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            "website": "https://emby.media/",
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            "tagline": "Personal media server for your own video, music, photos and live TV",
            "summary": "Emby is a personal media server from Emby LLC that streams your own videos, music, photos and live TV to phones, tablets and TVs. Premiere, sold monthly, yearly or as a lifetime license, adds bonus features such as mobile downloads and hardware transcoding.",
            "developer": "Emby LLC",
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                "windows"
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            "strengths": [
                "Streams your own video, music and photos to many devices",
                "Live TV and mobile apps for Android and iOS"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Mobile downloads and hardware transcoding need Premiere",
                "Needs your own media library and a server"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Emby runs on a computer or home server that holds the user's media library, and it streams that library to apps on phones, tablets, TVs and game consoles. Apps are listed for Android, iOS, Windows, Fire TV, Xbox One and PS4. Video, music, photos and live TV are organized in one catalog, and the product is aimed at people with their own collection rather than at streaming services.\n\nPremiere costs $4.99 a month, $54 a year or $119 as a one-time lifetime license, and it adds mobile downloads and hardware-accelerated transcoding. Jellyfin in this list is the open-source option, and Plex is the closest commercial rival."
        },
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            "website": "https://firecore.com/infuse",
            "page": "https://listme.name/software/infuse",
            "tagline": "Video player for iPhone, iPad and Mac with network and cloud sources",
            "summary": "Infuse is a video player from Firecore for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It plays most video formats, downloads subtitles from OpenSubtitles and reads files from network and cloud sources. The app is free to download, and the Pro subscription or lifetime option adds 4K Dolby Vision and unlimited sources.",
            "developer": "Firecore",
            "platforms": [
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                "ios",
                "ipados"
            ],
            "pricing": "freemium",
            "price_note": "Free app; Pro from $1.99 a month or $99.99 lifetime",
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            "open_source": false,
            "strengths": [
                "Plays many video formats with subtitle downloads",
                "Free to download on Apple devices"
            ],
            "limits": [
                "Apple devices only",
                "Full feature set needs Pro"
            ],
            "checked": "2026-10-10",
            "connected_to_publisher": false,
            "overview": "Infuse plays most video formats on Apple devices with hardware decoding. Subtitles can be added in one tap from OpenSubtitles, and files can be moved in over AirDrop, iTunes or FTP. The app also connects to cloud sources.\n\nThe app is free to download, and the Pro plan adds 4K Dolby Vision, lossless audio and unlimited sources. Pro costs $1.99 a month, $16.99 a year or $99.99 for a lifetime license, and a 7-day trial is offered. Infuse is Apple-only, so it does not run on Windows, Android or Linux. Emby and Plex in this list cover those platforms with a media server."
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        "Only Emby runs on Windows.",
        "Only Infuse runs on macOS.",
        "Only Emby runs on Android."
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                    "product": "emby",
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                    "verdict": "A personal media server that streams your own video, music, photos and live TV to phones, TVs and consoles. Premiere adds mobile downloads and hardware transcoding, and Jellyfin in this list is the open-source option.",
                    "best_for": "Households with their own video and music library",
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                        "server": true,
                        "open_source": false,
                        "cost": "Premiere: $4.99 a month, $54 a year or $119 lifetime"
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                    "product": "infuse",
                    "rank": 4,
                    "score": 85.5,
                    "verdict": "A video player for iPhone, iPad and Mac with subtitle downloads, cloud and network sources, and 4K Dolby Vision playback on Pro. It is Apple-only, and Pro costs $1.99 a month, $16.99 a year or $99.99 for a lifetime license.",
                    "best_for": "Apple users who play a large personal video library",
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        "Scores are editorial and only comparable inside one list. Products with connected_to_publisher true receive a disclosed ranking lift: https://listme.name/methodology"
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