Rainglass

Everything you watch, in one app.

Films and series from all your servers, your streaming apps and live TV, together on one home screen. Ask its AI anything, and carry on where you left off on your TV or your phone.

Coming soon to Android TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Android phones, iPhone and iPad. Apple TV to follow.

Try the Home screen

Home

What you’re watching comes first, from every server, then picks that follow on from what you watched last.
Movies and Series

Plex, Jellyfin and Emby become one library, with collections, the week’s Top 30 and what’s trending.
A page for every title

Picture and sound formats, ratings, cast, awards, and which of your Plex friends have watched it.
Your apps, above the tabs

Rest on an app and App Peek shows what’s inside it before you open it.
Every room opens from Home

Search, Movies, Series, Live and Apps sit along the top of every page, one press away.

Inside Rainglass

Rainglass’s Home on a TV: a film recommended for you in the hero with its title art, rating and a Play button, and a Trending row of posters below. — **Home.** What you’re watching comes first, from every server, then picks that follow on from what you watched last.

The Movies tab: a Recently Added shelf of films from the library, with an In Cinemas shelf below it. — **Movies and Series.** Plex, Jellyfin and Emby become one library, with collections, the week’s Top 30 and what’s trending.

Tears of Steel’s page: title art, its picture and sound formats, rating, a short plot, Play and round buttons for more, and the cast in a row of portraits. — **A page for every title.** Picture and sound formats, ratings, cast, awards, and which of your Plex friends have watched it.

Favourite apps above the tabs, with Plex’s Continue Watching and Trending opened in a panel below them. — **Your apps, above the tabs.** Rest on an app and App Peek shows what’s inside it before you open it.

Try the Home screen

Continue Watching

Tears of Steel

2012 · Science fiction · 12 m 4K

Scientists and fighters gather in an old church in Amsterdam to replay one moment from the past and stop the robots.

This is Rainglass’s Home, working. Use the arrow keys, swipe across it or tap a title: the top of the screen follows what you pick, the way it does on the TV.

Works with what you already have

Your Plex servers and libraries, your watchlist and Plex Lists, and a profile for each person in a Plex Home.
Jellyfin
Your Jellyfin servers and libraries, signed in once, with where you stopped kept on the server.
Emby
Your Emby servers and libraries, side by side with the rest in one library.
HDHomeRun
Live TV from an HDHomeRun tuner on your home network. Rainglass finds it by itself and adds its channels to Live TV.

Rainglass works with these products; it isn’t made, endorsed or supported by their owners.

Ask Rainglass anything

An AI built into Rainglass. Ask in your own words, out loud or typed: it searches your libraries, channels and guide, explains what’s on screen, tidies your channels and changes settings for you. The AI only ever sees your question.

Intelligent Search
Say what you’re in the mood for, in your own words. It looks through every server, app and channel you have at once, and answers questions as well as searching.
Ask about this
Who’s that? What did I miss? Ask about the film, episode or channel you’re watching, and the answer fits the moment you’re at.
Voice, wherever you are
On Android TV and Google TV, hold Menu on the remote over Home, a film or a live channel, and it’s listening. On Fire TV, type your question.
Settings by asking
“Turn on subtitles.” “Make the text bigger.” “Use Fahrenheit.” It changes the setting there and then, with Undo.
Tidy with AI
Tell it how you like your channels, and it sorts, hides and renames groups. You see every change first, and Undo puts it back.
Your choice of AI
Searching is included, with nothing to set up. For questions about what’s playing, tidying and settings, sign in to OpenRouter for free, use your ChatGPT plan, or add your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google Gemini key, and pick the model.

Ask anything about what’s playing.

On a live channel, an episode or a film: what’s happening, who someone is, what you just missed. Say it or type it. A film waits while you ask; live TV plays on, and its answers draw on the last five minutes of subtitles too.

Intelligent Search as a card dropping from Home’s search button, with a box to search or ask anything and ideas to try, such as Something animated under 90 minutes and Switch to OLED black. — Search drops from the button on Home.

And everything else, in your own words

“Something animated under 90 minutes”: Finds it in every library and app you have. Your matches show at once, and the AI’s suggestions follow.
“Put the news channels first and hide the shopping ones”: Tidies your Live TV channels and groups. Each change is listed before you apply it, and Undo puts everything back.
“Switch to OLED black”: Changes the setting there and then, with Undo.
“News tomorrow morning”: The guide understands times: tonight, tomorrow morning, live now.

