Your own streaming service.
It just works.

No. If you can install a Mac app, you can run Lunaris. It handles the parts that used to take Docker, the command line, and a free weekend, so there's little to set up before you're watching.

Under the hood Lunaris runs the same battle-tested open-source tools you'd pick yourself. The difference is it installs, wires together, secures, updates, and repairs them for you as a native Mac app, instead of handing you a compose file and a wiki. You get the power of the full stack without becoming its sysadmin.

Yes. It's standard Plex or Jellyfin and the usual *arr apps underneath, so all of their own settings are right there for you to change. Lunaris manages the plumbing and keeps everything healthy, it doesn't lock you out of the tools or hide them behind a wall.

Plex Pass is one piece. It plays your library beautifully, but it doesn't find, download, organize, or VPN-protect anything, and it doesn't set the whole system up for you. Lunaris configures and runs the entire stack (Plex or Jellyfin included) and keeps it healthy. Plex is the screen. Lunaris is everything behind it. Worth knowing: Plex now charges for streaming your library away from home, so if fully-free matters, pick Jellyfin in the wizard — remote streaming there costs nothing.

A Mac running macOS 13 or newer, and that's it to browse, organize, and stream. If you want Lunaris to download for you, you bring a ProtonVPN subscription (around $5/month) — Lunaris walks you through connecting it during setup and never lets downloads run outside it. Support for Mullvad and other WireGuard providers is coming; for now the setup wizard takes ProtonVPN. You can also skip the VPN at setup and add one later.

Yes. The downloader is sealed inside the VPN, so its traffic only leaves your Mac through the encrypted tunnel. If that tunnel drops, the kill switch cuts the downloader off the network — it stops instead of falling back to your real connection. On by default, nothing to configure. And you can save a backup provider: switch with one click, or let Lunaris switch automatically when the tunnel stays down.

That's the part Lunaris is built to handle on its own. It recovers most issues automatically: restarting crashed services, recovering stalled downloads, failing over if the VPN drops. For anything it can't fix alone, you can connect your own AI (Lunaris is an MCP server) to read status and logs and restart what's stuck, and founder support comes with early access.

Yes. Lunaris ships as an MCP server, so Claude Desktop or any app that speaks the Model Context Protocol can connect straight to your stack: read live status, pull service logs with secrets scrubbed out, and restart a stuck service. The connection is local to your Mac. No port, no token, nothing exposed to the network, and no path for the AI to touch your media.

Yes — that's a favorite setup. Turn on 'Start Lunaris at login' and remote access, and a Mac mini in a closet runs the whole stack unattended. Lunaris serves its own status page on your home network, so you check on it (and restart anything stuck) from your phone or laptop. Plex, Seerr, and the rest are already reachable from any browser in the house.

Yes to both, right from first-run setup. External drives are a one-click pick, and a NAS (Synology, TrueNAS, anything speaking SMB) connects with four fields on the same screen — your password goes in the Mac's keychain, Lunaris mounts the share itself and reconnects it after reboots. The smart part is the split: your movies and shows live on the share, while the databases that need a fast local disk stay on the Mac. And if the storage isn't reachable, Lunaris refuses to start the stack rather than quietly rebuilding your library on the wrong disk.

Yes. Lunaris is a tool, like a web browser or a torrent client. It doesn't host, provide, or point you to any content. What you download is your responsibility, and plenty of people run stacks like this for fully legal libraries: discs they've ripped, public-domain films, DRM-free purchases, and content from legitimate Usenet providers.

Nothing happens to your library. You pay once, there's nothing to cancel, and your files live on your own drive in standard formats. If you ever remove Lunaris, your media and the underlying apps stay exactly where they are. You're never renting access to your own movies.

Lunaris is a native Mac app, signed and notarized by Apple, and it ships as a universal binary: Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, and newer) and Intel Macs both run it, on macOS 13 or newer. Apple Silicon is the smoothest experience, especially when streaming to several devices at once. It's built for the Mac, not a port — and it doesn't run on Windows or Linux.

No catch. $29 is the price for the first 100 licenses, one-time, with the app and every future update included — no subscription, no account to create. When the hundredth license sells, the price becomes $59. The only catch is buying early.

Almost nothing. The app checks your license standing and looks for updates against our server — that's the whole conversation. No usage analytics, no crash reporters, and nothing about your library, your watching, or your downloads ever leaves your Mac. The license check even tolerates being offline for weeks, so a network hiccup never locks you out.