🪼 Jellify

jellify (verb) - to make gelatinous
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Jellify is a free and open source music player for Jellyfin. Built with React Native, Jellify provides a user experience that feels familar to other popular music apps and a has featureset to match

Jellify requires a connection to a Jellyfin server to work.

🤓 Background

I was after a music app for Jellyfin that showcased my music with artwork, had a user interface congruent with what the big guys do, and had the ability to algorithmically curate music (not that you have to use Jellify that way). I also wanted to create a music app that could handle my extremely large music libraries (i.e., 100K+ songs) and not get bogged down.

This app was designed with me and my dad in mind, since I wanted to give him a sleek, one stop shop for live recordings of bands he likes (read: the Grateful Dead). The UI was designed so that he'd find it instantly familiar and useful. CarPlay / Android Auto support was also a must for us, as we both use CarPlay religiously.

TL;DR Designed to be lightweight and scalable, Jellify caters to those who want a mobile Jellyfin music experience similar to what's provided by the big music streaming services.

💡 Features

✨ Current

• Available via Private Testflight
• iOS support
• Light and Dark modes
• Home screen access to previously played tracks, artists, and your playlists
• Jellyfin playback reporting and Last.FM Plugin support
• Library of Favorited Music, not too dissimilar to how streaming services handle your 'library'
• Full playlist support, including creating, updating, and reordering

🛠 Roadmap

• Android Support
• Quick access to similar artists and items for discovering music in your library
• Support for Jellyfin Instant Mixes
• CarPlay / Android Auto Support
• Public Testflight
• Offline Playback
• Shared, Public, and Collaborative Playlists
• Web / Desktop support

👀 Lemme see!

Home

Home

Library

Library

Library Artists

Artist

Similar Artists

Album

Track Options

Playlist

Search

Player

CarPlay (Sneak Preview)

On the Server

🏗 Built with:

🎨 Frontend

Tamagui
React Navigation
React Native Vector Icons

• Specifically Material Community Icons

React Native CarPlay
React Native Blurhash

🎛️ Backend

Jellyfin SDK
Tanstack Query
React Native Track Player
React Native MMKV
React Native File Access

👩‍💻 Monitoring

GlitchTip

💜 Love from Wisconsin 🧀

This is undoubtedly a passion project of mine, and I've learned a lot from working on it (and the many failed attempts before it). I hope you enjoy using it! Feature requests and bug reports are welcome :)

🏃‍♀️Running Locally

• iOS Instructions

  • Clone this repository
  • Run npm run init to install npm packages, to install bundler and required gems, and to install CocoaPods
  • In the ios directory, run fastlane match development --readonly to fetch the development signing certificates
    • You will need access to the Jellify Signing private repository

• Android Instructions

  • Coming Soon™️

🙏 Special Thanks To

• The Jellyfin Team for making this possible with their software, SDKs, and unequivocal helpfulness
• All contributors of Finamp. Jellify draws inspiration and wisdom from it, and is another fantastic music app for Jellyfin
• The folks in the Margelo Community Discord for their assistance
• Tony, Trevor, Laine and Jordan for their testing and feedback from the early stages of development
• Alyssa, for your design knowledge and for making the artwork for Jellify. You’ve been instrumental in shaping it’s user experience