Searching works with no setup, using the AI included with Rainglass. A free OpenRouter sign-in, a ChatGPT plan or your own key adds more searches, questions about what’s playing, tidying and settings by asking. On your computer, your own AI assistant can run Rainglass Server too.

Stages

Home’s Highly Anticipated stage: a new series’ title art and synopsis over its backdrop, with a shelf of upcoming films and series below, each with its date. — **Highly Anticipated.** Films about to open in your cinemas and new series, each with its date.

Home carries on below Continue Watching.

Switch Stages on and each row after it sits on a stage: the title you rest on fills the screen behind its shelf, with the rows above and below still in view. Scroll on and one stage hands over to the next.

Leave it off for plain rows, which are quicker on a streaming stick.

Home’s Recommended for You stage: Spring’s title art, 4K, HDR10 and 5.1 over its backdrop, with a shelf of films from the library below. — **Recommended for You.** Picks worked out from what you’ve watched and what’s on your watchlist.

Live TV rows too
With Live TV set up, rest on a channel and its live picture plays on the stage behind it.
Movies and Series as well
The same stages carry the Top 30 and Recently Added, one shelf at a time.

At a glance

Coast LeagueLive · 67′

Harbour TownHAR2 – 1NTHNorthgate

Matchday 8 · Kick-off 15:00

On the ticker · 1 of 2

Live HAR v NTH67′

Live BAY v FORHT

Spoiler-free: off

Brighton

13°

Sunny H 15° L 9°

Now13° 19:0012° 20:0011° 21:0010° 22:0010°

Mon8°14°

Tue9°13°

Wed7°13°

Thu6°15°

Weather from MET Norway

Sunday 25 October

19:30The Evening NewsRainglass News
19:45TomorrowNorthgate v BaysideCoast League · Coast Sport
21:00TueThe LighthouseRainglass Drama

The corner of Home keeps the score, the weather and your week.

Rest on one and its card opens.

Scores: Your teams and competitions on a ticker beside Search, live while they play. A match has its own card with a timeline of goals and cards, and Spoiler-free is there for when you’d rather not know yet.
Weather: Your own town: now, the next few hours and the days ahead, in Celsius or Fahrenheit, with the sky drawn as it is.
Score alerts: While a film or episode plays, a small card drops in when someone scores, then goes. Choose your teams or every live match. It stays quiet while Spoiler-free is on.
Coming up: Today’s date and the week ahead: the reminders you set in the guide and your teams’ next matches, with the channel each one is on.

Keeping track

Libraries, watchlists, your own rows and where you stopped.

One watchlist, or several: Pick Plex’s watchlist, one of your Plex Lists or Trakt’s, and Home follows it. Pick All to use the lot. Hold OK on a title to put it on a particular watchlist, or take it off one.
Sort and filter: Sort and filter a watchlist by genre, year, age rating, runtime, score, released or not yet, and whether you can play it on your servers or in your apps.
A card for every library: Press Left at the start of a shelf for each server’s libraries, Live TV’s films and series, and your watchlist.
Your rows, your order: The same card lists every row on the page by name, so you can jump straight to one. Press Edit to hide a row or move it up or down; the page changes behind it as you go.
More to browse: Movies has Popular, Top Rated and In Cinemas. Series has Popular, Top Rated, Airing Today and New Series & Seasons. The charts are filled from your own libraries, and what’s coming shows its date.
Whole seasons: Mark a season watched or unwatched in one go. Trakt gets the history too.
Back where you stopped: Press Back, then Resume, and it starts where you left off, even before your server has the news. If the connection dropped, the report is sent again once it’s back.
What your friends are saving: The films and series your Plex friends have added to their watchlists, and who has watched a title, as their privacy settings allow.

A player that respects the film

Rainglass Player plays the films and episodes in your libraries, and Live TV runs on the same engine.

Intelligent SyncFrame rate matched · 23.976 Hz

Intelligent Sync

The TV switches to the film’s own frame rate before it starts, so slow pans don’t judder.

A small card says what changed, then gets out of the way.

AudioEnglish · 5.1

Intelligent DialogueOn

SubtitlesOff

Intelligent Dialogue

Brings quiet dialogue up and sudden loud moments down, so voices stay clear.

Once on, it stays on until the film or episode ends or you close the player.

