NaviFin 1.0 · Open beta on TestFlight
NaviFin is a native Jellyfin player for Apple TV, Mac, iPad, and iPhone. A hybrid AVPlayer + VLC engine plays anything: movies, TV, music, and Live TV. In open beta now; launching as one $6.99 purchase that covers every device, forever.
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. That is the launch plan; the beta is free today.
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 connects only to the server you choose.
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
What you get
Apple's AVPlayer handles efficient native playback. A bundled VLC engine takes over for exotic formats: MKV, HEVC, surround sound, embedded and external subtitles. When one engine cannot handle a file, NaviFin falls back to the other.
It just plays.
Zero analytics. Zero tracking. Zero hidden services. NaviFin talks only to the server you sign in to, and stores your credentials 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.
No cloud. 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. The only service NaviFin ever talks to is the one you sign in to: your own Jellyfin server. Credentials stay 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.
Planned launch price
One purchase. Every device.
One purchase, every device, forever, when NaviFin reaches the App Store. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Until then the beta is free on TestFlight.
Beta program
Do you want to help test NaviFin?
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.
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