Zuno vs Aether Player

Zuno is a premium, native media player for your Plex, Jellyfin and Emby server — built exclusively for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your personal library deserves better than a clunky client. Zuno wraps your movies and shows in a fast, elegant interface inspired by the streaming apps you already love, powered by a custom playback engine that gets the most out of Apple silicon. A TRULY NATIVE EXPERIENCE Fluid animations, an intuitive layout, and a design that feels right at home on every Apple device. Your content is always front and center. A CUSTOM PLAYBACK ENGINE At its heart is a player built from the ground up, using hardware-accelerated decoding to play more of your files directly, with less transcoding, better quality, and longer battery life. FORMAT FREEDOM Direct play for nearly every codec, including 4K, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HEVC and AV1. High-fidelity audio and adaptive frame rate come as standard. WATCH ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE Download your favourite movies and shows to your device and take them with you, no connection required. LIVE TV FROM YOUR OWN LIBRARY Zuno Live turns your collections into personal, always-on channels with a full programme guide. PLEX, JELLYFIN & EMBY Full support for the features you rely on, including synced watch states, rich metadata, collections and multiple profiles. DISCOVER & REQUEST Built-in Overseerr and Jellyseerr support lets you find and request new titles without leaving the app. Connect Trakt or Simkl to sync your watchlist and history automatically. ALWAYS IN SYNC Fast library syncing keeps your Continue Watching list up to date across all your Apple devices via iCloud. MADE YOUR WAY Customisable subtitles, home screen layouts, playback controls and more. Switch to Zuno and see what your media is really capable of. Some features require a Zuno Pro subscription. Terms of Use: 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