Plezy Downloads & RevenuePlezy: Media Server Client · App Store & Google Play
Plezy: Media Server Client gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plezy: Media Server Client by Edvard Wikhall is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Plezy: Media Server Client update history & changes
Last change · 63 events since 30 Oct 2025Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 63 events
- 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client: its developer released another app: Tortuga PlayeriOS
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · MX
- ✏️Plezy: Media Server Client: app got biggeriOS117 MB → 130 MB (+11%)
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.25.0iOS## New features
- Skip Intro and Skip Credits recognise chapters with generic or non-English names
- Add to… playlists and collections on Jellyfin and Emby
- Scan Library Files on Jellyfin and Emby
- New airings show a NEW badge in the Live TV guide
- Explore can be the Startup Section
- The Performance Overlay shows Direct Play or Transcoding
## plezy:// links
- Links can open Plezy in a chosen profile
- Links play a movie or show by TMDB, TVDB, IMDb or Plex ID from any server
- A show link plays the next episode, or shuffles the show
- Show link on movies, shows, episodes and profiles gives the link and a QR code
- Live TV links work on Apple TV
- Outplayer, Infuse and VLC on iOS return to Plezy with where playback stopped
## Watch Together
- Opening an ended room from Recent Rooms starts it again under the same code
- A host playing a download shares it while its server is online
- Guests play their own download of the room's file instead of streaming it
- Videos played from Downloads join the room
## Playback
- Subtitle lines near the start of a video no longer go missing
- Audio Passthrough stays on after a Dolby track fails to pass through
- Plex shows play in season order even when episode air dates are wrong
- Back on the Play Next prompt leaves the player
- Audio Sync moves in 10 ms steps
- The volume slider shows the level while dragging
## UI
- Posters in dense grids are no longer cropped at the top and bottom
- Profiles no longer show the Plex account name when only one account is signed in
- Watch Together, themes, Supporter and newer settings are translated in every language
- Explore posters load for Plex users with Seerr's Enable Image Caching on
- Cancel on a download notification stops the download instead of restarting it
- Continue Watching fits on the first screen of Home on compact phones
- Screens and sheets stay clear of the status column on iPhone Duo
- The Home profile avatar opens the profile menu instead of Control Center on iPhone Duo
## TV
- The remote keeps working after switching profiles
- Backing out of a finished episode focuses the next episode in Continue Watching
- The Top Shelf shows series posters unless Episode Poster Style is Season Poster… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · ID
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.25.0Android## New features
- Skip Intro and Skip Credits recognise more chapter names
- plezy:// links can pick a profile and play titles
- Add to… playlists and collections on Jellyfin and Emby
## Playback
- Normalize Loudness no longer silences 5.1 audio on some devices
- Resuming no longer skips up to half a second of audio
- Subtitle lines near the start of a video no longer go missing
- Audio Sync moves in 10 ms steps… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · MY
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.24.1iOS## Supporter
- The Supporter purchase is available on the App Store
## Fixes
- Plex shows auto-advance in season and episode order, even when episodes have wrong air dates
- Watch Together rooms play downloads while their server is online, and players opened from Downloads join the room
- On iPhone Duo, content, sheets and the Home profile button stay clear of the side status column… more - 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.24.0iOS## New features
- Detail pages show scores from connected Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, AniList and MDBList accounts
- Person pages show the biography, birth and death dates, and birthplace
- Deinterlacing has a Film mode for telecined DVDs
## Supporter
- A one-time Supporter purchase unlocks themes and app icons
- Five colour themes: Ember, Glacier, Forest, Plum and Paper
- Custom themes with your own colours
- 23 alternate app icons on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
## Watch Together
- Rooms run on Open Watch Party and work with other Open Watch Party apps
- Rooms work across servers: each person plays their own copy from their Plex, Jellyfin or Emby servers
- Room codes have six characters
- Rooms use public relays by default
- A custom relay must be an Open Watch Party relay
- Everyone in a room needs this version of Plezy or another Open Watch Party app
