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About Aether Player

Aether is a personal media player for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and your own files — built natively for every Apple screen. Connect your server and your whole library appears: movies, shows, music, Continue Watching, Recently Added. Add a second server and both merge into one deduplicated view, with a picker that tells you which copy is the better file. Your media, not theirs. PLAY ANYTHING • Direct play or server-transcoded — Aether follows the best path automatically, per title. • MKV, HEVC, Dolby Vision, DTS: formats other players choke on play through a modern engine, GPU-accelerated for smooth 4K. • Picture in Picture, AirPlay, Dolby Atmos, lock-screen controls. • Switch audio and subtitle tracks mid-playback on every platform. • Offline downloads, including whole seasons — and Smart Downloads that keep the next unwatched episodes ready. EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE • Profiles: separate Continue Watching, watchlist, ratings, Home rails and trackers, with a PIN on the way in and per-profile library visibility. • A child's profile can be held to an age rating. • Pair a profile to your Plex Home profile, or to its own Jellyfin or Emby user, so watched state stays separate on the server too. • Two profiles are included; up to five with Supporter. SUBTITLES, DONE PROPERLY • Aether reads subtitle files itself and times them against the picture, so they sit where you put them — in the black bars or over the video, in your own style, with sync and size adjustable in the player. • Search OpenSubtitles from a title's own page in thirty-one languages, ranked against the exact file you're playing. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • One library across every connected source, filtered by genre, year, rating, country, audio language, server or the libraries you curated on them. • Continue Watching, Up Next and a Discover tab with trending titles and Where to Watch availability in your region. • Person pages, franchise collections, and ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. • Music as its own tab — artists, albums, playlists, and a player built for it, with the catalog kept on disk so it opens offline. • Live TV from a playlist you already have, with a full guide, categories you make yourself, Xtream Codes accounts and HDHomeRun tuners. Bring-your-own: Aether provides no channels. BEAUTIFUL ON EVERY SCREEN • iPhone and iPad: cinematic hero art, a page that grows out of the poster you tapped. • Apple TV: precision focus design, and your Continue Watching in the top shelf. • Apple Vision Pro: an auditorium around the picture — raked seating, masking walls, house lights down. • Mac: a native app with a menu-bar mode, a series browser, and Apple's own decoder for what it can play. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Aether connects only to the servers you configure. No account of ours, no cloud, no ads, no cross-app tracking. Your ratings, watchlist and resume positions live on your devices and in your own iCloud. Optional anonymous usage statistics can be turned off any time. SOURCES • Plex (multi-server, multi-account) • Jellyfin (multi-server) • Emby (multi-server, Live TV, music) • Silo • SMB / network shares, with Bonjour discovery • WebDAV • Local files Optional, all bring-your-own: connect your own Seerr to request what you don't have, your own Trakt or Simkl account to track what you watch, and your own OpenSubtitles account for subtitle search. Aether requires a Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Silo media server, an SMB or WebDAV share, or local video files. It is not a streaming service and does not provide any content. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Silo, Trakt, Simkl and OpenSubtitles are trademarks of their respective owners. Aether is an independent, third-party client and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aetherplayer.com/privacy

What’s new

Version 2026.9.2 · Updated September 23, 2026

2026.9.2 (16.9.) builds on the speed of 2026.9.1 — with polish you’ll notice every day. POSTER BUILDER & HOME • Poster Builder finally applies on Home and in the Library — the look you set is the look you get. • Continue Watching respects Poster Builder badges, skips music tracks, and stops showing the same movie twice across versions. • Home and startup feel snappier — less waiting while servers wake up, smoother Detail scrolling. PLEX & PLAYBACK • A show that spans two Plex libraries (4K + Full HD) keeps every season, not just one library’s worth. • Forced external subtitles appear in the picker and auto-select when they should. • Disabling a Plex library responds right away instead of waiting half a minute. • Leave every Plex server off and still keep the account for Seerr. Multipart episodes sort and display correctly. Season pickers follow season number. • The Library filter only offers libraries from enabled sources. • Opening a title from Up Next uses a server that is actually connected — not one you switched off. • On iPhone and iPad, a one-finger swipe down no longer closes the player by default (two-finger swipe and pinch still do). You can turn swipe-to-close back on in Settings ▸ Playback. • Series detail no longer flashes an empty “No Episodes” screen while episodes are still loading. LIVE TV & SCREENS • Live TV Multiview on Apple TV and iPad — watch more than one channel at once, swap and add. • Vision Pro cinema and windowed 3D sit behind the controls again; Apple TV detail menus are reachable; iPhone player chrome and Library markers are cleaner. • Season pickers sort by number and line up cleanly on iPhone. Thanks — keep the Discord reports coming.

App privacy

The developer, Vaclav Zmrhal, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Usage Data: Product Interaction
  • Contact Info: Email Address, Other User Contact Info
  • User Content: Customer Support
  • Identifiers: User ID
  • Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Identifiers: Device ID

Used for: Analytics

Alternatives to Aether Player

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