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Skip Intro & Auto-Play Next
Skip intros and credits, then roll straight into the next episode — on Plex and Jellyfin.
Aether
Your own streaming service.Without the subscription.
Aether brings your movies, shows, and videos from Plex, Jellyfin, SMB/NAS, and local files into one beautiful experience across all your Apple devices.
Free to download. Supporter extras optional. · Your media stays yours. Always private. Always local.
One Library. All Your Sources.
Unified Library
Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, your NAS, local files, and downloads — merged into one library that matches every title across sources. No duplicates, no app-switching. Each movie plays from the best source automatically.
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Jellyfin
4K DV+2
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Local
4K HDR+1
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SMB/NAS
4K Bluray+1
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Jellyfin
1080p
Local
1080p
💡 Click a unified movie to change sourceDeduplicated
Plex
Jellyfin
SMB · NAS
Local Files
Smart dedup
Titles are matched across every server by their TMDB & IMDb IDs — one entry, never duplicates.
Resume that follows you
Pause on Plex, finish on Jellyfin. Aether keeps the furthest point across every source and device.
Pick your source
See every server a title lives on, with quality badges — and switch where it plays in a tap.
Multiple Plex servers
Connect them all into one library and choose which one streams first.
Ten feet away, instantly at home.
A real tvOS-native interface — focus-driven browsing, Siri Remote scrubbing, frame-rate matching, HDR and Dolby Vision. Your library looks like it was born on the big screen.
A real Mac app, not a port.
Native on Apple Silicon, playing through the same PrismCore engine as every other platform — drag-and-drop playback, full keyboard control, picture-in-picture. On the App Store, like every other Apple platform.
Aether
The details that matter.
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Offline Downloads
Download whole seasons — MKV and AVI included — and watch with no signal at all.
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Cast & Crew
See who made what, then jump to the rest of their work right inside your library.
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Ratings, Your Way
TMDb scores, your Plex server ratings, or rate titles yourself from the detail view.
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Browse Every Angle
Collections, genres, actors and directors — your library, sliced the way you think.
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Switch Tracks On the Fly
Change audio language or subtitles mid-scene, without ever leaving the film.
Vision Pro Cinema
Turn your library into a private theater.
Your private theater
Lights down. Screen up to IMAX size. Room optional.
Vision Pro · Dark Theater
Step into a Dark Theater, scale the screen up to a wall, and dial the room away with the Digital Crown — on a full native player.
Medium · Large · IMAX · WallFront · Middle · Back seatsHouse lights downDigital Crown immersionFull native player
PrismCore · Open source
The engine underneath your library.
Apple’s playback stack does things no third-party player can — hardware decode, Dolby Atmos passthrough, Dolby Vision. It just won’t open an MKV. PrismCore separates your file into its streams and repackages them, untouched, into something AVPlayer will accept. Same file, Apple’s engine.
MKV · MPEG-TS
The container Apple won’t open
Demux
FFmpeg reads the streams
HLS-fMP4
Repacked on 127.0.0.1
AVPlayer
Apple’s own playback stack
Video · Audio · Subtitles
PrismCore plays your library today — on by default on every platform, under Settings ▸ Playback. Confirmed on real hardware, not just in tests: MKV playing natively, Dolby Atmos reaching the receiver, and an Apple TV switching into Dolby Vision on the first try. It is open source under the LGPL, so you can read every line of it.
Private by DesignNo Aether cloud.
No Aether cloud.
No accounts.
No tracking.
Aether connects directly to your Plex, Jellyfin and local libraries — your media never passes through our servers. No cloud sync, no ads, no features locked behind a subscription.
Instant launchUp to 60× less bandwidthNative SwiftUIBattery friendly
Roadmap
Built in the open. Shipping steadily.
Latest release: 1.2.3 “Gemini” · Playback Stats in the player, Collections on Home, a watchlist that syncs both ways with Plex · August 2026
Shipped
Plex
Jellyfin
Downloads & Offline Playback
Vision Pro Cinema
Local Library
Shared Libraries
Network shares — SMB & NAS
macOS app
Emby
Ask Aether — AI search & recommendations
Planned
Cinema environments — Deep Space & beyond
Watch Together in the cinema
Built by one person. Shaped by you.
Aether is designed and built in Prague by one person — and steered by the people using it. Every bug report and feature request is read by the person who’ll fix it, usually the same day.
support@aetherplayer.comGet started
Ready to bring your media together?
Aether 1.2.3 is on the App Store — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro, one download. Install it and start building your library today.