JellyPlay is an open-source Jellyfin client for Android phones, TVs, and Fire TV, with an early Windows desktop build. It lets users stream and download media, play music, read books and comics, join SyncPlay sessions, and manage content requests through Jellyseerr or Overseerr.
Project status
- Actively maintained: the upstream push was 2026-11-04, one day before today, and updates continued through late October.
- The cadence is very frequent, with multiple updates in some weeks and alpha and stable updates often close together.
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Recent updates
v0.11.8
v0.11.8 adds hardware-aware playback performance profiles, a broader performance settings hub, and extensive Appearance, Home, and Playback customization. It also introduces whole-segment skip prompts and documents fixes for PiP orientation, playback, settings search, and rendering, alongside performance optimizations and toolchain updates.
Featuresv0.11.8-alpha.2
This alpha release reports a broad performance profiling and optimization pass, an internationalization sweep, and toolchain updates. The notes do not specify individual changes, version numbers, measured performance gains, or upgrade steps.
v0.11.8-alpha.1
JellyPlay KMP Alpha v0.11.8-alpha.1 announces performance profiles, a broad performance pass, an internationalization sweep, and toolchain updates. The diff includes shell recomposition and startup optimizations, configurable image-cache sizing, and a PiP orientation-state fix that is not called out in the release notes.
BreakingFeaturesv0.11.7
The release notes describe a broad player, downloads, customization, and settings update, including new playback controls, session restore, shortcut editing, and download management. The supplied code diff compares v0.11.7-alpha.1 with v0.11.7, so it mainly shows final fixes for regressions and does not contain most of the features announced in the release notes.
Featuresv0.11.7-alpha.1
This alpha release includes the changes grouped under v0.11.6: a player experience overhaul, tagged artwork, authentication backup and restore, and changes to LibraryFeed. The release notes do not provide implementation details or identify compatibility or upgrade requirements.
Featuresv0.11.6
v0.11.6 adds extensive playback, streaming-quality, shortcut, and download controls, including session restore and customizable home-screen experiences. It also fixes playback controls across engines, stale artwork and subtitle-font handling, plus several stability issues; no API-breaking changes or security updates are noted.
Featuresv0.11.6-alpha.1
The release notes describe a player experience overhaul, tagged artwork, authentication backup and restore, and a LibraryFeed carve-out, but provide no implementation details. The visible code diff also introduces cold-start playback-session restoration, changes PiP orientation handling, and refactors shell navigation and dependency wiring; several of these changes are not called out individually in the notes.
BreakingFeaturesv0.11.5
v0.11.5 adds major playback and library capabilities, including a grouped downloads experience, HDR controls, spatial audio, and a manual up-next queue with warm playback handoff. It also improves startup and UI responsiveness, adds home layout sync and new detail-page features, and fixes Android TV controls and image loading reliability.
Featuresv0.11.5-alpha.1
v0.11.5-alpha.1 documents an HDR output policy, a manual up-next queue, series-grouped downloads, and startup and recomposition performance work. The visible code diff also includes player key-dispatch and app-lock lifecycle behavior changes that are not called out in the release notes; no confirmed public API break is evident in the supplied excerpt.
Featuresv0.11.4
v0.11.4 is a stability release that prevents launch crashes when restored encrypted credentials cannot be decrypted, fixes the playback input-bindings editor, and restores controls if a corrupted binding map locks users out. It also adds previous-episode navigation and excludes secure credential files from Android backup and device transfer.
SecurityFeaturesv0.11.4-alpha.1
Release v0.11.4-alpha.1 documents a video-player input pipeline fix and previous-episode navigation. The diff also adds Android encrypted-preference recovery and backup exclusions, repairs some unusable input maps, and fixes gesture and seek-chip state handling.
Featuresv0.11.3
JellyPlay v0.11.3 adds an optional Jellyfin companion plugin that enables cross-device sync, push notifications, server-brokered Jellyseerr sign-in, and admin tools. The app also gains a restore wizard with encrypted backups, customizable playback controls and subtitle styles, plus several fixes for offline detection and Live TV guide refreshes.
SecurityFeaturesv0.11.3-alpha.1
The release notes announce companion server plugin integration, unified state sync, and a player input overhaul, but provide no implementation details. The displayed code diff also shows changes to external-player reporting ownership, shell interfaces, TV layout behavior, and widget data access that are not called out in the notes.
Featuresv0.11.2-alpha.2
This release fixes update downloads that failed when GitHub redirected release assets to its current CDN. The asset allow-list now accepts that CDN only when the redirect path contains JellyPlay's pinned GitHub repository ID.
v0.11.2
JellyPlay v0.11.2 adds major capabilities including Android Auto, endless radio, metadata tools, media version switching, server backups, and reader enhancements. It also fixes the in-app updater issue affecting v0.11.1, improves playback and server discovery reliability, and includes automatic database and settings migrations.
Featuresv0.11.2-alpha.1
JellyPlay KMP Alpha v0.11.2-alpha.1 announces Android Auto, Jellyfin Identify, and Android 16 widgets and Live Updates. The visible code also changes external-player playback result handling, PiP preference behavior, and app-level wiring, including source-level changes not called out in the release notes.
Featuresv0.11.1
v0.11.1 adds configurable Discover rows, What's New release highlights, playback and track-selection controls, mTLS support, and TV remote navigation, alongside broad localization and security improvements. It also removes the web target and includes substantial shell, dependency-injection, and playback refactoring.
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