Spiel is a beautiful player for the library you already own — on your NAS, your cloud drives, your media servers. One library on the TV, the phone and the browser, at home and away. No port forwarding, ever.
plays on Apple TV · iPhone · Mac · Windows · any browser — server for macOS, Windows, Linux & FreeBSD ↓
No accounts required to start, no router settings, nothing to configure twice.
Download it for your Mac, Windows or Linux box and open it — it lives quietly in the menu bar or as a service. Docker works too.
Add a folder, a NAS share, a cloud drive or your Plex/Jellyfin server. Filenames become a real library with posters, ratings and episodes.
Open Spiel on the TV, the phone or in a browser — same library, same resume points. Go Pro and it follows you out the door.
Ten-foot interface, artwork and metadata, instant resume — but it's your collection, your hardware, your rules.
MKV, HEVC, multiple audio tracks, embedded and sidecar subtitles. What the device can't decode, your server transcodes on the fly — seeking stays instant.
A real 10-foot UI: poster rows, Siri-Remote focus that tilts and shines like the best TV apps, scrubber previews, skip-intro and auto next-episode.
Pause on the TV, continue on the phone. Watch state and preferences follow your account to every device — free.
Your server dials out; the Spiel relay finds it from anywhere. Full library and streaming over the internet with zero router configuration.
Every account keeps its own sources, settings and watch state — sign in once on the server and every screen in the house follows.
Filenames become a real library: posters, ratings, descriptions, seasons and episodes, automatically.
If your media lives on it, Spiel plays from it.
Everything at home is free. Pay only if you want your library to travel.
The short version — the docs have the rest.
A live Spiel server running in the cloud, signed in as demo@spielplayer.com and stocked with open movies. Play something, skip around, close the tab, come back — it remembers where you were. That resume position syncs the same way across every device you'd own.
Open the demo playershared demo library · resets periodically · your own Spiel is private to you
Spiel is in private beta while we finish the App Store releases. Want in early?
Spiel for macOSThe app: double-click and a window opens with your library and player — the server runs inside it. Or grab the menu-bar server for a Mac you leave on for the TV. ffmpeg bundled in both.
Apple silicon · macOS 12+ · ~64 MB each
Unsigned: right-click → Open the first time, since it isn't notarised yet.
Spiel Server for LinuxA standalone binary — ffmpeg bundled, nothing else to install. Runs on Debian 11+, Ubuntu 20.04+ and equivalents. Or use Docker.
tar xzf … && ./spiel-server/spiel-server
Spiel for WindowsThe app: double-click Spiel.exe and a native window opens with your library and player — the server runs inside it. Or grab the headless server for a NAS or background use (spiel-server.exe serve). ffmpeg bundled in both.
x64 · Windows 10/11 · ~75 MB each
Unsigned app: Windows SmartScreen may say “unknown publisher” on first run — click More info → Run anyway.
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