Jellyfin Desktop

Jellyfin desktop client built with Qt WebEngine and libmpv. Supports audio passthrough, hardware decoding, and playback of more formats without transcoding.

Downloads

• Windows, Mac, and Linux Releases
  • Note for Mac users: builds for Intel require macOS 12+ and Apple Silicon builds requires macOS 14+
• Flathub (Linux)

Building

See dev/ for platform-specific build instructions.

File Locations

Data is stored per-profile in a profiles/<profile-id>/ subdirectory. The main configuration file is jellyfin-desktop.conf. You can also add mpv.conf to configure MPV directly.

Windows:

• Config: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\
• Cache: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\
• Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\logs\

Linux:

• Config: ~/.local/share/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Cache: ~/.cache/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Logs: ~/.local/share/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/logs/

Linux (Flatpak):

• Config: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/data/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Cache: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/cache/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Logs: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/data/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/logs/

macOS:

• Config: ~/Library/Application Support/Jellyfin Desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Cache: ~/Library/Caches/Jellyfin Desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
• Logs: ~/Library/Logs/Jellyfin Desktop/<profile-id>/