## Audio
- 5.1 and 7.1 audio plays as multichannel instead of stereo on iPhone and iPad
- Audio Passthrough on iPhone and iPad, for Dolby Atmos on AirPods
- With Audio Passthrough on, TrueHD Atmos and DTS:X play as spatial audio on iOS and tvOS 26
- Audio Passthrough applies to music
- The player settings show Spatial Audio or Dolby Atmos rendering on iPhone and iPad
- Changing playback speed no longer freezes video
## Playback
- Subtitle lines no longer go missing after seeking or switching tracks
- Dolby Vision profile 5 no longer plays magenta and green on iPad (10th and 11th generation)
- Starting Picture-in-Picture no longer crashes on iPhone and iPad
- Subtitles keep their size after locking an iPhone or iPad while the video is zoomed
- Skip Credits no longer appears in the middle of a movie
- Previous restarts a movie
- The audio output picked in the player is remembered across videos
- Remember Player Changes set to Per library or Per show no longer carries changes into other libraries
- The player opens more smoothly
## Live TV
- Live TV buffers ~6 s before playing instead of stalling every few seconds
- The player's Go to Live control has a label
- Program descriptions show on Jellyfin and Emby
## Plex
- A server that comes back on a new address reconnects without restarting Plezy
- Reconnect shows an error when nothing connects
## Jellyfin & Emby
- Seek-bar previews show again
- Home rows follow the library order set in Manage Libraries
- The Choose audio by language toggle is no longer inverted
- Seasons without their own backdrop show the series backdrop
- Emby search on large libraries returns people and movies instead of timing out
- The Top Shelf shows Continue Watching from Jellyfin 12 servers
## Explore & trackers
- Tracker scores on Explore items show which service they come from
- Seerr artwork loads when Seerr's Enable Image Caching is on
## UI
- Hero backdrops are sharp on portrait phones
- The home hero carousel crossfades artwork between slides
- Built-in labels such as Copy and Paste follow the app language
- Library grids no longer lose cards when a page reloads
- Leaving the MPV config editor with the back arrow keeps the latest edits
## Apple TV
- Smaller wide cards and more space between rows on Home, Explore and library screens
- Smaller hero title
- Each grid density step gives a different card size
- Grids default to normal spacing
- Smoother scrolling through Home rows and library grids, and smoother detail page opening
- The remote keeps working after closing Profiles or the PIN prompt opened from the avatar menu
- Quick gamepad Back presses on a detail page no longer close the screen beneath it… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · RU
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · PH
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · DE
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · CO
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · TH
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10 in 7 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Apps · AE · Top Paid · All Apps · ID · Top Paid · All Apps · MX · Top Paid · All Apps · SA · +3 more
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · PL
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · AU
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · PL
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · CA · Top Paid · Entertainment · CA · Top Paid · Entertainment · DE
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · GB
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All AppsiOSNL
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · DE
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1AndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · MX
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · GB · Top Paid · Entertainment · NL
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #2AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.23.0iOS## New features
- Downloads group movies and shows by collection: a Collections grouping in the Movies and TV Shows tabs opens an offline collection screen
- Retry failed downloads in bulk from the Downloads app bar, or with Retry all on a show, season or album
- File Info opens from the player settings sheet for the playing item
- Disable Dolby Vision (Settings > Video Playback) plays the file's HDR10 or HLG layer instead on Apple TV
- Subtitle Position goes up to 150, so subtitles can move down into the black bars
## Playback
- Plex movies split across several files play as one item, including from downloads and in external players
- Resuming over a slow connection no longer fails after 30 seconds while the stream is still loading
- The audio track picker tells DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HRA, DTS:X and other DTS variants apart from their DTS core
- Streams no longer stall at start on networks whose DNS never answers IPv6 lookups
- "Ends at" stays current while playback is paused
- The screen can sleep after pressing play at the end of an item
