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Jellyfin

Jellyfin

Free and open-source media server for movies, TV shows, music, and photos — a fully self-hosted alternative to Plex.

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Jellyfin is a free, open-source media server that lets you manage and stream your personal media collection — movies, TV shows, music, photos, and live TV — from any device. It is a fully open-source fork of Emby, with no premium tiers or subscription required.

Jellyfin supports hardware transcoding (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Raspberry Pi), subtitles, multiple users with parental controls, SyncPlay for watching together, and a rich plugin ecosystem. Clients are available for virtually every platform: Roku, Android TV, Apple TV, iOS, Android, web browsers, Kodi, and more.

Unlike Plex, which has increasingly moved features behind a paid subscription, Jellyfin is entirely free and open-source with no phone-home or cloud requirement. Your media stays on your hardware and is never analyzed by a third party.

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84/100
Project Health (50%)
85/100
License (20%)
60/100
Self-hostable (20%)
100/100
Recency (10%)
100/100
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License
GPL-2.0
Self hostable
Yes
Repository details
Version
v12.1
Created
12/9/2018
Stars
57,449
Forks
5,546
Open issues
705
Last commit
9/22/2026

Updated 9/24/2026, 9:00:38 AM

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