Name: Cardinal Apps
Brand: Cardinal Apps
Availability: InStock

The Media Server is the heart of the Cardinal ecosystem, and powers all of your self-hosted apps.

Features

Get all Cardinal apps for free with Cardinal Media Server. Comes with a dashboard and everything needed to run your apps. No sign up required.

For audiophiles and casuals alike, with a set of features that long time music collectors will love.

Collect, curate, and rediscover your music every day with Cardinal Music's modern interface and powerful audio playback features.

Made to handle the era of camera ubiquity, and the lifetime of photographs that comes with it.

Archive a lifetime of photographs, and keep them safe from prying eyes. Only you can be trusted as the keeper of your photos and videos.

Embrace your inner projectionist and never worry about your favourite show leaving again.

Take back the future of movie and TV streaming in your home, and get that familiar online streaming experience for your own media.

Your Cardinal Account connects your self-hosted apps to Cardinal's cloud, enabling powerful free and paid features in your apps. Cloud accounts are also the social bridge between users, allowing people to share their personal media with each other.

Cardinal Accounts are free to create and use with your apps; and whether you are on the free plan or a paid one, your self-hosted apps will gain access to new features and benefit from enhancements to security.

Login with a Cardinal Account

Login with a cloud account to use Cardinal's cloud authentication, alleviating your Media Server of credential management duties.

Information on how Cloud Accounts integrate with your Media Server.

Use a Cardinal Account

Free

Starter

Gateway to the cloud for your self-hosted Cardinal apps.

Connect to your self-hosted Cardinal apps from anywhere in the world with Remote Access.

More info coming soon.

Share with Friends and Family

Securely share your media with your friends and family.

Information on how Remote Access integrates with your Media Server.

Set up Remote Access

Secure remote connectivity for your Cardinal apps.

Join the Popularity Data Pool to get music recommendations directly in Cardinal Music using data from the Pool. When you join, your Media Server will also contribute anonymous popularity data to the Pool.

More info here soon.

Coming soon for Cardinal Music, and later for Cardinal Cinema.

Information on how Popularity Pool Data integrates with your Media Server.

Join the Popularity Data Pool

Cloud Services

Pricing Q&A

Early Adoption Phase

Local Accounts

Local accounts allow you to access your Media Server's offline features.

Admin Dashboard

Includes a powerful web dashboard for operating your Media Server.

Transcoding

Includes bundled (software level) transcoding for audio and video. Hardware level transcoding is coming soon.

File Indexing

Index your music, photos, movie, and TV files without having to change your folder structure.

RBAC

Includes a Role-Based Access Control layer so you can control exactly what your users can access.

Libraries

Create libraries on the fly, and browse your media in slices that are more meaningful to you.

Playback history

Keep a complete history of everything you've listened to.

Open API

Ships with an open, documented API that your own apps can integrate with.

Explore Your Music

Browse artists, releases, and tracks. Sort, reorder, and filter. All with a modern, fast web UI.

Photo archive

Use a powerful interface to scrub through decades of photographs.

Your own theater

Enjoy your own movies & TV with that familiar online streaming experience.

Social Badge

Get a forum badge with your subscription.

Self-Hosted Apps

Cardinal is free to use; no account required.

Relay access

Avoid exposing your Media Server to the internet by using Cardinal's secure relay servers.

Privacy First

Stay off the grid, or opt into Cardinal's cloud services. The choice is yours.

Web scale at home

Designed around being container-first, with plug-and-play support for PostgreSQL.

Modern web apps

Comes bundled with the Music, Photos, and Cinema web apps.

Collections

Group your movies & TV by series and saga to browse by collection.

Custom TV channels

Create and manage custom TV channels, each with their own program lineup.

Face detection

Free, as in free beer

There is no cost to use Cardinal's self-hosted apps. They are yours to use for free, forever.

HEIC support

View HEIC photos on any device, even ones that don't support the format natively.

No Ads

Your apps will never contain ads. Enjoy clean, crisp interfaces without annoying distractions.

No signup needed

Cardinal's cloud accounts are optional, and you have access to all of the features without one.

OCR support

Use optical character recognition to make text in photos searchable.

Photo albums

Playlists

Make playlists for any occasion, and get smart playlist suggestions.

Favourites

One click keeps all your favourites nearby.

Smart suggestions

Get better suggestions over time as Cardinal Music adapts to your listening habits.

Use your photos from Google Photos

Cardinal fully supports the format exported by Google Takeout, so that you can make the move.

Pricing

Cardinal is free to use; no account required.

Free

Starter

Pro

Pricing Q&A

How do Closed Betas work?

Is technical support available?