RexyServer
RexyServer is the heart of the family. It scans your library, fetches rich metadata, and serves it to RexyRead and RexyListen on your own LAN. Runs on your Mac. No cloud, no subscriptions, no telemetry.
Built different
A serious media server that runs on a Mac you already own. Free, native, and completely yours.
A look inside
Not a web dashboard. Not a daemon. A proper Mac app with sidebar shelves, drag-and-drop, and a thoughtful UI for every kind of media you collect.
RexyServer treats manga as a first-class media type with its own column browser — demographic, series, and volume — instead of cramming it into a generic comics list. Set the demographic tag on each title in the metadata editor and the sidebar groups your library by it automatically.
"In Progress" and "Completed" buckets fill automatically as your household reads through volumes. No manual tagging, no spreadsheet.
Drop EPUBs into your novels folder and RexyServer groups them by author, by series, alphabetically by title — whatever view you prefer. Cover art is pulled from inside the EPUB; when no cover is tagged in the metadata, RexyServer falls back to the first embedded image so the shelf never looks empty.
MOBI files appear in the Conversion tab where one click converts them to EPUB 3 in place, with the original tucked into a quarantine folder for safety. Mixed-format libraries land cleanly in RexyRead.
The metadata editor lets you adjust title, author, narrator, series, year, publisher, and summary inline. Adjust each field by hand or pull fresh metadata from one of several built-in lookup tools — whichever fits what's missing.
Changes are written straight back into the M4B or MP3 file — not a sidecar, not a database row that only RexyServer can read. Take your library anywhere; plug the drive into a different player and your tags follow.
Reading hours by day. Items finished by month. Completion rate. Top Readers. RexyServer rolls up every reading session — comics turned, EPUB pages, audiobook minutes — into a dashboard that lives on your Mac, not a third party's server.
The Top Readers chart shows finished-item counts per user across the household, so you can see who's been reading the most. All optional, all local.
Missing covers, no author, generic title, no publisher, no ISBN — every gap in your library catalogued in one place. Click "Fetch Metadata for All" and RexyServer runs the metadata orchestrator across each gap, filling in what it can find.
Duplicate detection, abandoned-item sweeps, and background maintenance keep things clean without you having to think about it.
RexyServer ships with TLS by default, certificate fingerprints pinned by each client at pair time. There is no shared "all clients trust this" certificate authority — pairing is what establishes trust, and revoking trust is one tap in the dashboard.
Destructive admin operations — bulk delete, user removal, factory reset — require a fresh TOTP code from your authenticator app. Even if a paired client is compromised, it can't wipe your library.
RexyServer doesn't expose itself to the public internet — by design. There's no "turn on remote access" toggle, no port-forwarding instructions to follow, no reverse proxy to configure. If you want remote access, install Tailscale on the server Mac and on each device you travel with.
The General settings panel shows you in real time which connections are reaching the server, where they're coming from, and confirms TLS encryption is active. No mystery about what your server is doing.
