A glance-able Mac app for what's playing on your Plex and Jellyfin servers.
Sign in once with your Plex account — playbar discovers every server you own and picks the closest connection. Add a Jellyfin server with a URL and your password, and its sessions merge straight into the same menu. Your own playback bubbles to the top.
Liquid Glass cards, square album covers for music, portrait posters for shows and movies. No Dock icon. No telemetry. No setup beyond signing in.
Authorise through plex.tv. playbar uses the LAN-local connection when it can, falls back to Plex Direct, and only uses Plex Relay as a last resort.
Server URL, username, password — done. Both backends merge into one menu, with no extra setup on either side.
The progress bar ticks up as you watch. Sessions appear and vanish the instant they start or stop on the server.
Portrait covers for shows and movies, square covers for albums — the right shape for whatever's playing, automatically.
Auth tokens live in your Keychain. No analytics, no third-party SDKs — just plex.tv and your own servers, nothing else.
Device and player, local or remote, the transcode decision, video and audio codecs, and who's watching — all at a glance.