# Jellyfin Mobile — user reviews > 269 indexed App Store user reviews of Jellyfin Mobile by Anthony Lavado, rated 4.10/5 from 467 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 300 · 4★ 47 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 64 ## What do users think of Jellyfin Mobile? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Wonderful FOSS app - 🚀 Light weight and effective - 🚀 Getting close to Plex - 👍 Amazing! - 👍 Works great - 👍 Awesome! - 👍 Fantastic - 👍 Incredible tool - 👍 Great open source alternative **Cons** - 🐛 Audio problems with background playback - 🐛 Download on iPad not working - 🐛 Background play does not work - 🐛 Slow on RasPi - 🐛 Clunky but functional - 🐛 Won't connect - 🐛 Couldn't connect to server - 🐛 Significant issues - 🐛 Background Playing Not Working - 🐛 Nerdy clunky broken - 🐛 Doesn't work in the background - 🐛 Couldn't connect to server - 🐛 Subtitle scaling issues - 🐛 Buggy client state - 🐛 Transcoding issues - 🐛 Chromecast connection failure - 🐛 Stops playing after 30 seconds - 🐛 Buggy and feature limited **Commonly reported bugs** - Audio problems with background playback - Download on iPad not working - Background play does not work - Slow on RasPi - Won't connect - Couldn't connect to server - Subtitle scaling issues - Buggy client state - Transcoding issues - Chromecast connection failure - Stops playing after 30 seconds - Buggy and feature limited **Most requested features** - Add background playback - Add Chromecast support - Add offline downloads - Add shuffle functionality - Add Apple TV support - Add external subtitle support - Add lockscreen controls for music - Add download offline functionality ## Newest reviews (12 of 269) ### 4/5 — Nearly perfect *2026-07-29, version 1.7.0* Jelly fin is pretty much perfect at what it does you might notice some reviews complaint about bugs in the mobile version but I have been using it for a long time and I can confirm most of these have been fixed. They are constantly improving on things with updates my only complaint right now would be the lack of proper music controls ie metadata and track skipping on the lock screen, but watching things works very well and it even has a download feature, probably one of the best open sourced projects of all time. ### 4/5 — Super good, but downloads are frustrating *2026-07-26, version 1.7.0* 1. There is no progress bar on active downloads. I have no idea how long it’s going to take to finish each download or how much progress any download has made. 2. The downloads go in parallel, not in series in the order they were queued. If I ask for three episodes, and I only manage to download one of them before I lose connection and can’t download anymore, I’d much rather it be the first of the three, not the second or third. Downloads should go in order. 3. Why can’t I cancel downloads? The “Edit” button only lets you delete downloads which have finished, so to “cancel” a download it has to finish first, which is terrible and wastes bandwidth you want to give other downloads if you’re trying to cancel. I just think this is all that mobile downloading needs to be wayyyyyy better. ### 4/5 — Can only listen with the app open *2026-07-07, version 1.7.0* This app desperately needs the ability to play music while the phone is locked or another app is open. It’s virtually useless without it. ### 4/5 — Not great for music *2026-07-06, version 1.7.0* Jellyfin is a good app for movies, but when it comes to listening to music on the app the music stops when I go off of it. My suggestion is they fix it so that when you lock your phone or turns off the music will keep playing like Spotify or Apple Music. ### 3/5 — Probleme mit iOS12.5.8 *2026-07-03* Die App startet leider nicht auf meinem alten iPad Air mit iOS 12.5.8. Ich möchte das alte iPad zum Video schauen nutzen, vor allem für die Kinder. Bitte die Unterstützung für ältere Geräte beibehalten. Viele Grüße ### 3/5 — Does not work on older iPads *2026-06-11, version 1.7.0* Despite being listed as compatible with iPad iOS 12.4 and later, I cannot play videos on my iPad running iOS 15.8.8. It works fine on other devices, but my preferred device is that iPad. ### 4/5 — Amazing!!! But one thing... *2026-05-15, version 1.7.0* I have this setup on my server rack that handles networking, Homebridge, and others. And honestly, this mobile app version was a HUGE game-changer. However, when I try to download a video, it gives me an error with an object that is this: {{title}} pls help or fix it. ### 4/5 — MEILLEUR APPLICATION MÉDIA SERVEUR *2026-05-13* La meilleure application pour créer son propre serveur Média, il remplacement parfaitement mon ancienne application Pl**x serveur. En combinaison avec l’application Swiftfin iOS du même développeur c’est le graal 🤩. ### 2/5 — Performance issues *2026-04-30, version 1.7.0* I really like this app, but it’s incredibly frustrating that anything I’m watching will freeze every couple minutes, I’ll back it up ten seconds, then it’ll work for another couple minutes, then freeze completely. Then I back out of my episode I’m watching and try to relaunch it, only to find it “can’t connect to server” then I have to put my server address in again and MAYBE that’ll get it back to the poor performance it showed before, or not work at all for an hour. It needs a lot more work. ### 3/5 — Won’t Launch *2026-04-07, version 1.7.0* I can’t even use the app right now, it stays on the launch screen and never fully opens. ### 4/5 — Hmmm 🤔 *2026-03-29* Warum wenn ich Musik hören will, muss das Display an bleiben? 