Everything you own.
Ready to play.
Your films, shows, music, and photos, presented like a streaming service. Except it's all yours.
Navarre is a complete home for the media you own. A living-room app for the TV. A desktop app for the PC. A phone app for your pocket. And now its own media server for your PC or NAS. Already running Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin? Point Navarre at your server and you're set. Starting fresh? Let Navarre be the whole thing. Either way, it sets itself up, plays what you own, and gets out of your way.
Free at home, forever. · One $29.99 unlock takes it anywhere. · Never a subscription.
Navarre reads what your folders already say - names, artwork, details - and fetches what they don't. When a title has no art anywhere, Navarre draws its own, and the same title gets the same art on every screen. No blank tiles, ever.
Bring a server, or don't
Your server, your way.
Navarre ships its own media server now. And if you already run one, it is a welcome guest, not a landlord.
Your own Navarre server - nothing else to pick, install, or learn. One container turns an x86 NAS or Linux box into a Navarre server: it reads the files and the metadata already sitting in your folders, backs itself up nightly, and answers to the same three apps. Your media stays read-only to it - nothing is ever deleted, and nothing updates behind your back. It is the server our own family watches on, every day.
And the app does the setting up. Choose Set up Navarre, tell it where your films live, and it writes the whole recipe - one paste into your NAS's Docker or Container app, no config files, no command line, and your password is never written to a file. It finds the new server, shows you exactly what it found - every folder, with a proposed library you can rename, re-type, or skip - builds your libraries, and connects the server to your account, which is what switches on artwork and details for anything your folders do not describe. Posters arrive on their own, in the background; the wall filling in with color is the progress bar.
No NAS? A Windows PC can be the server too. The Navarre app for Windows sets it up with Docker Desktop: it prepares everything, handles the one firewall allow, and even warns you if the PC likes to sleep - for watching on that PC and, after that one allow, on your other devices. A PC already running Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin works today as well, and a native Windows build of the Navarre server is on the roadmap.
Already run a server? Keep it. Navarre works with the Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin server you already have - point the apps at it and they configure themselves. Here is exactly what that means today:
| Server | What works today |
|---|---|
| Navarre server | The whole suite: free at home, and the one Anywhere unlock (away-from-home watching, sharing, downloads) reaches everything. Reads the library and metadata you already have, and fetches artwork and details for what they do not describe. |
| Jellyfin | Full support, at home and away: the apps configure themselves against it, and the Anywhere unlock works here. Jellyfin 10.11 and Jellyfin 12, both tested. |
| Emby | Watch free at home on every Navarre app - and the Anywhere unlock works here too, including downloads for the road. |
| Plex | Watch free at home on every Navarre app - browsing, playback, and subtitles against the Plex server you already run. At home only, by design: the Anywhere unlock does not extend to a Plex server. |
Moving from Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin? Your watch history comes with you. From Plex or Emby: connect, preview exactly what would move, then run it - and running it twice writes nothing. From Jellyfin: a careful step-by-step guide moves your people and your history into your new server, with the same preview-first, nothing-written-twice manners. Read the move-in guide.
Navarre is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Plex, Emby, or the Jellyfin project; their names appear here only to describe compatibility.
The suite
What's inside.
The TV app, the desktop app, and the phone app share one library, and now there is a server of our own. Here is what they do.
The living room
Built for the couch, not the desk.
Lean back. A wall of posters fills the screen, and your collection is exactly where you left it - because Navarre keeps your folders the way you filed them. It picks up where you dozed off, cues the next episode before the credits finish, and never once asks you to sit up and reorganize. Your James Bond folder is still a James Bond folder. The way it should be.
Playback
It just plays.
No premium tier. No feature dangled just out of reach. If your device can decode it, Navarre plays it - subtitles, skip-intro, and your music, right on the big screen. It's the stuff other apps make you unlock. Here, it just works.
Beyond video
Every song, every scene, every memory.
Music with a real now-playing screen. A comics reader on every screen - TV, desktop, and phone - for CBZ, CBR, and comic PDFs. Photos and home videos on the same shelf as the movies. Everything you own, in one place.
Setup
Five minutes, not a weekend.
One paste on your NAS or PC, and Navarre takes it from there - finding your media, naming it, showing you what it found, and building your libraries as you watch. If something's wrong, it says so in plain words, with one button that copies the details for support. Get the popcorn ready.
What you never pay for
Free at home. The whole app. Forever.
Everything in this list - the player, the comics, the music, all of it - is free on your own network, forever. No account, no card, no catch. Not a trial, not a demo, not a lite version. The whole app, the day you install it.
The unlock
Anywhere.
Take it with you. One payment takes your library out of the house - the hotel room, the car, a friend's TV, 30,000 feet. Pay it once; it is the only thing Navarre ever charges for. Then your collection goes wherever you do.
- 1Watch away from home
Your phone and your laptop reach your server from anywhere, with no port forwarding, no reverse proxy, and no router surgery.
- 2Share outside the household
Pair a friend's TV with a code. They never get your password, and you can take it back.
