Open beta Free until December 31
Leyla
ألف ليله وليله
A thousand nights, and one more.
Leyla is your cinema at home: the films and shows you own, on every screen in the house. It knows who is on screen, writes the words for films that have none, and keeps every night you’ve had, even if the box dies.
وانطفأت الأنوار
The lights go down
Somewhere in your house, there’s a film someone loves.
Leyla is a little cinema that only shows those. Yours, and nothing else: no catalogue, nothing promoted, nothing rotating out at the end of the month. Everything below runs on your own server, and nothing about your films or your faces leaves the house.
لكل بيت فيلمه
Every house has its film · Drift
Now showing: yours. Then the next one, and the next.
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The one your father quotes at dinner.
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The one you’ve seen eleven times.
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The one you’re saving for a rainy day.
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The one that made you cry on a plane.
Every title opens onto threads through your own library: the director’s other films, the lead’s, the rest of a collection, a theme, or simply what is close in feel. Follow one and the evening reads back as a sentence. Tell Leyla what you love and its picks come from that, never from watching you. How picks work
مين ده؟
Who’s that? · X-ray
Pause, and the screen tells you who’s in the scene.
Your server learns the faces in each film from the film itself, and names them against the portraits of 82,898 actors. Pause anywhere: who’s on screen, the part each plays, where they come back. Someone it can’t name hangs a tag that says “Who’s this?”. Name them once and every title knows them.
ليله كمان؟
One more?
Shahrazad kept the king listening one night at a time. Leyla keeps your place the same way: the next episode is ready on whichever screen you pick up on, and the intro, the recap and the credits are found by listening, then skipped the way each of you likes.
New A film with no subtitles in its own language gets words anyway: your server listens while it’s idle and writes a timed transcript, in 25 languages. Transcripts
شباكين وفيلم واحد
Two windows. One film. The same second.
Share a six-digit code, and a house across the city, or across the sea, sits down to the same screening with you.
418206
وأدرك شهرزاد الصباح فسكتت عن الكلام المباح
And morning overtook Shahrazad, and she fell silent.
Every story stops somewhere. Yours picks up tomorrow night, even if the box under the stairs dies tonight: every hour a sealed backup only your recovery code opens, a new server that remembers everyone and everything they watched, the lost films asked back from Sonarr and Radarr, and any minute of the night to go back to. If you lose your server
احجز مكانك
Free until the year runs out. Then one ticket for the whole house.
One server, everyone you invite, every screen, no limit on streams. Buy a founders’ ticket during the beta and keep its price: your card is charged on January 1, 2027, not before, and not at all if you cancel first.
سنويYearly
$79$59a year, kept while you renew
The founders’ price, for as long as you stay.
PreorderFounders’ prices end with the beta, on December 31. After twelve paid months the version you have is yours to keep. Everything a ticket includes
غرفة العرض
Meanwhile, up in the booth.
For whoever sets it up: the rest of what Leyla does with your films while the house watches.
Reel 1
Search by what it’s about
“The one where they rob a casino” finds it, in any language, beside the usual search by name.
Reel 2
Messy folders, named
Riff, Leyla’s own small model, names the folders the rules can’t. When it answers it is right 96.3% of the time; when it isn’t sure, it asks you.
Reel 3
Disc subtitles you can read
Blu-ray and DVD picture subtitles are read into text, restyled, and shown on any screen.
Reel 4
Tested on your screens
Each screen says what it can decode, and new ones are tried with tiny clips while idle. A TV that claims a format it can’t play stops being sent it.
play · copy · convert
Reel 5
The graphics chip, once it has proved itself
NVIDIA, Intel and VAAPI encoders are tested on your own machine before Leyla trusts one. HDR is tone-mapped only for screens that can’t show it.
Reel 6
A TV signs in from your phone
The TV shows a code; you approve it on your phone. A shared TV asks “Who’s watching?”, with a PIN for anyone who wants one.
Reel 7
Out of the house, without a cloud
Leyla opens the door itself with its own HTTPS, or sits behind your VPN or proxy. No Leyla relay between you and your films.
Reel 8
Moving in, nothing lost
From Plex, Emby or Jellyfin in one step of the setup: every account, watch history, favourite and playlist.
Runs on Docker on Linux, Synology, QNAP, unRAID, TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows. Two cores and 2 GB of memory are enough. How to install
Plays on any browser, Android phones and TVs, Fire TV, Chromecast and Kodi; LG, Samsung, Hisense and Roku through developer mode while their stores review it; iPhone and iPad on TestFlight. Every screen
You bring the films: Leyla plays your own collection, from files on your computer or NAS. It sells and rents nothing.