Compare the best self-hosted media servers and audio/video tools for streaming and production.
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Jellyfin — Free, open-source, self-hosted media server that lets you organize and stream your own movies, TV shows, and music without subscriptions or tracking.
Emby — Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams a user's own movie, TV, music, and photo library to almost any device, offering a free core server plus an optional Emby Premiere subscription for advanced features.
Plex — Plex is a media server platform that lets users organize, stream and share their personal video, music and photo libraries across devices, alongside an ad-supported streaming service with licensed movies and TV shows.
Navidrome — Navidrome is a free, open source, self-hosted music streaming server written in Go that turns a personal music library into a private, multi-user streaming service compatible with Subsonic clients.
Ampache — Ampache is a free, open-source, self-hosted web application for streaming and managing your personal music and video collection from any device.
Funkwhale — Funkwhale is a free, open-source, self-hosted audio streaming server that lets individuals and communities run their own federated music and podcast platform connected to the wider Fediverse via ActivityPub.
Koel — Koel is a self-hosted, open-source personal music streaming server that lets you stream your own music library from a private web app.
Audiobookshelf — Audiobookshelf is a free, open-source, self-hosted media server for organizing and streaming personal audiobook and podcast collections.
PeerTube — PeerTube is a free, open-source, decentralized video hosting platform using ActivityPub federation and peer-to-peer streaming, developed since 2017 with support from the French non-profit Framasoft.
Owncast — Owncast is a free, open-source, self-hosted live video streaming and chat server that lets creators run their own Twitch-style streaming platform on their own infrastructure.
MediaCMS — MediaCMS is a free, open-source video and media content management system built with Django and React that lets organizations run their own self-hosted video portal.
Tube Archivist — Tube Archivist is a free, open-source, self-hosted media server that indexes, downloads, and organizes YouTube channel subscriptions so you can browse and watch your archive offline.
AzuraCast — AzuraCast is a free, open-source, self-hosted web radio management suite for launching and running internet radio stations with Icecast/SHOUTcast streaming and Liquidsoap automation.
Ant Media Server — Ant Media Server is a live video streaming engine offering ultra-low-latency WebRTC, HLS, and SRT streaming, with a free open-source Community Edition and a paid Enterprise Edition.
SRS — SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is an open-source, high-performance real-time video streaming server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, SRT, and other protocols for building live streaming and video conferencing infrastructure.
OBS Studio — OBS Studio is a free, open-source application for video recording and live streaming, offering scene composition, audio mixing, and an extensible plugin system used by streamers, educators, and broadcasters worldwide.
Audacity — Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, and Linux, maintained by Muse Group.
Ardour — Ardour is a free, open-source digital audio workstation for recording, editing, and mixing audio and MIDI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
LMMS — Free, open-source, cross-platform digital audio workstation for composing, arranging, and mixing music.
Mixxx — Mixxx is a free, open-source DJ mixing application for Windows, macOS, and Linux that lets DJs beatmix, loop, and scratch digital music using a virtual interface or hardware controllers.
MuseScore — MuseScore, now branded MuseScore Studio, is a free and open-source music notation and composition application for creating, playing back, and printing sheet music.
Rosegarden — Rosegarden is a free, open-source audio and MIDI sequencer with a full music notation editor, built for Linux.
Hydrogen — Free open-source pattern-based drum machine and sequencer for programming drum patterns on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Tenacity — Tenacity is a free, open-source, privacy-focused multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, created in 2021 as a community fork of Audacity.
Atsumeru — Atsumeru is a free, open-source, self-hosted media server for organizing and reading manga, comics, and light novels across devices.
Calibre — Calibre is a free, open-source e-book library manager that lets users organize, convert between formats, edit, and sync e-books to devices like Kindle and Kobo.
Kapowarr — Free, open-source, self-hosted comic book library manager that automates finding, downloading and organizing issues.
Kavita — Kavita is a free, open-source, self-hosted digital library server for reading and organizing manga, comics, webtoons and ebooks.
Komga — Komga is a free, open-source, self-hosted media server for organizing and reading comics, manga, magazines, and eBooks from any device.
