Always wanted a mobile native app to manage Jellyfin? Discover JellyWatch - an Android app with “Arr” integration, real-time stats, and a killer “Watch Pass” feature.
Plex users have Plex Dash - a beautiful, native mobile app to see who is streaming, kill bandwidth-hogging streams, and check server health from anywhere. Jellyfin admins? We’ve been stuck trying to load the full web dashboard in a mobile browser, fumbling with a desktop web UI on a 6-inch screen just to kill a stuck transcode. There’s also Tautulli which has had great adoption among Plex users.
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So they track you?
Like almost all FOSS and closed source software, they have analytics yes and it is covered in their privacy policy. Guessing you did not make it to that part of the review?
The difference and it’s an important one, is that they do not sell your data. No 3rd party data sharing or sales which is actually better than a lot of even FOSS software.
Everything you use collects your usage metrics, google, your phone regardless of vendor, Microsoft, Apple etc… No different except that this dev team does not sell your data, which the others assuredly do.
No this is just wrong.
Like almost all FOSS and closed source software
How do you know if they sell your data? How do you know the data is secured enough, so no data breach occurs? How do you know if everyone on the company developing it act in good faith?
That they collect completely useless metrics (except for marketing) like connected servers, says a lot about the company and the ppl behind this. Are the keys to your sever even stored locally? How could you know.
Why are you defending those ppl? What is you self intrest here? Enough companies have proof in the past that privacy policies are just text.
If this was open source I’d give it a shot. Not sure I’d trust a closed source application to access (and track) something as sensitive as my jellyfin library & usage.
Wait, closed? What the fuck
Yeah, it’s pretty slimey actually. They have a github, but there’s no issues or nothing. It’s just a readme, probably just so they can have the Github logo in their footer. To someone not looking closely, they’ll see the logo and think JellyWatch is open source. Disgusting tactics.
Thoughts on the JellyWatch privacy policy which seems very clearly stated & cut? Does not alleviate concerns? I mean we all use a LOT of closed source software everyday, who tells you they WILL sell your data vs stating clearly they will not. Like Microsoft & entire family of apps, Google & all it’s services, etc etc…
Privacy policies change. Most closed source services ans apps don’t have a GitHub repo. I’ve seen some, they’re usually for github issues. But they’re all slimey and confuse users into thinking they’re open source. Not a good look. I would not trust a company that does things like this. The goal is to support open source. Which is why Jellyfin > Plex
Fair enough, all solid points.
BTW - I am not the dev of JellyWatch.
I would be surprised if they were on Lemmy. But it’s a cool app all things considered. Just wish they weren’t… Doing that stuff lol. Good share either way.
Nice, but I use Emby. How functional will this be for just using for the arrs?
Exact same functionality as Overseerr and Jellyseerr since it’s the merged product of both!
Everything about this app (and the review and the website hosting the review) feels uncanny.
Lik wandering onto a movie set.
Interesting… I dunno exactly what you mean by that but I am looking to ‘revamp’ or ‘facelift’ the site soon so I am open to honest constructive feedback.
Wandering onto a movie set in a ‘good way’ or you mean it all feels ‘staged’ which gives you mixed feelings?
The goal of my site (ignoring this single post for a moment) is to provide comprehensive technical info for self-hosting & digital sovereignty. I got so sick of having to sift through 3-5 sources of into to get a little help getting something working, or only finding very basic use cases and topical level info. So, I figured I’d go deep on the things I cover and provide technical info on.
Please take a poke around and let me know via DMs, here or via email to joe@corelab.tech your feedback!
Not the original commenter, but it feels less like a review and more like a long sales pitch. Parts of it also read like LLM-generated text. Both don’t make it feel all that trustworthy.
I simply use the Jellyfin app. No problems here.
