The right to own. The right to privacy. The right to freedom.

Most apps keep your stuff in a company’s data center and send everything through their servers. Ampchor doesn’t work that way. Your own computer holds your library and your phone, tablet and TV connect straight to it, directly, the way a remote talks to your TV, with no company sitting in the middle. At home it’s over your own Wi-Fi; away from home your devices still reach each other directly. Your movies, music, photos and everything else never pass through us.

Yes and not as a promise, but by the way it’s built. Most “privacy” comes down to trusting a company not to peek at what it’s already collecting about you. Ampchor collects nothing to begin with: no account, no tracking, no ads, nothing sent anywhere. What you watch and read stays on your devices. The strongest privacy isn’t a locked door, it’s an empty room.

Two simple reasons. First, there’s nothing to steal: the big services keep millions of people’s information in one giant database, so a single hack can expose everyone at once, Ampchor keeps none of it, so there’s no vault to break into. It can’t leak information it never collected. Second, there are no accounts and no passwords, the very thing that gets phished, reused and leaked everywhere else simply doesn’t exist here. Your files stay on your own machine and your connection is always private.

No, no sign-up, no email, no password, ever. Your devices simply recognise each other after you connect them once, like pairing a set of Bluetooth headphones. Nothing about you is registered anywhere, so there’s nothing to be stolen in a breach, phished or locked out of.

When you pair a phone or TV, you type a short code shown on your computer’s screen, so no one can connect without physically seeing it. Each device then gets its own secret key, kept in the device’s built-in secure storage, the same protected place your passwords already live, and it never leaves, not to Apple, not to Google, not to us. From then on your computer checks that key on every single request and any device you haven’t paired gets nothing, locked out by default. And when you stream away from home, the whole connection is end-to-end encrypted, scrambled from your computer to your phone, not even our connection helper can see inside it.

Practically everything: movies, shows, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, photos and retro games, in just about any format your files come in. See every format below.

Almost nothing. Your files and your library never leave. Your computer fetches posters and artwork from public databases and anonymized crash reports are the only thing sent to us, one switch turns them off. The full table is below.

A regular computer, Mac, Windows or Linux, with your files on it or on an external hard drive plugged into it. That computer is your home base: leave it on and your whole library is ready on your phone, tablet and TV, at home and away. No special hardware, no server in a closet, no tech degree.

Nothing and this is the real difference from streaming services. Your media isn’t trapped inside Ampchor; it’s ordinary files on your own drive and Ampchor is just a beautiful way to enjoy them. If the app disappeared tomorrow, every movie, song and book would still be right where it is, still yours, still working, no internet and no company required. Nothing is locked to us and nothing expires.

Not today and we’re open about why: staying closed lets an independent studio protect its original work, fund development and avoid handing a finished blueprint to the trillion-dollar companies we exist to be an alternative to. But everything that matters to you is open: it runs without an account, your media stays in plain files in your own folders, the library index is a plain file you can open yourself and nothing ever phones home. And credit where it’s due: Ampchor proudly stands on great open-source projects like FFmpeg, mpv, libretro and SQLite, with full license notices inside the app. We’d rather earn trust by showing exactly how your data is handled than ask you to take it on faith.

Yes. Ampchor isn’t someone else’s app with a new coat of paint, the experience, the way everything connects and the parts that make it special are our own work, built from the ground up. And none of it locks you in: your media always stays in plain, ordinary files that are yours to keep, with us or without us.