VideoBuffet for macOS
A wall of video for your Mac.
VideoBuffet plays large local video collections as a live multi-preview wall — from a single clip to a 144-tile grid — with on-device auto-reframing and VLC-class playback controls. Everything runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
An illustration of the wall, not a screenshot — real product screenshots are coming with the App Store release.
The signature feature
A native Profile View for vertical video.
Phone-shot video is vertical — and most players squeeze it between black bars. VideoBuffet's wall switches to vertical 2:3 cells with one click, so portrait clips fill the frame natively, then toggles straight back to classic 16:9 widescreen cells for landscape footage.
Three wall-wide display modes make every pixel count: Fit shows the whole frame, Fill covers the cell, and Framing uses on-device AI to crop each tile to just the detected video region.
What it does
Built for real video libraries.
A living wall
Play 1 to 144 videos at once. Shuffle, sort, and page through your collection; lock the keepers and let AUTO fade fresh clips into the rest, dealing through your whole set before any repeat. Up to four independent windows across monitors.
Auto Framing, on your Mac
A small neural network — running entirely on-device — finds the actual video region inside each clip and crops away the chrome around screen recordings. Build the index once (a second or two per clip) and Framing is instant, wall-wide. A dynamic mode follows regions that move.
A memory for every clip
Draw a crop, stand a sideways clip upright, set a permanent speed, trim to the good part. VideoBuffet remembers it all per video — keyed to the file's content, so it survives renames and moves — and exports as one small backup file. Original files are never modified.
Playback power
Wall-wide speed from 0.25× to 2× with pitch-preserved audio; the full-size player reaches 4×. A-B loops, frame stepping, full-resolution snapshots, audio and subtitle track switching, picture adjustments, a video-information panel, and float-on-top.
Private by design
Fully offline. Every launch starts muted. No recent-files history by default, and the framing index stores geometry only — no filenames. One key mutes, pauses, and hides everything instantly. Even the built-in help chat answers locally.
Help that's built in
Ask VideoBuffet answers plain-language questions instantly from the bundled manual — offline. A keyboard shortcut for nearly everything (⌘⇧K shows them all), playlists to save any wall, and a user manual you can export as Markdown or JSON.
Requirements
What you need.
Runs on Monterey through the latest macOS.
Built native and tuned for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro — hardware-decoded playback per tile, an on-device model small enough to run on battery.
Plays what macOS plays — most .mp4, .mov, and .m4v (H.264/HEVC). See the support FAQ for format details.
No sign-in, no cloud, no telemetry. VideoBuffet works fully offline.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store
In final preparation — no download available yetThere's nothing to download or sign up for today. If you'd like a note when VideoBuffet ships, say hello at feedback@videobuffet.app.