Davvy is a native Apple-platform player for the movies and TV shows already sitting on your own WebDAV server. It turns a folder of files into a proper library — posters, descriptions, episodes, continue watching — without moving a single byte anywhere else.
Point it at your NAS once. Then watch on the iPhone, carry on from the same second on the Apple TV, and let it find the fastest way home whether you are on the sofa or on a train.
WebDAV / iPhone & iPad / Mac / Apple TV / TMDb artwork / AirPlay & Chromecast
If you keep your own media, you have probably been told the answer is a media server: index the library, transcode on demand, run a service, keep it patched. That is a lot of machinery to sit between you and a file you already own.
Davvy takes the other route. Your server just serves files over WebDAV — something a Synology, a Nextcloud or three lines of nginx already does. Everything else happens in the app, on the device in your hand.
“No index to rebuild, no daemon to babysit. Your server holds the files; Davvy does the watching.”
Davvy, by Polyphasic Developers
Everything below runs against your own server, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.
Davvy scans your WebDAV folders, reads the messy filenames people actually have, and groups them into movies, shows, seasons and episodes.
Give a server up to three addresses. In Auto mode Davvy races them on every network change and uses whichever answers first.
MP4 and MOV use Apple's native player for the best battery life and AirPlay behaviour. Anything Apple can't decode — MKV, AVI, awkward codecs — plays through a bundled VLC engine instead, and the app picks for you.
Progress follows you between iPhone, iPad and Apple TV through your own private iCloud, so the TV already knows you are 40 minutes into episode three. On Apple TV it also fills the Top Shelf row on the Home Screen.
Davvy ships as a real tvOS app, built for the Siri Remote rather than squeezed onto the TV from the phone.
From the iPhone you can also AirPlay or cast. When a file is in a container the receiver can't handle, Davvy remuxes it on the device and serves the receiver a stream it understands — the same trick the big self-hosted players use, so an MKV still lands on the TV. Picture in Picture and background audio work the way you would expect, and audio sync can be nudged per output route when a set of AirPlay speakers runs ahead.
Read the common questionsSetup is a one-time thing, on one device. The rest follow.
Name it, point it at the folder your media lives in, and enter your WebDAV username and password.
Give it a home address, a Tailscale address, a public URL, or all three. Auto handles the rest.
Davvy walks the folders, groups films and shows, and pulls in artwork and episode detail.
Play on the phone, cast to the TV, and carry on from the same second on the Apple TV.
Davvy requires a WebDAV server that you own or have an account on. Davvy does not provide films, television, media or server hosting, and it has no catalogue of its own. You are responsible for the content available through your server.
Davvy is free to download and use, with no subscription and no in-app purchase in the first release. No feature is held back behind a paid tier.
It is built by a small studio that runs its own NAS, which is the entire reason the app exists. If it becomes useful to you, telling someone else about it is more than enough.
No analytics and no tracking, and the first release ships with no advertising: see the Davvy privacy policy.
Ask a questionStill stuck? Support is email-first and answered by the people who built it.
Yes. Davvy is a client, not a streaming service. It needs a WebDAV server that you control, it provides no media of its own, and the content available through your server is your responsibility.
Anything that speaks WebDAV: Synology with the WebDAV Server package, QNAP, TrueNAS, Nextcloud, rclone serve webdav, Apache mod_dav, nginx and Caddy among others. There is no separate media server to install or index to rebuild.
Yes. Each server holds up to three addresses — home or LAN, Tailscale, and a public URL — and Auto mode races them whenever the network changes, using whichever answers first. Remote playback quality depends on your upload speed; large 4K remuxes want a wired server.
The Movie Database. Davvy cleans up the file or folder name, works out the title and year, and sends just that to look up posters, descriptions, ratings, runtimes and episode detail. Renaming a stubborn file to Title (Year) fixes almost every miss, and you can supply your own TMDb API key in Settings.
Yes. MP4 and MOV use Apple's native player; MKV, AVI and unusual codecs play through a bundled VLC engine, and Davvy chooses automatically. For AirPlay and Chromecast, incompatible containers are remuxed on the device so the receiver still gets something it can play.
Your servers and your continue-watching progress sync between iPhone, iPad and Apple TV through your own private iCloud database — there is no account with us and no server of ours involved. The scanned library index itself stays local to each device, because it is rebuilt by scanning anyway.
Nothing at launch. No subscription, no in-app purchase.
