Video Hub App is a cross-platform desktop application, built with Angular and Electron, that gives individuals and small teams a YouTube-style way to browse, search and organise the video files already stored on their own computer.

What it is

Video Hub App 3 is the subject of this repository, the official source for a desktop video library manager written in TypeScript and distributed for Windows, Mac and Linux. It was created by Boris Yakubchik and is built on top of the angular-electron project, using Angular and Electron as its core frameworks. The repository carries an MIT licence, and its topic list places it squarely in the file-browser and file-manager space, matching its registry category of Productivity & Utilities / File Management & Sync.

The concrete problem it addresses is the folder tree. Rather than clicking through nested directories to find a clip, a user points the application at their video files and gets a browsable, searchable catalogue; the README's own framing is that it works "like YouTube for videos on your computer." It therefore replaces the operating system's generic file browser as the everyday way to find and play local video, and it does so without uploading anything anywhere, because the library stays on the machine the application runs on.

Key capabilities

• Presents a local video collection as a searchable, browsable library instead of a directory listing, which is why the project is tagged file-browser and file-manager.
• Ships as an Electron desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux, with separate M1 and Intel builds for macOS.
• Uses Fuse.js for search and ngx-virtual-scroller to render long video lists efficiently.
• Depends on the FFmpeg and FFprobe executables, used under LGPLv2.1, which may need to be updated manually when building on macOS for a different architecture than the machine in use.
• Scans and watches directories using fdir, chokidar and async, and can route removals through the trash package.
• Offers a Remote mode in which the user turns on a server after the app starts and opens a simplified version of the interface on a phone or tablet on the same WiFi, using it as a remote control for playback.
• Includes an i18n directory for translations and a dedicated icon component with contribution instructions, and is tagged hacktoberfest with pull requests invited.

Who uses it and how

• Individuals whose local video collections have grown large enough that a folder hierarchy becomes awkward, and who want to search and play files without moving or uploading them.
• Households or small teams where a computer is attached to a screen and a phone or tablet on the same WiFi serves as the remote control through the built-in server.
• Contributors, including first-time ones drawn in by the hacktoberfest topic, who submit pull requests, improve or add translations in the i18n directory, or add icons following the icon component instructions.
• Developers running the repository directly, using npm start while developing and npm run electron to produce a build.

Getting started

The released application is purchased and downloaded for $10.00 from videohubapp.com. To work from source, install dependencies with npm install --legacy-peer-deps, run npm start for development and npm run electron to build, preferably on Node v24.16.0, the version Electron uses internally.

How it compares

The facts provided here name no comparable or competing products, so Video Hub App stands alone in this registry. No side-by-side comparison with other video managers can be drawn from the available material beyond the observation that the application is sold for $10.00 while its source is published under an MIT licence.

When to use it — and when not to

Running it from source means keeping FFmpeg and FFprobe binaries matched to the target architecture and using a specific Node version, and anyone doing so should expect some friction: the README warns that the repository is usually ahead of the released version, is work in progress and may contain bugs, and the tracker currently carries 151 open issues. The licence is MIT, but the author asks that free copies not be distributed unless the software has been significantly changed, so redistributors should read that request before shipping a build. Anyone looking for a hosted, multi-user media server should look elsewhere, because this is a desktop application whose remote feature is limited to a phone or tablet sharing the same WiFi as the computer running it.