Movie night, minus the mouse.
Finch is a media player for the couch. Plug in your shows and movies, grab a controller, press play. On Linux today, with Windows next.
Every button where your thumbs already are.
Finch was designed on the Steam Deck first, so every screen works with a controller. Dock it, and the same layout scales up to a 4K TV.
More about this: Every button where your thumbs already are.
Ready before you've sat down.
Finch is written in Rust. It opens to your library in under a second, scrolls smoothly, and decodes video in hardware.
4K, HDR, subtitles, the works.
Built on mpv: MKV, MP4, HEVC and AV1, Dolby and DTS audio, styled subtitles and chapter marks.
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Your library sorts itself.
Plug in a drive or point Finch at a network share. Shows, seasons and movies line up on their own, and posters come in if you want them.
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Who's watching tonight?
Everyone keeps their own progress and settings. A kid's profile can have an age limit, a PIN, a daily screen time and a bedtime.
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No accounts. No tracking. No ads.
Your library and history stay on your machine. Every network request is opt-in, and each one goes in a log you can read. Finch is open source under the GPL.
More about this: No accounts. No tracking. No ads.
And much more
- Continue watchingPick up where you stopped, saved every 10 seconds.
- Skip the introOne button skips intros and recaps when the file marks them.
- Next episode countdownRolls on to the next one, or waits if you'd rather.
- Sleep timerStops after this episode or up to 3 hours, then shows a sleeping cat.
- ShuffleA random unwatched episode, then another.
- Hide spoilersPlain tiles for episodes you haven't seen yet.
- Search as you typeWith an on-screen keyboard made for a controller.
- Sync your progressThrough Steam Cloud, Syncthing, Nextcloud or a USB stick.
- Take it with youPortable mode keeps your library on the drive itself.
- More like thisSuggestions from your own library, nobody else's.
- Your buttons, your wayRemap the controls for each profile.
- Make it yoursThemes and accent colors.
Get Finch
Free and open source.
