Sharing
Share your server with family and friends
Invite people by email, choose what they can see, and manage their access from one page.
Invite people by email and choose which libraries each person can access. They use their own accounts and profiles.
Share with your household, family and friends. tofa is for personal, non-commercial use of media you have the right to use, and charging for access to your server is not allowed. See our Terms.
Invite someone#
Open app.tofa.tv, pick your server, and go to Users. Choose Invite, enter their email address, and pick what they get: everything, or specific libraries.
They get an email with an invite link, and your libraries appear for them once they accept it. The link is good for 30 days. Until then they show as Pending on your Users page, and you can cancel the invite from there.
Nobody is added to your server without accepting first, whether or not they already have a tofa account. If someone loses the email, they can accept from their account page on app.tofa.tv instead. You can send the invite again after 24 hours.
Creating an account
People who don't have a tofa account can create one for free at app.tofa.tv/register and verify their email before accepting your server invite.
What invited people get#
Everyone you invite gets their own tofa: their own watch history, Continue Watching, watchlist, and settings. Nobody resumes in the middle of someone else's episode.
Invited people are guests by default. Guests can browse and watch the libraries you shared, and suggest titles for you to add; requests wait for your approval unless you turn on auto-approve for that person. Guests never see your server settings, your logs, or what anyone else watches.
You can also make someone an admin. Admins help run the server: they can invite people, manage guests, and reach the admin area. Only give admin to someone you'd hand the keys.
Tune access per person#
On the Users page, open a person to change:
- Libraries. Add or remove libraries any time; it applies immediately.
- Role. Guest or admin.
- Requests. Whether their requests are auto-approved, and whether they can request 4K versions.
Remove someone#
Revoking a person's access takes effect immediately. A pending invite can be cancelled the same way before it's accepted.
Limits and quality#
Each server has an invite limit. Pending invites count towards it until they're accepted or cancelled.
When your people watch from outside your home, the usual connection rules apply, including the relay bandwidth cap when a direct connection isn't possible. Local, direct, or relay explains what they'll see and how to get the fastest path.