Photon Player
Entertainment
Free · In-App Purchases
Photon is a native player for the library you already own. Connect your media servers, your cloud and network storage, and your Live TV subscription, and everything you can watch appears in one place — on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, from a single purchase.
YOUR OWN LIBRARY, TOGETHER
• Works with Jellyfin, Emby, Plex and Silo
• Connect a server free, or as many as you like with Pro. Home and Search bring them all together; the Library tab keeps each source's own shelves separate, so you can still ask what is on one server.
• Play straight from an SMB, NFS, FTP or WebDAV share, a UPnP server on your network, or Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, with no media server at all
• Live TV from an Xtream Codes subscription: a full programme guide, favourites, and a channel list built for thousands of channels
• Open a video from Files or the Finder and it becomes a title like any other — with a resume point, artwork and a name you can match against your servers
AS IT WAS MADE
• Dolby Vision and HDR, with AVPlayer driving the display for real HDR output
• MKV and 4K play as they are. Nothing is quietly downscaled or re-encoded behind your back.
• Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos passed through untouched; TrueHD and DTS-HD decoded losslessly rather than folded to stereo, and with Pro, TrueHD Atmos rendered with its height
• Subtitles drawn as overlays, never burned into the picture
• Standing choices for audio language, subtitle language, and when subtitles should come on at all
• Skip intros and credits, and go straight into the next episode
EVERYWHERE YOU WATCH
• Download for offline with Pro. Transfers carry on while you are elsewhere, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and a notice when a title lands.
• Handoff picks a film up on the next device at the frame you left it
• Spotlight opens a title directly
• Top Shelf on Apple TV, a real menu bar on the Mac, and one design across all four platforms
BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM
Written in SwiftUI for iOS, tvOS and macOS, with full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels on every control, and Reduce Motion respected throughout. There is no account to create and no service of ours in the path: Photon talks to your servers and to your own iCloud, and to nothing else.
PHOTON PRO
The free app is the whole player: one media server and one Live TV subscription, every drive and network share, and every format — 4K, MKV, Dolby Vision, TrueHD and DTS — with browsing, search, Handoff and SharePlay, no advertising and nothing to sign up for.
Pro adds:
• Every source at once: as many servers and Live TV subscriptions as you like, together in Home and Search
• Downloads, for watching offline
• Dolby Atmos from TrueHD soundtracks, rendered for your speakers or headphones
• AirPlay to an Apple TV or any AirPlay screen
• Your servers, settings and the way you have arranged Home, on every device you sign in on
Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-off Lifetime purchase, with a free week on either subscription. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac.
Photon plays the media you already have on servers and storage you control. It is an independent client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Jellyfin, Emby or Plex.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/privacy/
Ratings & Reviews
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FEATURES
• Photon Server tells you when films and episodes you follow are added, in an inbox on Home and as notifications on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro
• Swipe a notification to clear it, or clear them all at once; opening one clears it on every device
• Photon Server changes arrive live, without refreshing
• A title's cast and crew starts with its directors on every source
• An episode shows its show's scores for any site that didn't score the episode
FIXES
• Home's showcase no longer stretches a poster where a title has no landscape artwork
• General bug fixes
The developer, Oliver Walton, 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
- Provider
- Oliver Walton
- Size
- 39.3 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Photon Pro Lifetime ₱ 2,990.00
- Photon Pro Yearly ₱ 999.00
- Photon Pro Monthly ₱ 129.00
- Copyright
- © Oliver Walton

