Your Jellyfin library, made for Apple TV.

Prowlogue is a native tvOS client for Jellyfin, redesigned around Liquid Glass. It direct-plays almost anything on your server, Dolby Vision and DTS included.

Prowlogue home screen on Apple TV, with a full-screen spotlight above Continue Watching
Home
A full-bleed spotlight from the Media Bar plugin, above your Continue Watching.

It feels like an Apple TV app because it is one.

Every screen is built for the focus engine and the Siri Remote, so getting around your library feels like the rest of tvOS.

Prowlogue home rows: Next Up, Watchlist and Trending Movies
Home

A home screen that feels like a premiere.

A full-bleed spotlight rotates through your featured titles, followed by Next Up, Watchlist and Trending. Rows appear in the same order and groups you set up on your server.

Media Bar Home Screen Sections KefinTweaks
Movies & TV

Every title gets the big-screen treatment.

Detail pages with backdrop art, ratings, and cast & crew, plus one-click Resume. For shows, a season selector with artwork and details for each episode.

Episode Preview Intro Skipper
Prowlogue movie page with backdrop art, ratings and cast
Prowlogue search with an on-screen keyboard, suggestions and Seerr requests
Search & Requests

Search your library, or request what’s missing.

Search suggests as you type. If a title isn’t in your library, you can request it from the results through Seerr and follow its status live.

Seerr
Live TV

A proper cable-box guide.

A full program guide with channel logos and a line marking what’s on now. Time scrolling is smooth, so you can see what’s coming up next.

Prowlogue Live TV program guide with channel logos
Prowlogue SyncPlay: joining a friend's watch group from a movie page
SyncPlay

Movie night, wherever your friends are.

Start or join a synced group from any title. Play, pause and seek stay matched across devices, and you see when people join or leave.

Top Shelf

Pick up right from the Home screen.

Continue Watching and Next Up show in the Apple TV Top Shelf, so your next episode is one click away.

Prowlogue Continue Watching in the Apple TV Top Shelf

Liquid Glass interface

Apple’s translucent design language, with fluid focus, parallax and depth.

Hybrid playback

HDR and Dolby Vision play through AVPlayer, and VLC direct-plays everything else.

Real-time sync

A live WebSocket connection keeps watch state, progress and requests up to date on every device.

Multiple users & servers

Sign in to several servers and switch accounts from one Users screen.

Trickplay scrubbing

Preview thumbnails on the timeline while you scrub.

Your data stays yours

No analytics or tracking. The app only talks to the server you connect.

Works with the plugins you already run.

Prowlogue finds the extensions on your server and shows them natively, with nothing to set up. If you don’t run one, you get a clean default.

Home Screen Sections

Your home rows, in the order and groups you set.

Collection Sections

Collections and playlists appear as home rows.

KefinTweaks

Follows its home layout and tweaks.

Media Bar

Its playlist runs the rotating spotlight at the top of Home.

Jellyfin Enhanced

Shows your server’s custom logo and splash.

Intro Skipper

Skip Intro and Skip Credits buttons while you watch.

Seerr

Find and request new movies and shows from the app.

SyncPlay

Watch in sync with join and leave notices.

Live TV

A full program guide with a line marking what’s on now.

Trickplay

Smooth preview thumbnails while scrubbing.

Episode Preview

Still images while you browse episodes.

Open Subtitles

In progress
Download subtitles when you need them.

Get Prowlogue on your Apple TV.

Prowlogue is in public beta on TestFlight. We share the invite link in our Discord, which is also where you can get support and report bugs.

  1. Join our Discord
    You’ll find the TestFlight link in the beta channel.
  2. Install TestFlight
    Get Apple’s TestFlight app from the App Store on your Apple TV.
  3. Connect your server
    Open Prowlogue and sign in with your Jellyfin account or Quick Connect.

Common questions

An Apple TV on tvOS 26 or later, and access to a Jellyfin server (10.11 recommended). Prowlogue doesn’t host or provide any media. It plays your own library.

Prowlogue is in public beta on TestFlight. Join our Discord to get the invite link, install Apple’s TestFlight app on your Apple TV, and open the link.

No. Prowlogue is made only for Apple TV and is designed around the tvOS focus engine.

No. Prowlogue works with a standard Jellyfin server. If you already run plugins like Home Screen Sections, Media Bar, Intro Skipper or Seerr, it detects them and shows them natively.

Usually. HDR and Dolby Vision play through Apple’s AVPlayer, and VLC direct-plays almost everything else, including MKV, DTS and ASS subtitles. Your server can transcode anything that isn’t supported.

No. There’s no analytics, tracking or Prowlogue backend. Your credentials are stored in the device Keychain and only sent to your own server. See the Privacy Policy for details.

No. Prowlogue is an independent client built on Swiftfin and isn’t endorsed by the Jellyfin or Swiftfin projects.

Our Discord is the quickest way to reach us. You can also email support@prowlogue.com.

Built on Swiftfin

Prowlogue builds on the work of the Swiftfin and Jellyfin communities. Code derived from Swiftfin stays under MPL-2.0, and its source is available on GitHub. Prowlogue is an independent project and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Jellyfin or Swiftfin.

View source on GitHub