NaviFin 1.2.7 · Now on the App Store
NaviFin is a native Jellyfin player for Apple TV, Mac, iPad and iPhone. One $6.99 purchase covers every device, forever. It needs the 26 releases: iOS, iPadOS, macOS or tvOS 26.
Also from us: NaviBeat, the native music app for Navidrome.
One purchase. Every screen. Forever.
Cinematic home, Continue Watching, Top Shelf, and a focus-native UI built for the Siri Remote, not a cursor.
Glass sidebar, in-window playback, keyboard shortcuts, Picture in Picture. Not Electron, not Catalyst.
Cast and crew, More Like This, trickplay scrubbing. Adaptive layout, Picture in Picture, AirPlay, and offline downloads.
Download movies and episodes for the plane. Picture in Picture, AirPlay, and watch state that syncs back to your server.
Buy NaviFin once on any Apple device and it installs on the other three for free. No subscription, no per-platform fee. One purchase on the App Store, every device, forever.
Bring your own server
NaviFin speaks the Jellyfin API. Point it at your server, sign in, and your whole library is there: movies, TV, music, Live TV, photos, and books. NaviFin has no backend of its own, so your library stays between you and your server.
Self-hosted, on a Raspberry Pi, NAS, VPS, or anywhere else. Your library never leaves the box you put it on. New to Jellyfin? Start at jellyfin.org. NaviFin is an independent client, not affiliated with the Jellyfin project.
One purchase, four devices
The short answer
Weighing it against the other Jellyfin clients? We keep a comparison against Swiftfin and Infuse, with sources and dates, and we say plainly who each one is for.
Compare the clientsWhat you get
Apple's AVPlayer handles what Apple plays natively. A bundled VLC engine takes what Apple's player cannot open. An MKV with Apple-friendly streams is repackaged by your server, nothing re-encoded. If a file fails at start, NaviFin asks your server for a transcode.
Zero analytics. Zero tracking. There is no NaviFin backend: the app talks to your server, plus Trakt, OpenSubtitles, Jellyseerr or Philips Hue only if you set them up. Your server sign-in stays in the device Keychain. No accounts with us, ever.
Your server, your rules.
Not an Electron shell. Not a web wrapper. Each app is tuned for its screen: focus on tvOS, a single glass window on macOS, touch and Picture in Picture on iOS and iPadOS.
Subtitle, audio track, and playback speed selection. Skip Intro and Skip Credits. Next Up auto-advance and trickplay scrubbing. SyncPlay to watch together, in sync, across devices.
Player
A demo of the timeline. Drag the scrubber.
Keyboard works too: tab to the bar, then use the arrow keys.
No backend. No account. No telemetry.
NaviFin is a client. Your media lives where it already does: a Raspberry Pi, a Synology, a home server under someone’s desk. We never see your library, your credentials, or a single play event. We couldn’t if we wanted to: the app has no backend. NaviFin talks to the server you sign in to, plus Trakt, OpenSubtitles, your Jellyseerr or Philips Hue if you set them up. Your server sign-in stays in the device Keychain.
About the maker
NaviFin is built and maintained by Nenad Jokic, one person in Belgrade. No team behind a wall, no investors to please, no analytics dashboard somewhere telling me what you watched last night. The roadmap is shaped by what self-hosters actually ask for: reverse proxies, custom access headers, self-signed LAN servers, Tailscale, the things that came in through TestFlight and email. NaviFin is the video-first sibling of NaviBeat, my Navidrome music app, and they share the same design language.
If something is broken, you can write directly to me. I usually reply within a day.
Price
One purchase, every device, forever. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads.
Beta program
If you are willing to share what you find, we would love to have you on the TestFlight group. Apple TV, Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
FAQ
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