A control room we host for you, and a small streamer you run next to your files. Sign in from any browser and watch your own collection, wherever you are.
You have a media collection sitting on a hard drive you can only reach from one machine: home videos, personal recordings, files you own outright. A media server turns that drive into your own private streaming service. Browse your collection in a real interface, press play on your phone in another room or your laptop on a trip, and the video streams straight from home. No subscription. No rotating catalogue. No one else's rules.
Movies, shows, and home videos on a disk at home. Not locked inside some app or tied to a subscription.
Watch on your laptop, phone, or TV from any network, just like a streaming service. Except the content is yours.
No monthly fee, no content that disappears next month. Once you own a file, you can watch it forever.
Plex makes you depend on Plex. Pequod splits the job in two and lets you decide who runs each part. Let us host the control room for a zero-setup start, or run the whole thing yourself. Either way, your files never leave home.
The frontend you sign into. Browse every library, see what's playing, manage who has access, and read your stats. Run it on our servers for a zero-setup start, or host it yourself for total ownership.
A small service you install wherever your media lives: a NAS, a home server, a spare laptop. It scans your folders, tells Pequod what you have, and streams it straight to your screen.
With Plex, the cloud is the one part you can never run yourself. Pequod is the opposite: every piece is yours to host. Start on the Pequod Core, then move it onto your own hardware the day you want complete privacy. Same software, no lock-in.
Sign in to Pequod Core. Nothing to install, always up to date. The easiest way to start watching today.
Run Pequod Core on your own box too. Same open-source software, no third parties in the loop. Your accounts, your catalog, your server, end to end.
Use Google or a Pequod account. Your control room is ready before you've installed anything.
One command on the machine where your files live. It shows a claim code; paste it into Pequod to link them.
Your catalog appears in your library within minutes. Stream it from any browser, on any device you own.
Any modern browser, any device: phone, laptop, TV. No app to download, nothing to side-load.
Video streams straight from your Harpoon. Pequod never sees the files, only the titles you choose to list.
Point several Harpoons at your account (a NAS here, a server there) and they merge into one clean catalog.
Uptime, active transcodes, storage, and what's been watched lately. All visible in the control room.
Invite family and friends with owner, manage or watch-only roles. You decide who sees what.
Pequod matches artwork, titles and metadata automatically, so a folder of files becomes a real library.
Sign in now, install a Harpoon when you're ready, and watch your own library from anywhere. Free to begin.