Your own streaming service, at home.

An app for the computer that holds your movies and shows: a Windows PC, a Mac, or a NAS or Linux server with Docker. It installs and runs Jellyfin, the free, open-source media server, and looks after it: watching away from home at your own web address, logins for your family, live TV and recordings, free TV channels, backups and alerts. Our own Signal apps then play it all on your TVs, phones and tablets, and in a browser.

Already running Jellyfin? The free check-up finds what's wrong and fixes it in one click, each change backed up first.

Yes. Nothing changes until you review and apply. Before each Apply, Reelhost backs up the settings it's about to change. Afterwards it restarts Jellyfin and checks that it answers. If you don't like a change, Restore puts it back from the backup.

Yes. Switch from Plex copies each person's watched history, resume points and collections from Plex into Jellyfin. It reads a copy of Plex's database, so Plex itself is never changed and you can keep it running while you try Jellyfin. The preview is free; copying comes with Complete and Yearly, and one click undoes it.

Reelhost never modifies Plex. When Jellyfin and Emby share a computer and clash, Reelhost changes Jellyfin's side, so Emby carries on exactly as before.

Yes. Reelhost Signal is our own free app for Android phones and tablets, Android TV and Google TV, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and Reelhost serves it to any web browser. The store apps are in review at Google Play and the App Store now, so they aren't out yet. Until then, Jellyfin's free apps work with everything Reelhost sets up.

Signal works with any Jellyfin server, version 10.10 or later. With Reelhost on that computer it also gets DJ Signal, karaoke, photo privacy and watching away from home. See the apps

Yes, two ways. Reelhost can install Jellyfin next to Emby so you can try it: Emby keeps its port and isn't changed, and the check-up stops the two clashing. It also looks after Emby itself: firewall, sleep, and watching away from home at your web address. Features like People & folders, Free TV and Signal's extras work through Jellyfin. Switching from Emby

Jellyfin's settings, plus its users, libraries and add-ons when you add people, folders or viewing settings. When you add a folder, it can give Jellyfin permission to read it. Outside Jellyfin, only what a feature needs: the plugged-in sleep setting, firewall rules of its own (on a Mac, firewall entries for Jellyfin and its secure proxy), scheduled tasks of its own (such as the one that keeps your TV guide fresh), and for a web address, one rule on your router and a small secure proxy on this computer. The Review screen lists every check-up change and what it touches before you apply.

Two features write next to your recordings: commercial skipping adds a small .edl file beside each recording it checks, and automatic deletion, only if you turn it on and confirm, deletes watched recordings by the rules you choose (when space runs low, some days after they're watched, or both). Deleted recordings can't be recovered.

To take it all away, use Remove Reelhost from this PC (on a Mac, from this Mac) in Backups before you uninstall. It shows what goes and what stays. In Docker, turn off the web address, then remove the container and its data folder.

Core applies the check-up's fixes: firewall, sleep, video speed, network drives, the antenna guide and the four Emby checks, each backed up and reversible. It also includes Monitor, which shows who's watching and why a stream struggles. Complete is everything Reelhost does: those fixes plus watching away from home, Switch from Plex, Watch together, People & folders with kids profiles and invites, Free TV, recordings with commercial skipping, subtitles (the timing fixer and AI subtitles), Skip intro and credits, email alerts, and the DJ and karaoke in Signal. Both are paid once and include updates.

Bought Core and want the rest? Upgrade to Complete from your account for $25, the difference in price. Your key stays the same.

The check-up is free. Core is $24.99 once for the check-up's fixes. Complete is $49.99 once for everything Reelhost does, and Yearly is $14.99 a year for everything while you're subscribed. Core and Complete are paid once, with updates included.

It's one price for everyone, with no introductory offer. Bought Core? Upgrade to Complete for $25, the difference. A discount code takes a percentage off the regular price, and only one applies to each purchase.