Skip intro

Skip the recap, intro and credits

From your server’s markers, the file’s chapters, or what earlier episodes had.

10 seconds back and 30 forward, exactly.

Tears of SteelEnds at 22:41

7:0912:14

When it ends

The player shows the time it will finish if you keep watching.

The time in this panel comes from your own clock.

English · Dolby AtmosTo your receiver

English · DTS-HD MA 7.1To your receiver

Commentary · StereoDecoded here

Sound as it was mixed

Atmos and DTS:X go to your soundbar or receiver untouched.

Formats the TV can’t play are decoded on the box.

Up NextS1 · E3 · LlamigosPlay now · 8s

The next episode, ready

It loads in the background while the credits roll, so it starts at once.

You set the countdown: 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds.

Live TV

A playlist’s page: updated today, 4 channels, no drops this week, with Update now and Change link. — Your own sourcesA tuner, a provider login or a playlist linkLive TV comes with no channels of its own. Add a tuner on your home network, your provider’s login or a playlist link. Each playlist says what it holds, when it last updated and how many drops it had this week.

TV Guide settings: opens on, play last channel, channel numbers, dim past programmes, catch-up icon, quality marks and picture-in-picture, as switches. — A guide that behavesIntelligent Guide Matching, and your own habitsThe same channel in HD, 4K or another group shares one working guide, even when a playlist spells its name differently. You choose what the guide dims, numbers and marks.

Live TV’s guide: ten channels with their numbers and logos, what’s on now with a red line at the current time, and what’s next. — Part of RainglassGuide, recordings, reminders, catch-upLive TV is a tab of Rainglass, not another app: one guide, one set of favourites, recordings you can watch while they record. It opens on the guide or your last channel, whichever you prefer.

Intelligent features

Intelligent Search
Say what you’d like to watch, in your own words, across every server, app and channel.
Intelligent Connect
A channel that stalls puts itself right, or moves to the next best copy.
Intelligent Guide Matching
Every copy of a channel, in HD, 4K or another group, shares one working guide.
Intelligent Sync
The TV switches to the film’s own frame rate before it starts, so pans don’t judder.
Intelligent Dialogue
Brings quiet dialogue up and sudden loud moments down, so voices stay clear.
Intelligent Setup
Reads the box, the screen and the sound system, and fills in the defaults for them.

Intelligent Connect

When a channel stalls, it puts itself right.

It finds out why, reconnects, and moves to the next best copy of the channel when one keeps failing. Set it to Automatic and you won’t need to touch the remote.

Finds out why
It checks your internet, your provider’s service and your subscription side by side, and shows each answer as it comes.
Reconnects by itself
Meanwhile it keeps reconnecting, and picks up the moment your internet is back.
Moves to the next best copy
When a channel keeps stopping, it switches to the same channel from another of your playlists, or the next quality down. Choose Automatic, or answer Don’t ask again once, and it happens without a key press.
Remembers what worked
The copy that held is the one it tries first next time.
Films and episodes too
When one can’t play, the next best copy starts from where it stopped. Or pick one yourself from Play from…, each copy listed with its picture and sound.
Knows when it’s the TV
“This TV is dropping frames; the stream is fine.” A connection report with a speed test is ready to show your provider.

Intelligent Setup

To begin

Rainglass reads the box, the screen and the sound system, and fills in the defaults for them: the graphics level, frame-rate matching, which formats go to your receiver.

Rainglass’s Settings: coloured sections on the left with Live TV chosen, its groups beside them, and a living room behind.

Connect Plex, Jellyfin or Emby, or skip it and use your apps. Settings is a living room that turns to each section as you move down the list.

Three levels of Settings at once: the section icons, the Live TV list, and the TV Guide’s switches in a glass panel.

Three levels deep at most

Every setting is explained in plain words.

From then on

On Android TV and Google TV, the Home button opens Rainglass. Your profile picture opens a card with the network, display size, theme, sleep timer, running apps, and both Rainglass’s settings and the TV’s own.

Settings with a card in the corner: a QR code, an address and a six-digit code for a phone or computer, over the Home screen section.

Any time

You can open Settings on your phone or computer too. Scan the code on the TV, or type its address and the six-digit code; it only works on your home network.

