For everyone who wished Infuse ran on Windows or Linux.
If you can name it, it plays.
Every container and codec your library throws at it. Plex and Infuse set the bar for beautiful libraries; Fenaki brings that bar to Windows and Linux.
Point it at a folder and watch the pipeline run: scan your files, extract the basics, then dress each title with covers, trailers and scores. Open one for the full picture, and press play.
01 / Blueprint · we scan your files.
02 / Metadata · we analyze and extract the basics.
Fenaki walks your folders and filenames first. No import ritual, no library to build by hand. It reads locally — only fixes to mislabeled titles come back, so it names things better each time.
It probes every file and pulls the basics: title, year, runtime, plus honest file facts like container, codec and resolution.
Then it dresses each title with covers, trailers and scores, so the grid reads like a shelf, not a spreadsheet.
Open one and the full picture resolves: ratings, genres, cast and synopsis, then our own Quality grade from S to F. One honest score, not a wall of badges.
Press play and the film starts. The player bar is the last thing between you and the movie.
Script it, ask it, automate it, and type play to open the player. The CLI, API and agent hooks are coming soon, so this is a preview, not a promise.
A gentle giant rabbit finds his peaceful day ruined when three bullying rodents torment the forest, so he sets aside his kind nature and plans an elaborate revenge.
Directed bySacha Goedegebure
SQuality gradeS–FGraded from resolution, HDR, source, audio, codec and bitrate.
connected: mcp (stdio) · your agents can ask for movie night.
$ fenaki play "Sintel"
now playing · Sintel · opening player…
Sintel
0:000:00
An illustrated six-beat tour of the Fenaki library: a blueprint wireframe scanned for files; titles and file facts etched onto the glass; poster covers with scores and trailers; an expanded metadata card for the featured film, listing title, year, duration, producer, IMDb and TMDb ratings, genres, overview, director, quality grade, resolution, audio and codec; then playback; then a coming-soon terminal where the CLI scans, recommends, connects to an MCP server and opens the player.
The filename classifier knows quality, versions, multi-part releases and disc folders. mpv does the rest.
Beautiful by default
A dark poster grid, light and dark themes that follow your OS, and Netflix-style detail heroes.
Your library, organised
Movies, shows, collections, franchise bundling, favourites and your own custom lists.
Subtitles on demand
Search and download from OpenSubtitles, cached per title, with your language preference remembered.
Skip the boring parts
Skip Intro, Recap and Credits, with optional auto-skip and auto-play-next.
Every source
Local folders, SMB shares, Jellyfin, Dropbox and Google Drive, with OneDrive, Emby, Plex, network protocols and more on the roadmap.
Synced on your terms
Settings, watch state and lists sync through a folder you choose: Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, a NAS. Never a mandatory cloud. Full profile sync is in progress.
soon
For nerds, too
CLI, headless daemon, MCP server. Power tools for power users.
next release
Fenaki
feh-nah-kee
1833. A disc of painted frames spins behind a slotted mirror, and the eye is deceived into seeing motion.
In 1833 the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau built the phenakistoscope (feh-nuh-KISS-tuh-skohp): a disc painted with sequential frames, pierced with slits, spun before a mirror. Look through the slits at the reflection and still pictures move.
It was the first machine to trick the eye into seeing motion. Its name means deceptive view in Greek, and it is the ancestor of film, cartoons, and GIFs.
Every film since has been a beautiful deception. Fenaki plays them all.
You are not the product.
Ethical, contextual ads: matched to the film, never to you. No personal data is used or stored.
No account, no mandatory cloud. Your library lives in a local SQLite file on your machine.
Free is real software with real limits. Fenaki+ is the one paid tier.
Paid extras only cover what costs money to run: shared API keys, a faster cache, the hosted service. Site analytics are cookieless and load only if you opt in.
Free forever. A paid tier, later.
Free
€0free forever
The full app, with real limits.
Local libraries
Slower indexing
No recommendations
No syncing
Contextual ads
Real software with real limits. Forever.
Fenaki+ coming soon
€4.99/month
€49.99 /year billed annually
Full speed and the good stuff.
No video ads
Full speed indexing
Recommendations
Syncing
Hosted service
The hosted parts that cost money to run. Not launched yet.
Fenaki is alpha software (0.2.0). The repo isn't public yet and there's no public release feed, so there is nothing to download from this site. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when builds ship.
Yes. Fenaki is alpha software (0.2.0). The repo isn’t public yet and there’s no public release feed; “Join the alpha” puts you on the waitlist to be notified when builds ship.
Is it free?
Yes. The app is free, with real limits. Fenaki+ is the one paid tier, and it covers the hosted parts that cost money to run.
Do I need anything else installed?
mpv and yt-dlp today; the embedded in-app player is landing next release.
Where does my data live?
A local SQLite library in your data folder. No account, no mandatory cloud.
Does it need a TMDb key?
Optional; without one, TV metadata falls back to TVMaze.
Is it legal?
It plays your files. Subtitle and metadata services are third-party and opt-in.
Jellyfin, Plex, or Infuse?
Jellyfin now; Emby and Plex on the roadmap. Infuse is Apple-only, but if you love it there, Fenaki is that spirit, built Windows and Linux first.
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