Free
Start organizing today
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- ·Universal video playback
- ·1 media server (Plex or Jellyfin)
- ·1 cloud drive
- ·3 direct URLs
- ·3 collection items
- ·3 advanced searches
- ·Up to 2 linked devices
- ·Apple TV activation
Watchly
Your media. Your cinema.
Turn the movies and shows you already own into a beautiful private library — on iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, and more soon.
Your Personal Media Center
Home
Beautifully organized.
A cinematic Home for your collection — featured titles, Continue Watching, and shelves that feel like a streaming app, powered by rich TMDB metadata.
Playback
Play virtually anything.
A polished player for the files you already own. Skip, scrub, subtitle, and resume with hardware-accelerated playback across formats.
Sources
Connect every library.
Plex, Jellyfin, cloud drives, network shares, and local files — one beautiful library instead of a dozen apps.
Plex
Jellyfin
Google Drive
Dropbox
OneDrive
LocalAlso SMB, FTP, WebDAV, Box, File Sharing, and more
Nearby
Cast, share, control.
Send the big screen to Apple TV or Mac, share a library on the same Wi‑Fi, and keep control from your iPhone.
Nearby
Same Wi‑Fi
Apple TV
Living Room
Mac
Studio Display
Casting
Cast
Share
Remote
Sync
Continue everywhere.
Start on your phone, finish on Mac or Apple TV. Watchlist, Liked, Seen, and progress stay with your Watchly account.
Watchly PRO
Unlock your cinema.
Free for 7 days. No payment today. Cancel anytime. Share with up to 5 family members at no extra cost.
PRO
Unlimited sources & sync
$1.99/month
or $19.99/year
- ·Unlimited media servers & cloud sources
- ·Unlimited direct URLs & collections
- ·Full cross-device sync
- ·Unlimited advanced search
- ·Up to 5 linked devices
- ·Family Sharing included
- ·7-day free trial
- ·Ad-free PRO experience
Loved by collectors
Built for personal libraries.
★★★★★
“Finally, my Plex and Drive libraries feel like one cinema — on my phone and Mac.”
★★★★★
“Nearby casting with Lock Screen controls is the feature I didn’t know I needed.”
★★★★★
“Clean Mac sidebar, real sync, and it just plays the files I already own.”
Guides
Learn by doing.
Short how-tos for connecting Sources, casting with Nearby, and syncing across your devices.
Getting started
Get started with Watchly
Install the app, connect your first source, and start watching the media you already own.
4 min read
Sources
Add a source to your library
Sources is where every library connection lives — media servers, cloud, network, local, and more.
3 min read
Sources
Connect Plex to Watchly
Stream your Plex libraries inside Watchly on iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV — with Continue Watching that follows you.
4 min read
Frequently asked questions
Open Sources in the Watchly app to connect local folders, cloud drives, Plex, Jellyfin, or network shares. On the same Wi‑Fi, you can also upload with File Sharing from any browser.
Start your personal cinema.
Download Watchly for Apple devices today. Android and Vision are on the way — sign in on the web anytime to browse synced rails and link Apple TV.
Your files stay on your storage. We sync preferences and watch progress only.