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swiftly-player

Swiftly Player — a native Jellyfin client for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, Android, Linux and Windows. It never transcodes: every file plays as Direct Play or Direct Stream.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

swiftly-player is a media server client program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Works with a server you install or already have.

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
  • “Swiftly Player — a native Jellyfin client for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, Android, Linux and Windows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Swiftly Player is a free, native client for your own media server: Jellyfin, and in beta also Plex and Emby.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (MPL-2.0) 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 paulherter/swiftly-player (MPL-2.0)

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