Features · StreamBridge for Plex

Finding films

Browse a wall of posters from Stremio's catalogs, or say what you're in the mood for.

A page for every film

Click a poster for the film up close: artwork, scores from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, stills and films like it. Press Watch, or play the trailer, from the same page.

A film's page in StreamBridge: poster, scores, synopsis and a Watch button, with similar films below

Search by what a film is about

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Describe it, like heist films set in Europe, or name a film you liked, and the wall rebuilds around the answer. Naming a film also finds the series it belongs to, in story order.

The poster wall searched for films by what they are about

Stremio's catalogs

Follow Popular, New releases, Top rated or any genre, for movies and series. They refresh on their own.

Shows, season by season

Open a show for its seasons and episodes, with each episode's name and still. Add the whole show, one season or a single episode.

Your Plex Watchlist

Titles you save on any Plex app turn up as a collection you can play.

Your Letterboxd watchlist

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Watching

Press Watch and StreamBridge gets the film ready for the screen you choose.

Watch on any screen

The film appears on the screen it will play on: a TV on your network, or this Mac. Step between screens with ← and →, set the picture quality, then press Watch Here.

StreamBridge lists the TVs it finds, including ones without Plex yet, and marks the one nearest your Mac.

The Watch view: a film on the screen it will play on, with its picture quality, subtitles and Watch Here

A source picked for you

Leave the quality on Best for This Screen and StreamBridge checks your connection and picks a source that plays without stopping. To choose yourself, Choose a Source lists every one by resolution and size, with its pick starred.

A 1080p copy beside 4K

For a TV or a connection that can't manage 4K, there's a 1080p version next to the 4K one in Plex.

The next episode, ready

Watch S2 E5 opens the episode Continue would play, and while it plays the one after it is prepared.

It keeps playing

If a source slows down mid-film, StreamBridge switches to another copy of the same file. Quitting, restarting or updating the app leaves what's playing on the TV alone.

Collections

Plex collections that StreamBridge fills and keeps current.

Make one by typing

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Type a director, a studio, a decade, a country, a mood or a film it should be like: korean revenge, tearjerkers, a24 horror like Hereditary. Anyone can see the preview. With Pro, new films that fit join as they come out.

Making a collection called A24 horror: a first look at six films and a Make it button

Follow a catalog

Each catalog you follow becomes a collection in Plex. Open one to get it ready, or let StreamBridge prepare the whole collection in the background.

Collections other people made

The shelf starts with the most followed, and search finds the rest as you type.

Subtitles

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You choose them on the Watch view. The film sits on the screen you're sending it to, with the subtitles drawn under it as they'll look: each language in its own script, a second language in yellow.

One click to change
Click the subtitles to pick both languages, one, the release's own, or other languages. On a free install the same spot reads Subtitles with a Pro tag, and opens Pro.
Made for your copy
Once the film is in Plex, its subtitles are timed to the file you play. StreamBridge translates them only when no subtitles in your language fit the film.
In Plex's own menu
In Plex they're ordinary subtitles, on every device. Change them later from the film's ⋯ menu: Subtitles, then Change Subtitles…

A film playing in Plex with English and Vietnamese subtitles shown together

Pro includes a monthly allowance for new subtitle runs.

How subtitles work

The app

Written in Swift for macOS 15 and later, on Apple silicon and Intel.

In your menu bar

Search for a film from the menu bar, choose a screen, and it's prepared for tonight. StreamBridge also keeps your Mac awake while Plex is playing, even after you quit the app. You can turn that off in the menu.

See what's playing

Settings shows what's playing on which TV, how far in, and whether Plex is converting it, with the day's plays and additions below.

Your disk, your limit

Choose how much disk the cache may use, and Settings shows how much it's using.

Your Plex password stays yours

You sign in to Plex in your own browser, so StreamBridge never sees your password.

A warning before your debrid account lapses

Settings tells you ahead of time when your debrid account is about to run out, for any service that gives an end date.

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