Trovu vs Aether Player

Trovu brings your personal Jellyfin and Plex libraries to a fast, familiar player made for touch. Connect your server, choose something to watch or listen to, and press play. Browse in portrait or landscape, explore your collection, and pick up where you left off. PLAY MORE. TRANSCODE LESS. Trovu plays most common media formats directly on your device, reducing the need for server transcoding. Supported formats include H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9, MKV, MP4, WebM, and more. Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, AAC, FLAC, and other common audio formats are supported. DTS and TrueHD audio is automatically decoded when needed. Embedded and server-provided subtitles are supported in formats including SRT, ASS, PGS, and VTT. You don't need to know anything about codecs or containers. Press play and Trovu handles the rest. WHAT'S INCLUDED • Connect to Jellyfin and Plex media servers • Direct playback for most common video, audio, and subtitle formats • Browse movies, TV shows, seasons, and episodes • Enjoy your music library with albums, artists, and artwork • Search your library and find something to watch • Continue watching with automatic progress tracking • See thumbnail previews while scrubbing, when available • Explore cast and crew with full filmographies • Sort and filter by genre, year, rating, and more • Watch Live TV from supported media servers • Quick Connect sign-in for Jellyfin • Trakt sync for watched history and progress • Touch playback controls and layouts for portrait and landscape DOWNLOAD NOW. WATCH ANYWHERE. Save movies and episodes before you travel, then watch your downloaded titles without a connection. Choose download quality, manage storage, and keep your favourites ready for your next journey. Offline downloads require Trovu Pro, available as an in-app purchase. PRICING Streaming playback is completely free, with no resolution paywall, time limits, or expiring playback trials. Trovu Pro adds three convenience features: • Download movies and episodes for offline viewing • Connect and switch between multiple media servers • Request new titles through your own Seerr server Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or make a one-time lifetime purchase. Going Pro also supports ongoing development. BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD Trovu is a client application for your personal media library. It requires access to an existing Jellyfin or Plex Media Server. Trovu does not include or supply movies, TV shows, music, or TV channels. Learn more about setting up a server at jellyfin.org or plex.tv/media-server. Terms of Use: https://www.trovuplayer.com/terms

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