Stump — Stump is a free, open-source, self-hosted server for organizing and reading comics, manga, and digital books, with OPDS support so it works with popular e-reader apps.
DSpace — DSpace is a free, open-source repository platform used by universities, libraries, and research institutions worldwide to preserve, manage, and provide open access to scholarly and digital content.
EPrints — EPrints is a free, open-source software platform for building institutional repositories and open access archives, developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science.
Fedora Commons Repository — Fedora is a free, open-source, modular repository system used by libraries, archives, museums, and universities to manage and preserve large digital collections using Linked Data and RDF standards.
InvenioRDM — Open-source, turn-key research data repository platform built on CERN's Invenio framework, powering Zenodo.
Islandora — Open-source digital repository framework built on Drupal and Fedora for managing and preserving digital collections.
Samvera Hyrax — Samvera Hyrax is a free, open-source Ruby on Rails engine that gives libraries and archives a foundation for building digital repository applications.
Evergreen — Evergreen is a free, open-source integrated library system (ILS) that public and academic libraries use to manage cataloging, circulation, patron accounts, and consortial resource sharing across large multi-branch networks.
Koha — Koha is a free, open-source integrated library system used by libraries worldwide to manage cataloging, circulation, patrons, and online public access catalogs.
RERO ILS — RERO ILS is a free, open-source integrated library system built on the CERN-developed Invenio framework, used mainly by public, school, and heritage libraries and library networks in Switzerland.
Downtify — Downtify is a free, open-source, self-hosted app that lets you download Spotify playlists, albums, and tracks as tagged audio files by matching them to YouTube Music, run entirely in a single Docker container.
Lidarr — Self-hosted, open-source music collection manager that automatically finds, downloads and organizes albums, part of the *arr suite.
nefarious — nefarious is a free, open source, self-hosted web application that automatically searches for and downloads movies and TV shows by combining Jackett torrent search with Transmission-based download management.
Ombi — Ombi is a free, open-source, self-hosted media request and user management tool that lets people request movies, TV shows, and music for Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin servers.
PodFetch — PodFetch is a free, open-source, self-hosted podcast download and management server, built in Rust with a React web interface, that lets users archive, search, and sync podcasts on their own infrastructure.
Radarr — Radarr is a free, open-source movie collection manager that automatically monitors, downloads, sorts, and upgrades movies via Usenet and BitTorrent.
Reaparr — A free, open-source, self-hosted Plex downloader that pulls media from any accessible Plex server into your own library, also working as a Sonarr/Radarr indexer and download client.
Sonarr — Sonarr is a free, open-source PVR that automatically monitors, downloads, and organizes TV show episodes from Usenet and BitTorrent sources.
TrackWatch — TrackWatch is a free, open-source, self-hosted tool that automatically tracks new releases from followed Spotify artists and syncs them into a dedicated playlist, keeping listening data on your own infrastructure.
youtube-dl-nas — youtube-dl-nas is a small open-source, self-hosted queue server that runs in Docker on a NAS or home server, letting authenticated users submit YouTube download jobs processed by yt-dlp via a web and WebSocket interface.
Beets — Beets is a free, open-source command-line tool for organizing music libraries and automatically correcting metadata using the MusicBrainz database.
BotWave — BotWave is a free Telegram bot with 200+ commands covering group moderation, AI chat, games, crypto price tracking, and media downloading.
LibreTime — Free, open-source radio automation and playout software for scheduling, streaming and managing terrestrial or internet radio stations.
Lyrion Music Server — Lyrion Music Server is a free, open-source, community-maintained media server, the successor to Logitech Media Server and Squeezebox Server, that streams personal music libraries to networked players.
moOde Audio — moOde Audio is a free, open-source audiophile music player operating system for the Raspberry Pi that turns a Pi into a high-quality network music streamer.
