FolderVideoPlayer

Open a folder. It plays.

FolderVideoPlayer plays the videos on your NAS straight on your Apple TV. No media server, no account, no subscription. The folder is the playlist.

Get it for Apple TV Free Mac app

Free until 31 Oct 2026, then $1.99 once. No subscription, ever.

FolderVideoPlayer's Home on Apple TV: a big banner of your top-rated videos, then pinned folders shown as pictures from the videos inside them

No media server

Nothing to install on the NAS. The app talks straight to your SMB share: Synology, QNAP, Windows, macOS, Linux, or a folder your Mac already shares.

Fast with 5,000+ videos

Every thumbnail is made once and kept, on the TV and beside your files, so browsing a huge library stays instant.

Nothing leaves home

No accounts, analytics, ads or cloud. The only thing the app talks to is your share, on your own network.

Set up in a minute

  1. Open the appNo sign-up. It looks for shares on your network straight away.
  2. Pick your shareChoose it from the list or type its address. Your password stays in the tvOS Keychain.
  3. Press playPlay a whole folder in one go, or browse it sorted by name, date or size.
The Servers page on Apple TV, with a Synology server in use and a card to add another

Tag it while you watch

Open the tag panel mid-video and the picture waits for you. Find videos later by what you remember, not by a file name you forgot.

Tags are saved in a small .FolderVideoPlayer folder on your own share, so every Apple TV and Mac pointed at it sees the same ones. No sync, no account.

Tagging a video mid-playback on Apple TV: star ratings and a row of tags over the paused picture

A profile for everyone

Each person — or each part of life, Home and Work — gets a tag profile with its own tags, ratings and pinned folders. Make, rename and duplicate them right on the TV.

Switch share or profile from the top of Home in one press. Every share remembers the profile you last used on it, so it always comes back the way you left it.

The Tag profiles page on Apple TV: round cards with each profile's initials, the one in use marked

Picks up where you stopped

Quit halfway, come back days later, and Home leads with it: one press to carry on from the exact spot, even in a 40-hour archive.

A video playing full screen on Apple TV with the playback controls showing

Manage the library on your Mac. Free.

The Mac app reads the same share. Tag in bulk from the keyboard, build smart collections, and let on-device AI suggest tags and transcribe speech. Everything you do shows up on the TV.

Explore the Mac app
FolderVideoPlayer for Mac: tag sidebar, the video playing, and the folder's videos as poster frames

One price. Yours to keep.

Free until 31 Oct

Launch offer. From 1 Nov 2026 it’s a one-time $1.99. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases.

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Apple TV
Apple TV with tvOS 27 or later
Your files
MP4, M4V and MOV, the formats Apple TV plays natively. MKV, WMV and DivX AVI are not played.
A share
Any SMB share on your network. Read access to play; read & write to save tags and thumbnails.
Questions
Read the FAQ or get in touch.