Is there any lightweight web jellyfin client that looks good?

Question

Now I know that the base jellyfin web client exists, and it's pretty lightweight except it's not that well designed for TVs

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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

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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.

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And no, nothing else works, no APKs no nothing

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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

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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)

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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

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