Mopidy — Mopidy is a free, open-source, extensible music server written in Python that plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, and internet radio, controllable from MPD or web clients.
mpd — Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a free, open-source background music server that plays audio files and manages playlists, controlled remotely by a wide variety of separate client applications.
mStream — mStream is a free, open-source, self-hosted music streaming server with its own web and mobile apps that lets you stream your personal music collection from anywhere.
multi-scrobbler — multi-scrobbler is an open-source, self-hosted tool that captures listening activity from multiple music sources like Spotify, Plex, and Jellyfin and scrobbles it to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, and Maloja.
musikcube — musikcube is a free, open-source, cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and streaming server written in C++.
Pinepods — Pinepods is a free, open-source, self-hosted podcast management system, built in Rust, that lets users run their own podcast server and sync subscriptions, playback history and downloads across web, desktop and mobile clients.
SwingMusic — Swing Music is a free, open-source, self-hosted music streaming server that turns your personal audio library into a Spotify-like experience in the browser.
ClipBucket — ClipBucket is a free, open-source PHP video-sharing platform that lets anyone self-host a YouTube-style site with uploads, playlists, groups, and social features.
Gerbera — Gerbera is a free, open-source UPnP media server written in C++ that streams music, video, and photos to UPnP and DLNA-compatible devices on a home network.
Icecast 2 — Icecast 2 is a free, open-source streaming server for broadcasting live audio and video over HTTP using Ogg Vorbis, Opus, MP3 and more.
Karaoke Eternal — Free, open-source, self-hosted karaoke party system with browser-based song queueing and a fullscreen player.
Kodi — Kodi is a free, open-source media center application that organizes and plays local and network video, music, photos, and live TV across many devices.
MediaMTX — MediaMTX is a free, open-source, zero-dependency media server and proxy that reads, publishes, records, and converts real-time video and audio streams across protocols like RTSP, RTMP, WebRTC, SRT, and HLS.
MistServer — MistServer is a fully open-source, public-domain media streaming server that supports a wide range of protocols including HLS, DASH, RTMP, WebRTC, and SRT.
NymphCast — NymphCast is a free, open-source audio and video casting system that turns Linux-capable hardware like a Raspberry Pi into a network media receiver, similar in concept to Chromecast.
Rygel — A free, open-source UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer for the GNOME desktop that shares audio, video, and photos across a home network and streams to DLNA and UPnP devices.
Stash — Stash (stashapp.cc) is a free, open-source, self-hosted media organizer written in Go for cataloging, tagging, and browsing personal video and image collections.
üWave — uWave is a free, open-source, self-hosted platform where communities take turns playing music, videos, or other media together in a shared, real-time listening room.
Restreamer — Free, open-source, self-hosted streaming server that lets anyone publish live RTMP or SRT video to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo, and other platforms without recurring license fees.
Tube — Tube is a free, self-hosted, open-source video sharing platform written in Go that lets individuals and communities run their own censorship-free, YouTube-style video site.
VideoLAN Client (VLC) — VLC media player is a free, open-source, cross-platform application that plays nearly any audio or video file, disc, or stream, developed by the nonprofit VideoLAN organization.
beatstars — BeatStars is a digital production marketplace that allows music producers to license and sell beats and give away free beats. Recording artists and songwriters can download beats and distribute their beats. worldwide.
epidemicsound — Epidemic Sound is a subscription music and sound-effects licensing platform that gives video creators unlimited, royalty-free downloads from a large catalog for worry-free use worldwide.
frame — Frame.io centralizes all of your files, feedback, and people on one secure platform, so you can deliver exceptional creative faster.
swiftgalleries — Swift Galleries is an all-in-one gallery design, in-person sales, and checkout platform that helps professional photographers sell wall art, albums, and prints directly to clients.
theappmill — We design and build high-performance iOS apps, WordPress plugins and modern websites. From idea to launch — The AppMill helps bring your product to life.
grain — Grain gives you accurate meeting summaries, account insights, and coaching suggestions in an easy-to-use product built for growing teams.
brightcove — Brightcove is an enterprise video hosting and streaming platform that lets organizations host, manage, distribute, and monetize live and on-demand video.
echo360 — Echo360 is a Learning Transformation Platform that helps educational institutions and businesses create, manage, and deliver video-based learning content with engagement and assessment tools.
promotracker — L'outil tout-en-un pour les artistes indépendants et les labels. Gère ta promo musicale, tes pitchs, ta bible médias et tes analytics en un seul endroit.
