tvery vs Aether Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
tvery
Discover movies and TV shows tailored to your taste through an intuitive swiping interface. Save titles for later, create shared watchlists with friends, and find out exactly where to stream content.
- Swipe-based discovery
- Personalized taste profile
- Save titles for later
- Shared watchlists with friends
- Curated playlists
- Embedded trailers and info
- Streaming service identification
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Stop browsing. Start watching. tvery is the ultimate movie and TV discovery and tracking tool. Swipe through cards tuned to your taste, save what you like, and finish more of what you start. The more you swipe, the sharper your match score gets. DISCOVER BY SWIPING A clean deck, one card at a time. Like, dislike, save, skip — your taste profile sharpens with every swipe. Every card shows an exact match % so you know why it's there. SAVE ANY SHOW OR MOVIE FOR LATER Never miss a great show you heard about, discovered, or planned to watch. Save it, track it, and watch it when you want. WATCHLISTS WITH FRIENDS Share a watchlist with a partner, a roommate, or your movie-night group. Add titles together, mark off what you've seen, and end the "what should we put on?" argument before it starts. Push notifications keep everyone in sync. CURATED PLAYLISTS Browse hand-built collections from other tvery users — themed runs, director retrospectives, comfort-watch rotations. Heart the ones that hit, follow the curators you trust, get their picks as a synced watchlist of your own. NEW AND TRENDING LISTS BY SERVICE AND GENRE Finally, you can quickly see what's new or trending on HBO, Netflix, Apple TV and more, even by genre. EMBEDDED TRAILERS AND QUICK INFO See a quick synopsis, watch the trailer, and see the actors/actresses quickly with a tap KNOW WHERE TO STREAM See exactly which service has a title before you commit. No more bouncing between five apps to find out who has it. Catalog data from The Movie Database (TMDB). tvery is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Aether Player
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: tvery at none against Aether Player's 5. tvery also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Aether Player's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and device support (5 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Aether Player sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. tvery asks for nothing beyond the download.
tvery ships an update every 3 months, Aether Player weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tvery | Aether Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keymash | Vaclav Zmrhal |
In-app purchases
tvery
No in-app purchases
Aether Player
- Supporter$0.991 Month
- Supporter$9.991 Year
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









