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Reel

Reel is a media player for iPhone and iPad that plays your own files, straight from a NAS share or the device, and sorts them into TV shows, films and audiobooks with artwork. There is no account, no server to install and nothing is uploaded.

Get Reel Support

iPhone and iPad.

Reel on iPad: the Home screen with Continue Watching and Next Up rows and the library sidebar

Plays almost anything

MKV, MP4, AVI, WebM and more, with HEVC, 10-bit, Dolby and DTS audio, embedded and external subtitles, chapters and playback speed.

Straight from your NAS

SMB, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, NFS and DLNA servers, or folders on the device. Reconnects when a share drops; Wake-on-LAN for a NAS that sleeps.

A real library

Titles, posters, episode names, cast and ratings from TMDb; anime recognised by its own titles. Collections, universes, smart collections and people pages with photos.

Audiobooks too

M4B and MP3 books shelved by author and series, with covers, narrators and summaries from Audible's catalogue. Resume where you stopped, in any part.

Made for watching

Skip intro, live scrub previews, auto-play next, sleep timer, dialogue boost, Picture in Picture, keyboard shortcuts on iPad.

AirPlay with the picture

Send a film to an Apple TV and the video goes with it, MKV included, with the audio track and subtitles you chose.

Finds things

Search covers titles, episodes, books, authors, narrators and cast. History shows everything played and how far. Links out to TMDb, TheTVDB and AniDB for more.

Picks up where you left off

Progress, favourites, collections and fixes sync between your devices through iCloud. Nothing goes anywhere else.

Offline

Download episodes or films to the device for the flight.

Get Reel

Reel is in beta on TestFlight ahead of its App Store release. There is no public link yet; the App Store button will appear here when it ships.

Screens

Home on iPad: Continue Watching, Next Up, Favourites and Recently Added rows with posters — Home: Continue Watching, Next Up, Favourites and Recently Added.

TV Shows grid on iPad with unwatched counts — TV Shows, with unwatched counts.

A show page: backdrop, logo, cast and the episode list.

A film page with cast, the film's collection and the universes it belongs to — A film page with its cast, collection and universes.

Collections: universes and film series with their logos.

The player with its controls — The player.

An anime show page with seasons matched through AniDB — An anime show, matched through AniDB.

Films grid on iPad with filters — Films, with filters.

Audiobooks grouped by author and series, with covers and progress — Audiobooks by author and series, with progress.

A book page: cover, narrators, series, summary and where to resume.

Search finding films and books in one go — Search finds films and books in one go.

History: everything played, how far, and when.

Try it without a server

The first screen offers a sample library: three short films and a show built into the app, so you can see how it works before adding a share.

Metadata

Reel ships with its own keys, so there is nothing to register for. Titles, artwork and episode details come from The Movie Database (TMDB). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Audiobook details come from Audible's catalogue, Audnexus and Apple Books. Optional extras come from fanart.tv, TheTVDB, OpenSubtitles, AniDB and Anime-Lists. See the data providers section for details.

Latest changes

25 October 2026