mediahaven — MediaHaven is a WordPress plugin that lets site owners build video galleries and responsive players from YouTube and Vimeo content, with add-on features for WooCommerce shoppable video and video advertising.
heyly — Add a personal video greeting to your website in 5 minutes. Up to 5 custom buttons. One script tag, no developer needed.
servidoresseguros — Reproductor profesional de radio streaming para WordPress, Site.pro y sitios HTML. Barra persistente, pantalla completa, metadatos Centova y opciones Pro.
universalproductionmusic — Explore music for TV, film and media with Universal Production Music. Our music library features over 630,000 global tracks and sound effects ready to license globally.
yalogica — Yalogica builds premium WordPress plugins — HappyVR for virtual tours, PicPoints for interactive image maps, NinjaDraw for diagramming, and MediaCommander for media library organization — each free on WordPress.org with an optional paid Pro upgrade.
mediavalet — As the market leading digital asset management (DAM) software, MediaValet serves as a single source of truth for brand, campaign, and product related assets.
getsproutstudio — Sprout Studio is an all-in-one app to help you run your photography business, including a CRM, studio management system, galleries & more!
easypodcastpro — Easy Podcast Pro is a suite of WordPress plugins for self-hosting Apple- and Spotify-compliant podcasts, embedding customizable podcast players, and turning YouTube channels into browsable podcast archives.
lessflux — Optimize images and videos with external processing, WebP and AVIF conversion, compression, and global CDN delivery. Faster websites with less server load.
broadjam — Send your music to film and TV licensing supervisors, get a professional review of your song, and get your own templated website for your music.
hipixy — Pixy is a WordPress plugin that automatically converts images to AVIF/WebP, bulk-compresses media, and lazy-loads images to speed up WordPress sites.
extrememusic — Extreme Music is a production music licensing platform, owned by Sony Music, offering a searchable catalog of tracks for film, TV, advertising, games, and online media.
lightsyncpro — Automatically sync Adobe Lightroom, Figma, Dropbox, Shutterstock, and Canva to WordPress and Shopify. AI image generation via OpenRouter. Syncific extends to Google Drive, OneDrive, HubSpot, Contentful, Webflow & HTTP API.
theimageoptimizer — The Image Optimizer (TIO) is a browser-based image compression tool that automatically resizes and converts images to WebP and AVIF for faster-loading websites, with no account required and a companion WordPress plugin.
orangelogic — Orange Logic is a cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) platform that centralizes enterprise content storage, rights governance, and AI-driven workflow orchestration.
ecamm — Powerful Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X, Twitch, and LinkedIn Livestreaming platform for Mac.
squishlyapp — Compress and convert images, PDFs and videos in seconds — free and private. Every result comes with a Proof of Fidelity report showing exactly what changed.
cincopa — Cincopa is a video knowledge management platform that turns scattered videos and documents into searchable, AI-powered knowledge hubs for product education, training, and customer support.
videoness — Videoness lets businesses add interactive, shoppable video widgets to their websites to boost engagement and conversions.
plugininja — Plugininja develops and sells premium WordPress plugins, including Ninja Media for organizing the WordPress media library into folders and Ninja Drive for syncing and backing up WordPress sites to Google Drive.
muvi — Muvi is an all-in-one OTT streaming platform that lets businesses launch branded, white-labeled video and audio streaming apps across web, mobile, TV, and connected devices without coding.
ftrack — ftrack makes Emmy and Academy Award-winning tools that help creative studios to track, review, and manage their pipeline and projects.
sonix — Sonix is an AI-powered transcription platform that converts audio and video into text with claimed 99% accuracy across 54+ languages, plus translation, subtitles, and AI analysis.
studiobinder — StudioBinder is web-based production management software for writing scripts, visualizing scenes with shot lists and storyboards, and creating call sheets and shooting schedules.
smartalbums — Album design software that automatically builds photo albums from your images, used by professional wedding and event photographers.
listnr — Professional AI voice generator with advanced speech synthesis technology. Create realistic AI voices, clone voices, and generate multilingual content with 1000+ AI voices in 142+ languages.
bandicam — Bandicam is high-quality screen recording software for capturing your screen, gameplay, and webcam, with built-in editing and AI tools.
completegreet — CompleteGreet lets websites add personalized human video bubbles, live chat, and booking widgets to greet visitors and boost conversions.