Two helpers inside the app. Ask Reelhost answers questions about your setup, using your check-up results and Jellyfin's log, and can take you straight to the fix. The library fixer finds movies and shows Jellyfin couldn't recognise and renames them the way Jellyfin expects. You review every change first, and one click undoes it.

Complete includes it for 12 months; after that it's $9.99 a year if you want to keep it, and everything else in Complete stays yours. Yearly includes it. Core comes with 10 questions and one library scan to try it. Help from our support team is always free.

Only your question, your check-up results and file names are sent. Your videos never leave your home.

Yes, each license works on two computers at once, in any mix of Windows, Mac and Docker. Moving to a new computer? Choose "Move to another computer" in Reelhost on the old one to free its place.

Core and Complete are paid once, so there's nothing to stop. On Yearly, every fix you've applied keeps working. They're settings on your computer, and Reelhost never takes them back. The free check-up keeps working too.

Applying new fixes and changing what Complete sets up needs an active plan. Your yourname.watchhome.app address keeps following your home for 30 days after a yearly plan ends, then stops updating. Private watching with Tailscale doesn't depend on us at all.

Yes. Reelhost only lists channels whose broadcasters publish the stream for anyone to watch for free, and every channel links to its official source. We don't host or relay any video: Jellyfin plays each stream straight from the broadcaster.

No. Free TV comes over the internet. Antenna TV is separate: if you have an HDHomeRun tuner, Reelhost sets that up too, and the two never clash because Free TV channels start at 101.

Channels you've already added keep working, guide included. Adding Free TV or changing which channels you get needs Complete, or an active Yearly plan.

Yes. Ask within 14 days of a payment for a full refund. Try the free check-up first: it shows every problem and every change before you pay. See the refund policy.

Reelhost is tested on Jellyfin 12.1. It also understands the older settings layout used before Jellyfin 10.9. Run the free check-up first: it shows what Reelhost finds on your computer before you pay.

Reelhost runs on the computer that runs Jellyfin: Windows 10 and 11, a Mac with macOS 12 or later (Apple silicon or Intel), or Docker on a NAS (Synology, Unraid, TrueNAS) or a Linux server, where you use it from a browser. It's the same app with the same screens and plans, and one license covers any of them.

On a Mac the same ten checks are done the macOS way, and your Mac asks for your password before it changes the firewall or sleep settings. In Docker, the checks that don't apply in a container (firewall, sleep and network drives) are hidden. The Docker image needs a key to download: get a free one by email, or use your license. See all downloads.

Not by hand. Private watching with Tailscale opens no ports at all. For a public yourname.watchhome.app address, Reelhost opens the port for you using UPnP, which most home routers support, then checks the address works from outside.

If your router has UPnP turned off, Reelhost shows you the one rule to add by hand. If your internet provider doesn't give your home its own public address (common with 5G home internet and satellite plans), Reelhost tells you. When your connection has IPv6, your address can still work over IPv6 (you may need to allow port 443 in your router's IPv6 settings), and the private route through Tailscale works either way.

Yes. Choose Use my own domain instead on the Watch away from home screen and type a domain or subdomain you own. Reelhost sets up Jellyfin, the secure connection and the certificate on this computer; you change two settings yourself, your router and your domain's DNS, and it tells you exactly what to enter. Keeping that DNS record current when your home's address changes is up to you.

No. Video streams straight from your home to your device. Our servers only keep your watchhome.app name pointed at your home.

Only for private watching. Tailscale has a free personal plan. You sign in once on the computer that runs Jellyfin and once on each device, and Reelhost does the rest. On a Mac, Reelhost links you to Tailscale for Mac; in Docker, install Tailscale on the computer that runs Docker.

No. Reelhost is an independent app from Wizzered Inc. It works with Jellyfin, which is free, open-source software, and it doesn't include or change Jellyfin's program.

Only to activate your license, check for updates and, if you use them, keep your watchhome.app address current, fetch Free TV channels and send the alerts heartbeat. The fixes themselves work offline, and AI subtitles are made on your computer, with nothing sent. See the privacy policy for exactly what's sent.