MediaHarbor: NAS Media Player

Browse and play everything on your NAS — photos, RAW, Live Photos, MKV and AVI video — straight from your iPhone. No cloud, no accounts, nothing uploaded.

Your photos and videos live on a NAS, an external drive, or right here on your iPhone. MediaHarbor makes them feel like they're in the Photos app — without uploading a single file to anyone's cloud.

CONNECT STRAIGHT TO YOUR SERVER Save SMB connections to Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, Unraid, Windows shares, or any SMB server on your network. MediaHarbor speaks SMB directly, so you don't have to mount anything in the Files app first. Passwords are stored in the iOS Keychain, on your device only.

A REAL PHOTO GRID, NOT A FILE LIST • Fast, adaptive thumbnail grid with pinch-to-resize columns • Sort by name, date, or size, with date-grouped headers • Favorites, filename search, and multi-select for batch actions • JPEG, HEIC, PNG, GIF, TIFF, WebP, and RAW (DNG, ARW, CR2, CR3, NEF and more) • Live Photos play with a long press

VIDEO THAT ACTUALLY PLAYS Two playback engines, chosen automatically. MP4 and MOV use the native player with Picture in Picture and AirPlay. MKV, AVI, WMV, TS and other containers iOS can't normally open play through a built-in VLC engine. • Stream video straight off your NAS — no waiting for a download • Or download for offline viewing, Picture in Picture, and AirPlay • Resume exactly where you left off, per file • Double-tap to skip, hold for 2× speed, drag for brightness and volume • Play Next or Shuffle when a video ends • Audio and subtitle track selection, plus .srt sidecar files

BUILT FOR PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. No servers of ours between you and your files. Everything happens on your device.

FREE TO TRY, ONE-TIME UNLOCK The free version includes one network connection and plays the first five minutes of each video — enough to confirm MediaHarbor works with your NAS and your files before you pay anything. A single Lifetime Unlock removes both limits forever. No subscription, and it's Family Shareable.

Also included: EXIF and GPS metadata with a map view, on-device scene detection for smart albums, slideshows, save to Photos, and bookmarks for folders you use often.