A cinematic player for the films and shows already on your Android phone and tablet.
Coming soon to Android 10 and newer. Free.
What it does
Point Penumbra at the folders that hold your films and shows. It recognises every title, fetches its artwork and plays the original file exactly as it is. Nothing is moved, renamed or converted.
Official posters, backdrops and title logos. Continue Watching, Recently Added, collections and favourites, laid out like the streaming services you pay for.
Messy names like Dune.Part.Two.2024.2160p.WEB-DL.mkv become Dune: Part Two. Episodes find their show, season and number on their own.
Direct play with your device's hardware decoders: 4K, HEVC, AV1, 10-bit, and HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG where your screen supports them.
MKV · MP4 · WEBM · TS
Embedded and external subtitles, picked up automatically. Change size, position, font, colour and background, and Penumbra remembers your choice for every show.
SRT · ASS · WEBVTT · PGS
Swipe to seek, double-tap to skip, edge swipes for brightness and volume, pinch to fill. Pause and the screen settles into the film's title and when it ends.
Internal storage, SD cards and USB drives. Made for big tablet screens, at home on phones, and it keeps your place across everything you watch.
Honest by design
Most players show a badge because a filename says so. Penumbra reads the file, checks what your device can actually decode and display, and tells you plainly. No guessing, no fake badges.
Principles
Questions
Yes, completely. There are no ads and nothing locked behind a payment. If you love it, you'll be able to support its development, entirely optional.
Android 10 and newer phones and tablets. It's designed first for large tablets like the Galaxy Tab S10, and adapts to phones.
No, on purpose. Penumbra plays files stored on your device, its SD card or a USB drive. If your films are on your device, Penumbra makes them beautiful.
From The Movie Database (TMDB), downloaded once and kept on your device so your library looks the same offline.
Penumbra plays what your device's hardware can decode, and tells you honestly when it can't. Today that includes 4K HEVC, AV1, VP9, H.264, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG on capable devices, with common audio formats including Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus. Support for more audio formats is on the way.
Right here. Penumbra will be available to download from this page, and it updates itself from within the app.
Coming soon
Leave your email and you'll hear once, when Penumbra is ready to download. Nothing else.