4 useful Jellyfin apps that make my self-hosted server so much better

Published Sep 29, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT Samir Makwana is a technology journalist and editor from India since past 18 years and his work appears on MakeUseOf, HowToGeek, GSMArena, BGR, GuidingTech, The Inquisitr, TechInAsia, TechWiser, and others. He has written news, features, and gadget reviews for national technology media publications. His passion is to help people with their technology problems and gadget purchases. For that, he has worked for some of the biggest international technology publications, covering news, explainers, how-to guides, listicles, and product-buying guides. He has worked as an editor and managed teams since 2015. His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. I run a Jellyfin server on an HP ProDesk 600 G6 in my home lab, under Proxmox with iGPU passed through for hardware transcoding. With the server side sorted, the app on each device decides how Jellyfin feels. Though the official clients work just fine, a handful of third-party clients include things I’d otherwise chase with a plugin or workaround. After trying a bunch of apps, I settled on four Jellyfin apps that I usually install first. All of them work with Jellyfin 12 and are client apps, not server plugins, so the features are baked into the app. Infuse cuts down subtitle hunting A one-tap OpenSubtitles fetch and Trakt sync Even though I have a humble library, it does have several titles without subtitles embedded or included alongside them. Fixing that in Jellyfin’s web client means digging through the subtitle search, then picking one, and hoping it sticks. Infuse does this inside the media player with a single tap, and it pulls the subtitle from OpenSubtitles for free. Trakt synced my watch history and ratings with my account without a server plugin. Infuse can also skip intros and credits using IntroDB. However, I’d install it for easy subtitle fetching. It also treats Jellyfin as one of the several sources to map a media server or network shares, so I can use Infuse to browse a NAS or a Plex server too. Firecore, the developers of Infuse, added Jellyfin 12 support in version 8.5.2, so I had to update the client before pointing it to a Jellyfin server. The only catch with Infuse is that it’s limited to Apple hardware: iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac. The app is free to download, but Infuse Pro costs $2/month, $17/year, or $100 for a lifetime license. Infuse Wholphin switches the resolution and the refresh rate automatically PIN-protected profiles and the ability to skip settings Wholphin is a free Jellyfin app for Android TV and Fire TV written from scratch, and I ran it on my Fire TV Stick 4K. It plays the videos through ExoPlayer or MPV. I like it because it switches my TV’s refresh rate and resolution to match what I’m watching without changing any settings. I noticed that right after moving over from an Apple TV 4K. I can lock the profiles I created behind a PIN, which works great on the TV I share with my family. I can also rearrange the home page rows and pin collections, genres, or studios to make navigating with the Fire TV remote easier. Wholphin lets me skip intros and credits sequences automatically, or it can show me a prompt. But it reads those segments from the server, so a segment provider such as the Intro Skipper plugin has to generate them first. I installed it on my Jellyfin server. Wholphin only decides what happens once that data exists. Subtitle search works the same way and needs a compatible subtitle plugin on the server. Wholphin Fladder pulls a server dashboard inside a client Check sessions and run tasks without poking through the web UI Most clients stop at playback, but Fladder goes a step ahead and shows who’s streaming from the Jellyfin server and how far along they are. But this is buried in the Control Panel under Settings. That’s where I manage users, libraries, and scheduled tasks. Sometimes I use Tailscale for remote access, and checking the server status from the phone instead of a full browser is quite convenient. Unfortunately, it doesn’t replace Jellyfin’s Playback Reporting plugin, since the panel shows live sessions, not the user’s full viewing history. That means no log or chart of what got viewed last month, just “who’s watching what.” For requests, I integrated Seerr into Fladder, and the app has its own settings for skipping intros and credits. The app’s interface looks the same on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. There is a minor difference from the native feel, and I’m fine with that. Wholphin is open source and also has a Docker image. Fladder OS Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Android TV Findroid keeps your library playable offline Direct play only, without an option to adjust bitrate As a native Android app, Findroid follows Google’s Material design language. I like it because I can download movies and shows for offline playback. The app earns its spot on my Android device since those downloads work in a dead zone, on a flight, or anywhere the server isn’t reachable. Findroid uses mpv for playback and renders subtitles properly. It uses Jellyfin’s Media Segments API to skip intros, credits, and outros. Of course, I had to install the Intro Skipper plugin on the server for that. Findroid Findroid only supports direct play, and transcoding isn’t possible. Even though Jellyfin could use the iGPU passthrough on Proxmox for hardware transcoding, Findroid never asks for that. So I can’t pick a streaming bitrate, even when using the app on a weaker connection. That said, the offline downloads make up for this. Findroid is free on Google Play and F-Droid. Pick the client that fits the screen you plan to use None of these apps replace each other, and that’s the point. Infuse covers Apple devices, Wholphin covers Android TV and Fire TV, Fladder covers computers and doubles as a dashboard, and Findroid covers Android devices. Just remember that Wholphin and Findroid need an extra server plugin to skip the intros and credits. Infuse Pro is the only paid piece, and the other three take a few minutes to set up. Jellyfin iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes Desktop compatible Yes