## Live TV
- Live TV and Watch from Start match the display to the channel's presented frame rate on Apple TV, including after a channel change, fixing judder and audio drift on interlaced channels
## Plex
- Smart playlists play from the tapped entry and continue through the playlist
- Playing a playlist or collection in order no longer shows a "Shuffle" loading dialog
- A stream stopped from the Plex dashboard stays stopped instead of restarting itself
- Switching Plex Home users no longer shows the previous user's rows on Home
## Jellyfin & Emby
- Emby search is fast again on large libraries and no longer fails with "Search could not reach any media server"
- Search finds items in home video and music video libraries
- Unaired placeholder episodes no longer appear in Recently Added, show downloads, sync rules or folder playback
- The Jellyfin dashboard keeps Plezy's now-playing and transcode info
## Servers & search
- One unresponsive server no longer holds back other servers' search results and libraries
- A server that takes more than 10 seconds to answer is waited on instead of being reported unreachable
## Explore & trackers
- Plex Discover titles, summaries and shelf names follow the app language
- Marking a show or season watched sends batched history writes to Simkl, Trakt and MDBList instead of one request per episode
- Simkl requests are paced and back off when Simkl asks
- Simkl sign-in uses Simkl's new device flow; Simkl settings offers Reconnect to move an existing sign-in over
## Downloads
- Download on Wi-Fi only starts downloads over a VPN and on Ethernet
- Watched episodes with a resume point are no longer deleted and re-downloaded on every launch
## UI
- Phone detail pages show IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and TMDB ratings on their own row
## TV
- The library A-Z bar stays clear of the screen edge and of the focused card
- Down from the app bar moves into the grid after sorting or going back on View All, actor, collection, album, artist and playlist screens
- The show detail hero shows the focused episode's IMDb score… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · AR
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · TH · Top Paid · Entertainment · TR · Top Paid · Entertainment · VN
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 100 in 5 chartsAndroidTop Paid · All Apps · MX · Top Paid · All Apps · NL · Top Paid · All Apps · TH · Top Paid · All Apps · TR · +1 more
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #4AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.23.0Android## New features
- Disable Dolby Vision plays the HDR10/HLG layer on MPV
- Bulk retry for failed downloads; offline Collections grouping
## Playback
- Xvid and MPEG-2 play on MPV
- Fixed audio loss/freezes toggling loudness, speed or passthrough on Android TV
- Fixed AV1 resume stall on Fire TV
- Live TV matches display frame rate on MPV
## Downloads
- Interrupted downloads resume instead of restarting; progress no longer shows 100% at halfway… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · AE · Top Paid · Entertainment · ID · Top Paid · Entertainment · SA
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #9AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · SA
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1AndroidTop Paid · Entertainment · IN
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #23AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #32AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #35AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client: its developer released another app: ompanion: omp clientiOS
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · NL
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · AE
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · FR
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #36AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #39AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.22.0iOS## New features
- Search finds actors and directors on Plex, Jellyfin and Emby
- Apple TV hands playback to external players such as Infuse
- Audio Channels setting replaces Downmix to Stereo: Original, Up to 5.1 or Stereo
## Playback
- A server refusing playback with HTTP 403 shows why instead of a raw error or a sign-in prompt
- A failed start names the actual reason instead of "loading failed"
- Playback speed returns to 1.0 when the next item has no custom speed
- The Play Next countdown waits while Plezy is in the background
- Retry after a failed start brings back system media controls
- Leaving Picture-in-Picture works on iOS
## Subtitles
- An offset set with "Don't save" no longer carries into the next episode
- External subtitles with a backslash in their path load
- A failed subtitle search shows a readable reason
## Music
- Gapless Plex albums prefetch the next track when transcoding
- Companion Remote play, pause, seek and skip control music
- Queues over 1,000 tracks restore on the right track
