Helium Streamer vs JellyBox Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helium Streamer
Stream your personal music library from your PC to your iOS device. Access playlists, search your collection, and view track details, all through a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Enjoy your music anywhere, away from your computer.
- Stream music from PC
- Multi-user support
- Play/Pause and track selection
- Set rating and favorite status
- Album artwork and details
- Search music library
- Scrobble to Last.fm
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Helium Streamer enables you to playback your personal music collection on your iOS device. It streams music from Helium Streamer on your PC. This application is ideal if you want to listen to your Helium music collection away from your PC. It uses the Wi-Fi connection to receive streamed music from Helium from anywhere in and around your home and 3G/4G if you are out and about. Helium Streamer enables the playback of Playlists, Searches and User Favourites. Details of the currently playing track are shown; as is information about the playing track's artist. Helium Streamer interacts with Helium Streamer's in-built Web Service to stream and download music to the device. Features +Easily stream music from Helium Streamer on your PC +Full support for Helium's multi-user capability +Play or Pause your music +Select Next or Previous track +Set rating and favourite status for the playing track +Album artwork and details shown for the playing track +Built in play queue handling +Search Heliums library for albums, artists, titles, genre, recording years, release years and publishers +Browse Playlists / Smart Playlists +Browse Playlist / Smart Playlist contents +Browse Favourite Album, Artist and Tracks and play them +Scrobble played music to Last.fm Requirements +This App requires Helium Streamer 5. +Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection to the PC running Helium Streamer 5.
JellyBox Player
Stream your local music library from your home server to your devices. This client application provides seamless playback of your entire music collection.
- Connect to Jellyfin server
- Play local music library
- Seamless music playback
- Cross-device support
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JellyBox Player is a client application for Jellyfin server application. JellyBox allows you seamlessly play all your local music by simply connecting to your home server. This player can: * Browse and your local lib - artists, albums, songs, playlists * Show a time synced lyrics(when available) * Full offline mode, including a "plane" support * Downloads * Native Apple CarPlay app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JellyBox Player at 5.0 against Helium Streamer's 3.0. JellyBox Player also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Helium Streamer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
JellyBox Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Helium Streamer's written reviews are positive against 27% of JellyBox Player's.
Helium Streamer ships an update every 6 weeks, JellyBox Player every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helium Streamer | JellyBox Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imploded Software AB | Oleksandr Synelnykov |
Customer experience
Helium Streamer
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In-app purchases
Helium Streamer
No in-app purchases
JellyBox Player
No in-app purchases
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