Your whole collection, in one cabinet.
Credenza is aA self-hosted media server for your films, shows, anime and games. Point it at the folders you already have. It works out what is in them, fetches the artwork, and plays it on every screen in the house.
- Status
- Beta, and free to run
- Latest release
- Your library
- Stays on your machine. Nothing phones home
Films, shows, anime and games
Four kinds of library, each with its own scanner. You say which folders hold what, and which console a shelf of ROMs belongs to. The scanners do the rest, on a schedule you set per library.
Films
Credenza reads the path, asks TMDB, and comes back with the poster, the synopsis and the cast.Name the files however you already name them. Credenza reads the path, asks TMDB, and comes back with the poster, the backdrop, the synopsis and the cast.
- Posters, backdrops, cast and crew
- Several files of one film kept as one title
- Anything it cannot place goes on a list you correct by hand
Shows
Seasons and episodes worked out from the folders they sit in.Series, seasons and episodes, worked out from the folders they sit in. Finish an episode and the next is already counting down in the corner.
- Season posters and episode titles from TMDB
- The next episode counts down as one ends
- Continue watching picks up mid-season
Anime
Filed like a show. A release group in brackets no longer swallows the episode number.A library of its own, filed like a show. A release group in square brackets no longer swallows the episode number.
- Absolute numbering resolved onto the real seasons
- Not a single file renamed or moved
- Kept apart from the family’s shelves if you like
Games
Six consoles, running in the browser. Saves belong to the account.Six consoles, running in the browser. ROMs inside a zip work as they are, the box art is fetched for you, and saves belong to the account rather than the machine.
- NES
- SNES
- N64
- GB
- GBC
- GBA
A player built for the evening
The player is the part you actually sit in front of, so it does the small things without being asked.
It remembers where you were
Every account keeps its own place in every film and episode, and a continue-watching row to get back to it from any screen.
The subtitles you already have
The tracks inside the file and the .srt sitting beside it. Text subtitles switch on without restarting anything.
The next episode is waiting
A countdown over the credits, with Play now and Cancel. Switch autoplay off and the card simply waits for you.
Any audio track in the file
The original language, the dub or the commentary, picked from a menu rather than re-ripped.
The file as it is, when it can
If your browser can open the file, it gets the file — no transcode, and seeking is instant. When it cannot, Credenza converts it, on your graphics card where there is one.
It says what it is doing
A stats panel shows whether the picture is direct or converted, the throughput, the buffer and any dropped frames.
Every screen in the house
One server, and whatever is nearest to the sofa — a laptop, a phone, the television. Each person signs in as themselves, so their own shelves and their own place in a film come with them.
Today
Browser
Android
Android TV
Coming next
Fire TV
iPhone
Apple TV
Roku
Watch from anywhere. No port forwarding.
Turn on Remote access and your server gets its own secure address on the internet. No router settings, no domain to buy and no VPN to install on every phone. Open it in a browser, from app.credenza.tv, or in the Android app.
Install the server
On a NAS, a spare PC or the machine already holding your films. It can stay behind your router, exactly where it is.
Link a Credenza account
Turn on cloud mode in Settings and link your administrator account to a Credenza account.
Flip one switch
Turn on Remote access. Credenza sets up the address and its certificate, connects, and hands you the link.
Nothing to open
Your server dials out to the relay, so nothing on your router changes. It works even if your internet provider shares one public address between customers.
The relay cannot read it
Encryption ends on your server, not on ours. The relay passes along bytes it has no way to open, so your passwords and your films stay yours.
Off until you turn it on
Remote access is optional, and on your home network nothing changes either way. Turn it off and the address waits for you, so shared links still work when you come back.
Free during the beta. Each server can carry four viewers at once at up to 10 Mbps each, which is enough for 1080p, and anything heavier is converted to fit. Read the setup guide.
Let a model do the matching
Every media server keeps a list of files it could not identify, and working through it by hand is the tax on owning a large collection.
Credenza speaks the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant running anywhere can work through that list for you. It reads the real paths off the disk, and the runtime and container the scan already measured — which is what separates a theatrical cut from an extended one.
Credenza is the server here and your assistant is the client. Nothing in it calls a language model, and no key for one is stored anywhere.
[SubsPlease] Kimetsu no Yaiba - 09 (1080p).mkv
Demon Slayer, season 1, episode 9
Akira.1988.1080p.BluRay.x264-GROUP.mkv
Akira (1988)
smb3.zip
Super Mario Bros. 3, NES
Get started
The server is ready to install, and the Android app is on Google Play, free during the beta.The server is in beta: finished enough to be somebody’s only media server, and ready to install today. The Android app is on Google Play, free during the beta, and connects to the server you run.
The people building it are in the Discord and on r/credenza, and every server release is announced in both as it ships.
Questions? Email hello@credenza.tv.