## Live TV
- Emby plays HDHomeRun channels
- Live TV stays available when a server check times out
- The guide's day picker stays correct across daylight saving changes
- A failed guide refresh keeps the loaded channels
## Plex
- Collections open on servers that cap pages at 120 items
- Hub detail screens honor every sort option
- The server token is no longer sent over plain HTTP to remote or relay addresses
## Jellyfin & Emby
- Hidden libraries stay out of Continue Watching
- Jellyfin remembers the subtitle actually selected
- The Apple TV Top Shelf shows Emby resume items
## Explore & trackers
- Anime movies and series no longer map to each other's MAL and AniList entries
- Specials no longer rewind series progress
- Queued Trakt changes sync without rate-limit errors
## Downloads
- A downloaded movie or episode plays from the device while its server is reachable
- The same title in two libraries or on two servers no longer overwrites the other's download
- A resumed download continues where it stopped
- Failed downloads show a readable reason
## Profiles & servers
- Plezy stays online without internet when a local server is reachable
- A server refusing the account no longer asks to sign in again
- PIN-protected Plex Home users are no longer picked automatically at sign-in
## UI
- Libraries show load errors, and Refresh reloads the list
- Actor pages open when their server is offline
- Disabled buttons look disabled in the Mono theme
## TV
- Player controls hide after 5 seconds again with a remote
- The skip button no longer takes focus from an open sheet
- Guide favorites toggle with a remote
- Plex, Tautulli and Jellyfin list Apple TV as tvOS with its device name… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10 in 3 chartsiOSTop Paid · Entertainment · IN · Top Paid · Entertainment · SE · Top Paid · Entertainment · TR
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.22.0Android## New features
- Search finds actors and directors
- Audio Channels setting: Original, Up to 5.1 or Stereo
- plezy://live links tune Live TV channels
## Playback
- 4K HDR plays smoothly on weaker TV boxes
- TrueHD and DTS passthrough fixes; no audio dropouts on low-RAM boxes
- Smoother MPV playback and Dolby Vision Profile 5 fixes
## Downloads
- Downloads no longer overwrite each other and resume where they stopped
## Android
- Watch Next items no longer replay after a profile switch… more - 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #41AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client new best rank in the overall chart: #55AndroidTop Paid · All Apps · US
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client entered the top 10 in 2 chartsiOSTop Paid · Entertainment · DE · Top Paid · Entertainment · ES
- 📈Plezy: Media Server Client hit #1iOSTop Paid · Entertainment · AU
- 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidSaudi Arabia
- 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client first spotted by AppInsideriOS#8 in Top Paid · Entertainment · Canada
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client version 2.21.0iOSNo release notes
- 📦Plezy: Media Server Client updated to version 2.21.0Android## New features
- Multi-value library filters, exclusions and ranges
- Downloads tabs group, sort and filter
## Playback
- DTS-HD MA bitstreams in full on more TVs
- Fewer E-AC-3 dropouts on Fire TV
- Player no longer leaks memory on close
## Android
- Non-16:9 video letterboxed again on Android 7/8
- Smooth high-bitrate AV1 on Pixel 6+
- Lock/unlock no longer blacks out video
- No 120/60 Hz switching mid-playback
## TV
- No upside-down rendering on some boxes… more - 📦Plezy: Media Server Client version 2.20.0Android## Playback
- Failed opens show a Retry screen; wedged players recover
- Normalize Loudness applies on Android
- Dolby Vision Profile 5 fixes on Google TV
- 5.1 bitstreams on offload-only HDMI ports
- No more kills on low-memory TV boxes
## Display matching
- Frame-rate matching works on 90/120 Hz panels
## Subtitles
- Korean subtitles render correctly
## Android
- Servers behind user-installed CAs connect again
- Fewer stalls and less judder in hardware playback… more - 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Plezy: Media Server Client released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Plezy: Media Server Client at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plezy is a premium, subscription-free media client for iOS that unifies playback and management across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby servers for users seeking advanced features like offline downloads, multi-server discovery, and high-fidelity audio/video support. The app has rapidly climbed to the top five paid entertainment charts in major markets including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa shortly after its October 2025 release, indicating strong immediate demand for a feature-rich alternative to official server clients.
