Jellyfin
The full experience, built on the Jellyfin API.
- Quick Connect and multiple saved servers
- SyncPlay watch parties
- Server dashboard, users, libraries, and plugins
- Lock-screen alerts with the Zelefin plugin
Your library,
beautifully native.
Zelefin is a fast, native media client for your own Jellyfin, Silo, or Emby server on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android. Play files the way they were made: HDR, Dolby Vision, and Atmos included.
Free, with no subscription and no ads. The iPhone and iPad beta is on TestFlight, Android downloads are on the downloads page, and the Mac app runs natively on Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
Servers
One app for the servers you already run.
Pick your server type when you sign in. Each one is spoken to in its own language, so you get the features that server actually has.
Silo
Your Silo library, streamed through Silo's Jellyfin-compatible API.
- Sign in with your Silo account
- Household profiles with PINs
- Silo's own avatar presets
- Tools Silo doesn't offer are hidden
Emby
A dedicated client on Emby's own API, not a Jellyfin fallback.
- Intro and credit skip from chapter markers
- Scrubbing previews from BIF thumbnails
- Collections, playlists, and favorites
- Server management and remote control
Features
Everything you'd expect, and then some.
A whole media app: browse, play, download, and run your server.
Playback
Direct play on the device.
Direct play on the device.
No transcoding when it isn't needed.
MPV plays MKV, HEVC, and lossless audio straight from your server, with every audio and subtitle track in the file in the menus. If your network drops, quality steps down, then back up when it recovers.
HDR10Dolby VisionDolby AtmosHEVCMPVAdaptive bitratePicture in Picture
Home
A home screen you arrange
Continue Watching, Next Up, latest additions, and collections. Show, hide, and reorder every row.
Skip
Skip the boring parts
Skip recaps, intros, credits, and previews, each with its own auto-skip. Times come from your server, Intro Skipper, or TheIntroDB.
Downloads
Take it offline
Save movies and whole seasons to watch on the plane. Progress syncs back when you reconnect.
Library
Browse it your way
Filters, sorting, genres, studios, and alphabet jump across movies, shows, and more. The Library opens instantly from your last visit, even on a slow connection.
Discover
Search and requests
Search your library, find something new, and request it through Seerr or Ombi. Admins approve, decline, and edit requests right in the app.
Title pages
Rich detail, theme songs included
Backdrops, trailers, cast and crew, extras, and collections. Theme music and backdrop videos play while you browse. Every cast member opens to a page with their full filmography.
Subtitles
Audio and subtitles, remembered
Your audio and subtitle picks stick for each show. Styled anime subtitles, image subtitles that resize, and online search for missing tracks.
Together
SyncPlay
Start a watch party on Jellyfin and stay in sync across phones, tablets, and TVs.
Remote
Sessions and remote control
See what's playing on your server, and control other devices from your phone.
Live
Live TV and DVR
Watch channels, browse the guide, and play recordings on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Admin
Run your server from your pocket
Dashboard, activity, users and permissions, libraries and scans, scheduled tasks, plugins, devices, and metadata editing. Admin tools only appear for accounts that are allowed to use them.
Alerts
Notifications
Lock-screen alerts for new media and server events: the free Zelefin plugin on Jellyfin, and webhooks on Emby and Silo.
Connect
Reach your server from anywhere
Sign in with a LAN address, a .local name, a Tailscale address, or a domain behind a reverse proxy, typed however your keyboard capitalizes it. Local and Tailscale servers on plain HTTP just work, and Cloudflare Access and Pangolin gateways are supported.
Make it yours
Your colors, your tabs
Pick an accent that tints the whole app, choose which tabs and libraries sit in the dock, and give Anime libraries a character icon.
Platforms
Native on every screen you own.
Built for each platform: SwiftUI on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Jetpack Compose on Android. None of it is a web view.
iOS 18 and later
iPhone and iPad
Runs on iOS 18 and later, with Liquid Glass across the app on iOS 26.
- AirPlay and Picture in Picture
- MPV, AetherEngine, or Apple's player
- Live TV guide and recordings
- Background downloads
- Lock Screen and Control Center playback controls
- iPad layouts that use the extra space
macOS 15 · Intel and Apple silicon
Mac
Runs natively on Intel and Apple silicon (M-series) Macs with macOS 15 or later.
- A fixed sidebar like the TV app
- Grids and rows sized for a Mac window
- MPV or Apple's player
- Downloads, Live TV, and Seerr or Ombi requests
- Build it from source in Xcode for now
Android 8 and later
Android
Material 3 with dynamic colour, and phone and tablet layouts.
- Chromecast
- MPV by default, with ExoPlayer as an option
- Picture in Picture
- Offline downloads
- Push notifications with Firebase Cloud Messaging
Zelefin
Free. Native.
Free. Native.
Yours.
No account to create with us, no tracking in the app, and no subscription. Zelefin only talks to the server you sign in to.