Built for the way you actually watch.

Your library, beautifully

Point Reel at a Movies folder and a Shows folder and it does the organising for you.

• Recursive scanning of your existing folder structure
• Episodes grouped into seasons automatically (SxxExx detection)
• Cinematic UI with hero banners and poster rows

Immersive wallpaper mode

Flip on immersive mode and the whole app goes full-bleed: a title's backdrop fills the screen edge to edge behind a floating, minimal UI. It turns browsing your own library into something that feels like a streaming service's front page, built entirely from your files.

Collections

Group films into franchises and box sets, then play them straight through as a queue. A marathon night set up in a couple of clicks.

Plays almost anything

A bundled ffmpeg engine transcodes on the fly so your browser-based player can handle formats it normally can't.

• Containers & codecs like MKV, HEVC/H.265, AVI
• Audio formats like AC3, DTS, and TrueHD
• GPU hardware acceleration, auto-detected
• Automatic CPU fallback when hardware encoding isn't available

Dual audio, one click

Switch between original, dub, and commentary audio tracks without leaving the player. Handy for anything that ships with more than one soundtrack.

Subtitles, sorted

Subtitles the way they should work: found for you, and adjustable when they drift.

• Auto-detects sidecar files (.srt / .vtt / .ass)
• Reads subtitle tracks embedded inside MKVs
• Search and download from OpenSubtitles in the player
• Sync offset for tracks that run ahead or behind

Picks up where you left off

Per-episode resume and a Continue Watching row remember exactly where you stopped, so you drop straight back into any title or episode without hunting for your place.

Bring your own player

Prefer VLC or mpv? Launch any file in your player of choice and Reel still syncs your watch progress back, giving you the best of both worlds.

Know your habits

A local stats dashboard built entirely from your own library: hours watched, titles finished, activity charts, most-watched titles, and top genres. Nothing is phoned home.

Rich metadata, optional

Add a free TMDB key and Reel fetches posters, backdrops, cast, ratings, genres, and runtime. Fully functional offline without one. The metadata just makes it prettier.

Tune it to taste

Reel bends to how you like to browse and watch, and every choice is saved locally.

• Poster rows in portrait cover art or wide landscape backdrops
• Immersive wallpaper mode on or off
• Pick exactly which metadata to fetch (poster, backdrop, cast, rating, genres, runtime, overview)
• In-player episode browser as a carousel or a full list
• Set your own external player, default Play behaviour, and a custom subtitles folder
• Toggle auto-play, watched badges, and scan-on-launch