JellyBox

The best native music player for your Jellyfin or Emby server - on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS(including CarPlay) and Android.

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JellyBox is an unofficial, audio-only client for Jellyfin and Emby. It focuses on doing one thing well: making your own music library feel like a modern streaming app - fast browsing, offline downloads, lyrics, and artwork-driven theming - with a UI built for each platform rather than a single stretched layout.

Important

JellyBox is a client, not a server. You need access to a running Jellyfin or Emby server with a music library on it.

Download

Platform	Format
iOS / iPadOS / macOS	App Store
macOS	.dmg (signed & notarized)	Latest release
Windows	Installer .exe or portable .zip	Latest release
Linux	.AppImage, .deb, .rpm or .tar.gz bundle (x64 & arm64)	Latest release
Android	Google Play
Android	.apk (sideload)	Latest release

Screenshots

Desktop

Studio Mode - full-screen animated mode made for aesthetic

Home	Time-synced lyrics

More screenshots - songs, search, albums, artists, downloads

Songs	Search
Albums	Artist
Downloads

Mobile

Home	Now playing	Lyrics	Artist	Downloads

Landscape now playing - rotate your phone for a wide player layout

Features

Library & browsing

• Connect to Jellyfin or Emby servers, and switch between them without signing out
• Jellyfin Quick Connect - sign in from your phone or desktop without typing a password
• Browse albums, artists, genres, playlists and songs across multiple music libraries
• Search everything at once, or filter to playlists, albums, artists or songs
• Artist pages with biography and full discography
• Favourite tracks, synced back to your server
• Create playlists and add tracks to them from anywhere in the app
• Genre mixes on the home page, built from the genres you actually play - see Normalizing your music genres if your genre tags are messy
• Home page with recently played, recently added and personalised mixes

Playback

• Playback memory - app remembers your queue and playback position between restarts
• Time-synced lyrics overlay
• Queue management with shuffle, repeat and a randomised "surprise me" queue
• Per-connection streaming profiles with automatic transcoding when a codec isn't supported natively
• Audio quality badge, so you always know whether you're getting the original file
• Landscape now-playing layout on phones

Offline

• Download albums and tracks for offline listening
• Full offline mode - access to your downloaded tracks even if you're on plane.

Look & feel

• Colour scheme generated from the current album artwork
• Studio Mode - a full screen animated mode for aesthetic feel(see screenshots)

Desktop & system integration

• Media keys and global keyboard shortcuts
• MPRIS support on Linux (works with GNOME/KDE media widgets and playerctl)
• Windows media overlay - now playing with artwork and transport controls in the system media popup, plus media key support
• AirPlay and system output routing on macOS and iOS
• Cast to DLNA / UPnP renderers (smart TVs, network speakers and receivers)
• Lock screen and notification controls on iOS and Android
• In-app changelog, so you can see what landed in each release
• Apple CarPlay - currently in beta stage.
• Android Auto - in development

Platform notes

macOS - media keys

macOS does not let an app read media keys without permission. On first use JellyBox will point you at System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility; enable JellyBox there. If it isn't in the list, add it with the + button.

Windows

The installer is unsigned, so SmartScreen will warn on first run - choose More info → Run anyway. The portable zip has no installer and can be run from anywhere.

Android

Install from Google Play, or sideload the APK from the releases page. For the APK you'll need to allow installs from your browser or file manager.

Linux

The release bundle expects a few shared libraries. On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libmpv-dev mpv libsecret-1-dev libsqlite3-dev libjsoncpp-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libdbus-1-dev

Note: Recently I bundled libs with app, but I need more folks to actually test it on different distros.

Development

Prerequisites - Flutter with Dart SDK 3.8 or newer, plus the toolchain for whichever platform you're targeting (Xcode, Android Studio, or the Linux packages above).

git clone https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer.git
cd JellyBoxPlayer

flutter pub get
dart run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs   # freezed, json_serializable, retrofit
flutter run                                                # then pick a target device

Run the tests with flutter test, and the analyzer with flutter analyze - CI runs both on every push.

Codegen is needed whenever you touch a model, DTO or API client; those *.g.dart and *.freezed.dart files are generated, not hand-edited.

Contributing

Bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are all welcome - see CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow.

License

GNU AGPL-3.0 © ProdigyTech Inc.