Your own streaming service. Pay once.

Yes. Point Reelhost at the same folders and your films and shows appear. Switch from Plex (in Core) then copies, for each person, what they watched, how many times, when, and where they stopped, plus Plex's collections. Each Plex person's history goes to the person of the same name in Reelhost. It reads a copy of Plex's database, so Plex itself is never changed, it never marks anything unwatched, and one click undoes the copy. It does not copy ratings, playlists, artwork or Plex accounts' passwords. Switching from Plex

Your server is a program on your own computer, and your films stay in your own folders. The media server underneath is free, open-source software that runs without us, and its own free apps connect to it directly. Your watchhome.app address is different: it is a name our service keeps pointed at your home, so without us it would stop following your home. Signing in with a Reelhost account goes through our service too: without it, an admin would give each person a password in Jellyfin. Private watching with Tailscale doesn't depend on us at all.

No. Reelhost gives your home its own address, yourname.watchhome.app, asks your router to open the port it needs, gets the certificate, and then checks the address works from outside. If your router has that switched off, Reelhost shows you the one rule to add. One honest exception: some internet providers share one address between many homes (called carrier-grade NAT, common with 5G and satellite home internet). There, a web address can't reach your home, so Reelhost tells you and sets up the private option with Tailscale instead.

Signal, Reelhost's own app, runs on Android phones and tablets and in any web browser today. iPhone, iPad and Apple TV are in review. Android TV and Google TV are coming soon, and Fire TV, Samsung Tizen and LG webOS are on the way. Until Signal reaches your TV, the server's own free apps for those TVs, and for Roku, work with everything Reelhost sets up, and sign in with a code. On Apple TV, use Swiftfin or Infuse. See the apps

Yes. Core is $24.99 once and Complete is $49.99 once, and both include updates. There is no introductory price and no subscription to keep it working. If you'd rather pay yearly, Yearly is $14.99 a year for everything in Complete while you're subscribed.

Nothing changes until you review and apply. Before each Apply, Reelhost backs up the settings it's about to change. Afterwards it restarts the server and checks that it answers. If you don't like a change, Restore puts it back from the backup. Reelhost never changes Plex, Emby or your media files, with a few features you choose yourself (the Terms and help pages list them).

No. Your media stays in your own folders, and Jellyfin is open-source software that keeps working without Reelhost. Fixes you've applied are settings on your computer, and Reelhost never takes them back if you stop paying. You can remove Reelhost whenever you like and keep Jellyfin. Your watchhome.app address comes with every plan, Free included, so it keeps working.

You don't have to. Jellyfin stays free, and Reelhost's setup, the check, the basic fixes, Signal on one server and your own web address are free too. You pay for time and extras: live TV with a guide that keeps itself current, your network drives, and for Complete the family suite (Watch together, karaoke, the DJ, the calendar). Core and Complete are paid once. Start free and see.

Free: we set up your server (install, the recommended settings, your media found), the honest check and basic fixes with backups and undo, your own web address for watching away from home, Signal on one server, and Photos to view on the TV and share. Core adds private watching with Tailscale, live TV and recordings with a guide that keeps itself current, network drives, Send files, the Plex importer and the library fixer, and people, kids profiles and TV sign-in. Complete adds Watch together, games (coming soon), karaoke, the DJ, the family calendar and notes, AI subtitles, monitoring with email alerts and unlimited invites. Every feature, plan by plan

No. Video streams straight from your home to your device. Our servers keep your watchhome.app name pointed at your home and sign you in with your Reelhost account. Reelhost never stores your files: the photos you share and the files you send are served by your own server, and Reelhost only carries them.

The computer that runs the media server: 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. On each one you use it from your web browser. It's the same app and the same plans, and each license works on two computers at once, in any mix. See all downloads.

Jellyfin's settings, plus its users, libraries and add-ons when you add people, folders or viewing settings. Outside Jellyfin, only what a feature needs: the plugged-in sleep setting, firewall rules of its own, scheduled tasks of its own, and for a web address, a rule on your router and a small secure proxy on this computer. The Review screen lists every 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. Deleted recordings can't be recovered.

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 scan 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 and Signal's extras work through Jellyfin. Switching from Emby

Core and Complete are paid once, so there's nothing to stop. On Yearly, every fix you've applied keeps working. Your free setup, the check and the basic fixes keep working too. Yearly features that need our services, such as AI subtitles and email alerts, pause with a plain message. Your web address keeps working, because every plan includes it. Your trial of Complete, if you use one, drops to Free when it ends and nothing is deleted.

Yes. Ask within 14 days of a payment for a full refund. Start free first: you see every change before you pay. See the refund policy.

Reelhost is ordinary software for running your own media server. It doesn't provide, host, sell or link to movies, shows or music. Your media, and what you do with it, is your responsibility: use Reelhost only with media you have the right to use, on computers and networks you own or manage. The Terms say this in full, and the help page explains that Reelhost never stores your files.

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. Reelhost isn't affiliated with Jellyfin, Plex or Emby.