PickFlick vs Aether Player

PickFlick is your media companion that bridges the gap between discovery and playback. Designed exclusively for the Apple ecosystem, it unifies your movie tracking, TV show management, and live sports monitoring into a single experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Whether you are planning your week of entertainment on your phone, managing your library on Mac, or immersing yourself in spatial computing on Apple Vision Pro, PickFlick keeps everything in sync and ready to play. Beyond just a watchlist, PickFlick is a powerful playback engine and live sports hub. Connect your own media sources to stream directly within the app, complete with a comprehensive TV guide that puts every game and premiere at your fingertips. PICKFLICK FEATURES: Watchlist and Tracker Unified Database: Browse millions of movies and TV shows with rich metadata, cast details, trailers, and ratings powered by TMDB. Smart Release Alerts: Customized notifications ensure you never miss a season premiere or theatrical release. Universal iCloud Sync: Your library flows with you across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Discovery Tools: Explore curated collections and find where your favorite content is available to stream. Live Sports and TV Guide Real-Time Scores: View live scoreboards and game statuses for major leagues and tournaments globally. Dynamic TV Guide: Visualize what is airing now with a beautiful, timeline-based EPG that supports multiple playlist sources. Team Matchups: Deep dive into game details with schedule integration to know exactly when your team is playing. Multi-Stream Viewing: Watch multiple events simultaneously with advanced picture-in-picture and split-view capabilities. Powerful Playback Engine Universal Streaming: Native support for OTT playlists (M3U, M3U8), Xtream Codes, and custom media URLs. AirPlay and Casting: Effortlessly cast your streams to AirPlay-enabled speakers and displays. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: PickFlick is a media management and playback tool. The application itself is empty and does not contain any pre-loaded video content, channels, or streams. Users are solely responsible for providing their own content. You must supply your own legal playlists, streaming URLs, or content files. PickFlick has no affiliation with any third-party providers and does not endorse the streaming of copyright-protected material without permission. Use PickFlick to organize and enjoy the content you legally own or subscribe to. Unlock the full potential of your media life. Download PickFlick today and experience the future of tracking, watching, and cheering. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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