Stremio addons in Jellyfin

Short answer: yes, and the quickest way today is JellyStreams. It serves your Stremio addon results over the Jellyfin protocol, so Odin, Infuse, Swiftfin, Strand and the official Jellyfin apps browse and play them like any other Jellyfin library. No plugin to install, no Jellyfin server to run, no sideloading.

There are three ways to do Stremio Jellyfin integration, and they differ in shape: a Jellyfin Stremio plugin inside a real server (Gelato), a Jellyfin-compatible server of its own (JellyStreams, Remux, Polyfin), or one of the open-source community projects you run yourself. This page covers all of them and says which to pick.

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Why is everyone suddenly trying to do this?

Two reasons. One is about reach, and one is about staying installed.

Stremio ships native apps for Android TV, Fire TV, Samsung Tizen (2019+ models) and LG webOS (2020+ models). It does not ship an App Store build for Apple TV or iOS, so the official route there is an IPA you sideload yourself, which wants a Mac, a signing certificate, and a reinstall every time the signature lapses. Roku has no Stremio app at all and no plans for one. Older TVs below those model-year cutoffs are out, and the LG listing is not carried in every region.

Jellyfin clients exist for every one of those platforms, and each installs from its own app store.

The reason it became urgent

An app that carries Stremio addon support inside the app is exposed to App Store review in a way a generic media player is not. The precedent everyone points at is Stremio Lite, which reached the tvOS App Store in October 2025 and was pulled in January 2026; Stremio's own February 2026 post says they are still waiting to hear whether it can return. Third-party apps that speak the addon protocol directly do exist and work well, but none of them controls whether it stays listed.

A Jellyfin client contains no addon code at all. It is a media player that connects to a server, the same as it would to anyone's Jellyfin server, and the addon resolution happens server-side. That difference is why interest moved this way, and why the pairing of "any Jellyfin app" with "a backend that speaks Stremio addons" has become the recommended shape rather than a curiosity.

So the trick is to stop putting the addons in the app, and put them on a server that speaks Jellyfin. That is the whole idea, and it is why forks and side projects implementing it keep appearing.

What are the options in 2026?

Why JellyStreams rather than the others?

It is the only one you cannot get anywhere else. Remux, Gelato and the community projects are open source, and you could run any of them on a spare machine. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise. JellyStreams we build, and it runs here or nowhere.

It is on the durable side of the app-store line. Your player stays a plain Jellyfin client with no addon code in it, so it is not in the category that gets pulled. The part that knows about addons is the server, and it is our problem to keep running rather than yours to keep installed.

Nothing to assemble. A working setup is an addon manager, a debrid account, a Usenet account, something routing between them, a metadata layer and decent artwork, before you get to the part that puts it on a TV. JellyStreams arrives with all of that already wired together and running, because it ships in a bundle that contains all of it. You subscribe once and sign in.

It does things nothing else here does. These in particular, and they are the reason the household layer exists rather than nice-to-haves bolted on:

• One watch history, every app. Start a film on your phone in Infuse and the TV picks it up where you left off in Swiftfin that evening, because progress is kept on the server against the profile rather than inside whichever app you happened to open. Change app, change device, change platform: the row is still there, and it is your row rather than the household's.
• Screen time. Daily caps per profile, with a warning before they land. This needs a server that can decline to resolve a stream, so it can only live where JellyStreams lives.
• Content limits by what is in a title, with a way to ask. Set violence, sex, swearing, substances and frightening scenes separately per profile, so "action is fine, sex is not" is a setting. When a title is blocked the child's screen says a parent has been asked, and you get a push with the reasons and can allow it for that profile.
• Push notifications. A notice on your phone when somebody starts watching, delivered through Sam, your stack's assistant. That works because Sam is already in your namespace holding the push relay, which is an advantage of the pieces shipping together.

Underneath both is a simple fact worth understanding rather than taking on trust: Stremio has no concept of a user. There is nowhere in the addon protocol for a second person's watch history, a child's content limit or a daily cap to live, so anything built purely as an addon inherits that gap permanently. JellyStreams sits beside your addons rather than inside them, which is what gives it somewhere to keep profiles, per-profile libraries, screen time and notices.

It is tightly integrated with the rest of the stack. JellyStreams is built against the exact AIOStreams and AIOMetadata instances it ships beside, which is what lets a kids' profile inherit certification filtering, and what lets screen time and playback notices exist at all. The other options are general-purpose by design and integrate with whatever you point them at, which is a genuine strength; this one trades that breadth for knowing precisely what it is talking to.

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What does the household layer actually give me?

