Every file
you own. One library.
Plays local files on your Mac, and everything on your servers - Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Silo
One library.
All of your media in one place.
Connect Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Silo, VOD - all at the same time. Home and Search cover everything you have connected, so you look in one place instead of four.
No server needed.
Photon plays what's already
on your device too.
Photon does not need a server to be useful. Double-click a video in the Finder, or press ⌘O, and it plays - the same picture and the same sound as everything else in the app. Make it your default video player and it will handle the files QuickTime won't.
Picture and sound.
Played as they are,
not re-encoded on the way.
Dolby Vision, HDR10, MKV, lossless soundtracks. Photon plays your files as they are rather than settling - nothing is re-encoded, so nothing is lost on the way to your screen. 4K, MKV and the high-resolution Dolby and DTS soundtracks need Pro - the first five of them play free, so you can try it on your own library first.
Zero data collection,
no place to call home.
There is no account to make, no analytics, no tracking, and nothing of ours sitting between you and your films. Passwords go in your keychain. Your list of servers syncs through your own iCloud, with the addresses encrypted.
Privacy policyFree, then Pro.
Free is a whole player,
not a countdown.
Free
No charge
For good — not for a week
A whole player, for every media server you run and everything already on your device.
- Every server you run — Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Silo
- All of them merged into one library
- Home, Search, and every title's own page
- Downloads, and watching them offline
- Files opened from Finder or the Files app
- Spotlight, Handoff and Top Shelf
- Below 4K, outside MKV, in AAC or Dolby Digital sound
- Above that, five plays to try it — then Pro
Pro
£14.99 a year
Or £1.99 a month, or £49.99 once. Free for one week first.
The other kinds of source, and the formats a good library is actually kept in.
- 4K and MKV — Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG
- Dolby TrueHD and DTS soundtracks, lossless
- Cloud drives and network shares
- Live TV subscriptions, with a full guide
- Your servers and settings on every device
- Everything in Free, across all of it
One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Apple shows the price in your own currency before you confirm anything, and a subscription is cancelled in Settings ▸ your Apple Account ▸ Subscriptions. See the Terms and the Refund Policy.