Swiftly Player
Direct Play, always. With PiP
Free
Never transcoded. Picture in Picture. Resume on this Device: press play on the TV, carry on here.
Swiftly plays the films on your Jellyfin server just as they are.
Most apps have the server rebuild a film while you're watching. Swiftly leaves it alone — and tells you beforehand that it will. If something ever does have to be converted, you'll see which part of the file was responsible.
Picture in Picture is built in, so a film can carry on in the corner while you get on with something else.
RESUME ON THIS DEVICE
Something playing on the Apple TV turns up as a button on your iPhone. One tap and it carries on here, at the second you left it. It works in every direction between iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.
SERVERS AND ACCOUNTS
Add more than one Jellyfin, stay signed in to all of them, and switch from your profile without typing a password again.
DOWNLOADS
Take episodes and films with you. Swiftly downloads the original file, so what you watch offline is the same quality as what you stream.
MORE
• Request what your server doesn't have yet, through Seerr, without leaving the app
• Skip Intro and Skip Credits, via the Jellyfin plugin
• People pages: tap a name in the cast for a biography and everything of theirs you own
• Your home screen in your order — rows off, rows moved, genres as rows or as chips
• Sign in with a Quick Connect code instead of a password
• Lock screen and headphone controls, plus background audio
• Your audio and subtitle language, chosen once
• Next episode on its own, sleep timer, playback speed
• Watchlist, filters and search
• English and German
Swiftly brings no films of its own — it simply shows what's already on your server. And it collects nothing: no analytics, no advertising, no account with us. Your viewing position goes to your server and nowhere else.
You'll need a Jellyfin server of your own, 10.8 or newer, on a secure (https) address, and an iPhone or iPad with iOS 18.
Ratings & Reviews
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NEW
• People. Tap a name in the cast and you land on their page: birthday, biography, and everything of theirs your server holds.
• A second server. Add another Jellyfin, stay signed in to both, and switch accounts from your profile.
• Your home screen in your order. Turn rows off, move them around, put genres in as rows or as chips along the top.
• Genre pages behind those chips.
• Recent searches.
• Quick Connect codes copy with one tap.
CHANGED
• Resume on this Device sits next to your profile picture, so you catch it on any page instead of only the home screen.
• That badge no longer borrows the colour your progress bars use. One colour for two meanings made both of them vague.
• Descriptions arrive clean, with no stray HTML in the middle of a plot summary.
• A header with no artwork falls back: a series borrows the still from your next episode, everything else its poster.
• A soft glow sits behind the top of the home screen.
FIXED
• Progress on tiles now does what the switch says. It had never done anything at all.
• Search no longer opens the wrong title when a server lists the same thing twice.
• Episodes you mark as watched stay marked when you go back a screen.
• Twenty-three labels that were still German in the English app now read English.
The developer, Paul Herter, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Paul Herter
- Size
- 53.4 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paul Herter
