Loge Pro Server

The free app for the Mac your film disk is plugged into. Once set up, it works quietly in the background.

macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel · from the Mac App Store

What it does

• Scans your films and series and adds posters and descriptions.
• Plays the films to Apple TV, iPhone and iPad over your own Wi-Fi.
• Prepares what the devices cannot play on their own, such as DTS audio or old XviD files.
• Finds the intro of series so you can skip it.
• Remembers where you stopped, for every device. This is kept on the disk itself, so it moves with it.
• Fetches posters, descriptions and episode images by itself, also for new episodes.
• Uses pictures from your film folders as posters if you like.
• Adds folders from a second Mac in your home network, with Loge Pro Server there or simply through file sharing.
• Creates the preview images for scrubbing.

In three steps

1. Get Loge Pro Server from the Mac App Store. The app is free.
2. Open Loge Pro Server and choose the hard drive or the folder with your films. With a large collection, the first scan can take a while.
3. Open Loge on Apple TV, iPhone or iPad. The library appears by itself.

Good to know

• The Mac needs to be on and the disk plugged in while you watch. It will not fall asleep on its own during playback.
• Mac and devices need to be on the same home network.
• If the Mac runs a VPN, it must allow devices on your home network. In NordVPN this is called “Local network visibility”.