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I moved over to Jellyfin after Emby started sufficiently pissing me off. I don’t really want to pay a subscription fee to self host stuff, but I especially don’t want to be pushed to pay for something that was already free and open source. (I certainly do so voluntarily. Krita comes to mind.) Jellyfin lacks many of the native apps, but at least I don’t feel like I’m being pushed into someone’s annoying monetization scheme.



Jellyfin is also a dlna media server, so even devices that don't have an official client can still access your content in a pinch.


Plex can do that as well.


While true I don’t see how that is particularly relevant to this thread; I was only talking about Emby vs Jellyfin. Did you mean Emby? I know it does but if you were going to use Emby with no native apps you may as well use Jellyfin.


But Emby has a proper IOS client, Jellyfin does not. This is value I pay for. Plus I don't mind paying for quality software regardless.


There is a beta client for Jellyfin as well which you can install via testflight, it may be this one: https://testflight.apple.com/join/TcFUEVEb but I just googled that and did not get it from an official page.


I used this before, and it works decently enough.

I do wish there was a feature to download videos locally for watching on-the-go. (I'm not sure if the Plex or Emby apps have it.)


Plex does have that feature. Jellyfin devs have it high on their list, but it hasn't been built out yet.


I just downloaded it and it actually seems pretty good, albeit I haven’t done much yet. Thanks!





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