[nerdjon]

Ugh, I feel like this is being a regular thing I need to look at with Plex...

Has anyone tried any alternatives that have a decent Apple TV client?

I have tried looking a couple times over the last couple years and that is always my blocking point.

Ideally not a third party one, I know Jellyfin has a third party option but it always seems to have issues on my library and needs to update its cache (or something) and my experience with it was not great. Kodi seems like it might have one, but it isn't available through the App Store.

Bonus if it can somehow import my watch history (but not required, that is a minor issue).

As much as I hate Plex and all of the unnecessary features they keep adding, they seem to be the only one with a decent client.

[msh]

If you only have apple clients (iOS, ipadOS, tvOS and macOS) you can try infuse. Its only a client, so you need to store your files somewhere (icloud, gdrive, you NAS) but it can then play all kinds of files and sync progress between different instances of it self. If you dont want transcoding on the server and only uses apple devices for playback it IMHO works much much better than real plex.

It can also play at being a plex client to provide better playback options than the official plex app.

[nerdjon]

Maybe infuse is different if not pointed at jellyfin but that was the client that would have issues with my library. It would loose its cache or something, I don't remember now, all the time.

[msh]

I have run infuse for a few years first against Plex and then files on GDrive. I have not encountered that problem.

[Jaepa]

There is a first party Apple TV Client, but its still in development. They do have a public test flight for it:

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

[jjcon]

I’ll second this - complicating things is all the third party apps I use with Plex (for music, audiobooks etc). I’d love to switch to jellyfin but they aren’t going to have an ecosystem like this any time soon

[js2]

Infuse.