ShowShark

ShowShark / Product tour

See your media become your streaming service.

Explore the native ShowShark Player on Apple devices and the Mac Server behind it, organized by task.

ShowShark Player

One native app for everything you watch and listen to

Browse your own library on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro—at home, remotely, or offline.

Player story 1

Browse, discover, and search

Move through movies, TV shows, physical locations, recent additions, and powerful library or filename searches without hunting through streaming-service menus.

ShowShark Player Discover screen with recommendations and recently added movies, TV shows, and music.
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Discover recommendations and recent additions

ShowShark Player browsing a poster grid of movies in a personal media library.
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Browse your complete movie library

ShowShark Player browsing a poster grid of TV shows from a personal media server.
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Browse TV shows by artwork

ShowShark Player browsing media by its folder, drive, or library location.
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Navigate by familiar media locations

ShowShark Player library search with media totals, filters, and genre shortcuts.
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Search titles, people, and genres

ShowShark Player searching the filenames available from the connected Mac media server.
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Find the exact file when you need it

Player story 2

The complete movie experience

ShowShark turns a movie file into a polished title page with artwork, synopsis, cast, genres, related movies, visual seeking, downloads, and playback controls.

ShowShark Player movie detail page with artwork, synopsis, cast, genres, playback, favorite, and download controls.
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Rich artwork, metadata, cast, and controls

ShowShark Player showing similar movie recommendations beneath a movie detail page.
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Explore similar titles in your library

ShowShark Player displaying visual timeline thumbnails for navigation through a movie.
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Jump through a movie with visual thumbnails

ShowShark Player playback screen with video quality, direct playback, remuxing, transcoding, audio, and subtitle choices.
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Control quality, audio, and subtitles

Player story 3

TV seasons and episodes that stay put

Open a complete series, move between seasons and episodes, discover related shows, and resume playback without wondering whether a streaming license expired.

ShowShark Player detail page for The A-Team with series artwork, description, and controls.
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Open a complete TV series

ShowShark Player showing seasons and episodes available for The A-Team.
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Move through seasons and episodes

ShowShark Player showing similar TV series related to The A-Team.
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Find related shows you already own

ShowShark Player episode detail page with a large still image, episode metadata, description, and playback controls.
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See details for an individual episode

ShowShark Player displaying visual timeline thumbnails for navigation through a TV episode.
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Navigate an episode visually

ShowShark Player playback choices for a TV episode, including quality, audio, subtitle, remux, and transcode options.
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Choose the best playback path for each device

Player story 4

Your music library belongs here, too

Browse artists, open albums, and play individual tracks from the same private server that holds your movies and shows.

ShowShark Player artist page for Imagine Dragons with artist artwork and available albums.
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Browse an artist and their albums

ShowShark Player album page for Smoke and Mirrors with album artwork and track list.
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Open an album and choose a track

Player story 5

YouTube, podcasts, cameras, and more

ShowShark goes beyond a traditional movie server with video channels, YouTube subscriptions, podcasts, Internet Radio, ONVIF and RTSP camera feeds, photo channels, and IPTV.

ShowShark Player Channels overview for video, music, photos, YouTube, podcasts, Internet Radio, cameras, and IPTV.
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Every supported media type in one place

ShowShark Player browsing custom video channels provided by the Mac media server.
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Browse custom video channels

ShowShark Player displaying subscribed YouTube channels from a personal media server.
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Keep YouTube subscriptions beside your library

ShowShark Player showing videos and live content from the NASA YouTube channel.
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Open videos and live YouTube content

ShowShark Player browsing podcast subscriptions with cover artwork.
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Browse podcast subscriptions

ShowShark Player podcast page for Hank the Cowdog with cover artwork and an episode list.
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Choose an episode from a podcast

ShowShark Player showing a grid of live ONVIF and RTSP IP camera feeds.
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View ONVIF and RTSP cameras together

Player story 6

Organize what is next and revisit what came before

Build playlists across your collection and use history to return quickly to media you recently watched or listened to.

