Coming soon to your Mac

Your library, curated.

Discover more

Your library starts here.

Films, shows, music and books, named, tagged and dressed in great artwork for the TV, Music and Books apps. Drop in a file or a whole folder. Q8 works out what it is, looks it up and makes it right.

Movies

Titled and tagged, with posters and backdrops.

TV Shows

Seasons grouped, episodes named, stills in place.

Home Videos

Your own films, kept and labelled.

Music

Albums matched, credits filled, covers in.

Audiobooks

Parts joined into one book, with chapters.

eBooks

Covers and details for EPUB, PDF and comics.

Studio

Curate every detail.

Flip through artwork the way you'd browse a record shop. Pick the poster, the backdrop, and the title in its own language or yours. See exactly what each file becomes before anything changes.

  • Artwork, side by side. Posters, backdrops and covers from the best sources in one carousel.
  • Every detail editable. Titles, plots, cast, credits and chapters.
  • Made to play. The right picture and sound for your Apple TV, with HDR and Dolby Vision kept where they can be.

SaltwaterFilm · 2025

File
Saltwater.mkv → Saltwater (2025).mp4
Video
HEVC · 4K → kept
HDR
Dolby Vision 8.1 · HDR10
Audio
3 tracks → 2
Subtitles
4 → 2
Artwork
Portrait · Landscape
Save to
TV app

Express

Or don't.

Point Q8 at a folder and walk away. Each kind follows the rules you set once: converted, covered, named and filed, overnight if you like.

  • Watch folders. New files are picked up as they arrive.
  • Set once per kind. Movies, TV Shows, Music and the rest each keep their own settings.
  • Tidy endings. Originals can go to the Trash once the new file is safely in place, never deleted outright.

Watching Inbox~/Movies/Inbox

SaltwaterFilm · 2025In the TV app
Low TideSeason 1 · Episode 3Converting
OrchardAlbum · 11 tracksWaiting

Network shares

Your network shares, connected.

Connect an SMB, NFS or AFP share once, and Q8 keeps it there. Sweep it to see what's new since last time, then send it to the Studio or to Express in one go.

  • Stays connected. Your shares come back after a restart or wake.
  • See what's new. Every sweep marks what has changed since the one before.
  • Mixed media, sorted. Films, episodes, albums and books each go their own way.
  • Originals left alone. Files on a share are never sent to the Trash.

Network SharesKept connected

nas.local › Media › Movies12 new since the last sweepSweep
nas.local › MusicConnectedSweep
office-mac › ProjectsAwaySweep

Sharing

Made by people. Shared with care.

Great artwork is made by people: designers, fans, photographers. Q8 keeps their names with their work and makes it easy to pass the good things on.

Share

Send any picture from your Gallery with the share menu you already know: Messages, Mail or AirDrop.

Credit where it's due

Every picture shows where it came from. A creator's credit in the file travels with the image and can't be overwritten.

Community Coming later

Albums you can share with other collectors, and a place to show what you've made.

Private by design

Your Mac. Your files.

Q8 has no account and no tracking. Your media is converted on your Mac and is never uploaded.

  • Only lookups leave your Mac. A title, a year or a catalogue number, never the file.
  • Your keys stay yours. API keys you add are kept on your Mac.
  • No lock-in. Everything Q8 makes is a standard file, in a folder or app you choose.

Read the privacy policy ›

Thanks

Built on generous sources.

Q8 looks things up in open catalogues and community projects, and credits each of them in the app.

fanart.tv

Logos, backdrops, posters and artist art, made and curated by the fanart.tv community. Have a fanart.tv personal API key? Add it in Q8's Settings to see new artwork sooner and support the project.

TMDB

Film and TV details and artwork, with your own free TMDB API key.

MusicBrainz & Cover Art Archive

Albums, tracks, credits and album covers.

Open Library & book stores

Book details and covers, with Apple Books and Google Books filling the gaps.

Wikidata & Wikipedia

Names and summaries in your language.

FFmpeg

The engine behind every conversion.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. fanart.tv, MusicBrainz and the other services named here are not affiliated with Q8. Apple TV, Mac and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc.