Plezy
A modern client for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby on desktop, mobile, and TV. Built with Flutter for native performance and a clean interface.
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License
Download
Install with a package manager
macOS — Homebrew
brew tap edde746/plezy https://github.com/edde746/plezy
brew install --cask plezy
Windows — WinGet
winget install edde746.Plezy
Linux — Flatpak
Install Flatpak with your distribution’s package manager, download the bundle for your architecture above, then run:
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//25.08
flatpak install --user ./plezy-linux-x64.flatpak
flatpak run com.edde746.plezy
On arm64, install plezy-linux-arm64.flatpak.
Sandbox, playback, and folder access
- Not on Flathub — the remote supplies the Freedesktop runtime only.
- Video playback needs a Wayland session; a pure X11 session shows the interface but cannot create the video plane.
- No host or home filesystem access; app data lives in
~/.var/app/com.edde746.plezy/. Add host folders through the desktop file chooser portal, and keep download folders writable.
- Network, display, audio, and device access are enabled.
--device=all (Flatpak 1.14 compatibility) exposes more than GPUs and controllers; session-bus access stays filtered.
Linux — AppImage
Download the AppImage for your architecture above, then run:
chmod +x plezy-linux-x64.AppImage
./plezy-linux-x64.AppImage
Gear Lever and AppImageUpdate update it from the latest release. Without FUSE, add --appimage-extract-and-run.
Arch Linux — Pacman
Distribution package.
sudo pacman -S plezy
Fedora / Red Hat — DNF
Installation instructions · Community repository by @aldobarr.
Nix
Community package maintained by @mio-19 and @MiniHarinn.
aerynOS — Moss
Distribution package.
sudo moss pad plezy
Features
Browse & Discover
- Libraries, collections, and playlists — video and audio
- Shuffle a whole movie or TV library
- Discover hub — Continue Watching, Next Up, trending, and recommendations
- Continue Watching shows a title held in several libraries or on several servers once, and asks which copy to play
- Cross-server search across every connected Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby server, including actors and directors
- Filtering, sorting, and alphabetical jump navigation
- Folder browsing and folder playback — home-video libraries open in folder view
- Resolution, HDR/Dolby Vision, and audio-format badges on cards and detail pages
- Favorites and unwatched library filters[^mb]
- Extras — trailers, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes
Explore & Requests
- Explore tab — watchlist, trending, popular, and recommendation rows from Plex Discover[^plex], Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and Seerr[^connect]
- Search any connected catalog source
- Catalog titles matched back to your own libraries by external ID
- Seerr — request movies and shows with per-season, 4K, and advanced destination options, and see request status inline
- Watchlist sync — add and remove titles on Plex, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and Simkl from anywhere in the app
Playback
- Wide codec support (HEVC, AV1, VP9, and more)
- HDR and Dolby Vision[^hdr]
- Direct play, or transcode presets from 240p/320 kbps to 1080p/20 Mbps
- Multi-version switching with per-version file details
- Full ASS/SSA subtitles with customizable styling
- Online subtitle search & download[^plex]
- Audio & subtitle choices remembered per title, or follow the server’s per-episode selections
- Progress sync and resume
- Auto-play next episode with skip intro / skip credits
- Chapter navigation with thumbnail scrub previews
- Playback speed from 0.25x to 8x, audio sync offset, sleep timer (fixed durations or end of video)
- Video zoom 50-200% with pinch, presets, and hotkeys
- Audio passthrough[^pass], output channel limit (5.1 or stereo, with center-channel boost), and loudness normalization
- File Info sheet — every version, file, and stream the server reports
- Ambient lighting and GLSL shader presets[^mpv]
- Picture-in-Picture[^pip]
- Refresh-rate matching[^rrm]
- External player launch (VLC, MX Player, etc.) with progress sync back[^android]
Music
- Music libraries — artist, album, and track browsing with square artwork
- Album and artist screens with play, shuffle, and Instant Mix
- Gapless playback with a full play queue — reorder, remove, play next, add to queue
- Now Playing with synced lyrics[^lyrics], persistent mini-player, and sleep timer
- Background playback with lock-screen, media-key, and notification controls[^bgaudio]
- Offline playback of downloaded albums and tracks
- Streaming quality presets — Original, 320, 192, or 128 kbps
Live TV & DVR
- Live TV channel browsing, tuning, and favorites
- EPG guide with What’s On and per-show schedules
- DVR recording rules, scheduled recordings, and a rememberable recording target library[^plex]
- Multi-server Live TV support where available
Downloads & Offline
- Download movies, shows, and music for offline playback[^dl]
- Background queue with pause / resume
- Sync rules for automatic downloads, with per-show “Include Specials”
- Offline browsing with watch state sync-back on reconnect
Watch Together
- Rooms on Open Watch Party — share a six-character code; friends join from Plezy or another Open Watch Party app
- Everyone plays their own copy from their own server — Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby — matched by catalogue IDs, with a picker when several copies fit
- Synchronized play / pause / seek, host or shared control, room lock, and host handoff
- Public relays by default, or point Plezy at your own self-hosted relay
Integrations
- Discord Rich Presence[^desktop]
- Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and Simkl — ratings, watched sync, and real-time scrobbling[^rt]
- Scores from connected trackers on detail pages — Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, and AniList, plus Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd, IMDb, and TMDB through MDBList
- Plezy Remote — control desktop and TV from mobile
- Watch Next row and tvOS Top Shelf[^shelf]
plezy:// links to open a profile, play a title, or tune a channel from Home Assistant, launchers, or an NFC tag; any movie, show, or episode menu shows its link[^links]
- Desktop, mobile, and TV — full D-pad, keyboard, and gamepad support
- Multiple servers at once — Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby side by side
- Profiles with per-profile downloads, watch state, and settings; Plex Home switching with PIN
- Jellyfin and Emby local-server discovery and multiple URLs per server; Quick Connect sign-in[^jf]
- TV layout options — corner spotlight backdrop, full-card artwork, and Force TV mode on desktop
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts[^desktop]
- Metadata and artwork editing
- Settings import/export
- Localized in English plus 21 translations
[^jf]: Jellyfin only.
[^mb]: Jellyfin and Emby only.
[^plex]: Plex only.
[^connect]: Requires connecting the service under Settings > Services.
[^hdr]: In-app HDR toggle on Windows, macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux — Linux needs a colour-managed Wayland compositor. Dolby Vision on Android, macOS, and Apple TV.
[^pass]: Desktop, Android TV, and Apple TV.
[^mpv]: Requires the mpv player backend — Android defaults to ExoPlayer. Not applied to Dolby Vision on Apple platforms.
[^pip]: Android, iOS, and macOS — not on Android TV or Apple TV.
[^rrm]: Windows, Android, and tvOS.
[^android]: Progress sync on Android.
[^lyrics]: Where your server provides lyrics.
[^bgaudio]: tvOS pauses music when the app is backgrounded.
[^dl]: Not available on tvOS.
[^desktop]: Desktop only.
[^rt]: Real-time scrobbling on Trakt and Simkl; MyAnimeList and AniList update on completion.
[^shelf]: Android TV / Fire TV and tvOS.
[^links]: Android, iOS, macOS, and tvOS.
plezy:// links
Links start Plezy from outside the app. Any link may add profile=<profile>: a profile id, a Plex Home user UUID, or a display name (ignoring case; it must match one profile). Plezy switches to that profile first, and a protected profile still asks for its PIN. A link replaces whatever is playing.
| Link |
Does |
plezy://open |
Opens Plezy |
plezy://play?server=<server>&id=<item> |
Plays one item on one server, any backend |
plezy://play?type=movie|show&tmdb=<n> |
Plays a title from whichever server has it. Use tmdb, tvdb, imdb=tt<n>, or plex=<hash> (the Plex GUID without plex://movie/) |
plezy://live?channel=<channel> |
Tunes a Live TV channel by key, number, or call sign. Optional server=<server> and start=beginning|live |
For a show, mode=next (the default) plays the next episode to watch, and mode=shuffle plays the show shuffled. The menu of any movie, show, or episode has Show link, and each profile’s menu in Switch Profile has Show profile link. Both show the link as text and a QR code.
# Android / Android TV, over adb (Home Assistant: remote.turn_on with activity: plezy://...)
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "plezy://play?type=show\&tvdb=81189\&profile=Kids"
# macOS
open "plezy://play?type=movie&tmdb=603"
On iOS, use the Open URLs action in Shortcuts.
Building from Source
Prerequisites
- Flutter SDK 3.47.0+
- A Plex account, or a Jellyfin or Emby server with user credentials
Setup
git clone https://github.com/edde746/plezy.git
cd plezy
flutter pub get
scripts/codegen.sh
flutter run
Code generation
After modifying model classes or other generated sources:
scripts/codegen.sh
After modifying translations:
dart run slang
Packaging a Flatpak bundle
Packages an already fully resolved Linux release bundle — pinned libmpv and bundled libraries included, not a Flathub source-build manifest. Run it on Linux, on the same architecture as the bundle, after following the bundle preparation steps in the Linux release workflow: flutter build linux alone does not produce all the required bundled libraries.
Install the packaging tools (Debian/Ubuntu shown) plus the native-architecture SDK and runtime:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y flatpak flatpak-builder imagemagick
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//25.08 org.freedesktop.Sdk//25.08
BUNDLE_DIR=build/linux/x64/release/bundle
python3 linux/packaging/build-flatpak.py --bundle "$BUNDLE_DIR" --arch x64 --output "$PWD"
That writes plezy-linux-x64.flatpak, installable with the Flatpak commands above; on arm64, use the prepared arm64 bundle directory and --arch arm64. Package from the checkout matching the bundle, since the version comes from pubspec.yaml.
Cross-architecture packaging needs native Flatpak tools, a registered binfmt interpreter, and the target SDK/runtime installed with flatpak install --user --arch=x86_64 (or aarch64) — never run Flatpak’s namespace tools under emulation. Pass --arch x64 or --arch arm64 to the checker and the matching Flatpak architecture to flatpak run --arch=....
Check the installed package against the runtime (not just the SDK), then launch it on a Wayland desktop and exercise streaming, audio, downloads/offline playback, and file chooser portals:
python3 linux/packaging/check-flatpak.py
The check fails on a non-executable entry point or an unresolved bundled ELF dependency. A container without a GPU can use flatpak run --env=GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe com.edde746.plezy for software-rendered verification; this is not a hardware-decoding or HDR test.
Local checks
scripts/ci_checks.sh
To install the same pre-commit checks locally:
scripts/setup_hooks.sh
End-to-end tests (Android emulator plus a Dockerized Jellyfin fixture):
python3 scripts/maestro/run_maestro.py basic
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for development workflow, formatting, tests, and translation guidelines.
License
Plezy is licensed under GPL-3.0. The license covers the code, not the Plezy name or logo; forks distributed beyond personal use must follow TRADEMARKS.md.
Acknowledgments
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