Your library, premium on every screen.
Quven is a self-hosted media server for your movies, shows and documentaries — built native-first, with a premium web client as your universal fallback. Your media, on your hardware, served the way you set it up.
- No ads, no tracking
- Free for home use
- Windows today · macOS & Linux next
Think of it as a complete, self-hosted media platform: unified server, native clients and web fallback in one install.
Everything a serious library needs
Full-fidelity playback, a catalogue that understands itself, and premium clients on every screen — without giving up control of your media.
Direct play, untouched
When a client can demux the source, Quven streams the original file as-is — no transcode, no quality loss, no fans spinning up.
Hardware transcoding
When a device can't decode natively, FFmpeg transcodes on the fly with auto-detected acceleration: NVENC, Quick Sync, CUDA, VideoToolbox.
Many files, one title
A 4K rip and a 1080p remux of the same film live under one entry; a Sources picker chooses the variant when you press play.
Automatic matching
Metadata matched against TMDb, coping with release-scene naming in five languages, year-mismatch recovery and leet-substitution repair.
Native desktop app
A real native client on Avalonia: dark/light themes, command palette, keyboard shortcuts, resume, audio/subtitle/aspect pickers and a stats overlay.
Runs on your hardware
Your media never leaves your machine for anything local. Cloud features are opt-in and clearly marked before anything is sent.
The hard parts of playback, done on purpose.
Browsers do a lot in 2026 — but they still can't bitstream HD audio to a receiver, play a file without server-side segmentation, or give you fine-grained control of the hardware decoder. The native clients are where the engineering goes, so the toughest media just plays.
- Direct play with zero transcode when the client can decode
- DTS-HD, TrueHD and Atmos passthrough to your AVR
- HDR10 & Dolby Vision tone-mapped for SDR screens
- Styled ASS, PGS and VobSub subtitles
Same library, the right path for each device — chosen automatically.
Where Quven fits
Built around the essentials: full ownership on your hardware, native-first playback, and clear pricing.
Self-hosted end-to-end
You can stream from home or outside on your own network setup for free. Paid cloud relay is optional and only for zero-config remote convenience.
Native-first playback
The experience is optimized around native clients for full fidelity and hardware decoding, with the web app as a polished fallback when needed.
Single integrated platform
No separate stack for server, metadata, discovery and client surfaces. One install, one library, one ownership model.
From folder to film in three steps
No account, no cloud dependency, no manual database wiring. Install, point, play.
- 1
Install the server
Run the installer on the machine that holds your media. FFmpeg and the premium web client come bundled — nothing else to set up.
- 2
Point it at your folders
Add your movie, show and documentary folders. Quven scans, matches against TMDb and builds a cinematic catalogue with artwork and ratings.
- 3
Watch anywhere
Open the native desktop app or any browser. Direct-play at home; reach your server remotely your own way, or with the managed relay.
Free for home. Paid only for the cloud.
The complete self-hosted experience is free forever. Paid tiers only add features that run on Quven's infrastructure.
Bring your library home.
Free for home use and yours to run on your own hardware. Install it in minutes.