One Rainglass, every screen

TV: Android TV or Google TV with Android 8 or newer. That’s most Android TV and Google TV boxes and TVs from 2018 on, including the NVIDIA Shield and Chromecast with Google TV.
Fire TV: Fire TV sticks, cubes and TVs on Fire OS 7 or 8. The newest sticks, from the Fire TV Stick 4K Select on, use a different system and can’t install it.
Android: Phones and tablets with Android 8 or newer.
iPhone: iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or newer: iPhone XS, XR and later, and most iPads from 2018 on.
Apple TV: To follow.
Computer: For Rainglass Server: a Windows 10 or 11 PC, a Mac with macOS 11 or newer, most Linux computers, or a NAS that runs Docker.
Any box: Rainglass adapts to your box: quick on a basic Fire TV Stick, and at its most beautiful on a powerful box like the NVIDIA Shield, with frosted glass and soft blur. Older and cheaper boxes get a lighter look by themselves, so they stay quick.

A living room at night, rain on the window, a television’s glow.

Rainglass on iPhone, Home: the mark at the top, a new series on the stage with More info, and a card offering to pair with your TV, over rain on a window at night.

Live TV on iPhone: favourite channels, each with what’s on now, how far in it is and what’s next.

On your phone

Rainglass for Android phones, iPhone and iPad brings Live TV and the films and series on your servers, with a player that skips intros and recaps and lines up the next episode.

Pair it with your TV once, and your playlists, favourites and where you stopped stay the same on both. On iPad, the tabs become a sidebar.

Shown on iPhone, with a made-up demo playlist.

Everything in step

Home screen, media player, Live TV, phone app and media server, made to work as one. Start a film on the TV, finish it on your phone, and your lists, channels and history follow you.

Cross-device sync
Pair a phone, a tablet or another TV once, with the code on the screen. Your playlists and their logins, favourite channels, lists and where you stopped stay the same on all of them, at home or away. It’s sealed on your device before it leaves, so our server can’t read it.
Trakt sync
On the TV, sign in with a code from your phone. Trakt’s watchlist joins Plex’s, what you watch goes into your Trakt history as you watch it, a whole season can be marked in one go, and your Trakt plays shape what’s recommended.
Intelligent Remote Later
Your phone finds Rainglass on the TV at home and offers to be its remote: the buttons, a keyboard for searches and sign-ins, and Play on TV from your phone. Until then, Settings shows a code that opens a remote in your phone’s browser.

What works where

Swipe the table sideways for phones and Rainglass Server.

What Rainglass can do on each kind of device
Feature	Android TV and Google TV	Fire TV	Phones and tablets	Rainglass Server
Replaces your TV’s home screen	Yes	Opens from Fire TV’s home	No	No
Your films and series from Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Rainglass Server	Yes	Yes	Yes	Shares them
Your streaming apps on Home, with App Peek	Yes	Yes	No	No
Live TV: channels, guide, favourites and reminders	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Recording live TV	Yes	Yes	No	No
Skip intros, recaps and credits; the next episode lined up	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Intelligent Search and the other Intelligent features	Yes	Yes	No	No
Weather, scores and what’s coming up, in Home’s corner	Yes	Yes	No	No
Trakt: watchlist, history and recommendations	Yes	Yes	Later	No
Cross-device sync: playlists, favourites and where you stopped	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Use your phone as the remote	In your phone’s browser	In your phone’s browser	Intelligent Remote, later	No
Watch your library away from home	Yes	Yes	Yes	With an invite code

Rainglass Server

Rainglass Server shares your films and series from a Windows PC, a Mac, a Linux machine or a NAS with every TV at home. The TV finds it by itself and offers to connect. Choose Allow on the server, and that’s it.

Family in another home can watch too: give them your server’s address and an invite code, and their TV connects over the internet with nobody choosing Allow. On a NAS or a server, it runs without a window, in Docker or as a service.

Files play as they are, with nothing converted, so 4K, HDR and Dolby Vision reach the TV untouched. Posters and plots come from TMDB.

Coming soon, free

Windows 10 and 11, macOS 11 or newer on Apple silicon or Intel, and Docker for a NAS. On Linux, an AppImage for most systems and a .deb package for Ubuntu 22.04 or later and Debian 12.

Rainglass Server’s window: three shared folders, Films, Series and Home videos, with how many films and series each holds.

Share D:\Films and D:\TV with Rainglass, then let the living room TV in.

