Why StreamBridge
What StreamBridge replaces.
If your household already watches in Plex, StreamBridge removes two things around it: a separate player for streaming, and a home media server for storing.
A separate player
Stremio has good catalogs, but you watch in Stremio's own app. StreamBridge brings those catalogs to your Mac and puts what you pick into Plex. You browse and watch in Plex on the TV, Apple TV, Roku, phone, tablet or browser, with the app your household already knows.
A media server
The usual way to fill a Plex library is a NAS with several drives, a download client, Sonarr, Radarr and more tools to keep them in sync. StreamBridge replaces all of that with an app on a Mac you already own. There are no drives to fill, nothing to clean up and no RAID to rebuild.
No storage to plan
With a NAS you keep deciding how many terabytes to buy. StreamBridge gives Plex a normal library folder, but the movies stream instead of sitting on disk. It keeps about 25 MB per title so playback starts quickly, so a hundred titles take a few gigabytes. How it works →
Keep the NAS for other things
A NAS is still good for backups, Time Machine and files you want to keep. You just don't need more drives for movies.