Coax - Surf your Plex Server

I really love the way this app helps me find endless content to watch that has been languishing way too long on my Plex server and just had to buy it. It’s such a cool retro implementation that’s fun for us oldies who remember the way it used to be before everything was available on demand. Having said that there are a few features that would take it to the next level for me that would make it a 5 star app and my everyday go to for content discovery such as: 1. Being able to select any combination of genres or other parameters to build a custom schedule from. I have a ton of sci fi and would love to be able to have an entire schedule of just sci fi content to peruse. Or maybe I just want to see a schedule of movies from 1979 e.g. 2. The ability to save the above described custom schedules as presets. 3. The ability to select content items from any cell in the guide view. 4. A long press to bring up the option to play the currently viewed item from beginning, and/or to open it directly in Plex to play. These features would be game changers for me. Keep up the good work helping us to discover and rediscover what we already have!

I tried COAX during the TestFlight period and while it is a cool product, the developer has admitted to heavy use of AI, which would have been fine IF he hadn’t given the community a whole sob story about how much time and effort he had put in and needed to price it at the astronomical price of $60. This software would have already been overpriced at that number, but the fact that it is basically a vibe coded weekend project makes that number even more wild. Now that alternatives are showing up I will be looking to them.

This app is the perfect compliment to my suite of media server apps. Works flawlessly, a cinch to get going with, dramatically reduces decision fatigue, and it’s a really fun way to explore the content I already have but might have forgotten about, or knew I had but there’s just something different about scrolling show/movie thumbnails vs this model which replicates the experience of “appointment television” and what it all felt like before on-demand or streaming … dropping you right into a show and immediately reminding you what you loved about it. Giving you an engaging and immersive way to flip through your library … I can’t put into words what a value add this is to my setup. Great work. Truly.