The stock Jellyfin Android app gets the job done, but it’s hard not to notice just how much more polished the Plex app feels. Frankly, it’s no contest—and it’s one of the reasons so many people drift away from Jellyfin. Fortunately, Jellyfin’s open-source nature has allowed developers to build their own clients, offering far more refined ways to stream your content.

Apple users already have access to a strong third-party option in Infuse, but Android users aren’t left hanging. There are plenty of alternative Jellyfin clients to choose from—and honestly, most of them feel way better than the official app.

Fladder feels like the polished Jellyfin app we should’ve gotten

A clean interface packed with powerful admin tools

If you want a gorgeous Jellyfin client that also doubles as a powerful admin command center, Fladder is about as good as it gets. It’s built on Flutter, which is what helped the developer create a consistent, seamless experience across all platforms.

From a casual user’s perspective, Fladder is noticeably easier and more polished to use compared to the native Jellyfin app. If you need an easy-to-recommend client that your friends and family will love, no matter which device they use it on. It also has Seerr/Jellyseerr integration, making it easy to request new content all from one platform.

But it’s really the admin experience that sets Fladder apart from most other clients. You get a full Control Panel in the settings that you can use to manage your media server without ever having to touch the browser app. The app lets you scan libraries, restart or shut down the server, add or edit users, configure live TV, manage scheduled tasks, and so much more.

Simply put, an app this pretty shouldn’t give you this level of control—but it does—which is what makes it so uniquely great.

Wholphin is the perfect Android TV Jellyfin client

Built for the couch-first experience from the ground up

If you’ve got family members complaining about how the Jellyfin app on their TV is nothing like Plex’s ultra-polished UI, allow me to introduce you to Wholphin.

While some third-party Jellyfin clients are based on the official Jellyfin app, Wholphin has been built completely from the ground up and is fully optimized for TVs. Since the controls have been rewritten from scratch, its UI is easy to navigate with a simple TV remote.

It also uses very few system resources, allowing it to run on even the most underpowered Android TV boxes. If you’ve noticed that the official Jellyfin app frequently stutters or crashes on your Android TV, give Wholphin a try.

Wholphin is available on Android TV 6 or newer and Fire TV OS. If you’ve got an Amazon Fire TV Stick running Fire OS, it’s a great fit for Wholphin, but note that the app won’t work on newer Fire TVs that run Vega OS.

Finamp turns Jellyfin into a surprisingly good Spotify alternative

One of the ways to stream your self-hosted music library

Just as Wholphin is the perfect Android TV client, Finamp is the ultimate purist app built with a single task in mind—music playback. If you’ve used Jellyfin to build your own music streaming service and find yourself not enjoying it on your phone because the experience in the official app is lackluster, you’ve been missing Finamp.

Finamp strips away everything that isn’t music to create a focused, music-first UI that resembles Spotify and other popular streaming services. The most important aspect of Finamp is its native audio playback engine, which supports features that the Jellyfin app completely lacks, like gapless playback and volume normalization.

The app can download music directly to your phone, so you can listen offline when you’re not at home. It can even transcode files if you want to reduce file size and save space.

Findroid keeps things simple, and that’s exactly why everyone loves it

Fast, focused, and clutter-free

With over 100,000 downloads and a 4.5-star rating on the Play Store, Findroid is the most popular third-party Jellyfin Android client. And after using it extensively for the past month, I can definitely say that it’s way better, more reliable, and more stable than the official Jellyfin app. For starters, it actually remembers where I stopped watching and correctly displays the watch progress indicator.

Findroid looks gorgeous, has an intuitive UI with a native Material You skin, and is incredibly smooth. Its MPV playback engine is best-in-class and works much better than the native player in the official app.

Honestly, the only bad thing I can say about Findroid is that it’s not available on Android TV yet!

It’s worth pointing out that Findroid is the direct counterpart to Finamp—the former focuses on shows and movies, while the latter is just for music. So, combine the two and enjoy your very own Netflix and Spotify!

Moonfin is the new Jellyfin app worth keeping an eye on

A promising newcomer with native Jellyseerr integration

Moonfin is one of the youngest Jellyfin clients on the market, and it’s also one of the most promising. It was released only a few months ago, and it already looks and feels incredibly well-polished. I know appearance is subjective, but this is by far the most gorgeous Jellyfin client I’ve seen (and this list includes several strong contenders).

A standout feature of Moonfin is the unified library, which allows you to see all available content across multiple Jellyfin or Emby servers. It also has full native Jellyseerr/Seerr support, making it a strong choice if you share your server with lots of people.

Just like Fladder, Moonfin promises a streamlined and familiar experience across all available platforms (which are pretty extensive)—and it hooks directly into each platform’s native media pipeline for optimal performance.

The best part is that when you customize the interface on one device, it can be automatically synced to your other devices if you’ve installed the Moonfin server plugin.

The best part of Jellyfin is that you’re not locked into one app

The beauty of free, open-source software is that you aren’t locked into a single default experience—and these alternative Jellyfin Android clients prove it. Honestly, once you’ve tried a few of these clients, it’s hard to go back to the official Jellyfin app. Luckily, you don’t have to!