Introducing ShowShark

From your NAS to your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, Watch or Vision Pro – ShowShark is your seamless audio, video streaming friend. Download ShowShark Client from the App Store and ShowShark Server here.

Find the ShowShark Client tutorial here.

Find the ShowShark Server tutorial here.

ShowShark is what happens when your personal media library finally catches up to your Apple ecosystem. Instead of files sitting stranded on your NAS, ShowShark turns your Mac into a real-time streaming hub for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Vision Pro. No pre-conversion workflow, no duplicate files, no “wrong format” dead ends. Just open the app and hit play.

It’s built for the way people actually watch and listen now: on-demand playback, resume-from-last-position, and live channels that feel like your own private network. You can spin up video channels, music channels, and even synchronized photo channels sourced from filesystem folders or iCloud Photos, complete with a 24-hour guide and automatic program progression. Your media stops feeling like raw storage and starts feeling like a curated platform.

Under the hood, ShowShark uses a modern streaming architecture with protobuf messaging, hardware-accelerated transcoding/decoding, and a teardown-and-restart playback model that keeps pause, seek, and reconnect behavior reliable under real-world network conditions. In plain terms: fewer sync glitches, faster recovery, and smoother playback when life interrupts your stream.

Most importantly, ShowShark is privacy-first, local-first and works fully offline. Your library stays on your hardware, your network, and your terms, while still delivering a polished, native Apple experience with secure transport, automatic server discovery, and rich metadata browsing. It gives you the control of self-hosting without the usual complexity tax.