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Jellyfin Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Jellyfin
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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Kodi Home Theater Software
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
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Kometa
Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.
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bazarr
Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Jellyfin alternative or higher similarity.
Jellyfin discussion
Jellyfin reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Jellyfin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-16.
- Jellyfin unauthenticated endpoints can leak data about your collection and more
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Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative
Love JellyFin!
I do not mind the lankiness, since I can work around a lot of it with the API.
I do not even mind too much the Love Exposure bug:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10494
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Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media
Switched from Plex to https://jellyfin.org/ without much trouble
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Plex price increases for 2025, remote streaming of personal media no longer free
After trying Plex, I found Jellyfin [1] to be a complete replacement when paired with a VPN for remote devices. I haven't had a single issue with a library over 2TB and thousands of files.
[1]: https://jellyfin.org/
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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
You are not wrong. But it is still an amazing piece of software for self hosting.
My biggest gripe is the sometimes hilariously strange behavior picking artwork:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10494
Other weird things I have been able to DIY. I wrote my own auto-updater and Live TV listing grabber.
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Ode to one diagnostic rule and to couple more, or Jellyfin check
Jellyfin is based on the Emby 3.5.2 release and ported to the .NET Core platform to provide full cross-platform support.
- Jellyfin Server 10.10.0 Released
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Turing Pi 2 Home cluster
Jellyfin
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Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall
All non-GUI .NET applications, unless they use niche things like windows registery or management API, are by definition platform agnostic and run wherever .NET runs (macOS, Linux, FreeBSD(with caveats), Android, iOS, Windows). Most business today which have moved off old version run sever workloads on Linux hosts within K8S or otherwise.
Popular applications that run on Linux are
Jellyfin: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
Sonarr (and other High Seas apps): https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr
Ryujinx: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx (the kind of project that can easily match writing a browser in complexity)
Bitwarden (server): https://github.com/bitwarden
Stride3D: https://github.com/stride3d/stride
Godot (offers C# as script language, using regular .NET)
From the top of my head, I'm sure there are many others less popular. It is sad that this conversation needs to be had 8 years after the first version of .NET (Core as it was named at the time).
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 16 May 2025
Stats
Basic Jellyfin repo stats
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9.9
6 days ago
jellyfin/jellyfin is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
Jellyfin is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Jellyfin is C#.
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