Mac TV
Turn your Mac into an Apple TV-style box
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A native Mac app with a tvOS-style home screen for your TV. Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and more play in their official web players at full quality, up to 4K. Your phone is the remote, and your own movies, MKV included, play right in the app. Free and open source.
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PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 17%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Entertainment
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Partial A native macOS app with a tvOS-style home screen and phone remote is buildable with Swift, but playing streaming services at full 4K inside a custom app requires DRM support, and MKV playback needs a media engine beyond the standard player.
What it would actually take: The app would use a native Swift/AppKit shell with WebKit for the streaming services and a bundled media engine such as libmpv or VLC for MKV files. Matching official 4K quality depends on Widevine/FairPlay DRM behavior inside the embedded players, which is fragile and may violate service terms. A companion phone remote needs local networking and pairing code, which is manageable.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #166 of 807 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.
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