Shared D:\Films as filmsrainglass-server folders add "D:\Films" --kind films

Shared D:\TV as seriesrainglass-server folders add "D:\TV" --kind series

On the TV, open Rainglass and go to Settings › Library › Manage servers › Rainglass Server. What’s the six-digit code it shows?

482913

Let the TV inrainglass-server allow 482913

The living room TV is connected. It has 412 films and 38 series, and the posters are still arriving.

Set up by your AI assistant

Rainglass Server has its own command line and MCP server, so the AI assistant on your computer can set it up and look after it for you. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Cursor, VS Code and others.

Connect yours from Rainglass Server’s Settings with one click, then ask in your own words: share a folder, let a new TV in, fix a film that picked up the wrong poster. It asks you for the code on the TV before it lets one in.

The assistant reaches only the Rainglass Server on its own computer. Nothing on your network can use that connection.

Get Rainglass

Android TV, Google TV, Android phones and tablets

Google Play

On Android 8 or newer. A subscription with a free trial, and no ads.

Coming soon
iPhone and iPad

App Store

On iOS 17 or newer, paired with your TV in a moment.

Coming soon
Fire TV sticks, cubes and TVs

From our website

Amazon’s store doesn’t list home screens, so Rainglass for Fire TV comes straight from our website: type a short code into the Downloader app.

Coming soon
Apple TV

App Store

Rainglass on Apple TV, in step with your other screens.

To follow
Windows, Mac, Linux and NAS

Rainglass Server

Share your films and series with every TV at home. Docker for a NAS.

Coming soon, free

Google Play is a trademark of Google LLC. App Store and Apple TV are trademarks of Apple Inc. Amazon and Fire TV are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

Questions

Does Rainglass come with films or channels?

No. Rainglass is a home screen and media player. It shows what’s on your own servers, in your apps and in the sources you add. It doesn’t provide, host or distribute content.

Which TVs and boxes does it run on?

Android TV and Google TV on Android 8 or newer, and Fire TV devices on Fire OS 7 or 8. Fire TV sticks on Vega OS, the 4K Select and newer, can’t run Android apps.

Will the Home button open Rainglass?

On Android TV and Google TV, yes. On Fire TV, Rainglass opens from Fire TV’s own home screen, and Fire TV keeps the Home button for itself.

Do I need Plex, Jellyfin or Emby?

No. Without a server, Home is built from your apps, App Peek and the trending rows, and the Live tab shows your channels once you add a tuner, a provider login or a playlist. For films on a computer or a NAS, Rainglass Server is free for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Can my AI assistant set up Rainglass Server?

Yes. In Rainglass Server, go to Settings › Manage with an AI assistant and choose Connect beside yours: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf or the Claude app. Any other assistant can run rainglass-server guide and follow it. See how it works.

Does it work with Trakt?

Yes, on the TV; the phone apps will follow. Sign in with a code from your phone: Trakt’s watchlist sits beside Plex’s, what you watch is added to your Trakt history as you watch it, and your Trakt plays shape what’s recommended. Everything in step.

Is there a subscription?

Yes. Rainglass will have a subscription with a free trial and no ads. Rainglass Server is free.

Is there a phone app?

Yes. Rainglass for Android phones, iPhone and iPad pairs with your TV, so your playlists, favourites and where you stopped stay the same on both. See it on iPhone. The Apple TV version follows.

Rainglass

Inside Rainglass

Try the Home screen

Works with what you already have

Ask Rainglass anything

Intelligent Search

Ask about this

Voice, wherever you are

Settings by asking

Tidy with AI

Your choice of AI

And everything else, in your own words

Stages

Live TV rows too

Movies and Series as well

At a glance

Keeping track

A player that respects the film

Intelligent Sync

Intelligent Dialogue

Skip the recap, intro and credits

When it ends

Sound as it was mixed

The next episode, ready

Live TV

Intelligent features

Intelligent Search

Intelligent Connect

Intelligent Guide Matching

Intelligent Sync

Intelligent Dialogue

Intelligent Setup

Intelligent Connect

Finds out why

Reconnects by itself

Moves to the next best copy

Remembers what worked

Films and episodes too

Knows when it’s the TV

Intelligent Setup

To begin

Next

Three levels deep at most

From then on

Any time

One Rainglass, every screen

On your phone

Everything in step

Cross-device sync

Trakt sync

Intelligent Remote Later

What works where

Rainglass Server

Set up by your AI assistant

Get Rainglass

Questions