• A profile per person, each a real Jellyfin user with its own watch history and continue-watching row
• Kids' libraries filtered by certification, using AIOMetadata's own rules, including a cap that can only be tightened
• Content limits per category, from crowd-sourced parents' guide ratings: violence, sex, swearing, substances and frightening scenes, each set to None, Mild, Moderate or Any
• A request when something is blocked: the child's screen says a parent has been asked, you get a push saying why, and Allow lets that title play on that profile from then on
• Daily screen-time caps per profile, with a warning before they land
• Push notifications when somebody starts watching, on your phone, through Sam
• Tap-your-own-face sign-in: signing in once enrolls the device, and after that each person opens their profile with a tap rather than typing a password on a TV remote

Two honest caveats, because you would find them out anyway. Screen time works by asking the app to stop, over the realtime connection Jellyfin clients already hold open: the video itself is a redirect and never passes through us, so apps that hold that connection and honour the command do stop, and one that does neither keeps playing. Starting something new needs no cooperation, because that means asking us. And device enrollment is friction rather than a vault: it means an outsider needs your hostname and an enrolled device, while your family needs neither.

Full detail on the JellyStreams page, or the parent's version in Jellyfin parental controls and Jellyfin screen time limits.

Can I just use AIOStreams' own Jellyfin support?

For simpler needs, yes. AIOStreams now has a Jellyfin mode of its own, off by default on your instance and switched on with one variable. It serves several users from one configuration, each with its own watch history, an optional PIN and, if you add a tracker addon per account, their own tracker account.

What it does not do is anything that needs to know who is a parent and who is a child: no per-person content limits, no rating cap per user, no screen time, no request to a parent. One person, or a household where everybody can see everything, is well served by it. A house with children in it is what JellyStreams is for.

Should I run one of the community projects myself?

You can, and if you enjoy that sort of thing there is nothing wrong with it. The usual recipe is to claim a free cloud VM, install Docker, run an addon server on it, open a port, and point your apps at it.

There is real craft in these projects and the people writing them are solving the same problems we are. What differs is what you take on alongside the software: a machine you now own, with SSH keys, firewall rules, container updates, certificate renewal, and a free tier that may reclaim an idle instance.

Here, the server already exists, with a hostname, a certificate, and updates handled. The same reasoning applies to running the addon itself, covered in self-host AIOStreams on a VPS or Oracle Free Tier vs ElfHosted.

When is Remux the better answer?

When you like shaping your libraries yourself. Remux takes several Stremio addons at once, has a music pipeline of its own, and builds libraries from filter rules over tags, catalogs, popularity and release year. It can import users and their watch history from an existing Jellyfin server too.

What it does not have is screen time, and its playback notices are webhooks you point at something of your own rather than a notice on your phone. So the choice is libraries you shape against depth of household controls.

When is Polyfin the better answer?

When you want everyone in the household to have their own account with their own rules, without building anything. Polyfin, another community project, gives each person their own history and Next Up, and limits you set per person: a maximum rating, blocked genres, allowed hours, how many of their devices play at once, and the highest quality they're offered. Invite links let people set up their own accounts, each person can connect their own watch-tracking accounts, and a weekly summary goes to each person's own channel.

Its allowed hours are a schedule rather than a daily screen-time cap, and its limits work by rating and genre rather than by what is in a title, so JellyStreams remains the pick for those. We run Polyfin as an Early Preview, direct play only, bundled with AIOStreams and AIOMetadata.

What about the Gelato Jellyfin Stremio plugin?

Gelato is the best-known Jellyfin Stremio plugin: it lives inside a real Jellyfin server, replaces Jellyfin's search with Stremio addon results, and can import catalogs as libraries. It only works with AIOStreams as its backend, which is worth knowing before you plan around it.

Where a real Jellyfin server still wins is the things only Jellyfin itself has: Jellyseerr, a library of your own files beside the virtual one, the whole plugin ecosystem, and hardware transcoding on a Hobbit tier or above. JellyGoblin gets you the plugins, Jellyseerr and your own library, but it direct plays like the others and doesn't transcode.

Remux vs Polyfin vs Gelato vs JellyStreams: which should I use?

Quickest way to decide:

• Just want your addons on the TV, for the family? JellyStreams.
• Want an account per person, each with its own limits, without building anything? Polyfin.
• Like building shelves from rules, or want music beside your addons? Remux.
• Need Jellyseerr and the Jellyfin plugin ecosystem? Jellyfin with Gelato, using our plugin repository. JellyGoblin is the quickest way in; for hardware transcoding you'll want a Hobbit tier or above.
• Enjoy running your own server and want to be close to the code? One of the community projects.

Does this work on Roku, Samsung, LG or Fire TV?

Yes, on all of them, because they all have Jellyfin clients.

Stremio on Roku is the clearest case after Apple TV: Roku has no Stremio app at all and Stremio has said it has no plans for one, since the platform is closed. A Jellyfin client on Roku pointed at JellyStreams is the way in.

