find the best alternatives
Most Plex alternatives are Media Servers, but you can also narrow the list to Media Centers or Media Players. Other popular filters are Apple TV, Android, Open Source, Linux and Mac. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
Alternatives list
BoogieBox - Self-hosted music library and player with AI-powered DJ mixing (BoogieMix), smart crossfades, BPM analysis, waveform display, DLNA streaming, and playlist management. Runs on Windows and Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
+9
FUPPES is a free, multiplatform UPnP A/V Media Server.
It supports a wide range of UPnP MediaRenderers as well as on-the-fly transcoding of various audio, video and image formats. You can share any audio, image or video file type by adding it to the configuration file.
FUPPES a.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
7 Airwave alternativesAirwave turns your Plex library into custom, always-on live TV channels you can watch on native apps for every screen. Instead of scrolling a list of titles, you flip through channels on a familiar TV guide, and each one plays on a rolling schedule built from your own movies and...
Cost / License
- Free
- Source Available
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Apple TV
- Google TV
- Android TV
- Fire TV
- Tizen OS
- iPad
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Docker
- Roku
- Online
- Self-Hosted
United States
+7
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Android
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
France
EU
HuskVault is an open-source cinema frontend and personal media orchestrator designed specifically for cold-tier movie archives.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Turns the films and series on your own hard drive into a streaming-style library on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. No account, no subscription.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple TV
Germany- EU
+3
54 MumoStream alternativesA self-hosted media server that streams the video and music on your own server to your iPhone and iPad, with automatic transcoding.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
- Linux
- Windows
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
- Android
- Android Tablet
Japan
+5
Kernel Media Server is a powerful software that allows you to organize, stream, and enjoy your personal media collection. You can access it from any device, anywhere, and it provides high-quality streaming optimized for your network and device.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
COMA Media Server is a self-hosted media platform for streaming your own movies, TV shows, music, and libraries across your devices.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
- Fire TV
United Kingdom
Reelloft is a desktop app for watching videos stored on your computer from your phone and TV.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- United States
PearCinema plays a film and television collection that lives on a computer at home, from anywhere, with no port forwarding, no VPN, no dynamic DNS and no account. The files never leave that machine and are never copied to anybody else's server.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
+4
