Sodalite vs Photon Player

Your Jellyfin library, live TV, and Seerr, on your iPhone and iPad. Watch what is already on your server, tune into your live channels, and request what is missing. AirPlay it, or send it full screen to a TV over HDMI. WATCH • Direct Play for almost every codec: H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9, VC-1 and MPEG-2, plus older DivX, XviD and WMV files, so your server rarely has to transcode • HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision and HLG on the built-in display, over AirPlay and over HDMI • Dolby Atmos via EAC3+JOC as Dolby MAT 2.0 over AirPlay or HDMI, plus 5.1 and 7.1 with correct channel layout • Every subtitle format decoded on the device: SRT, ASS, SSA, WebVTT, PGS, DVB and DVD, so they appear instantly • Forced captions show even with subtitles off, like on a disc player • The audio and subtitle track you pick is remembered, per movie and per series • Two subtitle tracks at once, and a search for missing ones through your server's subtitle plugin • Scrub previews generated on the device, even when your server has none • Chapters, intro, recap and credits skip, next-episode autoplay with a countdown you set, resume, shuffle, trailers, version picker IPHONE & IPAD • AirPlay to any Apple TV or AirPlay 2 receiver • Picture in Picture while you use other apps • Full-screen HDMI out to an external display, subtitles included • Touch transport, swipe to scrub, edge swipes for brightness and volume, rotation lock • A child lock that ignores every touch until you press and hold to unlock LIVE TV & DVR • Full guide with a live now-line, favorite channels first and current-show highlighting • Pause live TV and rewind, with a buffer depth you choose • Record a show or a whole series, manage timers, play back recordings REQUEST WHAT'S MISSING • Browse trending and popular media from Seerr without leaving the app • Request movies, whole series or single seasons, and follow each request's status • Single sign-on, plus an admin view with optional alerts when a request needs you • Film collections with each part's availability, and one action to request what is missing • Search finds people too, with what your library holds first, then the full filmography MORE • Your Jellyfin music, browsable by album with a native Now Playing screen • Multiple servers with home and away addresses, plus end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync of servers, accounts and settings • Servers with a self-signed certificate work once you check its fingerprint and accept it • Parental controls with a Guardian PIN and per-profile locks, plus Watch Stats for your totals and top genres • Sort any library by title, date, rating or runtime, with optional format badges on posters • Spoiler protection blurs episode images and descriptions until you have watched, for everything or just the series you choose • 26 languages, three accent colors and two backgrounds; the optional Supporter Pack adds more palettes and animated backgrounds OPEN SOURCE, END TO END GPL-3.0 with an Apple Store / DRM Exception; the video engine, AetherEngine, is LGPL-3.0. No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone or iPad on iOS or iPadOS 26.0 or later • Your own Jellyfin server (10.9+ recommended) • Optional: a Seerr instance (2.0+) for in-app requests Source, issues and roadmap: https://github.com/superuser404notfound/Sodalite

Photon is a native player for the library you already own. Connect your media servers, your cloud and network storage, and your Live TV subscription, and everything you can watch appears in one place — on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, from a single purchase. YOUR OWN LIBRARY, TOGETHER • Works with Jellyfin, Emby, Plex and Silo • Connect a server free, or as many as you like with Pro. Home and Search bring them all together; the Library tab keeps each source's own shelves separate, so you can still ask what is on one server. • Play straight from an SMB, NFS, FTP or WebDAV share, a UPnP server on your network, or Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, with no media server at all • Live TV from an Xtream Codes subscription: a full program guide, favorites, and a channel list built for thousands of channels • Open a video from Files or the Finder and it becomes a title like any other — with a resume point, artwork and a name you can match against your servers AS IT WAS MADE • Dolby Vision and HDR, with AVPlayer driving the display for real HDR output • MKV and 4K play as they are. Nothing is quietly downscaled or re-encoded behind your back. • Dolby Digital Plus with Atmos passed through untouched; TrueHD and DTS-HD decoded losslessly rather than folded to stereo, and with Pro, TrueHD Atmos rendered with its height • Subtitles drawn as overlays, never burned into the picture • Standing choices for audio language, subtitle language, and when subtitles should come on at all • Skip intros and credits, and go straight into the next episode EVERYWHERE YOU WATCH • Download for offline with Pro. Transfers carry on while you are elsewhere, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and a notice when a title lands. • Handoff picks a film up on the next device at the frame you left it • Spotlight opens a title directly • Top Shelf on Apple TV, a real menu bar on the Mac, and one design across all four platforms BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Written in SwiftUI for iOS, tvOS and macOS, with full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels on every control, and Reduce Motion respected throughout. There is no account to create and no service of ours in the path: Photon talks to your servers and to your own iCloud, and to nothing else. PHOTON PRO The free app is the whole player: one media server and one Live TV subscription, every drive and network share, and every format — 4K, MKV, Dolby Vision, TrueHD and DTS — with browsing, search, Handoff and SharePlay, no advertising and nothing to sign up for. Pro adds: • Every source at once: as many servers and Live TV subscriptions as you like, together in Home and Search • Downloads, for watching offline • Dolby Atmos from TrueHD soundtracks, rendered for your speakers or headphones • AirPlay to an Apple TV or any AirPlay screen • Your servers, settings and the way you have arranged Home, on every device you sign in on Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-off Lifetime purchase, with a free week on either subscription. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Photon plays the media you already have on servers and storage you control. It is an independent client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Jellyfin, Emby or Plex. Terms of Use (EULA): https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/privacy/