Cinero vs Loge Pro

Cinero is a local-first companion app for browsing your own movies and series and controlling playback on Cinero Screen. Pair with a TV on your local network, browse your library, open movie and series details, choose tracks, and start playback from the couch. Cinero can also connect to supported private media sources that you configure. Cinero does not use a Cinero account, advertising SDK, or Cinero-operated analytics backend.

Loge turns the films and series on your own hard drive into a library like a streaming service: with posters, descriptions and resume. On Apple TV, iPhone and iPad. No account, no subscription. You need the free Mac app Loge Pro Server, or a NAS, WebDAV, Jellyfin or Emby. HOW IT WORKS Your films live on a hard drive connected to your Mac. The free Mac app Loge Pro Server scans them and adds posters and descriptions. Apple TV, iPhone and iPad on the same Wi-Fi then show the library by themselves. PLAYS ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU HAVE MKV with DTS audio, old AVI files: Loge plays them without you converting anything first. Where the hardware can decode the picture, it keeps the quality you saved it in. • Files: MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, TS • Video: H.264, HEVC, MPEG-4/XviD, MPEG-2 • Audio: AAC, AC3, E-AC3, DTS, TrueHD, FLAC, MP3 • Subtitles: SRT, ASS/SSA, WebVTT WHAT MAKES MOVIE NIGHT EASY • Resume anywhere: start on the TV, finish in bed on the iPad. • Skip the intro: for series, Loge finds the intro by itself. • Subtitles in your language, straight from the file. Missing ones Loge fetches online on request, with nothing to set up; you pick the languages. • Who is that again? Faces and character names on the detail page. A tap shows where else that person appears in your library. • On Apple Watch you see what is playing and how much is left. To look at, not to control. • No dropouts: if the Wi-Fi hiccups, Loge catches up and keeps playing. • Take the disk with you. Connect it to a Mac at the holiday home and everything is right there, with no rescan. • Wrong poster? Pick the right film on the TV or on the Mac. NO MAC? THAT WORKS TOO If your films are on a NAS, a WebDAV folder or a Jellyfin or Emby server, Loge connects to it directly. Open single files from the Files app. Skipping intros, subtitles from the internet and resuming on another device need the Mac app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up, no tracking, no ads. Loge sends nothing to us. What you watch stays with you. PRICE Try every feature free for 14 days. After that, unlock Loge Pro with a one-time purchase. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and Family Sharing covers everyone at home. The Mac app is free. Posters and descriptions for films come from The Movie Database (free account required), for series from TVmaze. This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb.