Overview
Stash is a web-based library organizer and video player for personal adult media collections. It automatically scans and fingerprints video files, scrapes metadata from StashDB and other community sources, and supports tagging, performer management, and studio organization. The interface provides a Netflix-style grid view with filtering and search. It is deployed via Docker or a single binary and stores metadata in a SQLite or PostgreSQL database.
Where it falls short of Plex
- Highly niche scope; not suitable for general-purpose media libraries.
- Mobile apps are community-made and not officially supported.
- Metadata scraping depends on community-maintained StashDB, which can have gaps.
- No hardware transcoding support; playback quality is limited by server CPU.
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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