Auto-built channels
Genres, eras, franchises, and habits become channels on their own. Add movies to your library and the lineup updates itself.
Your library. Now it's cable.
Nostalgex turns your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby collection into live TV channels with a real channel guide. Flip around. Land on something. Watch it like it's Friday night in 1996.
Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. All three, right on Apple TV.
The actual app. Channels built from a real library.
Three steps. Then you're just watching TV.
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Point it at your server
Connect Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, on Apple TV or in the browser. Nostalgex talks straight to your server. That's the whole setup.
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Channels build themselves
Your library gets sorted into channels automatically. Saturday morning cartoons, 90s sitcoms, the VHS vault, the stuff you rewatch constantly. No playlists to make.
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Start flipping
Pull up the guide, pick a channel, or just surf. Everything is already playing. You drop in mid-movie like real TV, because that was half the fun.
The channel guide is the whole point.
Streaming apps give you ten thousand posters and no opinion. A channel guide gives you a lineup. Something is on channel 12 right now, and something else is on at 10.
Nostalgex builds that lineup from your own collection. Scroll the grid, see what's on, and commit. No trailers, no autoplay previews, no forty minutes of browsing.
- Live schedule across every channel, all day
- Drop into whatever is airing right now
- A fresh schedule every day, built from your own collection
Nostalgex is free. Always has been.
No ads, no account, no upsell screen. If it gave you a good Friday night, a coffee keeps the channels coming.
The full lineup. All 13 bundles.
Over a hundred channels, sorted into bundles like the back of a cable bill. Every one builds itself from your library.
Nostalgex channel lineup
112 channels
NOSTALGEX
15 CHANNELS
1REWATCHABLES MOVIES
2REWATCHABLES TV
3NOSTALGEX LOL
4SAT MORNING CARTOONS
590S SITCOMS
6AFTER SCHOOL TV
7VHS VAULT
8CLASSIC FAM JAMS
9GIRLS NIGHT
10TEEN MOVIES
11RETRO TOONS
12ACTION ADVENTURE
13LAST ACTION HEROES
14BUDDIES
15CARTOON NETWORK
KIDZ ZONE
13 CHANNELS
20FAMILY HOUR
21DIZ FLICKS
22DIZNEY TOONS
23DIZ JUNIOR
24DIZ TV
25ANIMATION
26SLIME TV
27PIXAR MOVIES
28MINION HQ
29TWEEN TV
30TEEN DRAMA
31FAMILY TV
32NETFLIX KIDS
PRIME TIME
12 CHANNELS
40SITCOMS
41FLICKS
42ROM COMS
43FEEL GOOD TV
44REALITY TV
45DOCS
46LOL
47MAN CAVE
48BLOCKBUSTER
49FRESH
50DRAMA TV
51RECORD STORE
MARQUEE
10 CHANNELS
60ANIME
61MUSICALS
62GAME SHOWS
63ADULT CARTOONS
64DATE NIGHT
65STAND-UP
66BIOPICS
67ALL TIME GREATS
68CERTIFIED GOLD
69OSCAR WINNERS
ADVENTURELAND
9 CHANNELS
70EPIC ADVENTURES
71DISASTER MOVIES
72RUSH
73SCI-FI
74FANTASY
75WESTERNS
76FRONT LINE
77FRIGHT NIGHT
78SUPERHERO MOVIES
OVERTIME
3 CHANNELS
80LOCKERROOM
81OVERTIME TV
82SPORTS DOCS
CASE FILES
5 CHANNELS
85TRUE CRIME
86CRIME FLICKS
87THRILLERS
88MYSTERY
89CRIME TV
DECADES
7 CHANNELS
90THE 60S
91THE 70S
92THE 80S
93THE 90S
94THE 00S
95THE 10S
96THE 20S
FRANCHISES
7 CHANNELS
100STAR WARS
101MARVEL
102HARRY POTTER
103JURASSIC PARK
104LORD OF THE RINGS
105MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
106JASON BOURNE
NETWORKS
10 CHANNELS
120HBO
121APPLE TV+
122NETFLIX
123PARAMOUNT+
124AMAZON
125HULU
126SONY
127WARNER BROS
128UNIVERSAL
12920TH CENTURY
SEASONAL
3 CHANNELS
130HOLIDAZE
131SCREAM KIDS
132SCREAM ADULTS
ARTHOUSE
4 CHANNELS
140CRITERION
141FOREIGN FILMS
142MIDNIGHT
143CULT CLASSICS
HIGH ROTATION
15 CHANNELS
150HIGH ROTATION
151POP
152ROCK'N
153COUNTRY SWAGGER
154BALLIN
155RAP GODS
156ALT ROCK
157SLOW JAMS
158MUSIC VIDEOS
159Y2K
160CURRENT SPIN
161DANCE FLOOR
162CALIENTE
163HEADBANGERS
164GET DOWN
What actually shows up depends on your library. No westerns, no Westerns channel. Fair.
New channels drop all the time.
Get a short email when new channels and features ship. That's it, that's the newsletter.
Nostalgex is free. If it made your Friday night, coffee helps.
Flip up. Flip down. Land on something great.
The remote works the way remotes used to. Swipe through channels without leaving the picture and see what's up next before you commit.
Channels keep airing whether you're watching or not. Tune in at 9:40 and you're twenty minutes into something, just like the old days.
Built for watching, not browsing.
Always on
Every channel runs a real schedule all day. Nothing waits for you to press play.
Native on Apple TV
A real tvOS app from the App Store, built for the Siri Remote and the big screen. Not a web view pretending.
Free web tuner
No Apple TV handy? Open the tuner in any browser and surf the same channels. It's the fastest way to try Nostalgex.
Your collection only
Every channel is built from media you already own. No subscriptions to a catalog, no ads, nothing you didn't put there.
Works with your server
Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby are all supported natively on the Apple TV app. The web tuner connects to them too.
Your library stays yours.
Nostalgex connects straight from your device to your media server. Your credentials and your library never pass through our servers, because there is nothing on our end to pass through.
- No Nostalgex account to create
- No catalog upload, ever
- No one watching what you watch
Quick answers.
Do I need a media server to use Nostalgex?
Yes. Nostalgex is a front end for a library you already have on Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby. If you run one of those, you're two minutes from channel surfing.
Do I pick what plays on each channel?
No, and that's on purpose. Nostalgex reads your library and builds the channels and schedules itself. The surprise of "oh, this is on" is the product.
Is the web tuner really free?
Yes. Open it in a browser, connect your server, and watch. The Apple TV app is where the full living-room experience lives.
Does my data go through Nostalgex servers?
No. Playback and sign-in happen directly between your device and your media server. We never see your credentials or your library.
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