🪼 Jellify
jellify (verb) - to make gelatinous
Jellify is a music player for Jellyfin built with React Native. It has a UX meant to feel familiar if you’ve used other music streaming apps.
🤓 Background
I was after a music app for Jellyfin that showcased my music with artwork 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. The end goal was to build a music streaming app that worked like the big guys, all while being FOSS and powered by self hosting.
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
- Carefully crafted Light and Dark modes
- Home screen access to previously played tracks, artists, and your playlists
- 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 mixes
- CarPlay / Android Auto Support
- Public Testflight
- Offline Playback
- Web / Desktop support
👀 Lemme see!
Home
Favorites / Library
Player
🏗 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
💜 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 :)
🙏 Special Thanks To
- The Jellyfin Team for their amazing server software
- Tony, Trevor, Laine and Jordan for their testing and feedback from the early stages of development
- Alyssa, for your artistic abilities and the artwork you made for Jellify. It gave it the flair it undoubtedly needed