Plex
A multimedia tool for streaming movies, TV shows, sports, and music while facilitating personal media organization with versatile libraries and metadata retrieval.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Snapcraft
- Android Auto
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- Daydream
- Kindle Fire
- Android TV
- Amazon Alexa
- Kodi
- Google TV
- Playstation
- Docker
- Fire TV
- Roku
- Chromecast
- Xbox
- Docker Hub
- HUAWEI AppGallery
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Media Server
- Media Streaming
- Play local content
- Local Storage
- Media Center
- Media Transcoding
- Remote Media Access
- Automatic Library Search
- Support for subtitles
- Media sharing
- Local server
- Support for DLNA
- Works Offline
- Chromecast Support
- Automatic subtitles download
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Dedicated Server Hosting
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Kids Mode
- Lossless Audio
- Support for 4K
- Offline sync of media files
- Stream audio
- Remote File Access
Plex News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Plex
Plex begins enforcing restrictions on free remote streaming, starting with Roku this weekIn March, Plex announced a dual shift: a price increase and a new policy for streaming media outsid...
- Fla published news article about Infuse
Infuse 8.2.6 for iOS fixes episode search and Plex share issuesInfuse 8.2.6 for iOS addresses missing episodes in search results sorted by release date and correc...
- POX published news article about Plex
Plex alerts users to reset their passwords following a new data breachPlex has notified its users of a recent security incident that may have compromised account informa...
Recent activities
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What is Plex?
One list to rule them all. With a free Plex account you can keep a single, unified Watchlist for any movie or TV show you hear about, on any service—even theater releases! You can finally stop hopping between watchlists on Max, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, and all your other streaming services, and add it all on Plex instead.
It’s a great day to Discover. Select from the best streaming services (like Hulu, Netflix, Max, and Disney+) to discover more, search faster, and get curated recommendations—all without ever leaving Plex.
Find your friends on Plex. What if you could find what to watch next based on ratings and activity from people you know in real life? With Discover Together, you can. Now you can search for and add friends, share, comment, and more.
You bring your media, we’ll do the rest. We love personal media too! Use Plex to organize, beautify, and stream your personal collection of movies, TV shows, music, and photos anywhere, on all your devices.
And that’s just (film) facts. See what films and shows your favorite actors are in (and add them to your Watchlist) without ever leaving Plex! With Discover Credits, it’s all united into a single page, including which of their titles are available in your personal media libraries, on demand, or elsewhere via Discover.
Plex Videos
Plex information
Developed by
Plex, Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase that costs $250, and / or subscription ranging between $2 and $7 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 3.2Alternatives
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19 news article related to PlexSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Chinese
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
AlternativeTo Categories
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- 4.61 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
I decided to give Plex a shot and it definitely looks promising. It's based on XBMC, but it's much cleaner, nice looking, fast, elegant. It's still under development but I find it pretty neat.
It supports various Media Center clients in sync out of the box (in XBMC you have to do some real plumming to make this work).
Give it a try.
Plex is actually pretty good in a lot of respects--a beautiful interface that pulls a ton of information together in 'just the right way'.
But I will never use Plex again. Newer versions of Plex go out of their way to prevent you from using it unless you sign in to their cloud account. I fought for hours after an update to my home media server locked everyone out and suddenly started requiring we link to cloud accounts. No thanks. I'll find someone else for my media library.
Plus Plex collecting user data. Plex also prevents device from sleep mode
Plex is a powerful and versatile home theater solution that lets you stream your media collection across multiple devices. Whether you want to watch movies, TV shows, music, or photos, Plex can organize and deliver them to you with ease.
On the plus side: It works, the players are easy to find and install for multiple platforms and devices, and the server can even run on a Raspberry Pi.
On the minus side: You have to sign into their cloud account to do most things. And it's constantly trying to push you into purchasing a subscription. Even if you're only using it with your local collection.
If you want to use it for remote streaming, that's one thing. But I just want to listen to my own library of music on my own network. It shouldn't have to connect to a remote service, sending who knows what local data, just for that.
(Oh, and installing on a Pi? You need to either hook up a display to it or use an ssh tunnel to complete setup if you're trying to run it as a headless server.)
If you'd like to create your own Netflix/Spotify, Plex is the way to go.
split between shows and movies NOT good
Its nice! But I dont want to pay for the android app, when I host my own server. Jellyfin is a better alternative.