Bref
Bring your own media to every Apple screen
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Bref is a native media player for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Play video, music and IPTV from local files, SMB, NFS, WebDAV, FTP/FTPS/SFTP, Baidu Netdisk, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex and Feiniu Video. Enjoy broad format support, 4K HDR, Dolby Vision, Dolby/DTS audio, track and bilingual subtitle selection, DLNA casting and LAN discovery, metadata matching and NFO, iCloud sync, multiple languages, and OPDS books.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: video players and display software · 91 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Music
- Apple
- Video
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More like this: all 91 launches in video players and display software →
Could you build this?
No Supporting custom hardware-accelerated playback across 4K HDR, Dolby Vision, DTS audio, proprietary cloud drivers, and multi-protocol network streaming across all Apple platforms is an immense native media engineering task.
What it would actually take: Requires compiling and heavily tuning low-level C/C++ media engines (like FFmpeg, mpv, or VLCKit) integrated into Swift/SwiftUI, along with custom Metal rendering pipelines for HDR tone-mapping and Dolby Vision profile support. It also necessitates implementing client protocols for SMB2/3, NFS, WebDAV, SFTP, and proprietary cloud storage APIs with deep buffering and caching logic. Audio pass-through licensing and complex container demuxing require a seasoned media systems engineering team.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 816 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #746 of 817 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 210 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tifo · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OVO · ph · 2026-09-14 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Clef · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Apple Sound · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Mac TV · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SongFlip · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Portage · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- AMExclusive · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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