Plex Media Player is the go-to app for Home Theater PCs (HTPCs) connected to big screen TVs. Your collection of videos, music, and photos never looked so good!
Your HTPC running Plex Media Player gives you the best possible playback experience on a dizzying array of configurations. From PCs to Raspberry Pis to Mac Minis, Plex Media Player is the most powerful, sophisticated way to play media in your home theater. Simple and intuitive controls give you the cleanest, most theater-like viewing experience. Power users and media junkies rejoice!
Plex Media Player has powerful live search capabilities that allow you to quickly find that movie, show, or song you are looking for. Plex also provides helpful suggestions when you don’t really know what you want.
Plex Media Player gives you both a beautiful HTPC experience and a slick desktop media player experience. Whether you are home or away, you can easily play any file type with the world’s most powerful playback engine. It’s the ultimate media player!
Our Plex Media Player app gives you a sleek and beautiful way to enjoy all of the great features Plex has to offer.
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Any Format
Support for all file types (well, virtually all), including hi-fi music and video formats. |
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Available Anywhere
Stream all of your media to all your devices, anytime, anywhere, with the same beautiful experience on all of them. (iOS, Android, and Windows apps require a one-time unlock fee for full playback if you do not have a Plex Pass.) |
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Library Organization
Organize all of your media–videos, photos, and music–and make it beautiful with artwork and info like plot summaries, bios, and more. |
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Privacy and Security
Enjoy your media while away from home, knowing your connection is securely encrypted. |
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Sharing
Effortlessly share libraries among friends to all discover and enjoy even more content together. |
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Recommendations and Discovery
Enjoy beautifully organized libraries that help you find and re-discover great gems in your collection. |
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Plugins
Get online content from various sources, like TED Talks, NPR, Spike, Comedy Central, and Soundcloud, right in Plex. |
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Remote Control
Use the Plex app on your phone or tablet to control any Plex player. |
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Media Optimizer
Create optimized versions of your media for seamless streaming on whichever device you choose. |
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Watch Later
Save online videos to watch later or recommend videos to a friend. |
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Live TV
New
Watch Live TV directly on your device! With the addition of an antenna and a digital tuner, over-the-air HD TV is yours at no extra cost! Great for cutting the cord! |
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Plex DVR
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Record your favorite free HDTV digital broadcast channels right to your Plex Media Server—-including local news and sports—-then watch anywhere in the world! DVR recordings can be watched on any Plex-enabled device. |
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Cloud Sync
Sync content from your library to supported cloud storage providers to enjoy even if your server is offline. |
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Lyrics
See timed lyrics to your favorite songs when available. |
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Mood Mix
Find tracks in your collection based on mood to help you wake up, wind down, and everything in between. |
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Plex Mix
Kick off playback of similar tracks from your collection at any time — it’s like your own personal radio station. |
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Premium Music
Enjoy lyrics, automatic Plex Mix and Mood Mix playlists based on mood or similar tracks, and premium metadata matching for high quality art, album reviews, artist bios and more! |
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Multiple Users
Create customized, managed accounts, and make user switching fast and easy with Plex Home. |
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Parental Controls
Enable parental controls to keep the kids away from inappropriate content. |
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Trailers and Extras
Automatically see high quality movie trailers, cast interviews, and other extras for movies in your library. |
For details on what platforms are supported by Plex Media Player, please visit our support articles.
Sign up for your free account and download the Plex Media Server software, the central brain that organizes all of your media.
Plex recognizes just about
any kind of video, music, or photo format and displays all of your content in an easy-to-navigate interface.
Install Plex apps on any of your devices so you can enjoy your beautifully organized media wherever you are.
