CLUSTER MEDIA-CLIENT-PLAYS · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-06-28
Plex media streaming clients
This cluster comprises desktop and home-theater client applications for streaming personal media libraries, primarily from Plex servers, with some supporting Jellyfin and one unofficial client for Amazon Prime Video. Dated entries appear sparsely from April 2019 through June 2026, with no clear temporal pattern. All traction leaders (plex-tui, plexamp-beta-appimage, plexamp-bin) show zero stars, indicating no significant community traction.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 2 commercial · 13 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01plex-tui0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal client that connects to Plex media servers and plays movies and television through an integrated player.
- 02plexamp-beta-appimage0★23 daysliveopen sourceMusic client that streams Plex media libraries with a modern interface.
- 03plexmini0★26 days—hand-codedhobbyMedia client app that lets owners of outdated iOS devices browse and stream content from a personal Plex media server.
- 04plexamp-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceA client for Plex that streams and plays music from personal media servers.
- 05primevideo0★1 moliveopen sourceUnofficial desktop client for streaming Amazon Prime Video content with a native interface and playback controls.
- 06girens0★1 moliveopen sourceA desktop client that plays movies, TV shows, and music from a Plex library.
- 07jlfine-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop client for a media server that plays audio and video with lossless audio fidelity and HDR/Dolby Vision support.
- 08plexamp-appimage0★5 moliveopen sourceA client for Plex that streams and plays music from personal media servers.
- 09plexamp-headless0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA headless client for Plex that streams and plays music from personal media servers.
- 10hex-music-player0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMusic client that connects to a Plex Media Server and plays songs from the user's library.
- 11Jellyfin MPV Shim0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that receives cast media from a home media server and plays it through an external media player, avoiding server-side transcoding.
- 12Jellyfin Desktop0★10 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop media player that streams movies and music from a personal media server, supporting hardware decoding and multiple audio formats.
- 13Plex0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop client application that lets users stream and play movies, TV shows, and personal media from Plex media servers with a point-and-click interface.
- 14Plex HTPC0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceHome theater client app for streaming and playing Plex movies and TV on big-screen displays with a 10-foot interface and powerful playback engine.
- 15plex-desktop0★unknownlivecommercialDesktop client that streams and plays personal media libraries hosted on a remote media server.
- 16plex-htpc0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialHome theater client application that plays personal media libraries on a television with a remote-friendly ten-foot interface.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.