
Plex began as a freeware hobby project in December 2007 when developer Elan Feingold created a media center application for his Mac by porting the media player XBMC (since renamed Kodi) to Mac OS X. In 2019, Plex launched an ad-supported streaming service of movies, television shows and music that is accessible from its applications. Plex's media server software organizes video, audio, and photos from a user's server and streams it to player applications on mobile devices, smart TVs, streaming boxes, and in web apps.

is an American software company that develops its namesake streaming media service and a client–server media player platform.
