MacShow 26.44.1

MacShow now uses calendar versions, YY.WW.X: year, week, and the release of that week. This is the first: 2026, week 44, release 1.

Install

Download MacShow.dmg below, open it, and drag MacShow to Applications. It's signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings. Needs macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.

New since 0.1.0

Live TV. 42 free channels streamed by the broadcasters themselves: Bulgarian regional channels, news (Al Jazeera, France 24, DW, Bloomberg, ABC News Live…), documentary, music, kids and sports. Add your own M3U playlists from your provider or Tvheadend, with the program guide (XMLTV): what's on now and next, favorites, and ⌘← / ⌘→ to switch channels.

Radio from around the world. Tens of thousands of stations from the free Radio Browser directory: popular, by country, by genre, or search. Favorites and recent stations, the song that's playing in the player bar and Control Center, Next and Previous to switch stations.

Sports and Documentaries. Their own sections, sorted from your Sport(s) and Documentaries folders. Sports are in tabs by kind of sport (Formula 1, Football…).

Network drives that play like local ones. Videos on a NAS read well ahead and wait for a few seconds' worth instead of stuttering, with the loaded part shown on the seek bar. Scanning a share is much faster, and the sidebar shows what it's doing: which folder, how far, which file.

Richer pages. TV shows have a backdrop, episode titles, summaries and stills, and the cast from TMDB. Click anyone in a cast to see their biography, what of theirs is in your library, and what they're known for.

Smaller things

• A video that's opening shows its own picture, with a spinner, not the last frame of the one before.
• Remove anything from Jump Back In with the × on its card (audiobooks too).
• Choose which drives and network shares each section shows (Sources, in its toolbar).
• Adult videos split into full videos and clips.
• Agents (MCP) can delete playlists, sort videos into the new sections, and find and play radio stations and TV channels.

Fixes

• MacShow loads quickly with a network share in the library.
• Full-length Adult videos play again.
• Exiting Picture in Picture keeps the video playing.

MacShow 0.1.0

First release of MacShow: one player for your own music, movies, TV shows, home videos and audiobooks. No store, no subscription, no account.

Install

1. Download MacShow.dmg below, open it, and drag MacShow to Applications.
2. Open MacShow. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings.

Needs macOS 14 or later. Runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel.

What's in it

• Plays nearly any format, using mpv: FLAC, ALAC, Opus, MKV, AVI, HEVC, DTS, AC-3, subtitles. Bit-perfect output, ReplayGain and an equalizer.
• Library from the folders you choose, including network shares (NAS). Folder rules for never-scan, personal and adult content, with adult content behind Touch ID.
• Music: albums, artists (main artists vs. features), lyrics (synced when available), smart playlists, favorites, play counts. Imports playlists, play counts and loved songs from the Music app.
• Video: movies, TV shows, home videos, music videos. Resume, skip recap and credits, Up Next, Picture in Picture, sleep timer, subtitle and audio-track menus.
• Artwork, cast, bios and book info from TMDB (your own key), Deezer, iTunes, Wikipedia and Open Library.
• Casting to AirPlay and DLNA TVs.
• Siri and Shortcuts ("Play Kamikaze in MacShow"), a menu bar player, and agent control over MCP.
• English and Bulgarian.