Import from Plex
Pull the current poster for every Movie, TV Show, Season, and Collection. A step-by-step picker asks what you want first, then shows only the libraries that can provide it.
Self-hosted · Free & open source
Your Plex library,
with the posters you want.
Marquee is a self-hosted web app for managing the posters in your Plex library — Movies, TV Shows, Seasons, and Collections. Import them all, refine each one in place, and send your choice back to Plex locked so it sticks.
Features
Everything you need to curate your artwork
Marquee treats Plex as the source of truth and gives you a fast, focused place to fix the posters that never looked right.
Edit posters in place
Upload your own art, paste an image URL, pick from Plex Posters (everything your server already has for that item), or search Find Posters, the built-in online poster search.
Locked in Plex
Changing a poster uploads it to Plex and locks the artwork, so an agent refresh won't quietly replace the image you picked.
Auto-import on a schedule
Re-import every 1, 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours. Marquee skips posters that haven't changed in Plex, so recurring imports stay cheap and easy on your server.
Browse and sort your way
Filter by type or see the whole library in one grid, each poster tagged. Sort alphabetically or by date added to Plex, newest first.
Mobile-first, installable
On a phone the gallery stays front and center: navigation and poster actions live in full-size trays. Install it as a PWA on your phone or desktop.
Poster Wall
Turn a spare screen into a live now-playing board
The Poster Wall is a full-screen, slideshow view of your library that switches to whatever your household is actually watching.
- Cycles through your posters in a clean, full-bleed slideshow
- Shows the poster of whatever is streaming, with a Currently Streaming banner, media details, and the Plex user
- Rotates through multiple active streams automatically
- No sign-in required — point a spare monitor straight at it
How it works
Three steps to a better looking library
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Connect and import
Point Marquee at your Plex server, choose what to import, and pick the libraries. Marquee pulls the current poster for each item and remembers what it belongs to.
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Refine the ones that bug you
Hover a poster — or tap it on mobile — to open its actions. Upload a file, paste a URL, pick one from Plex Posters, or search Find Posters, then apply it.
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Send it to Plex and keep it
Marquee uploads the poster to Plex and locks the artwork. Fetch from Plex any time to pull an item's current art back, and use Orphans to tidy up what's gone.
Run it on your own server
Marquee is a single self-hosted container that talks to your Plex server — no accounts, no cloud, nothing leaves your network. Full setup instructions, configuration options, and release notes live on GitHub.
- Runs in Docker with a single compose file
- Your posters live in one folder you control
- Works behind your existing reverse proxy
A different app, same developer
Want to show off that library? Take a look at Glimpse
Glimpse
Share your library, not your server
Glimpse is a separate self-hosted app — not a part of Marquee, and not something you need to run it. Where Marquee is for changing the posters in your library, Glimpse is for showing them to other people.
Someone asks what you have. Instead of listing it from memory or handing out an account on your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby server, you send them a link — and they get a glimpse of your shelves: the posters, the descriptions, and nothing else.
Plex, Jellyfin & Emby · Self-hosted · Free and open source
FAQ
Questions, answered
Does Marquee change my Plex library?
Yes. When you change a poster — or use Send to Plex — Marquee uploads that image to the item in Plex and locks the artwork so Plex keeps it.
Is Marquee a backup of my Plex posters?
No. Marquee treats Plex as the source of truth: importing pulls the current poster from Plex and overwrites what Marquee had for that item. Keep your own backups of anything you can't recreate.
What is orphan detection?
It finds posters in Marquee that are no longer linked to any media in Plex — usually because you removed that content.
Can I pick a poster Plex already has?
Yes. The Plex Posters tab lists what your own server reports for an item, in two groups. Uploaded to Plex holds every poster you have ever applied to it. Offered by Plex holds the artwork the Plex agent turned up. Plex keeps every poster ever uploaded to an item, so this is the easiest way to go back to a poster you used before, even one Marquee no longer stores.
Where do "Find Posters" results come from?
Does it work on mobile?
Yes. Marquee is responsive and installable as a PWA. On a phone, secondary navigation lives behind a menu and tapping a poster opens a full-size action sheet, so the gallery stays front and center.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Marquee is free and open source under the MIT license. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, and no telemetry.
How do I install it?
Marquee runs as a Docker container. The GitHub repository has the compose file, every configuration option, and instructions for finding your Plex token.
Support development
Marquee is free and always will be. If it has earned a spot in your setup, you can throw a few dollars at ongoing development — or, let's be honest, at another hard drive for the server that is definitely not running out of room.
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