Vidi: SMB Media Player

Your NAS, as a real library

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Vidi 4.0 is a complete rebuild: a faster crawler, a real library with artwork, instant seeking, offline downloads, and a photo viewer with full EXIF. Free, no account. Vidi turns the media on your home NAS into a library you actually want to open. Point it at your network and it finds your SMB servers by itself, discovers their shares, and builds an organized library of movies—with artwork, seasons and episodes—, TV shows, home videos and photos. A REAL LIBRARY, NOT A FILE LIST • Automatic discovery — Vidi finds the SMB servers on your network automatically • Movies, TV shows and home videos organized with posters, seasons and episodes • Every photo on your NAS at your fingertips in a beautiful library • Search the whole library with thumbnails and grouped results • Plain folder browsing is always there when you want the file list instead BUILT FOR SPEED • Indexing starts immediately and stays up-to-date automatically • Speedy tapping through pictures and videos • Re-crawls only touch what actually changed on the NAS • Folder browsing stays quick on shares with thousands of files PLAYS WHAT YOUR NAS ACTUALLY HOLDS • MKV, HEVC and codecs Apple's own player refuses — no transcoding server required • Video starts almost immediately, and an MKV starts as promptly as an MP4 • Vidi reads ahead of the playhead, so scrubbing through material is super fast • A-B loop, pinch zoom and pan during playback • Continue Watching remembers where you stopped, across the library PHOTOS IN FULL • Full-screen viewer with pinch zoom, quick zoom, swipe and a filmstrip • EXIF details: camera, lens, aperture, shutter, ISO, dimensions, file size and a location map • HEIC and RAW sit alongside everything else OFFLINE • Download a movie, episode or home video and play it with the NAS switched off • Downloads queue, resume after interruptions, and survive a relaunch • Live Activity progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • Read-only: Vidi never writes to, moves, renames or deletes anything on your NAS • No account and no sign-in • No tracking, no advertising identifier, no ad networks • Server credentials are stored in the device Keychain and never logged WORKS WITH Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, Unraid, Windows shares, Linux Samba — any SMB server on your network. Vidi is free, with no in-app purchases.

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A share your server insists on encrypting now opens like any other. • Fixes shares that require SMB3 encryption refusing to open on servers that speak SMB 3.0 or 3.02 — Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 among them. The share appeared in the list and then would not show what was inside it

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    Seller
    Johannes Nanninga
    Size
    47.4 MB
    Category
    Photo & Video
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
    • Apple TV
      Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Johannes Nanninga