Best Media Server Apps and Services
Handpicked collection of the most popular and highly-rated Media Server applications

Jellyfin
Open SourceJellyfin is an Open Source media solution to stream to any device from your own server.

unRAID Server
CommercialunRAID Server is a partition management software.

nessViewer
CommercialNessViewer is a software to edit, collect, present and stream media.

Jinzora Media Server
Open SourceJinzora Media Server is a media server software.

Pith
Open SourcePith is a central hub that connects your storage, your media devices and your mobile devices. It sits on your server, you control it through your mobile device and it plays media through your TV, AV receiver or other playback devices.

Playon
CommercialPlayon is a service to record and watch video content offline from services such as Netflix Hulu, etc.

StreamToMe
CommercialStreamToMe for Mac allows you to stream media from your desktop to iOS devices using Wi-Fi or a 3G connection, without the need to convert files.

Squire
CommercialSquire is a player for movie and TV show.

Amahi Home Server
Open SourceAmahi Home Server is a free and open-source home server software that's based on Fedora Linux.

NAS4Free
Open SourceNAS4Free is a network-attached storage (NAS) server software with a dedicated management web interface (written in PHP).

Madsonic
Open SourceMadsonic is a web-based media library and media streamer with jukebox functionality.

younity
FreemiumYounity is a mobile app that enables users to remotely access all their personal digital media files on their computer from their mobile devices.

Sonerezh
Open SourceSonerezh is a self-hosted, web-based application to stream your music, everywhere.

MediaTomb
Open SourceMediaTomb is a free UPnP MediaServer.

Pogoplug
FreemiumPogoplug is cloud storage for your mobile life. Access all your files, photos, music and movies wherever you are.

OpenMediaVault
Open SourceOpenMediaVault (OMV) is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage (NAS).

Serviio
FreemiumServiio is a freeware media server designed to let users stream music, video or image files to DLNA compliant televisions, game consoles, Blu-ray players, games console and Android or Windows Mobile devices on a home network.

CloudMe
FreemiumCloudMe is a file storage service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization and client software.

FreeNAS
Open SourceFreeNAS is a free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) software based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system.

PS3 Media Server
Open SourcePS3 Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP media server.

JRiver Media Center
CommercialJRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.

Subsonic
FreemiumSubsonic is an open-source web-based media streamer and jukebox. Supports MP3, OGG, AAC and other streamable audio and video formats.

Emby
FreemiumEmby (formerly Media Browser)Media Browser for Windows 8.1 gets rebranded as Emby with new features is a media server designed to organize, play, and stream audio and video to a variety of devices.Introducing Emby Emby is open-source, and uses a client-server model.

Universal Media Server
Open SourceUniversal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP media server. It originated as a fork of PS3 Media Server.

Tonido
FreemiumTonido is remote access and home server software for network-attached storage.

Ampache
Open SourceAmpache is a free software Web-based Audio file manager / web Media Server.

Plex
FreemiumPlex is a client-server media player system and software suite.

MiniDLNA
Open SourceReadyMedia (formerly known as MiniDLNA) is a simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.
Recently Added Media Server Apps and Services
Latest additions to our Media Server software collection

Jellyfin
Open SourceJellyfin is an Open Source media solution to stream to any device from your own server.

unRAID Server
CommercialunRAID Server is a partition management software.

nessViewer
CommercialNessViewer is a software to edit, collect, present and stream media.

Jinzora Media Server
Open SourceJinzora Media Server is a media server software.

Pith
Open SourcePith is a central hub that connects your storage, your media devices and your mobile devices. It sits on your server, you control it through your mobile device and it plays media through your TV, AV receiver or other playback devices.

Playon
CommercialPlayon is a service to record and watch video content offline from services such as Netflix Hulu, etc.

StreamToMe
CommercialStreamToMe for Mac allows you to stream media from your desktop to iOS devices using Wi-Fi or a 3G connection, without the need to convert files.

Squire
CommercialSquire is a player for movie and TV show.