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Your cinema.
At home.
De Rien.

A media server that organizes your collection, makes it beautiful, and plays it everywhere. Install it once. Then it stays out of your way — that's kind of its specialty.

Install in 2 clicks
macOS · Linux · Windows · Docker · that old NAS gathering dust · a galaxy far, far away
Real screenshot. Nothing was touched up for the photo.
Up and running in 30 seconds
Your docker-compose.yml, tailored and ready to download.
€0
per month. Forever.
100%
free — as in freedom. Adding your server to the De Rien cloud is optional.
2
commands to get started.
0
ads. Zero. We checked.
Features

We thought of everything. And it's all optional.

Tidies itself up

Posters, summaries, cast, seasons: fetched and organized automatically. You drop files in, De Rien does the rest. Unlike a box of chocolates, you always know what you're gonna get.

4K HDR compatible

Synchronized resume across your TV, phone, browser and the living-room tablet, without crushing your video into mush.

Subtitles on time

Found, downloaded, synced to the right track. Three seconds off? Not here. We know — it's the bare minimum.

A profile for everyone

Everyone gets their own list, history and resume points. And parental controls that take two clicks — “I am your father” finally carries some weight.

Downloadable media

Your movies and shows download right onto the device, with no “license check” that kills your movie in the middle of a tunnel. Where you're going, you don't need networks.

A bit of play

Badges, levels, “Popcorn addict”. Optional, never guilt-tripping. Because a server can have a sense of humor too.

Comparison

Side by side, naming no names

These aren't the servers you're looking for.

De Rien
— that's us —
The orange server
Plex
The community fork
Jellyfin
A genuinely polished interface
Yes
More or less
plain, but honest
No subscription, no “Pass”
Yes
Paid pass
Yes
Play a file without a cloud account
Yes
Account required
Yes
Painless installation
Yes
Yes
a bit of config
Zero ads, zero sponsored picks
Yes
No
Yes
Made to look good from day one
Yes
Meh
simple and functional
The detail that stings

Little nothings. That's usually where it's decided.

We won't say where these are missing.

One accent color.

Orange pill or purple pill: we chose. It's no accident.

Your files stay yours.

Your media never leaves your disk. Your admin can connect the server to the De Rien hub for a few extras — but that's optional, and it never moves a single file. Your precious stays your precious.

Requests, built in.

Your people request a movie from the app, you approve, it lands in the library. Just connect De Rien to Zabby Torrent.

No “Premium” button.

The features you use don't turn into padlocks the moment you click them.

Your inbox can breathe.

No emails trying to sell you a movie. Let alone one you already own in your library.

Beautiful from install.

No need to hunt down a community theme to make it look like 2026.

Pricing

Free. And that's the whole pricing.

An offer you can't refuse.

Everything, right away
€0/ forever

Every feature. Every device. Everyone you love.

Unlimited library, 4K HDR
Profiles, offline, requests
No “reserved” features
Open code, data at your place
If you feel like it
A coffee

The project lives on voluntary donations. Give what you want, when you want. Or nothing.

No “Lifetime Pass”. So no “Lifetime Pass” back on sale every six months. It's already free. And already for life.

Take back control of your library.

Install De Rien as soon as tonight. The first rule of De Rien: you forget it's running. That's exactly what we were going for.