Is there any lightweight web jellyfin client that looks good?
Now I know that the base jellyfin web client exists, and it's pretty lightweight except it's not that well designed for TVs
For context I use a Hisense TV with an older Vidaa OS that allows for "side loaded" apps (via Hisense://debug) but that's just a fancy browser shortcut maker
The biggest issue is that the browser there is OLD, like nothing except for plain vanilla JS works, Vue apps don't work, react apps don't work ext.
And no, nothing else works, no APKs no nothing
And the normal jellyfin client just doesn't fit into my requirements. It looks and feels bad without CSS and with it it often shows a Out Of Memory error and crashes or it's bugged on TV / loads slowly
I used to use ElegantFin but that was super slow, then I switched to Abyss and even tho it IMO looks better it's still very slow and crashes the system and anything less complicated often just rendered wrong / looked bad (to clarify, stuff like blurs didn't work for some reason in Abyss)
Is there like any better looking vanilla JS web client that works fine on TVs? I couldn't find one myself and I tested all the Jellyfin web clients that are on awesome-jellyfin repo but none of them worked at all (couldn't get past login screen)
Posted Jun 12, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC