First release
Séance 1.0
Release date coming soon
The first public version of Séance. Everything you need for a real home cinema, even offline:
Library
- Scans internal, external and network drives
- Movies, series, home videos; channels become series
- Complete information kept offline
- “Ready for an outage” and “Bring to this Mac”
- The same title in several places appears once
- Automatic backups before every update, kept for good
- Image preparation shown wherever it matters, with what’s left
Playback
- MKV, AVI, TS and more via a built-in remux, subtitles
- Picture in Picture, AirPlay, sleep timer
- Night mode, skip intros and credits
- Muted video previews
- Mark the end of an intro yourself, for the whole series
Discovery
- “Tonight”, automatic collections
- Actor and director pages
- Natural-language search
- Ambient mode
Apple Intelligence
- “Previously…” recaps
- Synopses translated into French
- Smarter suggestions, on device
- Clean titles from messy file names
- An invitation to turn on Apple Intelligence
Household & files
- “Who’s watching?”, kids mode
- Duplicates
- “Tidy my files”, with undo; channels are never renamed