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Skip Intro & Auto-Play Next
Skip intros and credits, then roll straight into the next episode — on Plex and Jellyfin.
Aether
Your own streaming service.Without the subscription.
Aether brings your movies, shows, and videos from Plex, Jellyfin, SMB/NAS, and local files into one beautiful experience across all your Apple devices.
Free during the beta. · Your media stays yours. Always private. Always local.
Made for iPhone
Your library, in your hand.
Browse, ask and play from every source — wherever you are.
One Library. All Your Sources.
Unified Library
Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, your NAS, local files, and downloads — merged into one library that matches every title across sources. No duplicates, no app-switching. Each movie plays from the best source automatically.
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Jellyfin
4K DV+2
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Local
4K HDR+1
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SMB/NAS
4K Bluray+1
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Jellyfin
1080p
Local
1080p
💡 Click a unified movie to change sourceDeduplicated
Plex
Jellyfin
SMB · NAS
Local Files
Smart dedup
Titles are matched across every server by their TMDB & IMDb IDs — one entry, never duplicates.
Resume that follows you
Pause on Plex, finish on Jellyfin. Aether keeps the furthest point across every source and device.
Pick your source
See every server a title lives on, with quality badges — and switch where it plays in a tap.
Multiple Plex servers
Connect them all into one library and choose which one streams first.
Your private theater
Lights down. Screen up to IMAX size. Room optional.
Vision Pro · Dark Theater
Step into a Dark Theater, scale the screen up to a wall, and dial the room away with the Digital Crown — on a full native player.
Vision Pro Cinema
Turn your library into a private theater.
Medium · Large · IMAX · WallFront · Middle · Back seatsHouse lights downDigital Crown immersionFull native player
Ten feet away, instantly at home.
A real tvOS-native interface — focus-driven browsing, Siri Remote scrubbing, frame-rate matching, HDR and Dolby Vision. Your library looks like it was born on the big screen.
A real Mac app, not a port.
Native on Apple Silicon with the libmpv engine under the hood — drag-and-drop playback, full keyboard control, picture-in-picture. Now in public beta on TestFlight, like every other Apple platform.
Aether
The details that matter.
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Offline Downloads
Download whole seasons — MKV and AVI included — and watch with no signal at all.
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Cast & Crew
See who made what, then jump to the rest of their work right inside your library.
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Ratings, Your Way
TMDb scores, your Plex server ratings, or rate titles yourself from the detail view.
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Browse Every Angle
Collections, genres, actors and directors — your library, sliced the way you think.
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Switch Tracks On the Fly
Change audio language or subtitles mid-scene, without ever leaving the film.
Private by DesignNo Aether cloud.
No Aether cloud.
No accounts.
No tracking.
Aether connects directly to your Plex, Jellyfin and local libraries — your media never passes through our servers. No cloud sync, no ads, no features locked behind a subscription.
Instant launchUp to 60× less bandwidthNative SwiftUIBattery friendly
Roadmap
Built in the open. Shipping steadily.
Latest release: 1.0.3 · A cinematic new Home, Identify on every server, and smarter genre filters · July 2026
Shipped
Plex
Jellyfin
Downloads & Offline Playback
Vision Pro Cinema
Local Library
Shared Libraries
Network shares — SMB & NAS
macOS app
Emby
Ask Aether — AI search & recommendations
Planned
Cinema environments — Deep Space & beyond
Watch Together in the cinema
Built by one person. Shaped by you.
Aether is designed and built in Prague by one person — and steered by the people using it. Every bug report and feature request is read by the person who’ll fix it, usually the same day.
support@aetherplayer.comGet started
Ready to bring your media together?
Aether 1.0.3 is live on TestFlight. Install it and start building your library today.