I'm Jared Huke. I love music and film. My parents are both filmmakers, and I grew up in Austin, which was the live music capital of the world for a good stretch there.
I've been around rooms-built-for-watching since I could walk. My parents made films; I grew up watching dailies in living rooms turned cinemas, and listening to records loud in spaces my dad had spent a weekend tuning. The question that's followed me since then is the same one this tool tries to answer: is this room actually going to work?
Years later, designing a cinema room of my own, I went looking for the tool that would tell me. I found three kinds:
None of them showed me the geometry plainly, with the gear I was actually considering, the math visible, and no agenda about which brand I'd buy. So I built that.
cinemap is two products under one name, and they matter equally.
cinemap is the room planner, the tool I wished existed when I was sketching speakers on a napkin in Austin. Sketch the room, drop in any projector, screen and speakers from any brand, and see exactly what fits, side by side, with the math on screen. It runs in the browser on a computer or iPad, and it's free for everyone. Installers who hand the plan to clients can buy branded exports once; see pricing.
cinemap player is for the room once it's built. It plays your own film and TV library on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro, served from your Mac or NAS by the free cinemap server. Your films never leave your house, there's no cinemap account, the player sends us nothing, and one purchase covers all four devices. It's in a TestFlight beta right now; you can join it here.
The planner isn't a CAD program, a 3D modeler or a proposal generator. It's a fit-check tool, the one thing worth running before you spend €5,000 on a screen that turns out not to fit. The player isn't a streaming service. It only reads the files you already own.
Every other tool in this category got captured by something. Enterprise lock-in, or the manufacturer that built it, or an ad network. What I wanted as a user was simple: a tool I could trust not to be quietly steering me. So I wrote down the commitments that govern how cinemap operates and posted them where anyone can hold me to them, on the principles page.
A promise that lives only in the founder's head decays. A promise written publicly, with verifiable signals, has to be honored or visibly broken. I'm choosing the second option deliberately.
It's one person right now, with Claude helping on the long tail. So if the math looks off for your room, if a price has gone stale, if something's gated that shouldn't be, or if a principle on this site has quietly slipped, just email me: hello@cinemap.ai. I read everything. A lot of the best fixes in the changelog started as a 30-second note from someone.
Thanks for trying it.
The planner is free, no account, takes about a minute. The player is in beta.
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