🪼 Jellify
jellify (verb) - to make gelatinous
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Jellify is a 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
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, SDKs, and documentation
- 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 artistic abilities and the artwork you made for Jellify. It gave it the flair it undoubtedly needed