Search your library and online catalogs
Find titles you already have or discover new ones through AniList and TMDB. When you find a series you want, add it directly from search.
A unified media server built to expand
Coming soon
macOS, Windows, Linux and the web
Free and open source
Replace your fragmented media stack with a single, extensible home server
Shows, live TV, manga and books in one library.
Point Caye at your media folders and it matches your files to titles and episodes, pulling in artwork, episode lists, airing dates and summaries.
- Shows, movies and animeTrack seasons and anime episode orders, and skip intros and credits automatically.TMDB, TVDB and AniList
- Live TVBrowse your IPTV playlists and tuners in one channel guide, with catch-up playback and upcoming airings linked to your library.M3U, Xtream Codes and HDHomeRun
- Manga and comicsRead local volumes and online chapters in single pages, two-page spreads or continuous vertical scroll, in either direction.CBZ, CBR and images
- BooksRead EPUB and PDF books with custom fonts and margins, and keep your bookmarks, highlights and notes synced to your account.EPUB, PDF and Open Library
Runs on your laptop, desktop or home server.
The desktop app includes a built-in server for single-machine setups, or you can deploy the standalone binary on a NAS for your whole household.
Pick up where you left off
Pause an episode or close a chapter on your computer and resume right away on your phone. Everyone gets their own history, bookmarks and tracker connections.
Household accounts and guest access
Give everyone at home their own account and choose which libraries or shows they can see. Share an expiring link to watch a movie or series with a friend.
- Watch roomsPlay, pause and seek together across your devices
- Guest linksShare a show or movie with friends for a limited time
- Offline modePause all outside connections and keep your local library playing
Sync your watchlists
Import your watching, planning and completed lists with a preview before anything changes. As you watch or read, Caye keeps your progress in sync automatically.
How Caye compares to Jellyfin and Seanime.
Caye brings your entire collection under one roof, pairing deep anime integration and multi-user household streaming with an open plugin system built to expand to any source
Feature comparison
| Feature | Caye | Seanime | Jellyfin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choosing a server | |||
| Best fit | A shared household server for shows, movies, anime, live TV, manga and books, with built-in readers and release search. | A personal anime and manga app with torrent streaming, local library management and community extensions. | A general home media server with native apps for almost every TV platform, music players and live TV recording. |
| Availability | Coming soon for web and desktop. Native iOS and Android apps are in development. | Available now. The Tenji mobile and TV apps are in public alpha. | Available now, with official and community apps across most devices. |
| Library | |||
| Media | Shows, movies, anime, live TV, manga, comics and books | Anime, manga and local video files | Shows, movies, music, photos, live TV and books |
| Matching | Matches files automatically from filenames and folder structure across TMDB, TVDB, AniList and Open Library, with bulk review for uncertain matches. | Matches anime filenames and folders to your library, with manual matching when needed. | Matches folders and filenames against TMDB out of the box, with TVDB and anime providers available as plugins. |
| Episode numbering | Handles standard seasons, absolute episode numbers and split-cour releases under one series without duplicating folders. | Lists each season, cour and special as its own entry and maps release numbers automatically. | Uses the episode order from your metadata provider, such as aired, DVD or absolute order. |
| Editing metadata | Pick separate providers for episode lists, details and artwork. Any field you edit by hand is preserved when metadata refreshes. | Edit file matches in your anime library. Other metadata editable through plugins. | Edit metadata, re-identify titles by hand and lock fields against refreshes. |
| Downloads and trackers | |||
| Torrents and debrid | Search releases, check debrid caches and pick files from any title page. Download with the built-in torrent client or your own client. | Stream from torrents or debrid services, search anime releases and download with built-in or external clients. | Not built in |
| Missing episodes | See missing episodes across the series you follow, search releases in one click or set auto-download rules. | Tracks aired and upcoming anime episodes and downloads new releases automatically. | Can list missing episodes in a season. Automated downloads use external tools like Sonarr. |
| Tracker sync | Two-way tracker sync with an import preview, per-account connections and automatic mapping across multi-season shows. Saves progress locally when a tracker is offline. | Built-in AniList sync for anime and manga, plus an optional local-only account. | Available through community plugins. |
