Aether Player
Vaclav Zmrhal
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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, HDR, lossless audio: formats other players choke on play through a modern engine, GPU-accelerated for smooth 4K. • Picture in Picture, AirPlay, surround sound, 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 2026.11.3 · Nov 9, 2026
Live TV now opens on your channel categories, with Favorites on top. Tap a category to see its channels. Any Live TV category, and a playlist's movie or series categories, can be their own Home rail. On iPhone and iPad, top Sport matches are full-width posters with team crests and a bigger Live badge. A match opens on Stats, Timeline, Line-ups and Table, and the Sport overview has a week calendar. Picked for You on Home suggests titles in the genres you watch or rate highly. Swipe between titles in a Home rail on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Episodes are cards with the title, a short synopsis and the runtime. Connect Trakt during onboarding so Home fills with your rails, and show your own or liked Trakt lists as rails. The Home banner and title pages pick up a colour from the artwork. Playback Stats on iPhone and iPad is a compact card with live graphs. Skip Intro and Skip Credits also appear when your server marks them in a title's chapters. Movies and episodes can open in VLC or Infuse, or IINA on the Mac. On Apple TV, ambient lighting also follows the picture during Live TV. Also new: Continue Watching and Up Next widgets, Siri and Shortcuts to resume what you watched, play the next episode or open a Live TV channel, and Now Playing on Your Network so home automation can read what Aether is playing (off by default). This update also launches more lightly, keeps large Live TV lineups responsive, updates cancelled or moved programmes in the guide, always shows your team's match today on Home, fills in missing football goals from a backup source, uses your chosen Settings background on iPhone and iPad, and no longer leaves Apple TV black for several seconds after a film ends.
In-app purchases
The most popular purchases on the App Store.
- Aether LifetimeConsumable$49.99
- Supporter (Yearly)Subscription · 14 days free trial$12.99 / year
- Supporter (Monthly)Subscription · 14 days free trial$0.99 / month
- Large TipConsumable$12.99
- Medium TipConsumable$6.99
- Small TipConsumable$0.99
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