Emby for Android

Emby Media

In-app purchases

About this app

Bringing all of your personal media together into one place is easy with Emby! Emby unites your personal videos, music, and photos and streams them to your devices.

Get the free Emby Server at https://emby.media (required as part of your Emby install).

• Emby automatically converts your media on-the-fly to play on any device.
• Emby organizes your media into an elegant display with artwork, rich metadata and related content.
• Easily share your media with friends and family.
• Rich parental control and management features allow you to easily control access for your entire family.
• Watch Live TV and manage your DVR (with supported TV Tuner)

This app is free to browse your media collection and cast to other devices. Playback requires either a one-time in-app purchase, or an active Emby Premiere subscription. Other premium features such as downloading require an Emby Premiere subscription.

Ratings and reviews

As an Emby Premier customer, I am perpetually disappointed with this app. Downloading media for offline consumption is absolutely broken and worthless. Despite having Android Auto support, it can't seem to remember basic settings like shuffle and repeat between drives, but can remember those settings on the phone directly. I've been a long time supporter, and I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to look at alternatives like Jellyfin moving forward.

I've now paid for this subscription, because this is a fantastically well made app, service, and system, but I can't seem to get my premium key from anywhere. The app has a feedback loop of user flow for getting or retrieving your key, and it's now saying you've already paid, but I never got an email with a key, and there's no way to get your key from within the app. I'm not sure if I have to wait long or what but I do hope it eventually comes.

So the app has gotten much better over time, but now the only thing that's not working 100% is casting music. I have a chromecast music and I'm trying to use emby on my phone to control my music from my server to the chromecast at home and the app is buggy. Sometimes the gui controls disappear and all that shows is the album art, or if I want to switch from an album to shuffling all songs I have to restart the app to work right. So close to being perfect.

What’s new

Add new anti-spoiler feature
Support pinch gesture to change video aspect ratio