Featuring
The people in your videos, front and center.
Featuring is built around the people in your videos. Star your favorites to keep them first, with a trending shelf right below.
For Mac, iPhone and iPad
A beautiful home for your videos.
Sprocket turns the video files on your Mac into a fast, beautiful library, and streams it to your iPhone and iPad. Your files stay on your Mac.
Mac App Store Coming soon
App Store for iPhone and iPad Coming soon
Free for a library of up to a set number of videos. No account. See pricing
Sprocket for Mac
Your library, beautifully.
Point Sprocket at the video files on your disk. It gives them a home: a cinematic front page, a library you can see three ways, and a player that remembers where you stopped.
Library
Grid, mosaic or list.
See everything at once, or just the details you care about.
Search
Find it in a few keystrokes.
Search your whole library, then narrow it down with filters.
At a glance
Where you stopped, what you loved.
Resume points, favorites and ratings sit right on each video, so the grid tells you what to watch next.
Resume points and a play queue
Pick up exactly where you stopped. Line up what plays next.
Folders, tags and collections
Browse by folder, then organize further with tags and collections.
Favorites and ratings
Mark what you love. Rate what you have seen.
Light, dark and your accent
Two full themes, with accent colors to make it yours.
Touch ID app lock
Lock the app, and open it with your fingerprint.
A menu bar panel
Sprocket stays within reach from the menu bar.
The companion for iPhone and iPad
The same library, in your hand.
The companion app streams your library from your Mac. Scan one QR code and you are in.
- Pair once. Scan the QR code your Mac shows. That is the whole setup.
- No account, no internet service. On your home network, your devices talk to each other and nothing else.
- Downloads for offline. Take videos with you when there is no connection at all.
- Face ID app lock. The library opens for you.
Swipe to the next one
Swipe up or down in the player for the next or previous video.
A mini player
Keep watching while you browse the rest of your library.
A filmstrip scrubber
See where you are going as you drag through a video.
A details page
More about the video you are watching, without leaving the player.
New Sprocket Pro
Your library, anywhere.
Stream from your Mac over cellular and any Wi-Fi. No port forwarding, no VPN app, nothing to configure. Subscribe and it works.
- Direct whenever possible. Your phone connects straight to your Mac, at original quality.
- An encrypted relay when it is not. Some networks block direct connections. Then the video passes through a relay that cannot read it.
- End to end encrypted. Only your own devices hold the keys.
- An unlimited library. Every video you have, however many that is.
Free for 7 days, then $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, through the App Store. One subscription covers your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
How your video travels
Direct
Device to device
Used whenever the two networks allow it. Original quality, and no relay allowance used.
Your iPhone
Encrypted, original quality
Your Mac
Relayed
Through an encrypted relay
Used only when a direct connection is impossible. The relay cannot read what it carries.*
Your iPhone
Encrypted
Relay, cannot read it
Encrypted
Your Mac
What the service can see
- Connection details, such as IP addresses and a random identifier for your Mac
- Encrypted setup messages it cannot read
- Encrypted bytes it relays, and how many, to count the allowance
- The App Store's signed purchase record, to check your subscription
What it can never see
- Your video
- Titles and thumbnails
- Your library
- Your encryption keys
* Relayed video plays at about 5 Mbit/s, for up to 75 GB a month. Direct connections have no limit.
Sprocket Pro runs a small meeting-point service that helps your phone and your Mac find each other, and a relay for the cases where they cannot connect directly. Nothing about your library is stored on either.
Also in Pro
Insights
Your viewing in numbers: videos, hours, library size, plays, and what you watch most.
Also in Pro
Calendar
Your watching, day by day. See what you watched and when.
Privacy
Your files stay on your Mac.
Sprocket is a library for files you already have. It does not move them, copy them to a server, or watch what you do with them.
Nothing is uploaded
Your videos are never uploaded to Sprocket, and never stored anywhere but your own devices.
No account
There is no Sprocket account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to.
No analytics, no tracking
Sprocket does not measure you, profile you, or report what you watch.
Encrypted between your devices
When video leaves your home with Sprocket Pro, it is end to end encrypted between your own devices.
At home, video goes from your Mac to your phone on your own network. Away from home, anything that leaves is end to end encrypted between your own devices, and nothing is uploaded or stored.
Pricing
Free to start.
Pro for all of it.
Sprocket is free for a library of up to a set number of videos. Sprocket Pro removes the limit and takes your library anywhere.
Sprocket
Free
For Mac, iPhone and iPad
Your library, on your Mac and around your home.
- The Mac app and the iPhone and iPad app
- A library of up to a set number of videos
- Streaming to your devices at home
- Offline downloads
- App lock
- Themes
macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon. iOS 26 or later.
Sprocket Pro
$4.99a month
or $39.99 a year. Free for 7 days.
Everything, everywhere.
- An unlimited library
- Stream from anywhere, over cellular and any Wi-Fi
- Original quality on a direct connection, with an encrypted relay as backup*
- Insights
- Calendar
- One purchase covers your Mac, iPhone and iPad
Billed through the App Store after the free trial. Renews until you cancel.
Prices in US dollars. Sprocket Pro renews automatically until you cancel in Settings. See the terms.
* Relayed video plays at about 5 Mbit/s, for up to 75 GB a month. Direct connections have no limit.
Questions
Straight answers.
Do my files get uploaded?
No. Your files stay on your Mac. Sprocket streams them to your own paired devices and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to Sprocket and nothing is stored on a server. With Sprocket Pro, video that leaves your home is end to end encrypted between your own devices.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no Sprocket account. You pair your iPhone or iPad with your Mac by scanning a QR code. If you subscribe to Sprocket Pro, the purchase goes through the App Store with the Apple Account you already use, and it covers your Mac, iPhone and iPad on that same Apple Account.
What do I get for free?
The Mac app and the iPhone and iPad app, a library of up to a set number of videos, streaming to your devices at home, offline downloads, app lock and themes. At home, streaming needs no subscription, no account and no internet service.
What happens if my library is bigger than the free limit?
On the free tier, the first a set number of videos by date added play. The rest of a larger library stays visible but locked until you subscribe to Sprocket Pro. Either way, the files on your disk are never touched and never uploaded.
What is the relay?
With Sprocket Pro, your phone connects straight to your Mac whenever the two networks allow it, at original quality. Some networks make a direct connection impossible. In that case the video passes through a relay instead, at about 5 Mbit/s.
The relay only forwards encrypted data. It cannot see your video, titles, thumbnails or keys, and it does not store what passes through it.
What happens if I go over 75 GB?
The 75 GB a month allowance only counts video that goes through the relay. Direct connections do not use it. If you use the whole allowance, relayed streaming pauses until it resets the next month. Direct connections, streaming at home, and videos you have downloaded all keep working.
Does it work when my Mac is asleep?
No. Your Mac is the library, so it has to be awake with Sprocket open. The Mac app can keep your Mac awake while it is streaming. Videos you have downloaded to your iPhone or iPad play without the Mac.
What do I need to run it?
A Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 26 or later. The companion needs an iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or later.
What does it cost?
Sprocket is free for a library of up to a set number of videos, with streaming to your devices at home. Sprocket Pro is free for 7 days, then $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, billed through the App Store. It adds an unlimited library, streaming from anywhere, Insights and Calendar, and one purchase covers your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Does Sprocket collect any data?
No analytics and no tracking. Sprocket Pro's service sees only what it needs to connect your devices, and the privacy policy lists all of it.
