jellyfin

    jellyfin/jellyfin-web

    #461 this week

    The Free Software Media System - Official Web Client

    web
    hacktoberfest
    jellyfin
    media
    videos
    JavaScript
    GPL-2.0
    3.9K stars
    2.3K forks
    3.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 12, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #461 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 16%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 367 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #68 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 9, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides the official web client frontend for the Jellyfin media system, enabling media streaming via browsers and mobile devices.
    • Offers a unified, open-source, and extensible interface compatible across desktop browsers, Android, and iOS platforms.
    • Use for accessing and managing personal media libraries through a responsive web interface on desktop browsers.
    • Use for streaming videos and music on mobile devices using Android or iOS with consistent user experience.
    • Use for contributing to or customizing an open-source media client with a modular React-based architecture.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    GPL 2.0

    Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    • GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.

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    From the README

    Part of the Jellyfin Project

    Jellyfin Web is the frontend used for most of the clients available for end users, such as desktop browsers, Android, and iOS. We welcome all contributions and pull requests! If you have a larger feature in mind please open an issue so we can discuss the implementation before you start. Translations can be improved very easily from our Weblate instance. Look through the following graphic to see if your native language could use some work!

    Excerpt from the jellyfin/jellyfin-web README on GitHub (GPL-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 29: +3Jul 30: +0Aug 4: +1Aug 28: +1

    +192 stars over 80 days across 12 snapshot days; best day +3 on Jul 29.

    Forks

    2.3K+170

    Open issues

    541+59

    Compared with peers in Web

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth

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    DmNote-App/DmNote5.2K+1.6K7550 days ago
    jellyfin/jellyfin-web3.9K+0757 days ago
    Category median36.4K+2.6K75—

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