Wholphin
Shares rank 21 of 30 music players by recommenders
Free Android TV app for Jellyfin libraries, praised as faster than the official Jellyfin client and familiar to Plex users.
9 people recommended Wholphin in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 7 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 7 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 22% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 8 of the 9 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Preferred over official Jellyfin client
“Wholphin is a great Android TV app, way better than the "original”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Jellyfin 12.0” “It's much faster than the official(?) jellyfin android client.”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Jellyfin 12.0” Familiar Plex and Netflix-like experience
“That app is phenomenal. It gives the whole family the "Netflix-like" experience.”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “An ad-free Android TV” “it's really nice, it's meant to be familiar to users of Plex”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription”
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The four most recommended other music players, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLC media player | 139 | 31 | 79 | 64% | 12 | — | — |
| mpv media player | 68 | 11 | 11 | 86% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Infuse video player | 61 | 14 | 9 | 87% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Winamp | 53 | 6 | 6 | 90% | 11 | — | Approved |
| WholphinThis page | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
Also compared with Kodi, foobar2000, iTunes and Plexamp.
What people said
8 of the 9 opinions about it, picked in proportion to the three counts, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“and Wholphin in Android's”
“That app is phenomenal. It gives the whole family the "Netflix-like" experience.”
“I ended up finding Wholpin”
“huge thanks to the original project!”
“Wholphin is a great Android TV app, way better than the "original”
“It's much faster than the official(?) jellyfin android client.”
“I was running a custom build of Wholphin with patched libmpv/libplacebo to work around a bug”
“it's really nice, it's meant to be familiar to users of Plex”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 3 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.