I’ve been building Fathom, a desktop Jellyfin client, for quite some time now and just put out the first public release (0.9.0) for Linux and Windows.
The real draw is having everything in one place. Your Jellyfin movies, shows, music, and Live TV; most of Jellyfin’s important server-side management (users, libraries, scheduled tasks, transcoding, Live TV and DVR, and more); and optional Seerr requests plus a full YouTube client, all without leaving the app. No bouncing between the web dashboard, a requests page, and a browser tab. One window does the lot.
What’s in it:
- Server management, built in. Handle users, libraries, scheduled tasks, active sessions, transcoding, Live TV and DVR, and more, without opening the Jellyfin web dashboard.
- Optional Seerr requests right from the detail page, with Jellyfin, local, or API-key sign-in.
- Optional YouTube client. SponsorBlock, DeArrow, dislike counts, downloads, no ads and no account, off unless you turn it on.
- One shared player. Jellyfin and YouTube use the same controls, seek bar, and shortcuts. Picture-in-picture, or pop a video out to a floating, always-on-top window on your desktop.
- Plus: SyncPlay watch-together (works with other Jellyfin clients too), ratings (Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and more), in-app updates with a stable or beta channel, light/dark/AMOLED themes, and searchable settings. Everything plays through mpv, so you get direct play, hardware decoding, and proper subtitle and audio track control.
It’s Linux-first (built and tested on Arch/KDE) with a self-contained AppImage, plus a portable Windows build. Android and more features are on the roadmap.
Download + source: https://github.com/Fathom-Media/fathom/releases/tag/v0.9.0 Repo (AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/Fathom-Media/fathom
This is the first public release, so expect a few rough edges. All feedback is genuinely wanted: bug reports, feature requests, and ideas. The goal is to grow Fathom into one of the best Jellyfin clients out there, so open an issue or start a discussion and it’ll get read.
Nice work
Gonna give this a try tonight!
do u think there’s any way you can implement something like tube archive support? (https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist). looks interesting so far!
Good idea, I think this could be a solid fit for Fathom. I haven’t tried TubeArchivist myself yet, but I’ll add it to my to-do list to look into. Thanks for the pointer!
Sounds great! I’ll check it out!
I think other clients do this already, but the idea of a jellyfin and/or YouTube client for SteamOS with controller controls seems really appealing for getting away from Android TV.
here are a few pics. i have to setup some demo screenshots for github, on my to do!
I’m excited to try Fathom too (we need better Jellyfin clients for desktop), but as someone with the same setup as you, you should probably know about Vacuumtube. It uses the official Youtube TV interface with proper remote/controller/keyboard support and has SponderBlock with adblocking :)
I’m still excited to try Fathom though. A combined UI for JF and YouTube basically eliminates the need for any other apps on my Linux HTPC.