😭 ### 4/5 — Loving this so far! *2026-03-28, version 1.7.0* Everything from server setup to client side access is pretty seamless, my only note is this app needs background play (pretty essential feature for a music player IMO!) other than that it works great ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Inappropriate content for child *2026-08-11, version 1.7.0* They have not vetted the children’s content for biblo app. They promised Christian values for children and there are gay marriages, references to drugs, and inappropriate sexual content in children’s cartoons. Also this Jellyfin app they use to support biblo is cumbersome to use on iPads and tv. Series don’t auto play and then they don’t stay in order so you loose your place when you exit the screen and try to find the next episode in the series. I can’t find how to cancel my subscription as well. Do I cancel through Jellyfin or biblo. No customer support that I can find. I would appreciate some assistance. Thank you ### 1/5 — Cannot connect to server *2026-08-02, version 1.7.0* Can’t connect to server, tried to look it up and it doesn’t seem to have a lot on the topic. Needless to say the android and web apps allow login only this one requests a web address it is unable to access. Might be a user error but I cannot find any way to resolve it in my attempts at searching. ### 1/5 — bad app *2026-06-07, version 1.7.0* randomly crashes all the time ### 1/5 — Kinda Awful *2026-06-06, version 1.7.0* Anyone comparing it to the functionality of PLEX or Emby on iOS are cope maxxing hard. Being open source doesnt mean you get to overlook functionality. ### 1/5 — Plexamp adios ! *2026-05-24* Superbe serveur pour NAS Synology. Un tuto sur le site pour la mise en place aurait été sympa. Mais j’ai pu glaner à droite à gauche les bonnes infos. Je l’utilise exclusivement pour de la musique. Mais quelle ne fut pas ma surprise quand j’ai testé ma première écoute en balade ! Pas de son lorsque l’écran se verrouille !! Et apparement c’est un problème connu qui commence à dater. Chers développeurs, promis je vous mets 5* dès que vous réparez ce problème ! ### 1/5 — Not Good *2026-05-13, version 1.7.0* The one thing that I want it to do is play music. It constantly goes to sleep. You can’t even play one song. It does not have background play. It is not good. It is worse in every way than just using a web browser. ### 1/5 — useless to me *2026-04-09, version 1.7.0* no ability to play offline or in the background. why bother making it? all it does it hog space on your phone has fewer features than the browser version which actually functions. ### 1/5 — No way to set up *2026-03-22, version 1.7.0* There are no instructions on the app, anywhere, on how to add the server to the app. It does not give you correct formatting for how the link should be written, even though my server has no actual link to copy and paste, just an IP address. This is really badly done. ### 1/5 — Use stingray this client is dead *2026-02-24, version 1.7.0* Apps require a few things to work, like timely updates and supporting modern features. ### 1/5 — Need help *2026-02-04, version 1.7.0* Can’t figure out how to cancel this subscription. Please can someone help me? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Super App *2026-07-30* Habe keine Probleme mit der Wiedergabe sowohl auf iPhone als auch auf iPad. Genial für die eigene Mediathek! ### 5/5 — Farewell DVD, Hello Fabulous JellyFin! *2026-07-16, version 1.7.0* Oh man, this is great. I’ve kept DVDs around since I was a kid but obviously, it’s antiquated and most have moved on but I liked them b/c they reminded me of being a kid finding a movie to watch but indeed I needed a modernization. SO! ChatGPT told me about JellyFin so I dug into it, built a nice MNIS Forum MS-01 i9 server with 64GB of memory and 6TB of space. Now all my DVDs reside rent-free in my home JellyFin server. I can stream anywhere in the house or over the internet wherever I am using a VPN link back to my home network. This completes my life. I simply drag an drop films into my SMB share of the server and BOOM, they appear in JellyFin. It even fetches movie poster images to represent them in JellyFin. Try it! ### 5/5 — Sehr zufrieden! *2026-06-11* Man kann wirklich alles gucken was man will. Schön strukturiert und einfach zu bediene.🤩🤩 Keine bezahlte Werbung, bin echt zufrieden mit der App und dabei ist sie auch so günstig! 🥰 ### 5/5 — Loving this app 😍 *2026-05-31, version 1.7.0* I love using this over streaming services because I control everything, it only has what I actually own on DVD, and it’s honestly just really nice to use! ### 5/5 — Bien bien *2026-05-28* Allez on lache pas le dev bon courage au dev ### 5/5 — JellyFin - 5 Star *2026-04-26, version 1.7.0* I’m really happy with the app. I’ve been looking for something for MONTHS to work with my JellyFin Server. The only downside is that there is no Apple TV Support. If this could appear in the next coming weeks this would be amazing! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-03-05, version 1.7.0* So far I’m loving it. Super easy to use and a very clean UI. I have a suggestion if I may. Not sure if I’m just missing it but maybe show a check mark or something indicating that you’ve watched an episode or a movie. I’m watching a show and sometimes I forget what episode I’m on and a check mark or even the thumbnail showing how far into an episode I am would help. Thanks for this app 🙏 ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-02-25, version 1.7.0* Has worked perfectly. Fantastic application. ### 5/5 — My favorite app! *2026-02-22, version 1.7.0* I absolutely love this app and the server software. I appreciate all the work that the Jellyfin community does to provide this tool. ### 5/5 — Love this app 😁 *2026-02-22, version 1.7.0* Great application! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*