Immersive wallpaper mode
Flip it on and the whole app goes full-bleed: a title's backdrop fills the screen edge to edge behind a floating, minimal UI. Your own library, with the front-page feel of a streaming service.
Your movie & TV library, beautifully.
Reel is a local-first desktop app that turns your Movies and Shows folders into a cinematic library you actually want to browse. No account, no cloud. Your media and everything about it stays on your disk.
Download for Windows
Free · Requires Windows
What Reel does
Everything your local library deserves.
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Your library, beautifully
Point it at a Movies folder and a Shows folder. Reel scans recursively, groups episodes into seasons, and lays it out with cinematic hero banners and poster rows.
Plays almost anything
A bundled ffmpeg engine transcodes on the fly: MKV, HEVC/H.265, AVI, AC3/DTS/TrueHD and more browsers can't touch. GPU acceleration auto-detected, CPU fallback when it isn't.
Subtitles, sorted
Auto-detects sidecar files, reads tracks embedded in MKVs, and searches OpenSubtitles right in the player. A sync offset fixes tracks that run ahead or behind.
Dual audio, one click
Switch between original, dub, and commentary audio tracks without leaving the player.
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.
Know your habits
A local stats dashboard: hours watched, titles finished, activity charts, top genres, all from your own library, nothing phoned home.
Tune it to taste
Portrait or landscape cards, immersive wallpaper mode, which metadata to fetch, your own external player, and more. Reel bends to how you browse.
Get Reel
Ready when you are.
Free, private, and running entirely on your machine. Grab the Windows build and point it at your folders.