All your movie, TV show, music, and photo collections at your fingertips. Anywhere you go, on the devices you love.
Forget scrolling through your entire media collection trying to decide what to play next. Plex remembers where you left off on your favorite TV series, gives you effortless search options, and reminds you about artists you haven’t listened to in ages, all while giving you trailers, extras, and music videos.
Our iOS app gives you a sleek and beautiful way to enjoy all of the great features Plex has to offer.
Feature | Free | Premium |
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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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Collections
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Collections are a way to gather your media together. For example, you might add your Marvel movies to a Marvel collection, or zombie movies into a Zombies collection. Items can belong to multiple collections as well, for added flexibility. |
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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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Plex News
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Plex News has partnered with the most reputable and trustworthy news sources around the world to give you a comprehensive, personalizable news experience. Stay informed on all your devices, anywhere, anytime. |
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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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Casting
Cast content from your smartphone, tablet, or computer to your TV for large screen viewing via Chromecast. |
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Flinging
Start content on one device and fling it to another app to continue enjoying it. |
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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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Automatic Photo-tagging and Places
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Use automagic image, scene recognition technology, and geo-location (Places) to classify and find photos you are looking for in any library of any size. Or personalize your tags with metadata and tag editing. Rediscover memories you had forgotten and search entire libraries with ease! |
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Live TV
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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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Photo Albums
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Organization freak? Plex gives you the ability to create beautiful Photo Albums so you can easily customize your own galleries of precious memories. |
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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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Mobile Sync
Sync your videos, music, and photos to your mobile device for offline enjoyment wherever you go. |
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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. |
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Camera Upload
Wirelessly sync your phone and tablet photos and videos automatically to your Plex Media Server at home, where they remain private and secure. |
These iOS devices support Plex. For more details on iOS, 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.