Jellusion

Play your own Jellyfin library on Apple TV the way it was mastered: Dolby Vision, HDR10, lossless audio, no transcoding.

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Dolby Vision 8.1HDR10 · HDR10+TrueHD · DTSMKV direct playFrame-rate match

Jellusion is a native Apple TV client for Jellyfin, the free and open-source media server. Point it at your server, sign in, and your films and shows play exactly as the files are stored: no server transcoding, no quality loss.

On screen

A film page: logo, format badges, cast. Spring, Blender Foundation, CC BY.

Clean 4K HDR10 playback frame from Singularity — 4K HEVC HDR10 playback. *Singularity*, Blender Foundation, CC BY.

Transport bar with scrubber and chapter markers over Spring — Transport bar with chapter markers.

Movies library as a poster grid with sort control and A–Z rail — Movies as a poster grid with the A–Z rail.

Series page with a season picker and episode list — Series page with the season picker.

Playback frame from Agent 327: Operation Barbershop — *Agent 327: Operation Barbershop*, Blender Foundation, CC BY.

Search screen with results from the library — Search across the whole library.

Every title shown is a Blender Foundation open movie (CC BY), a public-domain film, or our own fictional test series. Attribution for the demo library is on the credits page.

What it plays

MKV and MP4 files direct from your server, HEVC and H.264
Dolby Vision profile 8.1, HDR10 and HDR10+ with native output and frame-rate matching
TrueHD, DTS, AC-3, E-AC-3 and AAC audio, multichannel, decoded on the Apple TV
Embedded and external subtitles, including styled ASS/SSA and bitmap tracks, with subtitle search through your server's providers

Home and library

A Home screen built around what you are watching: Continue Watching and Next Up in a full-bleed hero, plus your favourites and the latest additions
Movies as poster grid or genre shelves, with an A–Z rail
Series pages with a season picker, episode pages that link back to their series, and cast pages with filmographies
Search across your whole library
Top Shelf on the Apple TV Home screen showing what to resume next

Playback

Scrubbing with trickplay previews and chapter markers
Audio and subtitle switching without leaving the player
Next-episode countdown and multi-part films that chain automatically
Watched state and resume positions kept in sync with your server and every other Jellyfin client

Accounts

Sign in with a password or Quick Connect
Several users on one Apple TV with a "Who's watching?" selector
Servers on your network are found automatically; remote servers can be added by address

Requirements

Apple TV running tvOS 17 or later; Apple TV 4K for HDR and Dolby Vision output
A Jellyfin server, version 10.9 or newer, on your network or reachable by address
Nothing else: no account of ours, no subscription, no content of its own

Privacy and open source

Jellusion talks only to the server you configure. There is no analytics, no crash reporting and no account of ours; nothing you watch leaves your server. Read the privacy policy.

The app is built on FFmpeg and libass under their open-source licences. Licence texts, upstream sources and the LGPL written offer are on the licences page and inside the app under Settings › About. The scripts that build those frameworks are public at github.com/baranov-org/jellusion-build-scripts.