Beam turns an Android TV box into a direct line to your own media — cloud storage, seedbox and USB drives in one native Leanback library, streamed raw to the big screen.
Each source is its own library with its own artwork, stats and hub. They stack into a chooser — and Beam reopens the one you used last.
Every screen designed and battle-tested for D-pad navigation on a Leanback launcher, in Jetpack Compose for TV.
A cinematic hero mirrors the focused rail, over Continue Watching, Up Next and per-launch shuffled Suggestions.
TMDB + OMDb posters, backdrops, ratings and awards, cached on-device with a configurable 256 MB–1 GB image cache.
Search every movie and show across your whole library as you type.
Select any actor on a detail page and see everything else they appear in across your shelves.
A film's page gathers the rest of its collection and more from the same director — from your own library.
Flick past the last poster and an alphabet strip fades in; jump by letter and focus lands ready to play.
Every play action, from any rail or grid, picks up exactly where you stopped.
No touch shortcuts, no phone habits — designed for a remote from the first frame.
Posters from every drive and cloud, pooled into one grid. Big libraries get the alphabet strip; every title one press from playing, resuming or its detail page.
One switch turns on a hand-picked kids' library. Long-press titles to add them; while it's on, they leave the grown-up library entirely.
Original bytes to the decoder, tuned to hold on hardware as old as the 2015 NVIDIA SHIELD.
Codec, content fps vs display Hz, dropped frames, live stream bitrate and how much RAM runway the engine holds — refreshed every second.
An on-device probe reads each file's real codec, resolution, HDR type and audio — down to Dolby Vision profile strings (dvhe.07.06), HDR10 and TrueHD Atmos.
Pin the whole app UI to a chosen refresh rate, or leave it to the system.
Flip one toggle and Beam serves a live dashboard straight from the TV box — open it on any phone or laptop on your network. No cloud, no account, nothing to install.
One toggle publishes the whole library — movies and TV with covers and titles — as a UPnP/DLNA media server. Kodi or any UPnP client browses Beam and direct-plays from Mega, your seedbox and local drives, with Beam's engines relaying the original bytes. Survives reboots until you switch it off.
Every source looks identical to the decoder, profiled on real hardware until cold starts, seeks and steady-state all held up.
Runs as a local server; the player streams from 127.0.0.1, so cloud, seedbox and USB all look identical to the decoder.
A 128 MB player buffer over hundreds of MB of engine read-ahead, profiled until a memory-constrained 2015 SHIELD held smooth.
A tuned stable engine by default, with a one-toggle experimental engine for A/B testing on your own device.
Library, watch state and specs in a relational store; the app starts from cache instantly and scans refresh incrementally.
Cloud, seedbox and USB — one native Android TV library, streamed raw. One-time purchase, no subscription.