A free, open source media player for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and Silo —
native on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad.
It also plays straight from network shares, so a folder of files works too.
Home — one row set across every server you've connected. Detail — artwork, ratings, cast and episodes, filled in automatically.
Player — plays essentially anything, with real subtitle control. Settings — per-profile, and there is a lot you can change.
More screens, including iPhone and iPad, are on plozz.app.
Plozz plays the movies, shows, and music on your server, on your Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. It's free and open source.
It talks to Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and Silo, and it can read a plain network share directly if you don't run a server at all. Connect more than one and Plozz can bring them together in one library, while keeping individual libraries available when you want them.
- Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and native Silo — connect directly to your media servers. Silo uses its native API, not its Jellyfin-compatibility connection: approve the device in your browser, choose a Silo profile, and keep that profile's library access, watch history, and watchlist.
- Network shares too — SMB, NFS, WebDAV, SFTP, and FTP. A bare folder of files becomes a real library with artwork, descriptions, ratings, and cast. Browse folders as grids on both iOS and tvOS, with recognized movies and shows opening their usual details, seasons, and episodes. Recognized titles stay in detail navigation during library scans. Choose More actions > Browse Files on a title to inspect its original folders and individual files; unknown or mixed folders remain browsable grids. Choose movie, TV, mixed, or personal-video content, with a separate anime option. Personal videos stay as files without movie or TV matching. Library scans run while the app is active: normal passes skip unchanged folders, while a daily deep pass (or Scan now) rechecks all contents, including changes a server's folder timestamps cannot reveal. (Share support is still evolving during the beta.)
- One merged library — connect several servers and see one set of rows instead of picking a server first.
- Jump to a letter — an A–Z menu for name-sorted individual and combined Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Silo libraries, on all three platforms. Apple TV also has a fast-scroll letter rail. Deep Silo and combined-library jumps load on demand, show progress, and can be cancelled without losing your place. Other sorts and collection-member lists keep their own ordering.
- Common Sense Media in Ratings — Plex movie and show details can display a recommended age independently of review scores, with separate detail-header controls for each. Open the tile for topic-by-topic guidance when the viewing Plex account has eligible Plex Pass access.
- Sync watch history across servers — optional, and off until you ask for it.
- Found automatically — Plozz looks for Jellyfin, Emby, Silo, and Seerr servers on your local network. Silo discovery checks its standard port 8090; custom ports, remote addresses, and reverse-proxy paths can be entered manually.
- Server sign-in — Jellyfin Quick Connect, Plex Link, and Silo browser approval. Emby also supports password sign-in.
- Continue Watching without an app-imposed cutoff — all titles supplied by your servers remain reachable, ordered by recency. Older next-up episodes move back instead of disappearing; server settings and your removals still apply.
- Plays essentially anything — HDR, Dolby Vision, AV1, and the awkward files other clients hand back to you, powered by AetherEngine. (The full format list.)
- Change versions without leaving the player — switch between files or editions on the active server on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. Keep your playback position, pause state, speed, quality limit, and matching audio and subtitle choices. Different cuts can have different timelines; switching never silently picks another edition or server.
- Control streaming quality on iPhone and iPad — choose a preset or a custom resolution and total bitrate limit for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Silo movies and episodes. Save separate per-profile defaults for local networks, remote Wi-Fi/Ethernet, and cellular, or change just the current video. Maximum is the local/remote default; cellular starts at 720p / 2 Mbps. The original plays when it fits the limit; otherwise the server converts it. Codec preferences and forced conversion are available where supported; conversion can change HDR and audio formats. These controls are separate from downloads and don't apply to Apple TV, music, Live TV, or file shares.
- Know what is actually playing — Info and streaming-quality details show measured dimensions, video/audio formats, and known dynamic range for the current converted stream. Playback diagnostics keep the original file, selected limit, stream bitrate, and network throughput distinct. A source badge is not a claim about the TV's HDMI output mode.
- Subtitles you can actually read — change font, size, weight, colour, opacity, background, shadow, position, and HDR brightness from inside the player. Position adjusts in 0.5% steps from -5% to 100%, with consistent sizing across fonts. 0% aligns to the bottom edge, 100% to the top; negative values allow cropping. Extra Line Position (Above, Center, or Below) controls how additional lines expand. Above is the default.
- Two subtitle tracks at once — for learning a language, or for a household that doesn't share one.
- Find subtitles in the player — search and download through supported servers' subtitle services, including native Silo, with language and accessibility preferences.
- Mark as watched — a whole season, or everything up to a given episode.
- Watched and unwatched indicators — a checkmark, or an unwatched corner badge in the Infuse / classic-Plex style, on every poster.
