Local-first
Your media, metadata, previews, and accounts stay on the machine you control.
About Cove
A serious personal library, without the cloud
Cove is for people who keep their media on their own hardware and want it to be as nice to use as any streaming app.
Why it exists
Most media software picks a side. It's either simple but shallow, or powerful but miserable for the first week. Cove tries to be easy on day one and still have the depth waiting when a library gets big, detailed, or shared.
Built around everyday use
Searching, browsing, tagging, and picking up where you left off are the core of the app.
Extensible by design
Downloaders, scrapers, jobs, themes, extensions are built-in from the ground up, not an afterthought.
A low floor and a high ceiling
Useful in the first hour, still growing years later.
You can install Cove, point it at a folder, and use the library before learning a single advanced concept. Search, tags, filters, and watch history are just there. The rest stays out of your way until you want it: tagging inside videos, more media types, accounts and permissions for sharing, downloader tools, and an extension system for whatever's missing.