Similar apps: Infuse, VLC for Mobile, Swiftfin
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plezy: Media Server Client’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Plezy: Media Server Client downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 500+ | 5k+ |
| Google Play | 100+ | 10k+ Measured |
| Total | 500+ Confidence | 10k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Plezy: Media Server Client's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Plezy: Media Server Client makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Supporter |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #5 | 15 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #1 | 11 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
United States ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 54% | ▲ +29% | |
| 1.8 | 28% | – | |
| 1.2 | 18% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.5 ★ | 125 |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 424 104 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 549 |
What users say about Plezy: Media Server Client
From the 49 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise Plezy as a superior, faster alternative to the official Plex app with a cleaner interface and reliable playback. However, significant complaints focus on frequent crashes on iOS, missing features like Picture-in-Picture and queue editing, and poor Apple TV UI implementation.
Mixed but leaning positive (69% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Features & content: “Better layout, plays content without issue”
- Design: “Design and theme are much better”
- Updates: “Hate the new Plex update?”
- Speed & performance: “The second this is performance”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Immediately crashes- stay away”
- Updates: “Why does the shaders get removed in latest updates?”
- Features & content: “I’m forever forced to view only one library”
- Price & subscription: “I’d gladly take a refund if it’s going to be this way going forward, I feel tricked”
About Plezy: Media Server Client
BROWSE & DISCOVER
- Browse libraries, collections, playlists, folders, extras, and personalized recommendations
- Search across every connected Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby server
- Explore trending, popular, watchlist, and recommendation rows from Plex Discover, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and Seerr
- Match catalog titles back to your own libraries and request movies or shows through Seerr
- See resolution, HDR, Dolby Vision, and audio-format badges at a glance
PLAYBACK
- Wide codec support including HEVC, AV1, VP9, and more
- HDR playback, direct play, and configurable transcode quality
- Switch between media versions with detailed file and stream information
- Full ASS/SSA subtitles with styling controls and online subtitle search
- Auto-play the next episode with skip intro and skip credits
- Chapter navigation, thumbnail scrubbing, playback speed, audio sync, sleep timer, and video zoom
- Picture-in-Picture, loudness normalization, and stereo downmix with center-channel boost
- Resume progress and remembered audio/subtitle choices
MUSIC
- Browse artists, albums, and tracks with rich artwork
- Gapless playback with a reorderable queue, Play Next, and Add to Queue
- Synced lyrics, a persistent mini-player, and sleep timer
- Background playback with lock-screen and media controls
- Offline albums and tracks, plus selectable streaming quality
LIVE TV & DVR
- Browse and tune live channels with favorites and a full program guide
- See what's on, browse show schedules, and manage DVR recording rules
- Use Live TV across multiple supported servers
DOWNLOADS & OFFLINE
- Download movies, shows, albums, and tracks
- Pause or resume the background queue
- Create automatic download rules, including optional show specials
- Browse offline and sync watch state when you reconnect
PROFILES & INTEGRATIONS
- Use multiple profiles with per-profile settings, downloads, and watch state
- Switch Plex Home users with optional PIN protection
- Discover Jellyfin and Emby servers locally and use Quick Connect
- Sync watchlists, ratings, watched state, and scrobbles with connected services
- Watch together with synchronized play, pause, and seeking
- Control desktop and TV devices with Plezy Remote
- Available in English plus 21 translations
Some features require a supported server, media format, or connected service.
Plezy: Media Server Client App Store
Plezy: Media Server Client gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plezy: Media Server Client is #7 in Entertainment Paid in United States and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Plezy: Media Server Client at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plezy is a premium, subscription-free media client for iOS that unifies playback and management across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby servers for users seeking advanced features like offline downloads, multi-server discovery, and high-fidelity audio/video support. The app has rapidly climbed to the top five paid entertainment charts in major markets including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa shortly after its October 2025 release, indicating strong immediate demand for a feature-rich alternative to official server clients.
