A next-generation media organizer that grows with you.
Cove turns your folders of videos, images, galleries, audio, and text into a fast, searchable library with safe local network sharing. It's free, open source, and runs entirely on your own machine. No account, no cloud.
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- Not limited to one media type. Videos, images, galleries, audio, and text live in one library, connected by the performers, studios, tags, groups, and faces behind them.
- Organizes around real metadata, not just filenames and folders. Easily acquire metadata from metadata servers or AI extensions.
- Deep structure inside videos through segments, sub-videos, and compilations — no duplicating files on disk.
- Browse like a library or scroll like a feed, with grid, list, wall, tagger, feed, and vertical pages for whatever browsing experience you like.
- Extensions are a core part of the app, not an afterthought. Cove is designed to be extendable!
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Find content by whatever you remember or are looking for. Search across everything by title, tag, performer, studio, path, or group. Or add filters to narrow a big library down. Save the searches & filters you like. |
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Tag people, moments, and parts of a video. When a tag only applies to one person or one part of a video, put it exactly there. See who appears in which part of a scene, not just who's in it somewhere. |
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Browse it your way. Grid and list pages for sorting and cleanup; feed and vertical pages for when you just want to watch. Watch later, history, and continue watching let you pick up where you left off. |
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Go beyond flat tagging. Tag groups, dynamic groups that fill themselves based on rules, segments, sub-scenes, and compilations give your library real structure as it grows. |
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Share one library safely. Give each person on your network their own account with roles and permissions that control what they can see and do. Or give someone a share link to specific content. |
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Extend almost anything. Downloaders, scrapers, themes, settings panels, pages, background jobs, API endpoints. If Cove doesn't do something yet, there's a way to add it with extensions. |
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Store all your kinds of content. Store all your types of media in one place: Video, Audio, Galleries, Text files, and the organization surrounding them |
See the full feature tour and more screenshots.
Native app: download for Windows, macOS, or Linux. The app handles first-run setup, and includes the Cove Instance Manager for running separate local libraries from one place.
Docker (all-in-one): the easiest container setup:
Copy the docker-compose.allinone.yml from the docker folder and then simply run:
docker compose -f docker-compose.allinone.yml up -dThen open http://localhost:5073.
Full installation, configuration, and import guides live in the docs.
Cove is built in the open. If you like it and want to help the project, here are the best ways:
- Star this repo. It genuinely helps people discover Cove.
- Join the Discord and tell others about it.
- Contribute financially with a one-time or recurring donation on Open Collective.
- Report Bugs or Request Features by creating new issues.
- Help Improve Documentation on the docs website or in the in-app manual
- Build and share extensions, themes, scrapers, and downloaders. See the extension template repos.
Want to contribute code? Cove can also pay contributors for delivered work. See the Contribution Guide.
- User docs: installing, scanning, organizing, sharing.
- Developer docs: extensions and the API.
- Contribution Guide: how to contribute, the AI policy, and how contributors get paid.
Cove is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.