- 3Download for the road
Keep a copy on your phone or your PC and watch it with no signal at all. What you downloaded stays yours.
- 4Watch together, in two houses
Coming in 2.1: the same film playing in step in both homes, with the sync controls inside the Navarre apps. Anywhere is the connection that lets the other house reach your server.
- 5Turn it on from the couch
Turn remote access on and off from the TV or the phone. Setting it up on a NAS with no screen attached takes one paste on your phone - the TV passes it over with a code.
Anywhere connects the apps to a Navarre, Jellyfin, or Emby server. It does not extend to a Plex server - at home only, by design.
- Once. Not a subscription, ever.
- Per household, not per device.
- Every future update included.
- What you bought stays bought.
The $19.99 founding price ended with this release, exactly as promised: it held until NAS and Linux server support arrived. If you bought early, you keep everything, forever, at what you paid.
Compatibility
What it runs on.
| Apps | Android TV and Google TV (Shield-class boxes) · Windows 10 and 11 · Android phone |
|---|---|
| Server | Navarre's own server (one container on your NAS or a Linux box), or the Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin server you already run - the table above says exactly what works with each. |
| No server yet | The Navarre server container turns any x86 NAS or Linux box into your server (Intel Quick Sync recommended for smooth transcoding) - or a Windows PC with Docker Desktop (software transcoding; one firewall allow lets your other devices reach it). A PC already running Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin works today; a native Windows Navarre server is on the roadmap. |
| Migrating | Moving from Plex or Emby, connect, preview exactly what would move, then run it - nothing is written twice. Moving from Jellyfin, a step-by-step guide brings your people and watch history across. |
| Network | Nothing to configure. No port forwarding, no reverse proxy, no certificates, no dynamic DNS, no router changes. |
| Formats | Whatever your device can decode. Navarre never gates a codec, a resolution, or an audio format behind payment. |
| Your media | Stays on your server. It never passes through Navarre - our servers handle your purchase, your pairing, and, if you connect your server, artwork and details lookups. Never your films. |
Straight answers
The questions we would ask.
Do I have to run somebody else's server?
Not anymore. Navarre ships its own server: one container on an x86 NAS or Linux box, the app sets it up for you, and the same three apps sign straight into it. It reads the library you already have - your files, plus the artwork and metadata sitting beside them - and once you connect it to your account, it fetches posters, details, and cast photographs for anything your folders do not describe. Never connect it? It works exactly the same; it just fetches nothing. Our library guides show how it reads a folder, and if you already run a server you love - Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin - keep it: Navarre treats it as a first-class home and always will.
Could I just set this up myself for free?
Genuinely, yes. Jellyfin is free and a tunnel is free, and if you enjoy that kind of evening you should do exactly that - our apps still work at home for nothing. What the unlock buys is that nobody has to install a VPN on the TV, that a friend can be added with a code instead of your password, that a device outside your house only ever sees the libraries you allowed, and that when a token expires at month three it heals itself instead of becoming your problem. You are paying to not be the support department.
How does watching from anywhere actually work?
Your server gets its own encrypted web address through your own free Tailscale account. The connection is encrypted end to end and your media never touches our servers. Be aware of what that means: the address exists on the public internet, and it is not a secret, so the passwords on your accounts are what keep strangers out, and devices you pair from away only ever see the libraries you allowed.
Do my other apps still work?
Yes, all of them, exactly as before. Against a Jellyfin server, Navarre is one client among many and your server keeps speaking to every one of them - and the same goes for a Plex or Emby server. Nothing we do locks a file, converts a library, or makes your server ours - and the Navarre server keeps your media in the same open shape on your own disks. If you stop liking us, you delete an app.
Will this become a subscription later?
No. One payment, per household, forever, with every update included. If we ever sell something new, it will be a separate product with its own price, never a fee on what you already bought.
What if Navarre disappears?
At home: nothing changes. The apps keep working against your server with no account and no check-in, and your library is ordinary files in open formats on your own hardware - which is the whole point. Away from home is the part that depends on us, and even then the tunnel runs on your own Tailscale account, so you can keep it yourself.
Is it open source?
The apps are not. Everything they stand on is: your formats, your files, your hardware, and no lock-in of any kind. We publish the source for the open-source components we ship, as their licences require - the full list, with working links, is on our source page.
Honest proof
Real screens. No mock-ups.
This is the software our own family runs every day - the TV, the desktop, the phone, and the server. Reviews go here once real people have written them. We will not invent a number, borrow a logo, or quote a publication that has not tried it.
The films on these screens are in the public domain, or are Blender Foundation open movies shared under Creative Commons Attribution licences: Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream, Cosmos Laundromat, Charge, and Coffee Run (studio.blender.org). The comic page is The Fighting Yank (1946), in the public domain. The music frames show Night Owl by Broke For Free, from Directionless EP, CC BY 3.0. Charade (1963) is in the public domain.
Everything you own, ready to play.
Free at home, forever. One unlock takes it anywhere.
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