Similar apps: Infuse, VLC for Mobile, Swiftfin
Plezy: Media Server Client on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plezy: Media Server Client’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Plezy: Media Server Client downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plezy: Media Server Client's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plezy: Media Server Client before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Plezy: Media Server Client makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Supporter |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| EntertainmentPaid | #7 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #5 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #10 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #6 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #10 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #5 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #7 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #11 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #5 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #14 | |
| All AppsPaid | #101 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #7 | |
| All AppsPaid | #83 | |
| All AppsPaid | #120 | |
| All AppsPaid | #69 | |
| All AppsPaid | #169 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #16 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #30 | |
| All AppsPaid | #124 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #174 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #184 |
Apps near Plezy: Media Server Client on the chart
Entertainment Paid, around #7.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisGrowing fastest in
United States ▲ +29%
New ratings by country (3)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 54% | ▲ +29% | |
| 1.8 | 28% | – | |
| 1.2 | 18% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Plezy: Media Server Client
From the 49 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise Plezy as a superior, faster alternative to the official Plex app with a cleaner interface and reliable playback. However, significant complaints focus on frequent crashes on iOS, missing features like Picture-in-Picture and queue editing, and poor Apple TV UI implementation.
Mixed but leaning positive (69% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Features & content: “Better layout, plays content without issue”
- Design: “Design and theme are much better”
- Updates: “Hate the new Plex update?”
- Speed & performance: “The second this is performance”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Immediately crashes- stay away”
- Updates: “Why does the shaders get removed in latest updates?”
- Features & content: “I’m forever forced to view only one library”
- Price & subscription: “I’d gladly take a refund if it’s going to be this way going forward, I feel tricked”
About Plezy: Media Server Client
BROWSE & DISCOVER
- Browse libraries, collections, playlists, folders, extras, and personalized recommendations
- Search across every connected Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby server
- Explore trending, popular, watchlist, and recommendation rows from Plex Discover, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and Seerr
- Match catalog titles back to your own libraries and request movies or shows through Seerr
- See resolution, HDR, Dolby Vision, and audio-format badges at a glance
PLAYBACK
- Wide codec support including HEVC, AV1, VP9, and more
- HDR playback, direct play, and configurable transcode quality
- Switch between media versions with detailed file and stream information
- Full ASS/SSA subtitles with styling controls and online subtitle search
- Auto-play the next episode with skip intro and skip credits
- Chapter navigation, thumbnail scrubbing, playback speed, audio sync, sleep timer, and video zoom
- Picture-in-Picture, loudness normalization, and stereo downmix with center-channel boost
- Resume progress and remembered audio/subtitle choices
MUSIC
- Browse artists, albums, and tracks with rich artwork
- Gapless playback with a reorderable queue, Play Next, and Add to Queue
- Synced lyrics, a persistent mini-player, and sleep timer
- Background playback with lock-screen and media controls
- Offline albums and tracks, plus selectable streaming quality
LIVE TV & DVR
- Browse and tune live channels with favorites and a full program guide
- See what's on, browse show schedules, and manage DVR recording rules
- Use Live TV across multiple supported servers
DOWNLOADS & OFFLINE
- Download movies, shows, albums, and tracks
- Pause or resume the background queue
- Create automatic download rules, including optional show specials
- Browse offline and sync watch state when you reconnect
PROFILES & INTEGRATIONS
- Use multiple profiles with per-profile settings, downloads, and watch state
- Switch Plex Home users with optional PIN protection
- Discover Jellyfin and Emby servers locally and use Quick Connect
- Sync watchlists, ratings, watched state, and scrobbles with connected services
- Watch together with synchronized play, pause, and seeking
- Control desktop and TV devices with Plezy Remote
- Available in English plus 21 translations
Some features require a supported server, media format, or connected service.
Latest updates
Store changes
What Plezy: Media Server Client changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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Plezy: Media Server Client Android
Plezy: Media Server Client gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plezy: Media Server Client is #1 in Entertainment Paid on Google Play in United States and charting in 11 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Plezy: Media Server Client at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plezy is a paid media server client for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby that enables high-quality playback, offline access, and multi-server management across various devices without requiring a subscription. The app has achieved the #1 position in the US Entertainment Paid category and leads charts in several other countries including AE, SA, NL, MX, and CA, indicating strong immediate traction in key markets.
