Your media. Your server. Your rules. Stream movies, TV, music, and photos from your own hardware — on the web, your desktop, and Apple TV.
h3xed is an open-source media server that runs on your hardware — a self-hosted alternative to the usual subscriptions. Organize movies, TV, music, and photos, transcode with GPU acceleration, set up profiles for the whole household, watch together with friends, and reach it from anywhere with a secure relay — no port forwarding, no cloud lock-in, no limits.
Built for performance, designed for the whole household.
Movies, TV, music, and photos in one place. The scanner finds new files, structures seasons and episodes, and pulls posters, summaries, cast, year, and ratings from TMDB — with auto-tagging, collections, and category icons.
Hardware-accelerated transcoding via NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync, or AMD VAAPI. Stream any format to any device, with trickplay scrub thumbnails, chapters, and subtitles.
Per-profile watch progress syncs across every device. Continue Watching, a personal watchlist, and search by title, cast, year, or fuzzy match keep your library easy to navigate.
Netflix-style profiles under one account, each with its own watch state and optional PIN. Managed profiles for kids add content restrictions — library access, rating ceilings, and label allow/deny rules.
Watch together in sync. Host from the web or Apple TV, then invite friends or share a 6-character party code so anyone can join from their own screen.
Add friends, see who's around, and invite people to your server. Link servers co-op so a friend's libraries appear right alongside yours — while each owner still governs their own content.
Pair your devices to an h3xed.app account and reach your server from anywhere through a secure relay — no router config required. Or keep it direct on your LAN.
A web app served by your own server (and at h3xed.app), one desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a native Apple TV app. iPhone and Android apps are on the way.
One line installs the server on macOS, Windows, or Linux, then finish in the browser-based setup wizard. Docker works too.
Lightweight and self-contained. Run it in Docker or straight on your machine.
Express server with a local SQLite database and JWT auth. Ships as a Docker image or runs natively — your data stays on your hardware.
Industry-standard transcoder with NVENC, Quick Sync, and VAAPI hardware acceleration and HLS streaming output.