ShowShark Player Playlists screen organizing personal media into custom collections.
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Build playlists from your own media

ShowShark Player History screen showing recently played media.
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Return to recently played media

ShowShark Server

A Mac media server you can understand at a glance

Add the media and sources you care about, keep the library healthy, pair remote devices, and let ShowShark handle streaming to every Player app.

Server story 1

Connect and maintain your library

Point ShowShark at local folders, external drives, or SMB/NAS shares. The Server scans in place, enriches the library, detects intros, caches thumbnails, and reports its progress.

ShowShark Server Locations screen configuring folders for movies, TV shows, music, pictures, YouTube, and other media.
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Add folders, drives, and network locations

ShowShark Server Library screen with media totals, scan status, intro detection, thumbnail caching, cleanup, and maintenance controls.
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Scan, enrich, and maintain the library

Server story 2

Manage every channel and live source

The Channels screen provides one inventory for video, music, photos, YouTube, podcasts, Internet Radio, ONVIF and RTSP cameras, and IPTV.

ShowShark Server Channels screen managing custom video and music channels.
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Manage video and music channels

ShowShark Server Channels screen managing photo, YouTube, podcast, and Internet Radio sources.
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Manage photos, YouTube, podcasts, and radio

ShowShark Server Channels screen managing ONVIF and RTSP cameras plus IPTV sources.
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Manage IP cameras and IPTV sources

Server story 3

Create video, music, playlist, and photo channels

Turn folders, saved playlists, albums, and photo collections into browsable channels that appear consistently across your Apple devices.

ShowShark Server form for creating a custom video channel from personal media.
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Start a custom video channel

ShowShark Server advanced options for configuring a custom video channel.
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Finish the video channel configuration

ShowShark Server creating a video channel from a saved playlist.
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Create a video playlist channel

ShowShark Server selecting and configuring content for a video playlist channel.
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Choose the playlist content

ShowShark Server form for creating a custom music channel.
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Start a custom music channel

ShowShark Server options for selecting and configuring a custom music channel.
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Choose the music channel content

ShowShark Server creating a music channel from a saved playlist.
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Turn a music playlist into a channel

ShowShark Server form for creating a photo channel from a personal picture library.
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Create a channel for photo collections

Server story 4

Add YouTube, podcasts, radio, and IPTV

Bring recurring online sources into the same private interface as your local collection, including YouTube subscriptions, podcast feeds, Internet Radio, and IPTV playlists.

ShowShark Server form for adding a YouTube channel subscription.
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Subscribe to a YouTube channel

ShowShark Server form for adding a podcast subscription from its feed.
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Add a podcast feed

ShowShark Server form for adding an Internet Radio station and its stream.
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Add an Internet Radio station

ShowShark Server form for adding an IPTV subscription and program guide.
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Connect an IPTV subscription

ShowShark Server form for adding an IPTV playlist as a media source.
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Add an IPTV playlist directly

Server story 5

Discover ONVIF cameras or add an RTSP stream

Let ShowShark discover compatible IP cameras on your network, select the camera and profile you want, and make those live RTSP feeds available in the Player app.

ShowShark Server discovering ONVIF IP cameras and their RTSP capabilities on a local network.
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Discover ONVIF cameras on the network

ShowShark Server configuring an ONVIF camera profile and RTSP stream for playback.
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Select and configure the RTSP camera stream

Server story 6

Pair remote devices and create profiles

Connect a Player away from home using a short pairing code, review and edit connected devices, and keep libraries personal with individual profiles.

ShowShark Server Devices screen listing paired local and remote Apple devices.
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Review every paired device

ShowShark Server displaying a short code for pairing a remote Apple device.
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Pair a remote device with a short code

ShowShark Server settings for editing a paired device and its connection details.
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Edit a paired device

ShowShark Server Profiles screen with personal and kids profiles plus library statistics.
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Create personal and kids profiles

Server story 7

Control metadata providers and see server details

Configure the services ShowShark uses to enrich the library, then review the running Server version and system information from one place.

ShowShark Server Providers screen for configuring movie, TV, music, and other metadata services.
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Configure metadata and content providers

ShowShark Server About screen with application version and system information.
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Review Server and system information

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