3playmedia — 3Play Media is a video captioning, subtitling, dubbing, and audio description platform that combines AI transcription with human review for accessibility and localization compliance.
voicedropper — VoiceDropper converts articles, blog posts, and documentation into listenable audio with an embeddable player, using AI-generated narration.
tukios — All-in-one funeral home software platform offering websites, AI-powered tribute videos, online memorials, and family payments. Trusted by 10,000+ funeral homes since 2010.
streamlabs — Streamlabs is the best streaming platform for Twitch, YouTube & Facebook. Grow with Streamlabs Desktop, alerts, overlays, tipping & merch.
pixifi — Pixifi is a business management platform built for photographers, combining CRM, online booking, contracts, invoicing, and payment processing in one system.
pics — Centralize, manage, and distribute all your digital content in one place with Pics.io — an AI-powered digital asset management platform. Book a free demo today.
happyscribe — Turn every meeting into notes and decisions you can act on. AI transcription in 150+ languages, SOC 2 & GDPR, made in Europe. Free to try.
voicgen — Voicgen turns your articles into natural AI audio with an embedded player — multilingual voices, transcripts, summaries, and listener analytics. Built for publishers and blogs. 2-minute setup.
BeLive — BeLive is a browser-based live streaming platform that lets creators and businesses broadcast to multiple social platforms at once, add branded overlays, and repurpose stream recordings into shorter clips.
crowdriff — Elevate your travel marketing with CrowdRiff. Find tools to source user-generated visuals, create authentic videos, and manage digital assets.
reviewstudio — ReviewStudio is the leading online proofing software, giving teams a faster review and approval process across all their creative workflows.
auripath — Turn B2B PDFs, guides and reports into embedded audio with lead capture, CTAs and listening analytics, so sales can follow up with stronger leads.
dramatify — Dramatify is a cloud-based production management platform for film, TV drama, live sports, non-fiction and branded content, covering budgeting, scheduling, scripts, crew/cast management and live broadcast coordination.
wp-mediapapa — Mediapapa is a WordPress plugin that scans, scores, and optimizes your media library — flagging duplicate and unused files, compressing images, and converting them to WebP/AVIF to speed up sites.
wipster — Quickly and easily share and get feedback on video projects. Share media, collect feedback, manage reviews, and deliver finished work faster.
acestudio — AI Music Generator for real music creators: craft expressive music with pro vocals, AI instruments, and creative tools built for serious production workflows.
screencloud — ScreenCloud is a cloud-based digital signage platform that lets businesses manage and broadcast content to TVs and screens from a single dashboard, with 80+ built-in app integrations.
rikny — Rikny builds premium WordPress plugins — JetReader, a PDF/EPUB digital library reader, and JetPrayer, a prayer-time and adhan notification plugin — sold as freemium upgrades via Lemon Squeezy.
ttswp — Text to speech for WordPress turns your content into natural-sounding audio with real AI voices. Improve accessibility and engagement. Try it free.
clipchamp — Clipchamp is an online video editor with royalty-free music and stock footage, video templates, and export up to 4K resolution, in-browser or via a Windows app.
strimy — STRIMY is a video hosting platform for photographers, videographers, and creative agencies, offering 4K HLS streaming, branded client portfolios, and private video delivery with viewer analytics.
realync — Realync, a Grace Hill company, is a video engagement and virtual leasing platform that helps multifamily property teams create pre-recorded videos, live video tours, and self-guided tours to convert prospects into residents.
qvio — Qvio is a two-way interactive video platform from HIA Technologies that lets creators add Author-Controlled AI Q&A to their videos, so viewers can ask questions and get answers grounded in the creator's own content instead of a generic chatbot.
Kaltura — AI-powered enterprise video platform for marketing, corporate communications, learning, and events, combining video management, live streaming, and agentic AI.