Local-first
Your media, metadata, generated previews, and accounts stay on the machine or server you control unless you explicitly configure outside services.
About Cove
A local organizer that starts simple and gets deeper when you need it
Cove exists for people who want a serious personal media library without giving up local control, day-to-day usability, or the freedom to keep shaping the app over time.
Why it exists
A lot of media software is either too limited once the library gets complex or too awkward during the first week of use. Cove is meant to cover both: easy first scans, then deeper organization, sharing, and add-ons once your library grows.
Built for actual use
Cove is designed for the things people do every day: searching, browsing, tagging, continuing what they started, reviewing new details, and keeping a growing library manageable.
Extensible by design
Downloaders, scrapers, jobs, pages, settings, themes, and other add-ons are part of the product direction, not an afterthought.
A low floor and a high ceiling
Useful before you learn everything, and still capable once your library gets demanding.
You should be able to install Cove, point it at a folder, generate the basics, and start using the library before you learn every advanced concept. Search, tags, groups, filters, watch later, history, and continue watching are there from the start. The deeper features stay out of your way until you want them: richer organization inside videos, broader media support, shared accounts and real permissions, metadata history, downloader tools, and an extension system that leaves room for customization.