Relax with Coax
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Channel-surf your home media server
Just like the old days. You sit down, and you see what's on.<br>All you have to decide is how long you want to watch.
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What is it?
Coax turns your home media server into a linear cable channel guide.<br>It scans your<br>library, then automatically generates a schedule full of channels that you can flip through at your leisure.
It's frictionless
Zero setup required. The channel changes super-fast on a local connection, so it feels like the<br>old days.
Simple enough for everyone in the house to enjoy out of the box.
It's nostalgic
It evokes that "ooh, this is on!" feeling you thought streaming killed.
It's serendipitous
Stumble across a beloved TV show you forgot you had. Happen upon one of your favorite scenes in<br>that movie you never think to put on. Everything is already playing, and surfing through is a breeze.
It's flexible
You can tinker with your channels to your heart's content. Use your server's Collections to make fully<br>custom channels. Combine TV and Movie libraries to rebuild the premium cable experience.
It's family-friendly
Parental controls let you decide what gets scheduled. It's like autoplay that you can actually<br>trust, because it's all your own content.
Coax is fully private - no external web traffic apart from your media server's authentication and an Apple entitlements check.<br>If you have feedback or need support, please visit the r/coax subreddit.<br>We'd love to see you there.
Turns out, we got some things right back then<br>"What do you want to watch tonight, honey?"
We got what we always dreamed of - instant access to all of our favorite movies and TV shows,<br>tailored exclusively to our tastes and whimsy. But that created a new problem: when we can<br>watch whatever we want, how do we actually make a decision?
BigAlgo's answer to this is to collect every single piece of data available on you, then<br>serve you "recommendations". But it's just more slop, more invasion of privacy, more<br>fine-tuning and experimentation.
The Coax approach to this is simple: make it the 1990s again through<br>science or magic. Not only is it your favorite stuff, it's already playing,<br>waiting for you to jump in.
Features & Benefits
But what can you do for me?
No Nickles, No Dimes
Buy Coax once and you'll get access to it on all of your devices. Family Sharing is enabled,<br>too.
Customize to your heart's content
If you've got a more curated experience in mind, use Lineups. You can combine libraries,<br>specify Collection channels, filter out specific Genres, set age and date ranges... customizable any which<br>way you want.
Accessibility Support
Built with accessibility in mind, Coax honors system-wide settings for Closed Captions,<br>Reduced Motion, and Dynamic Type.
Three's Company
Coax works with all three major home media servers - Plex , Jellyfin , and Emby . Point it at whichever one you already run and it just works - no migration, no lock-in.
Fast & Furious
No matter the size of your libraries, you'll have a full schedule in no time flat.
Trailers, Commercials, Music Videos...
Coax will fill the time between programs with other content from your server. Fully configurable, you can adjust how long the gaps between programs will be (to match your memory of linear TV). You can even choose to play trailers (if you have them!) for other items that have started recently in your schedule.
Turn the Page
Swipe through these gorgeous throwback-y newspaper style guides. Open Coax on your iOS device<br>while watching something on your TV or Mac and you can even use this guide to change the channel remotely!
All The Way Back
The Retro Theme offers a blast-from-the-past so real, you'll want to put on<br>some Hammer Pants.
Mos(t) Defs
Coax uses a custom player that supports everything that AVFramework does. 4K, HDR,<br>DolbyVision - if you have the bandwidth, Coax can play it. For everything else, there's Transcoding™.
It's All Already On
Instead of picking from a static list of posters, you can browser through Coax's EPG<br>(Electronic Program Guide). It's all your stuff, on a schedule, and it feels like magic.
As featured in
MacBreak Weekly · Pick of the Week<br>It's all about serendipity. You never know what you're going to get, and it's just delightful.<br>It's like you're watching cable except you picked all the stuff.
- Jason Snell Watch the clip →
How-To Geek<br>It's a lot of fun, but surprisingly, it's more than a mere nostalgia burst.
- Andy Betts Read<br>the article →
XDA Developers<br>The first time I tried Coax, it felt like magic.
- Patrick O'Rourke Read<br>the article →
Paid Endorsements
The Talk Show with John Gruber · Ep. 451<br>If you use Plex, you're nuts if you don't get this. And this app is so good that you should get into Plex just to be able to use this app.
- John Gruber Hear the episode → (the ad read is...