Built for the way you actually watch.
Every part of Quven is tuned for real libraries and real hardware — from byte-perfect direct play to a catalogue that matches itself, on clients that feel premium everywhere.
Built for the files you actually have
Quven plays your media at full fidelity and only transcodes when it truly has to. The hard parts — HD audio, HDR, styled subtitles — are the point, not an afterthought.
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, the server transcodes on the fly with auto-detected acceleration: NVENC, Quick Sync, CUDA, VideoToolbox.
HDR tone-mapping
HDR10 and Dolby Vision tone-mapped to SDR with a Hable curve, so highlights survive on screens that can't do HDR themselves.
HD audio, untouched
DTS-HD, TrueHD and Atmos tracks reach the native players exactly as they are on disc — no browser-style re-encode of your lossless audio.
Subtitles done right
Styled ASS/SSA, PGS and VobSub bitmap burn-in, plus external SRT/VTT. Choose track and size at play time.
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.
A catalogue that understands itself
Point Quven at your folders and it builds a real catalogue: matched, deduplicated, and rich with the artwork and ratings that make a library feel alive.
Automatic matching
Metadata matched against TMDb, coping with release-scene naming in five languages, year-mismatch recovery and leet-substitution repair.
Manual match when it counts
When the matcher isn't confident it asks instead of guessing — a manual-match dialog and a 'needs review' inbox you can batch-confirm.
Movies, shows & documentaries
Separate libraries with the right shape for each: feature films, season/episode trees, and documentaries detected as either film or series.
Background scanning
Scans run in the background with live progress and are always user-initiated — nothing kicks off behind your back.
Cinematic detail pages
Backdrops, score arcs, multi-source rating pills (TMDb, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic), cast strips and related rails.
Optional AI tie-breaking
An optional AI step breaks matching ties and repairs zero-result queries. Bring your own key, or leave it off entirely.
Premium on every screen
Native is where the engineering goes. Desktop stays full-fidelity, Android and Apple now have platform-native clients, and the web client remains a first-class fallback.
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.
Premium web client
A cinematic browser client with a serious HLS player — your universal fallback when there's no native app at hand, away from home or on a guest device.
Exclusive iPhone & iPad
A SwiftUI client built for Apple devices: dynamic iPad layouts, pointer-aware controls, keyboard shortcuts, widgets, PiP, AirPlay handoff and native sheets.
Android phone & tablet
A Kotlin/Compose client with adaptive touch layouts, Material 3 chrome and libmpv-backed playback for broad codec, subtitle and HDR coverage.
Android TV & Fire TV
The Android client extends to a remote-first ten-foot surface with focus-safe controls and TV shell navigation, arriving in v1.1; device validation stays tracked separately.
Finds your server itself
After sign-in, the client discovers linked servers over mDNS on the LAN or lists the remote servers already attached to your account.
Reach it your way
Stay in your living room or reach your library from the other side of the world. Local is always full-speed and free; the managed relay is there when you don't want to touch a router.
Self-hosted remote — free
Reach your server from outside your LAN with your own port-forward, reverse proxy or Tailscale. Your bandwidth, your rules, always free.
Managed relay — Pro
Or flip on the managed relay and reach your server through NAT and CGNAT with zero configuration. You pay only for the convenience.
Profiles & watch state
Unlimited household profiles on every tier, with optional PINs and cloud-synced watchlists, ratings, reviews and resume points.
Account sign-in
Sign in with your email and password; verified email and self-service password reset keep recovery simple, and the same identity works across every device and server.
Yours, not ours
Your media stays on your hardware. Quven Account handles identity, linked servers and profile data so the household can move between installs.
One cloud identity
Every app starts with Quven Account sign-in, then lets you pick a local server, a remote server, or finish a new server setup.
Runs on your hardware
Your media files never leave your machine for local playback. Profile data syncs through Quven so reinstalling a server doesn't erase it.
No retroactive paywalls
What ships free stays free. Paid tiers only add features that carry a real, ongoing operational cost.
See it on your own library.
Download the free server, point it at a folder, and watch the catalogue come to life in minutes.