Davvy vs Photon Player

Davvy streams the movies and TV shows already on your own server — any NAS or computer that speaks WebDAV — and presents them like a real streaming service. A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS THE PART • Posters, backdrops, ratings and synopses fetched automatically • TV shows organised into seasons with episode names, stills and runtimes • Recently Added, Continue Watching, and a Play button that always knows the next episode • Messy filenames, box sets and loose files cleaned up into proper titles PLAYS EVERYTHING • Native playback for MP4 and MOV with Picture in Picture and AirPlay • A built-in engine for MKV, AVI and more — no conversion, no transcoding server • Subtitle and audio-track selection, plus manual audio sync for wireless speakers • Resume positions sync between your devices through iCloud ONE LIBRARY, THREE ROUTES • Add a home address, a Tailscale address and a public address for the same server — Davvy picks the fastest one it can reach • Limit scans to the folders you choose and exclude the ones you don't PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no analytics • Your server credentials and watch history live in your private iCloud, never on our servers Davvy requires a WebDAV server (Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, Nextcloud, rclone serve, Apache or nginx DAV, and more) and does not provide any content of its own. Artwork and metadata by TMDb. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

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/