Your own private Netflix. Running on your Mac.
One Mac app installs your whole media server, downloads everything you want to watch, and keeps it running on its own. No Docker, no config files, no midnight troubleshooting.
No spam. One email when it's ready, and that's it.
Built on Plex, Jellyfin, and the tools self-hosters already trust.
The same tools power users spend a weekend wiring together. Lunaris just does it in a click.
Self-hosting media has always meant doing it the hard way.
Everyone who's tried this knows the drill. You read a 4,000-word guide. You install Docker. You spin up six different containers, each with its own web UI, its own config file, its own way to break. You spend 45 minutes wiring them together, another hour figuring out why the VPN won't connect, and then it works. For a while.
Then you sit down on a Friday to watch something, and it won't play. A download stalled at 99%. A service crashed overnight. An update changed a setting and nothing talks to anything anymore. Now you're troubleshooting at 11pm instead of watching the movie you sat down for.
The tools are great. The work of running them never stops. Lunaris takes that over, so the next time you sit down to watch, it just plays.
Up and running in three steps.
Download Lunaris
Grab the .dmg, drag it to Applications, open it. Same as any Mac app you've installed.
It sets itself up
It installs and configures the full stack behind the scenes, quality profiles and VPN and subtitles included. You won't touch a config file or open a terminal.
Browse and watch
Search and browse right in the app, click add, and it lands in your library. Open Plex or Jellyfin on any device and hit play.
Lunaris vs. doing it yourself vs. renting forever
| Lunaris | DIY arr-stack | Streaming subscriptions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | One click, minutes | 45+ min of Docker and config files | Sign up, but you own nothing |
| Upkeep | Self-healing, runs unattended | You're the on-call engineer | Their problem, and their rules |
| You own the library | Yes, on your drive | Yes, if you keep it alive | No, ever |
| Content sticks around | Until you delete it | Until something breaks | Until the contract expires |
| Privacy | VPN on by default | If you set it up right | They track everything |
| Cost over time | Pay once | Free, plus your weekends | $15–80/mo, forever, going up |
Convinced? Lock in founder pricing.
$29 once, locked in before the public price at launch. No charge to join the list.
No spam. One email when it's ready, and that's it.
One app, the whole stack.
Lunaris runs and syncs every service a media setup needs, then keeps them healthy. You get one clean library, not a wall of dashboards.
Fixes itself
It keeps itself running. A crashed service restarts, a dropped VPN fails over, a stalled download recovers, all on its own. You can go months without opening it.
One-click everything
Install Lunaris and the whole stack comes up configured and talking to itself. No Docker tutorial, no six dashboards.
Private by default
Every download routes through an encrypted VPN from the moment you install. Nothing to set up, nothing to forget.
Add it like a watchlist
Search and browse right inside Lunaris, no separate request page to open. Click add and the title lands in your library at the quality you picked.
Plays on everything
Streams to the Plex and Jellyfin apps on your TV, phone, and laptop. Pick up where you left off.
Clean and organized
Right titles, real posters, subtitles, episodes named, sequels grouped. It does the tedious part.
Built for the Mac you already own.
Every media-server guide assumes you're on Linux, a NAS, or a Raspberry Pi. Your Mac is a better server than any of them. Lunaris is the only app that installs the whole stack natively on it and keeps it running.
Apple Silicon was built for this
VideoToolbox does hardware transcoding out of the box. A base Mac mini handles several 4K streams at once, drawing about 20 watts. No GPU workarounds, no Plex Pass tricks.
It stays up on its own
Macs sleep, drop volumes on restart, and have no real service manager for this. Lunaris handles sleep, mount timing, and auto-start, so the server doesn't quietly die at 2am.
No cloud, no account
Lunaris runs entirely on your Mac. No Lunaris account, no telemetry, no cloud middleman. The server and your library live on your machine, not someone else's.
A real Mac app
An app you download and open, not a script you paste into a terminal. No Docker Desktop eating 4GB of memory, no plist files to hand-edit.
Bring your own AI.
On the rare day something does go wrong, you don't have to be the one who fixes it. Connect your AI assistant and it sees your whole setup, finds what broke, and fixes it for you.
Works with any assistant
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or whatever you already use. One click to connect it.
It fixes, not just diagnoses
Beyond reading logs, it can restart a service, recover a stuck download, or re-run setup.
Secure, and on your Mac
The connection stays local, secrets are stripped out, and anything risky asks before it runs.
It's yours. All of it.
Lunaris runs entirely on your Mac. You bought an app once, and the server is yours to keep. Your library lives on your own drive, not in someone else's cloud.
Streaming rents you access and changes the terms whenever it wants. Owning your library means none of that touches you.
It lives on your drive
The library is on your Mac, not someone else's cloud. Nothing gets pulled because a licensing deal expired or a show quietly disappeared.
No bill that creeps up
Pay for the app once. No monthly fee that climbs every January, no ads, no “not available in your region.”
Nobody's watching
Downloads route through a VPN by default. There's no account harvesting your watch history to sell you things. You're not the product here.
All the upside of your own server. None of the upkeep.
Running your own media server normally becomes an ongoing project: the install, the constant updates, the one service that breaks whenever something upstream changes.
Lunaris does the whole thing end to end, install through maintenance, so it never lands on your plate. You pick what to watch. It keeps everything running.
Pay once. Own it for good.
Lunaris is a paid Mac app, and here's why that matters: a free script you maintain yourself isn't the same as software that keeps a complex stack alive for you.
It's maintained, not abandoned
A stack of services, a VPN, indexers and constant updates are a moving target. Lunaris keeps them all working, release after release, so it doesn't rot the first time something upstream changes.
Buy once, updated forever
One payment includes every future version. No upgrade fees, no tiers to climb.
You own it
No subscription, no account that can lock you out of your own library. The app and everything in it are yours.
Founder pricing locks in before the public price at launch.
- The full Lunaris Mac app (.dmg)
- One payment, every future update included
- Self-healing setup and maintenance, handled
- Founder support and a say in the roadmap
- First access before the public launch
No charge now. Join the list and we'll send your $29 founder link when it ships.
No spam. One email when it's ready, and that's it.
The things people ask first
Stop babysitting your media server. Start owning it.
Lunaris is almost ready. Get on the early-access list and you'll be first in line, at founder pricing, when it ships.