Streaming capabilities depend on the server and its configuration. Silo's current native API supports H.264 conversion at 480p, 720p, 1080p, and 4K; unsupported 240p/1440p and HEVC conversion choices are unavailable. This does not prevent playing an existing HEVC file. Custom bitrate limits include audio. Plozz checks Silo's returned playback plan against the selected limits and refuses an incompatible plan rather than quietly using Maximum.
- Downloads on iPhone and iPad — save movies and episodes for playback without a server connection, with local artwork and metadata for browsing. Native Silo downloads are supported too; they use the server's download permissions and preparation options, not a temporary playback link.
- Choose download quality separately — streaming preferences don't change your saved download settings. Available renditions and background-transfer behavior depend on the provider. Apple TV does not offer offline downloads.
- Your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby music library too — browse albums and artists, queue things up, and keep listening with a mini-player while you carry on browsing. Audio keeps playing in the background.
- Your own channels and guide — combine M3U playlists, optional XMLTV guides, and authorized Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby Live TV channels on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. Search the guide, save favorites, and return to recently watched channels.
- Multiview and library channels — watch several channels together or build a scheduled lineup from your own library.
Live TV is still experimental. Native Silo Live TV integration is not offered, and Plozz does not supply channels or an IPTV subscription. Live TV setup and capabilities.
- Themes — light, dark, or Pure Black.
- Layout — change how dense the rows are, whether the big hero banner shows at all, and how navigation behaves.
- Profiles on every device — keep library choices, layout, playback, and subtitle preferences with the active Plozz profile. Apple TV system-user support and Plex Home/Silo server-profile selection keep the right identity in view. Server-side access and watch history still belong to the server user you choose; device-wide settings remain device-wide.
- Set up another device — use nearby-device setup, a QR code, or a pairing code to import an existing setup. iCloud sync carries profiles, settings, and server details; Silo asks you to approve each receiving device independently. Servers still needing sign-in remain available in Settings > iCloud Sync rather than disappearing from the import.
- Circadian mode — warms and dims the app at times you choose, so late-night viewing isn't a floodlight.
- Trackers — Trakt, AniList, MyAnimeList, Simkl, and Last.fm, across movies, TV, anime, and music.
- Seerr — request something you don't have without leaving search.
Seerr profile links belong to the server where you chose that user. Reconnecting to the same address, including after an API-key change, keeps those links. Switching servers requires relinking in Settings; requests never fall back to the administrator because a link is stale. Links saved by older versions need one confirmation. After replacing a Seerr database at the same address, relink profiles manually.
TV requests track each season separately. The request button summarizes pending or processing seasons, while its menu shows individual season states and offers only missing, unrequested seasons. Requesting one season never marks the whole series as requested; failed requests remain visible for attention in Seerr.
Plozz is in public beta on TestFlight. Join the beta and it installs on your Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad.
You'll need an Apple TV, iPhone, or iPad running tvOS/iOS/iPadOS 18 or later, plus a Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, or Silo server—or a network share—with your own media on it. Plozz will offer to set up compatible servers it finds, and you can enter an address for anything it can't discover.
Plozz itself is free. Server-side permissions, hardware, configuration, and any provider subscription requirements still apply to features such as conversion or detailed Plex family guidance.
Open an issue and pick a template — 🐞 Bug report or ✨ Feature request. Bug reports are read and they do get fixed; feature requests genuinely shape what gets built next.
Please don't paste tokens, passwords, or credentialed server URLs into an issue.
Pull requests are welcome. Building the app, running the tests, the module
layout, how localization works, and the release process are all in
CONTRIBUTING.md, with the deeper notes in
docs/.
Plozz will always be free and open source, with no paywall, ads, or obligation. If it's useful to you, donations toward upkeep are welcome — and not donating is completely okay.
Donate via GitHub Sponsors — one-time or recurring.
Plozz is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with, endorsed, or certified by any of the services below.
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AetherEngine — on-device playback engine (FFmpeg demux → VideoToolbox decode) by Vincent Herbst, LGPL-3.0 with an App Store exception. superuser404notfound/AetherEngine. Its bundled FFmpeg is a decode-only, LGPL-3.0 build (see
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The Movie Database (TMDB) — some artwork and metadata is provided by the TMDB API. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. TMDB's marks and logos are trademarks of TMDB.
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TheTVDB — some metadata and artwork is provided by TheTVDB. Please consider adding missing information or subscribing at thetvdb.com. This product uses the TheTVDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TheTVDB.
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OMDb API — optional IMDb ratings enrichment (requires your own OMDb key).
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AniList — keyless community scores for anime titles.
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Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Silo — compatible media servers. Plozz does not supply media; you bring your own library. Names and logos belong to their respective owners.
GPL-3.0, with an App Store Exception © 2026 Brandon Moore
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