| Playback | |||
| Choosing a source | Play from local files, torrents, debrid streams or plugins. | Play from local files, torrents, debrid streams or online anime sources. | Plays files from your server libraries. |
| Players | Play in your browser, in the desktop app with libmpv, or in external players like mpv, IINA and VLC with progress tracking. | Web player, desktop libmpv and external players (mpv, IINA, VLC). | Web player, native client apps and Jellyfin Media Player (mpv). |
| Streaming to other devices | Direct play, remuxing and hardware-accelerated transcoding | Direct play and hardware-accelerated transcoding | Direct play, remuxing and hardware-accelerated transcoding |
| Watching together | Watch rooms in the browser or desktop app with synced playback, a shared queue and chat. | Peer-to-peer watch parties between Seanime installs through Nakama. | SyncPlay groups for users on the same server, on supported clients. |
| Reading, live TV and audio | |||
| Manga and comics | Read CBZ, CBR, image folders and online chapters in single pages, two-page spreads or vertical webtoon scroll, in either reading direction. | Read local archives and online manga extensions in paged or vertical scroll modes. | Reads comic archives in the web app and supported clients. |
| Books and light novels | Built-in EPUB and PDF readers with custom fonts, spacing and margins, plus bookmarks, highlights and notes synced to your account. | Not built in | Reads EPUB and PDF books in the web app and supported clients. |
| Live TV | Combines M3U playlists, Xtream Codes and HDHomeRun tuners in one guide, with catch-up playback and upcoming airings shown on title pages. | Not built in | M3U playlists and HDHomeRun tuners with a channel guide and DVR recording. |
| Audio | Future versions | Not built in | Supports music. |
| People and devices | |||
| Accounts | Each user gets their own watch history, reading progress, lists, Home screen and tracker connections, with permissions down to individual titles. | Single-user per install. | Separate accounts for each user, with library permissions and parental controls. |
| Inviting a friend | Share an expiring link to a watch room or to selected titles. Friends can join from a browser without installing Caye. | Connects separate Seanime installs through Nakama to share libraries and watch together. | Create a user account on your server and choose which libraries they can access. |
| Mobile app | Works in any mobile browser today. Native iOS and Android apps are in development. | Tenji app for iOS and Android (public alpha), plus a separate Seanime Server app for hosting on a phone. | Official and community iOS and Android apps, including clients with offline downloads. |
| TV app | Not available yet. | Tenji builds for Android TV and Apple TV (public alpha). | Native apps for Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV and webOS. |
| Running it | |||
| Install | Desktop app with built-in server, or standalone server binary | Desktop app with built-in server, or standalone server binary | Standalone server for PC, NAS or Docker |
| Without internet | Local media keeps playing over your home network when the internet drops, and offline mode lets you pause all outside connections anytime. | Offline mode plays downloaded anime and manga locally, then syncs progress when you reconnect. | Plays local media over your home network without an internet connection. |
| Offline downloads | Offline downloads for mobile devices are in development. | Download anime episodes and manga chapters to your phone in Tenji for offline use. | Download media for offline playback in supported clients like Findroid and Streamyfin. |
| Automation | Automate scheduled tasks, downloads and webhooks with trigger and condition rules, dry runs and full task history. | Auto-download rules for anime, scheduled jobs and plugin hooks. | Scheduled server tasks and webhook plugins. |
| Backups and exports | Daily automated database backups, plus separate exports for your personal history, bookmarks and lists. | Built-in manual backup and restore for your local files. | Built-in server backup and restore. |
| Plugins | TypeScript and JavaScript plugins for new sources, metadata providers and UI pages. Hot reload and permission system. | TypeScript and JavaScript extensions for custom sources, scrapers and UI tweaks. | .NET server plugins installed from a catalog (requires a server restart). |
| AI integration | Optional assistant using your own API key to search your library, fix matches or organize collections. | AI subtitle translation in the player. | Available through third-party plugins and external tools. |
Follow the first release on Discord.
See development builds, test early desktop and server releases and report issues before v1.0 ships.
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