jelly client
multimedia client
Only for Mac
$1.99
Mac
⏺ Jelly - multimedia Client
A native client or for selfhosted media, built with SwiftUI. Quality of playback (especially HDR video and
bit-perfect audio) is the design priority.
Video
- Browse movies and TV libraries as a poster grid (2:3 aspect, with 4K/HDR/Dolby Vision badges).
- Series detail view groups episodes by season.
- Playback uses libmpv embedded via render API + CAOpenGLLayer (IINA-style). HDR, 10-bit, hardware decoding.
- Resume from saved position; progress is reported back to the server.
- Subtitles and audio track selection through the in-player HUD.
Music (macOS-only, bit-perfect pipeline)
- Music libraries open into a segmented Albums / Artists control.
- Albums grid: square covers, album-artist subtitle.
- Album detail: cover, title, artist, year, track count, total duration, community rating (when present), genres,
multi-disc grouping with "Disc N" headers, per-track artist shown when it differs from the album artist (compilations /
collaborations).
- Artists grid: album-artist roster with circular photos.
- Artist detail: photo, name, album count, and that artist's albums sorted by year.
- Playlists: grid and detail view that preserves Jellyfin's insertion order.
- Playback engine: CoreAudio HAL with hog mode, sample-rate switching per track (verified bit-perfect via DAC LED),
float32 frames straight to the device's IOProc. The signal is never resampled or volume-attenuated in software — volume
is the DAC's job.
- Settings panel (Cmd+,): choose output device, toggle exclusive mode, see device details (manufacturer, channels,
format, max sample rate).
Now Playing
- Sticky strip docked to the bottom of the main window (via safeAreaInset); only visible when something is loaded.
- Cover, track name, status (preparing / playing / paused / error).
- Clickable / draggable progress slider with live time readout. Drag updates only locally; seek fires once on release so
the device's position-update timer doesn't fight the thumb.
- Play/pause/stop controls.
- Coexistence with video: starting video stops music (releases HAL hog mode); the reverse path surfaces a clear "audio
device busy" state.
Home
Shown when no library is selected. Four sections load in parallel via async let:
1. Continue Watching — getResumeItems, video only, with a thin progress bar overlaid on each poster.
2. Recently Added — movies and series.
3. Recently Added Albums — square album cards.
4. Recommendations — Jellyfin's similarity engine (similar to recently played, shared director, shared actor, etc.),
flattened across categories and deduplicated.
Search
- .searchable field docked in the toolbar.
- 300 ms debounce — typing doesn't hammer the server.
- Searches across movies, series, episodes, box sets, albums, and individual tracks.
- Albums route to the album detail; tracks play directly via the music player; everything else routes to its appropriate
detail view.
General
- NavigationSplitView (sidebar with libraries + detail with stack navigation).
- Login persists via Keychain; the server's Accept-Language is honored so metadata respects the user's locale.
- Cards adapt aspect ratio: 2:3 for video, 1:1 for music/playlists.
- Spanish UI strings throughout (the user's primary language).
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Version 3.3 -- Instant playback for DSD and lossless audio
• Music now starts playing within a second. Jelly Client streams tracks
while they download instead of waiting for the whole file, so large
DSD and hi-res FLAC albums no longer keep you waiting.
• Bit-perfect all the way: exclusive access to your DAC, native DSD over
DoP and lossless PCM remain untouched by the system mixer, now with
progressive playback on both paths.
• Seek anywhere, even into parts of a track that haven't downloaded yet.
Playback resumes from the new position as soon as the data arrives.
• Pause and resume no longer make your DAC re-lock its clock, so there
are no clicks or dropouts when you continue a track.
• More robust playback: a lost connection mid-track is reported as an
error instead of silently ending the song.
The developer, carlos prieto ortiz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- carlos prieto ortiz
- Size
- 26.8 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Carlos Prieto Ortiz 2026
