tinyMediaManager 5.3.5

tinyMediaManager turns a folder full of messy video files into a tidy, browsable movie and TV library, with posters, plot summaries, cast lists and clean file names.

It is free for the core job, and a PRO licence at 12 euros a year adds more data sources and automatic subtitle downloads.

It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and it saves everything in a format that Kodi, Jellyfin and Emby read directly.

What tinyMediaManager Actually Does

You point it at the folders where your movies and TV shows live. It looks at each file name, finds the matching title in an online film database, and pulls in the details: title, year, plot, cast, ratings, poster and background art.

It then writes that information next to each video as small NFO files and image files. Media centres such as Kodi and Jellyfin read those files, so your library shows up fully dressed without scraping everything a second time.

Finally, it can rename files and folders to one consistent pattern - for example Movie Title (2024)/Movie Title (2024).mkv - which is what media centres match best.

Movies, Collections and TV Shows

• Movies. Scrape details and artwork, fetch trailers, edit anything by hand and rename files in bulk.
• Movie sets. Group films into collections such as a trilogy, with their own artwork, and assign each movie to the right set.
• TV shows. Import a whole series folder, match every season and episode, and spot missing episodes at a glance.

It also reads the technical details of each file - resolution, video and audio codecs, audio channels, subtitle languages - so you can filter a big library by any of them. For a deeper look at a single file, MediaInfo shows every stream in full.

Free or PRO - What You Get

The free version is not a demo. It does the whole core job with one data source, The Movie Database (TMDB), which covers both films and TV.

PRO costs 12 euros a year, and one licence covers all your computers. Purchases go through Paddle, which offers a 30-day refund.

Subtitles are the one catch worth knowing up front: even with PRO, automatic downloads need a paid OpenSubtitles VIP account. If you just need to fix or sync a subtitle file, Subtitle Edit is free.

What Is New in 5.3.5

Version 5.3.5 arrived on 30 October 2026, and most of it is about keeping a big library clean and fast.

• Library clean-up. A new housekeeping action clears database entries for files that are gone, and another removes the missing-episode and missing-movie placeholders from shows and collections.
• More control when scraping. A new option forces fresh details to overwrite what is already there, and you can now add a folder that sits inside another data source.
• Your own table columns. Add columns to the movie and TV show lists, filled from the same kind of patterns the renamer uses - and the tables now scroll faster too.
• Kodi extras. Kodi's skip-intro files (.skiptro.json) and ScenePass files are now recognised as part of the video they belong to.
• Fixes. No more freeze when deleting a movie set, better season and episode detection for anime, better DTS:X detection, and no duplicated collection numbers in Jellyfin NFO files.

If you use Simkl.com, reconnect it in the settings: the sign-in has moved to a new method, and Simkl retires the old one around April 2027.

The release before, 5.3.4, added TVDB to the universal movie scraper and new filters by IMDb, TVDB or TMDB ID and by subtitle title.

Which File to Download

The regular desktop downloads include their own Java, so there is nothing else to install. On Windows, do not run it as Administrator, since the developer warns against that.

All settings, the database, the cache and logs live inside the program's own folder, which is why the portable version moves between computers so cleanly. It checks for updates every time it starts.

Things Worth Knowing Before You Start

The first scan of a big library takes a while, because it looks up every title online and downloads artwork for each one. After that, it only processes new files, so later scans are quick.

It matches by file name, so a file called movie_final_v2.mkv will need a manual search. Spend five minutes on the first few mismatches and the rest usually fall into place.

If a file in your newly tidy library will not play, the Codec Finder tells you which codec is missing. VLC Media Player plays almost anything in the meantime.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

The tell: if you never open your movies in a media centre and only want a list of what you own, you do not need the NFO and artwork side at all.

• A simple catalogue of your collection. Ant Movie Catalog or EMDB keep a searchable list on Windows.
• Fixing the files themselves. Renaming audio tracks, removing a language or adding subtitles inside an MKV is a job for MKVToolNix.
• Music rather than video. tinyMediaManager does not handle music; Mp3tag is the tool for tagging and renaming an audio library.

More catalogue and tagging tools are in Media Managers.

Quick questions

Download tinyMediaManager 5.3.5 and see how it handles your library, or tell us how you got on if you have used it before.