JellyBox Player vs Jellify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JellyBox Player
Access and play your local music library from Jellyfin, Emby, or Navidrome servers. Enjoy features like time-synced lyrics, offline playback, and remote control of your media.
- Browse local music library
- Remote device control
- Time-synced lyrics
- Full offline mode
- Downloads
- Apple CarPlay support
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JellyBox Player is a client application for Jellyfin, Emby or Navidrome servers. JellyBox allows you seamlessly play all your local music by simply connecting to your home server. This player can: * Browse and your local lib - artists, albums, songs, playlists * Continuity - remotely control your devices or move playback between them * Relay - connect remotely to your home server without use of VPN or tailscale tunnels * Home page widget * Show a time synced lyrics(when available) * Full offline mode, including a "plane" support * Downloads * Native Apple CarPlay app
Jellify
This music player connects to your Jellyfin Media Server, offering offline playback, audio transcoding, playlist management, and instant mix radio stations. It's a free and open-source solution for managing your music library.
- Connects to Jellyfin Media Server
- Offline track downloads
- Audio transcoding for quality control
- Playlist creation and management
- Instant Mix radio stations
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Jellify is a free and open source* music player that connects to your Jellyfin Media Server! Designed to feel instantly familiar, Jellify allows you to - Download tracks for offline playback - Transcode audio to different qualities to save bandwidth - Create and update playlists - Start "Instant Mix" radio stations and much more! * Jellify is freely licensed under MIT
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JellyBox Player at 4.8 against Jellify's 4.3. JellyBox Player also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Jellify's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 44%) and ratings volume (28 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
JellyBox Player holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of JellyBox Player's written reviews are positive against 78% of Jellify's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
JellyBox Player ships an update every 5 days, Jellify fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JellyBox Player | Jellify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better | 4.3 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksandr Synelnykov | Violet Caulfield |
Customer experience
JellyBox Player
Jellify
In-app purchases
JellyBox Player
No in-app purchases
Jellify
No in-app purchases
