HANAplay vs Media Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HANAplay
Browse and play media from your personal servers on Apple devices. Enjoy a cinematic home screen, continue watching, and access rich metadata. Control playback natively on iPhone and iPad.
- Browse personal media servers
- Cinematic home screen
- Continue watching feature
- Rich metadata and ratings
- Select audio tracks and subtitles
- Picture in Picture support
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HANAplay is a native app for browsing and playing media from your personal media servers on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Choose Plex or Silo directly from the first-run screen, or connect Jellyfin and Emby through More. Browse a cinematic home screen, continue watching, search your library, explore collections and curated rows, view rich metadata and ratings, and choose available media versions, audio tracks, and subtitles. On iPhone and iPad, play compatible media, use Picture in Picture on supported routes, view Live Activities, and control playback with native system controls. Playback capabilities depend on your media, server, device, display, and audio equipment. HANAplay does not provide, host, sell, or include media. You supply access to a compatible personal media server and are responsible for the media you access. HANAplay is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Plex, Silo, Jellyfin, or Emby. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Media Stack
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Run your whole media stack from your iPhone or iPad. Managerr connects to your own Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, Bazarr, Seerr, Tautulli, Jellyfin and Emby servers and brings them together in one native app. YOUR STACK AT A GLANCE • Arrange a Dashboard of health, upcoming releases, downloads, requests and what’s playing • See upcoming episodes, films and albums in a month or list calendar • Follow every download from every server in one queue • Search all your libraries at once, with filters, in a grid or a list SONARR, RADARR AND LIDARR • Add series, films and artists with the profile, folder and tags you want • Choose what to monitor, down to a single season, episode or album • Search automatically, or compare releases and pick one yourself • Find what’s missing or below your quality cutoff, and search for all of it at once • Remove a stuck download, blocklist it or mark it failed • Check history, health and disk space, and run scheduled tasks, RSS syncs and backups PROWLARR AND JACKETT • Search every indexer at once, and send a release to a download client or to Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr • Add, edit, test and remove indexers, and see which ones report errors • Turn Prowlarr indexers on or off, edit them, and manage apps and download clients BAZARR • Find the episodes and films that lack subtitles, and search for them • See each title’s subtitles, search manually, download or delete one • Manage providers and language profiles, and check history and tasks SEERR • Discover trending, popular and upcoming films and series, with filters • Get recommendations from what’s been watched, through Tautulli • Request a film, a series, chosen seasons or a whole collection, in standard or 4K • Approve, decline, edit or retry requests from one inbox • Report, discuss and resolve issues • Sync your Plex, Jellyfin or Emby library and run jobs TAUTULLI AND PLEX • See who’s watching on Plex, on which device, and whether the stream transcodes • Stop a stream (requires Plex Pass) • Search playback history • Explore statistics and graphs, and browse your Plex libraries JELLYFIN AND EMBY • See what’s playing and why a stream transcodes • Pause, stop or seek a stream, change its audio or subtitles, or message the viewer • Browse, search and scan your libraries, and see what’s new • Fix a title’s metadata and artwork, see who watched it, and mark it watched or unwatched • Add users, and choose each user’s libraries and streaming limits • Sign out devices, run tasks, read logs, make Jellyfin backups and restart the server EVERY TITLE, EVERY SERVER • Title pages bring together cast, trailers, ratings, release dates, files and subtitles • A title on more than one server, such as an HD and a 4K Radarr, links to each one ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Widgets for upcoming releases, the download queue, what’s playing and your services (Pro) • Optional alerts for grabs, finished downloads, upgrades, new titles, streams, requests and service problems, and reminders before a release • Shortcuts that open the Dashboard, Queue, Calendar, Requests or a library search • Light and dark appearances, colour themes (Pro), Dynamic Type and an adaptive iPad sidebar PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads, subscriptions or Managerr account • Your servers are saved only on your device, and API keys stay in the device-only Keychain • Back up your setup, with API keys sealed by a passphrase only you know FREE TO START, PRO TO GROW • Up to three services free, with every screen and action for each • Managerr Pro is one purchase, not a subscription: every service you run, widgets and colour themes • Downloaded Managerr before Pro? It’s already yours Try every feature, Pro included, in the offline demo. No server needed. Managerr requires your own supported services and does not supply, host or play media. Some actions depend on each service’s version, capabilities and permissions. Widgets and alerts use what the app last fetched; there is no push service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HANAplay at none against Media Stack's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Media Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HANAplay asks for nothing beyond the download.
HANAplay ships an update every 4 days, Media Stack every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HANAplay | Media Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manav Agarwal | Mann Badal |
In-app purchases
HANAplay
No in-app purchases
Media Stack
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