Stremio on LG and Samsung smart TVs is a more honest picture. Stremio does ship native apps for Samsung Tizen (2019+ models) and LG webOS (2020+ models), so if your set is newer than that and the app is carried in your region, you already have an option. Use a Jellyfin client instead when your TV predates those cutoffs, when the listing is not available where you are, or when you would simply rather have one library app across every screen in the house, with the same profiles and watch state on each.

Stremio on Fire TV and Android TV works natively too, so the same reasoning applies.

Stremio on Apple TV is the one where there is no native option at all, and it has its own page.

Which Jellyfin apps can I use?

Built and tested against Odin (Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac), Infuse (Apple TV, iOS, iPadOS, macOS), Swiftfin (Apple TV, iOS), Strand, Moonfin, and the official Jellyfin apps on Android, Android TV, Fire TV and web.

Odin, Strand, Swiftfin, Moonfin and the official Android TV app are the ones we actively tune against, because Jellyfin clients disagree with each other over which fields they need and when. That is unglamorous work and it is most of the difference between a library that loads and a library that behaves.

Other Jellyfin clients generally work, since this is the native Jellyfin protocol rather than a bespoke scheme. Not every client in the wild has been tested.

Does it transcode?

No, and neither does Remux. Both hand your player a URL that points at the source, so the bytes go straight there and nothing passes through a re-encoder. That is why playback starts fast and why neither needs a GPU.

The trade is that your player must decode the format natively. Native TV and mobile apps direct play almost everything, HEVC and 4K included. Browsers are fussy, so pick an AVC/H.264 release when watching in one. If you genuinely need transcoding, that is the Gelato path on a Hobbit tier or above.

Frequently asked questions

Can you use a Stremio addon in Jellyfin? Yes. JellyStreams serves your addon library over the Jellyfin protocol, so any Jellyfin client can browse and play it. One addon or twenty, it is whatever your AIOStreams configuration resolves. The Gelato plugin does it from inside a real Jellyfin server, and Remux does it as a Jellyfin-compatible server of its own.

Do I need to install a plugin in Jellyfin? Not with JellyStreams or Remux. Both answer the Jellyfin API themselves, so you add them as a server in your client and sign in. Only the Gelato route involves a plugin.

Does this work on Apple TV without sideloading? Yes. Install Infuse or Swiftfin from the App Store and point either at your server. See Stremio on Apple TV.

Can my family have separate profiles? With JellyStreams, yes, each a real Jellyfin user with its own watch history. Remux, a full Jellyfin server, and the Jellyfin modes of AIOStreams and AIOMetadata also do users. Inside Stremio itself, an addon cannot.

Can I allow action films but block sex scenes for my kids? Yes, with JellyStreams. Each profile has a separate limit for violence, sex and nudity, swearing, alcohol and drugs, and frightening scenes, judged from crowd-sourced parents' guide ratings rather than the certificate alone. If a title is blocked, your child can ask, and you allow it from your phone.

Is JellyStreams open source, or can I run it myself? No. We build it and it runs on ElfHosted only, as part of the AIOMagic Bundle. Remux and Gelato are open source if running it yourself is what you want.

Do I need my own debrid or Usenet account? Not with AIOMagic, which includes both. You can add your own provider keys as well if you prefer.

Is there a Jellyfin Stremio addon or plugin? Yes, Gelato, which runs inside a real Jellyfin server and uses AIOStreams as its backend. Note the direction: it puts Stremio content into Jellyfin. Projects like Jellio and stremio-jellyfin go the other way, exposing a Jellyfin library inside Stremio, which is a different job. Upstream it targets Jellyfin 10.11, so on our Jellyfin 12 you install it from our plugin repository, linked in the Gelato guide. JellyStreams is a server rather than a plugin, so it has no version to match.

Can Infuse play Stremio addon content? Yes. Point Infuse at JellyStreams as a Jellyfin server and it browses and plays your addon library, including the version picker for choosing a release.

Do Swiftfin, Strand and Odin work too? Yes, all three, along with Moonfin and the official Jellyfin apps on Android, Android TV, Fire TV and web. Odin, Strand, Swiftfin, Moonfin and the official Android TV app are the ones we specifically tune against.

Can I watch Stremio on Roku? Not with a Stremio app, since Roku has none. Install a Jellyfin client on the Roku and point it at JellyStreams.

Where do I start?

• AIOStreams with Jellyfin apps, the setup walkthrough
• JellyStreams, the full feature reference
• Stremio on Apple TV, if that is your device
• Remux, if you like building shelves from rules
• Polyfin, if you want an account per person with its own limits
• Best Stremio addons in 2026, if you are still picking addons

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