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jellyplay

Jellyfin client for Android, Android TV & Fire TV. Native Kotlin/Jetpack Compose app with ExoPlayer, mpv & VLC playback, synced-lyrics music, offline downloads, SyncPlay, IPTV, and Jellyseerr/Overseerr requests.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

jellyplay is a media server client mobile app, available on Android.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: lyrics display, self-hosting on your own server, casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…), equaliser, playlists and scheduled tasks.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “JellyPlay is a premium, open-source Jellyfin client for Android, Android TV & Fire TV, with a Windows desktop preview.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Native Kotlin/Jetpack Compose app with ExoPlayer, mpv & VLC playback, synced-lyrics music, offline downloads, SyncPlay, IPTV, and Jellyseerr/Overseerr requests.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Self-hosted, no tracking” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “HDR support, Chromecast, Picture-in-Picture, trickplay thumbnails, and gesture controls.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Enjoy synced lyrics, a 10-band equalizer, ambient mode with animated color blobs, waveform seeking, and mood-based smart playlists.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Enjoy synced lyrics, a 10-band equalizer, ambient mode with animated color blobs, waveform seeking, and mood-based smart playlists.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Monitor server health, manage active sessions, browse server logs, trigger scheduled tasks, and control your Jellyfin server from your phone.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of jellyplay is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub raulshma/jellyplay (GPL-3.0-only)

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