Your own streaming service, for everyone you love.

Reelhost and its Signal apps are your family's own streaming service, a Plex and Emby alternative that you own. You install Reelhost on a computer at home (a Windows PC, a Mac, or a NAS or Linux server with Docker). It sets up the server, gives you a web address for watching away from home, adds your family, and looks after it. Signal puts it on your phones, tablets and browsers, with karaoke, a DJ, Watch together and more.

Underneath it is Jellyfin, the free, open-source media server, so there's no lock-in. Already running Jellyfin? Reelhost checks it for free and keeps it healthy.

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. Reelhost never changes Plex, Emby or your media files, with a few features you choose yourself (the Terms and help pages list them).

No. Most people download Reelhost, let it set up the server, then add their family. If you already run a server, you can run the free check, review the list and press Apply. Reelhost does the port, firewall, sleep and web address steps for you. If a step can't be done on your network, it says so in plain words and shows what to do. That happens with routers that have UPnP turned off, and with internet providers that share one address between homes.

No Jellyfin yet? Reelhost can install it from Jellyfin's own site and find your media.

You don't have to. Jellyfin stays free, and Reelhost's setup, the check, the basic fixes and Signal on one server are free too. You pay for time and extras: the web address for watching away from home, 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.

Every fix is previewed, and the settings it changes are backed up first. Restore puts one fix back, or all of them. To take everything Reelhost added off your computer, use Remove Reelhost from this PC (on a Mac, from this Mac) in Backups. It shows what goes and what stays. Reelhost can't recover something you or another program changed afterwards, so keep your own backup of your media.

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 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.

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.

We can't promise that, but we've built it for people who don't care about servers. They open Signal, pick their name and watch. A TV signs in with a short code, never a password typed with a remote. Someone far away opens a link in any browser. Kids get profiles with age limits. Start free with one person, and add family when it works for you.

You can keep Plex running while you try this. Switch from Plex copies each person's watched history, resume points and collections into Jellyfin. It reads a copy of Plex's database, so Plex itself is never changed, and one click undoes the copy. As of October 2026, Plex's own page says streaming your server away from home needs a Plex Pass or a Remote Watch Pass. With Reelhost, watching away from home is part of Core and Complete.

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

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

Setting up your server, Signal on one server, Photos and the basic fixes are free. Core is $24.99 once. Complete is $49.99 once, and Yearly is $14.99 a year for everything in Complete while you're subscribed. 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.

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.

Signal, our free app, is on Google Play for Android phones and tablets, and Reelhost serves it to any web browser. More are on the way: the Apps section above is always the current list. Jellyfin's own free apps (Roku, Fire TV, LG, Kodi and more) also work with everything Reelhost sets up. On Apple TV, use Swiftfin or Infuse. Signal works with any Jellyfin server, version 10.10 or later. See the apps

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. If your internet provider doesn't give your home its own public address (common with 5G home internet and satellite plans), Reelhost tells you, and the private route through Tailscale works either way.

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

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. Features that need our services, such as your web address, pause with a plain message. Your trial of Complete, if you use one, drops to Free when it ends and nothing is deleted.

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.