x4u
Get x4u
Self-hosted · Windows, macOS & Linux

Your collection, beautifully kept.

x4u finds every video in your folders, names it with StashDB, and turns it into a library you'll actually enjoy browsing, on your computer, your phone and in VR.

No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your library never leaves your computer.

The x4u library: Continue watching, New from who you follow, and every video with its cover, quality and length.
What it does

Point it at your folders. x4u does the rest.

Everything happens in the background while you watch: reading, fingerprinting, identifying, and making thumbnails and previews.

Names every video

Fingerprints match your files to StashDB for titles, performers, studios, dates, tags and covers, whatever the files are called.

Previews and timeline thumbnails

Rest on a cover for a short preview. Drag along a video's timeline to see every part of it before you jump.

A feed to swipe through

One scene per screen, swiped like TikTok, learning from what you favourite, rate and watch.

Tracking

See how much of each performer's and studio's catalogue you have, follow them for new releases, and keep a Wanted list.

Playlists and markers

Save scenes to play through or shuffled, mark the moments worth coming back to, and loop any part on repeat.

VR, done properly

A whole theatre for your Quest: browse the library on a curved wall and play 8K VR at full quality, passthrough included.

The player

Every scene, with everything about it.

Who's in it, the studio, tags and StashDB's description, beside a player that plays your files as they are, in full quality, and converts on the fly only when a device can't.

  • Resume where you left off, on any device
  • Speed control, A–B loop, keyboard shortcuts
  • Markers split the timeline into chapters
  • More like this under every scene
A scene page in x4u: the player, with quality, speed, A-B loop and Mark controls.
Performers and studios

Know what you have, and what you're missing.

Each performer and studio gets a page of their own, filled in from StashDB, with every scene of theirs you own, and the ones you don't, with where to find them.

  • Follow anyone for their new releases
  • A Wanted list that clears itself as scenes arrive
  • Birthdays, measurements, links and aliases
A performer's page: photo gallery, details from StashDB, links, and their scenes in your library.
x4u Theatre

Step inside your library.

Open x4u in your Quest's browser and enter the Theatre: your whole library on a curved wall, previews as you point, and 180°, 360° and fisheye VR played by the headset itself, at full quality.

The x4u Theatre in VR: a curved wall of VR scenes with tabs for For you, Continue, Favourites, Newest and Playlists.
Phones and tablets

Your library, from the sofa.

Turn on other devices in Settings and open x4u on your phone or tablet, behind a PIN of your own. The feed, the library and everything else, made for touch.

Away from home? Tailscale makes it just as easy, without opening anything to the internet.

The feed on a phone: one scene per screen, with Watch, Favourite, Details and Cast.
The library on a phone.
Private by design

Yours, and nobody else's.

Runs on your computer

One program, no database server, no cloud. Your library, history and ratings stay in a folder on your own drive.

Never touches your files

x4u reads your videos and leaves them exactly where they are. Move or rename one and it keeps its history.

Nothing to sign up for

No accounts, ads or telemetry. StashDB only ever sees fingerprints and searches, never file names or what you watch.

Ready when you are.

x4u is made by one developer and supported by patrons. Join on Patreon to download it for Windows, macOS or Linux, along with every update.