# Portage: Media Server Player — Download, watch and cast

> Download, watch and cast (iPhone/iPad app by COINiD AB.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/portage-media-server-player/id6816252844 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [COINiD AB](https://appshunter.io/developer/1447953434)
- Category: Entertainment, Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 40 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-07
- Data updated: 2026-10-13

## What is Portage?

Portage is a player and downloader for your own media server — Plex, Emby or Jellyfin — and for video files in any folder.

DOWNLOAD
• Save movies and episodes for offline viewing, in original quality or at a size you choose
• Downloads continue in the background and resume after interruptions
• Your files are visible in the Files app

WATCH
• Play downloads, or stream straight from the server
• Switch audio and subtitle tracks, including the ones embedded in the file
• Picture in Picture, resume where you left off, your library searchable in Spotlight
• Pinch to zoom the picture to fill the screen

CAST
• Chromecast and Google TV
• DLNA TVs and renderers
• Any web browser, even the one in your car — on your network or anywhere, paired with a one-time code
• Scan the code the browser shows, or type it
• Stay in control from your phone: seek, switch tracks, pause

CONVERT
• Turn a file your TV can't play into one it can, right on the device
• Presets for Apple TV, Chromecast and iPhone pick the right codec and container for you
• Conversions checkpoint as they go, so pausing or quitting never loses work

Portage connects to servers you already have access to. It hosts no content and has no account of its own.

Downloading and streaming need a Plex, Emby or Jellyfin server; local folders play without one.

## Is Portage safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Portage.

## Is Portage legit?

Portage: Media Server Player has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Portage is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-13

Casting keeps going when your iPhone loses Wi-Fi, recorded MKVs seek again, and Continue Watching gets a new look.

CAST
• If your iPhone drops off Wi-Fi mid-cast, the TV keeps playing and Portage reconnects to it, showing "Reconnecting to…" until it's back
• Recorded MKV files seek again when cast, including to DLNA TVs
• Your TV decides what it can play: TrueHD, DTS and other formats are tried before anything is converted
• Picking an MKV while connected to a TV plays it on the TV
• Casting large files to a DLNA TV no longer makes Portage quit
• A stream the server drops while casting reopens by itself

WATCH
• Continue Watching shows wide artwork with the poster and the time left
• Detail pages on iPad get a bigger banner, poster and title
• Videos this iPhone can't decode, like AV1 on older models, say so and offer casting instead of failing, and models that decode AV1 play those originals directly
• Stats for nerds now shows memory use for Portage and the Chromecast

FIXES
• Rotating with Search open no longer crashes
• A Plex account with one reachable server is no longer shown as offline
• Converting a file with MP3 audio re-encodes the sound, so the copy isn't silent
• Converting with a preset you didn't change names the file after the preset

### 1.0 — 2026-10-12

No release notes.

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