Similar apps: Infuse, Swiftfin, VLC for Android
Plezy: Media Server Client on Google Play
App details
Plezy: Media Server Client downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plezy: Media Server Client's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plezy: Media Server Client before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Plezy: Media Server Client makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Supporter |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| EntertainmentPaid | #1 | |
| All AppsPaid | #10 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #1 | |
| All AppsPaid | #4 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| EntertainmentPaid | #2 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| All AppsPaid | #38 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| All AppsPaid | #38 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| All AppsPaid | #40 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| All AppsPaid | #39 | |
| EntertainmentGrossing | #180 |
Apps near Plezy: Media Server Client on the chart
Entertainment Paid, around #1.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Plezy: Media Server Client
From the 121 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users widely praise the app for its superior speed, responsiveness, and clean interface compared to official Plex or Jellyfin clients. However, significant complaints arise regarding playback instability on specific hardware, missing features like casting or in-player subtitle editing, and perceived paywall deception.
Mostly positive (79% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Features & content: “Amazing app, new features are added with every release”
- Design: “ideal layout, smart use of space”
- Speed & performance: “3 times as fast as the normal plex client”
- Updates: “Edit: The new update has resolved the live tv issue”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “freeze frames when playing media”
- Price & subscription: “Hopefully I can get a refund”
- Design: “also the UI and interface is bad to use”
- Features & content: “why I'm not able to mark as watched or rate items not in my library like in Plex app?”
About Plezy: Media Server Client
BROWSE & DISCOVER
- Browse video and music libraries, collections, playlists, folders, extras, and recommendations
- Search across every connected Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby server
- Explore trending, popular, watchlist, and recommendation rows from Plex Discover, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and Seerr
- Match catalog titles back to your libraries and request movies or shows through Seerr
- Filter and sort libraries with alphabetical jump navigation
- See resolution, HDR, Dolby Vision, and audio-format badges at a glance
POWERFUL PLAYBACK
- Wide codec support including HEVC, AV1, VP9, and more
- HDR and Dolby Vision playback on supported devices
- Direct play or transcode from mobile-friendly quality up to 1080p/20 Mbps
- Switch between media versions with detailed file and stream information
- Full ASS/SSA subtitles with styling controls and online subtitle search
- Auto-play the next episode with skip intro and skip credits
- Chapter navigation, thumbnail scrubbing, playback speed, audio sync, sleep timer, and video zoom
- Audio passthrough on Android TV, loudness normalization, and stereo downmix with center-channel boost
- Refresh-rate matching and external-player support on compatible devices
- Resume progress and remembered audio/subtitle choices
MUSIC
- Browse artists, albums, and tracks with rich artwork
- Gapless playback with a reorderable queue, Play Next, and Add to Queue
- Synced lyrics, a persistent mini-player, and sleep timer
- Background playback with lock-screen, media-key, and notification controls
- Offline albums and tracks
- Select Original, 320, 192, or 128 kbps streaming quality
LIVE TV & DVR
- Browse and tune live channels with favorites and a full program guide
- See what's on, browse per-show schedules, and manage DVR recording rules
- Use Live TV across multiple supported servers
DOWNLOADS & OFFLINE
- Download movies, shows, albums, and tracks
- Pause or resume the background queue
- Create automatic download rules, including optional show specials
- Store downloads on supported adoptable storage
- Browse offline and sync watch state when you reconnect
WATCH TOGETHER & INTEGRATIONS
- Synchronize play, pause, and seeking with friends
- Sync watchlists, ratings, watched state, and scrobbles with Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and MDBList
- Request content and view request status through Seerr
- Control desktop and TV devices with Plezy Remote
- Keep Android TV and Fire TV's Watch Next row up to date
PROFILES & PLATFORM EXPERIENCE
- Use multiple profiles with per-profile settings, downloads, and watch state
- Switch Plex Home users with optional PIN protection
- Discover Jellyfin and Emby servers locally, use multiple server
What's new in 2.25.0
- Skip Intro and Skip Credits recognise more chapter names
- plezy:// links can pick a profile and play titles
- Add to… playlists and collections on Jellyfin and Emby
## Playback
- Normalize Loudness no longer silences 5.1 audio on some devices
- Resuming no longer skips up to half a second of audio
- Subtitle lines near the start of a video no longer go missing
- Audio Sync moves in 10 ms steps
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