Terms

Kinara terms of service

Last updated October 31, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Macroboom LLC, which makes Kinara. They cover the Kinara apps, the Kinara server, Kinara accounts, remote play through our relays, and this website. By using any of them, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use Kinara.

What Kinara is

Kinara is software for playing your own media. The Kinara server runs on your own computer or NAS and organizes the files you give it. The Kinara apps play from a Kinara server. A Kinara account is optional, and lets you sign in to your servers from anywhere and play away from home through our relays.

Kinara does not provide any movies, shows or other content. Everything you play comes from a server you or someone you know runs.

Who can use Kinara

You must be at least 13 to make a Kinara account, and old enough to agree to these terms where you live. If you use Kinara on behalf of someone else, such as a family, you agree to these terms for them too.

Your account

• Give a real email address you can receive mail at, and keep your password to yourself.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account and on servers you link to it. If you think someone else has access, change your password and tell us.
• You can delete your account at any time, as described in our privacy policy.

Your media

You're responsible for the media on your server and for making sure you have the right to store it, play it and share it with the people you let in. Only use Kinara with content you own or are allowed to use, such as your own recordings, discs you've copied for personal use where the law allows it, or content that's licensed for it.

The server's owner decides who can use it. If you sign in to someone else's server, its owner controls it and what's on it, not us. We don't host, review or control anyone's media, and we can't remove media from a server we don't run.

If you believe a Kinara service we run, such as a relay, is being used to infringe your copyright, email [email protected] with the details, and we'll look into it and act where appropriate, which can include closing the account involved.

Using Kinara fairly

When you use Kinara and the services we run, don't:

• use them to break the law, or to share content you don't have the right to share with people outside your household or circle, including running a public or paid streaming service;
• try to get into accounts, servers or systems that aren't yours, or get around Kinara's security, sign-in or limits;
• overload, disrupt or attack our relays or account service, or use the relays for anything other than playing from your Kinara server;
• resell or rent out access to our relays or account service;
• pretend to be someone else, or to be Macroboom.

We may limit, suspend or close an account that breaks these rules or puts the service or other people at risk. Where we reasonably can, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

Remote play and relays

Remote play through our relays is provided on a best-effort basis. It depends on your internet connection, your server's, and ours, and it may be slow, limited or unavailable at times. We may set fair limits on relay use, such as bandwidth, to keep it working for everyone. You can always use your own relay or connection instead.

Kinara is free today. Remote play through our relays may become a paid service later, to cover its bandwidth. If it does, we'll show the price and the terms before you're charged anything, and you'll choose whether to pay. Everything else in Kinara will stay free.

The software

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the Kinara apps under these terms. Apps you get from an app store are also subject to that store's rules.

The Kinara server is open source. Its source code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, and that license governs your rights to its code, including to copy, change and share it. Nothing in these terms limits what that license allows.

Kinara can update itself, or tell you when an update is available. Some features need an up-to-date app or server, and older versions may stop working with our services over time.

The Kinara name and logo are trademarks of Macroboom LLC. You may refer to Kinara by name, but please don't use the name or logo in a way that suggests we made or endorse something we didn't.

Other services

Kinara works with services run by others, such as The Movie Database (TMDB) for posters and descriptions, subtitle services such as OpenSubtitles and SubDL when you look for subtitles, and Chromecast or Google TV devices when you cast. Those services have their own terms, and we aren't responsible for them or for what they provide. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

App stores

If you got a Kinara app from Apple's App Store, Google Play, the Roku Channel Store or another app store, these terms are between you and Macroboom LLC, not the store. The store isn't responsible for the app or for supporting it, and isn't party to these terms. If you got the app from Apple, Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms as third-party beneficiaries, and Apple has no warranty obligation for the app beyond refunding its price, if any, under its own rules. You must also follow the store's own terms when you use the app.

No warranty

Kinara is provided as is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises or warranties, express or implied, including that Kinara will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or fit for a particular purpose, or that it will never lose data. Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you, including your media and your server's backups.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Macroboom LLC isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or revenue, arising from your use of Kinara or inability to use it. Our total liability for any claim about Kinara is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 50 US dollars.

Some places don't allow some of these limits, so they may not all apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have that the law says can't be limited.

If you break these terms

If someone makes a claim against us because of the media you put on a server, or because you broke these terms or the law while using Kinara, you agree to cover our reasonable costs from that claim, to the extent the law allows.

Ending

You can stop using Kinara at any time, and delete your account whenever you like. We may stop offering a service, such as the relays or the account service, or close accounts as described above. If we stop a service you rely on, we'll give reasonable notice where we can. The Kinara server keeps working at home without an account. Sections that by their nature should last after these terms end, such as the warranty disclaimer and limits on liability, still apply.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nebraska, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute that can't be settled informally will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Nebraska, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it where you live. Before going to court, please email us first: most problems can be sorted out that way.

Changes

If we change these terms, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change matters, we'll say so in the apps or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Kinara after a change takes effect, the new terms apply. If you don't agree with them, you can stop using Kinara and delete your account.

The rest

These terms and our privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Kinara. If part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something straight away, we haven't given up the right to. You can't transfer these terms to someone else without our agreement; we may transfer them if Kinara moves to another company, and we'll tell you if that happens.

Contact

Macroboom LLC, Nebraska, United States
[email protected]