CineView
Your movie and TV library, on the big screen.
Movies & TV on Apple TV. Browse with TMDB posters and plots, pick up where you left off, and stream from your own media — no cloud library upload.
Features
Living-room browsing for a real media shelf
CineView is the Apple TV front-end for libraries you already keep on disk — not another streaming subscription.
Movies & TV Series
Browse by genre, search, favorites, and continue watching — built for a living-room remote.
TMDB metadata
Posters, plots, year, rating, cast, and IMDB IDs enrich your folders without renaming your library.
Subtitles that work
External .srt sidecars as WebVTT overlays, plus embedded tracks through AVPlayer.
Your network, your files
The player indexes local Movies and TV Series volumes and streams over LAN or a private tunnel.
How it works
Three pieces. One couch.
- 01
Keep your library on disk
Movies under genre folders, TV Series under Show / Season / Episode — CineView indexes what you already have.
- 02
Run the local player
A small Node service on your Mac enriches titles with TMDB and streams video over HTTP.
- 03
Connect from Apple TV
Open the CineView tvOS app, pick the public player host, LAN address, or Bonjour discovery — no PIN.
Privacy
Your media stays yours
CineView does not upload your movie or TV files to a cloud library. Playback is served from the player on your network (or a tunnel you control). Optional TMDB lookups fetch posters and plots for titles you already own — not a streaming catalog of someone else's content.
Read the privacy notes →Ready for the couch?
Install the Apple TV app, point it at CineView's player, and start watching from your shelf.