tvOS · Jellyfin · Native SwiftUI

Personal media,
Apple TV calm.

A couch-first Jellyfin client for Apple TV. Cinema-quality browsing, direct play, and your entire library — always ready.

Coming soon to the Apple TV App Store
Needlefin featured on the Apple TV home screen with its cinematic top shelf artwork

Hero-driven browsing

A full-bleed backdrop tracks your focused tile — title, year, rating, genres, and synopsis always visible, never a modal.

Direct play, always first

H.264, HEVC, AC3, E-AC3, multichannel Dolby — played natively. Transcoding to HLS only kicks in when the Apple TV actually needs it.

Picks up where you left off

Resume, Continue Watching, Up Next — synced with your Jellyfin server. Auto-advances through episodes, even across seasons.

Offline, instantly

Continue Watching downloads to local storage in the background for zero-buffer playback, bounded by count and a 30 GB cap. Direct-play files only — transcoded titles are streamed instead.

Native player, real audio controls

Built on Apple's own AVPlayer with a proper .moviePlayback audio session — so tvOS unlocks Enhance Dialogue and Reduce Loud Sounds, not the greyed-out versions other apps leave you with.

Honors your Jellyfin settings

Audio & subtitle language preferences, remembered per-series track choices, autoplay, and Latest-row filters — read straight from your account and applied automatically.

Needlefin home screen with Ballerina hero banner, Continue Watching and Next Up rows

The library you know,
the interface it deserves.

A focus-driven hero banner, landscape Continue Watching cards with progress bars, and portrait poster rows — all built from your actual Jellyfin libraries.

Doctor Who series detail screen with season picker and episode list

Every season.
Every episode.

Series open into a full season-and-episode browser. A compact season picker, episode thumbnails with progress bars, runtimes, and synopses — one screen, one button to play.

Black Widow detail screen with circular cast portrait row

Cast & Crew,
always with you.

Circular portrait rows for actors, directors, and writers — pulled from Jellyfin's People metadata, character names and roles included.