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Varys for Plex connects to your existing Plex Media Server and gives you easy access to several data.

This app requires your own Plex Media Server with remote access recommended for use away from home. Please note that most of the features require an active Plex Pass subscription. This app works with servers you are logged in as admin only. Latest version of Plex Media Server is recommended.

Free trial of Varys Pro is available!
FEATURES
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
- App for Apple Watch
- Easy app linking with Plex Media Server (incl. two-factor auth support)
- List of current streams incl. details like user, player, quality, eta
- List of running conversions incl. details like transcoding speed and remaining time
- Option to terminate streams with optional message
- All details to streamed media e.g. summary, file size, bitrate, resolution, audio/video/subtitle tracks, duration, release date, rating, related media and more
- Watch history for media items
- Cross linking between related media, track/album/artist, episode/season/tv show
- Cross linking to the official Plex app (if installed)
- Cross linking to IMDb, TMDb and TVDb
- Fast server switching (if you own multiple Plex Media Servers)
- Plex Media Server console
- Dark Mode / Light Mode
- Compact mode
- Face ID/Touch ID support
ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF PRO VERSION
- Realtime server CPU / RAM / bandwidth monitoring
- Complete user management incl. sending/accepting invites and granting/revoking access to libraries, allow/deny sync, and live tv
- Plex Media Server update monitoring incl. release notes
- Playback history (optionally choose Tautulli as source)
- Playback history details (requires separate Tautulli server)
- Recently added media
- User list incl. playback statistics and filter option
- Top played movie/tv show/artist
- Statistics graphically represented as charts
- List and details of all libraries incl. search and filters with access to all media details without having those streamed
- Library size and total duration info
- Library statistics
- Manual update of libraries
- List and manage collections
- Change covers and artwork on the go
- Authorized devices management
- Plex Dance(TM)
- Live TV & DVR guide refresh
- Number of current streams as app icon badge
- Siri Shortcuts
- Huge number of Widgets
- Lockscreen Widgets
- Dynamic tabs
- Multiuser support
- Overview over all your servers
Varys for Plex is not affiliated with Plex Inc.

Version History This update contains the following contents:
- New: Liquid Glass look on iOS 26 and newer
- New: Support for iPhone Duo
- New: Apple Watch app rebuilt from the ground up, faster and ready for watchOS 27
- Improved: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 27
- Improved: Varys Pro is now shared reliably between all your devices
- Improved: Plex server connection is more stable and no longer keeps reconnecting on your home network
- Improved: Locating a stream now also works for IPv6 addresses
- Improved: The server list explains when an account doesn't own a server
- Fixed: Adding, removing and inviting users works again
- Fixed: Adding items to a collection with a space in its name no longer creates a duplicate collection
- Fixed: The recently added widget opens recently added instead of history
- Fixed: The review prompt no longer appears again and again

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.17.0 3d ago This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.

This update contains the following contents:

- Improved: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 17

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.16.1 08/22/2024 This update contains the following contents:

- Improved: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 17

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.16.0 08/22/2024 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Added lock screen activity widgets (requires iOS 16)
- Improved: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 16
- Improved: Alternative app icon resolution
- Improved: Major technical tweaks under the hood

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.15.0 09/14/2022 This update contains the following contents:
- Fixed: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 15

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.14.4 09/29/2021 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Sync user aliases to and from connected Tautulli instance
- New: Audio bit depth support
- New: Option to copy information from detail pages using long press
- Fixed: Library search with latest Plex server version
- Fixed: Issue in communication with Tautulli instances
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.14.3 05/07/2021 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Sync user aliases to and from connected Tautulli instance
- New: Audio bit depth support
- New: Option to copy information from detail pages using long press
- Fixed: Library search with latest Plex server version
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.14.2 04/14/2021 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Face ID/Touch ID support!
- New: Library statistics!
- New: Authorized devices management
- New: Option to send an email to all or selected users
- Improved: Support for IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings
- Improved: Compact mode on libraries overview
- Fixed: Session termination with empty message
- Fixed: Sharing user stats while searching
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.14.1 01/06/2021 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Face ID/Touch ID support!
- New: Library statistics!
- New: Authorized devices management
- New: Option to send an email to all or selected users
- Improved: Support for IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.14.0 01/01/2021 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Option to search users
- New: Added file path to media details
- Improved: Always dark mode when system is set to light mode
- Fixed: Update monitoring and Activity as application badge settings were overwritten and set to enabled on every app launch (please review your settings after updating!)
- Fixed: Purchases migration issue
- Fixed: Custom tab settings preview
- Fixed: Layout issue on keyboard dismiss
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.13.4 12/23/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Option to search users
- New: Added file path to media details
- Improved: Always dark mode when system is set to light mode
- Fixed: Purchases migration issue
- Fixed: Custom tab settings preview
- Fixed: Layout issue on keyboard dismiss
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.13.3 12/15/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Option to search users
- New: Added file path to media details
- Improved: Always dark mode when system is set to light mode
- Fixed: Custom tab settings preview
- Fixed: Layout issue on keyboard dismiss
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.13.2 12/08/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Support for Plex two-factor authentication!
- New: Added recently added widgets (requires iOS 14)
- Improved: Major tweaks to server communication under the hood
- Fixed: Using multiple widgets with different servers ended up with wrong data
- Fixed: Crash that could occur after starting app from background

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.13.1 11/25/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Support for Plex two-factor authentication!
- New: Added recently added widgets (requires iOS 14)
- Improved: Major tweaks to server communication under the hood
- Fixed: Using multiple widgets with different servers ended up with wrong data

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.13.0 11/24/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Varys now ships with 13 Widgets! (requires iOS 14)
- New: Due to the new widget bundle the old widget will stop working, please recreate it
- New: Support for all iPhone 12 models
- Fixed: Random crash the occurred rarely

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.12.1 10/28/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Widgets for an easy and fast overview of current streams (requires iOS 14)
- Improved: Several improvements and bugfixes for iOS 14
- Fixed: List was not updated after deleting users

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.12.0 09/16/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- Fixed: Several improvements and bugfixes for upcoming iOS versions

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.11.3 08/06/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Show Plex api maintenance/outage info during launch
- New: Show percentage of completion in Tautulli history details
- New: Several preparations for upcoming iOS releases
- Improved: Platform info on session details
- Improved: Subtitle info on media details
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and bugfixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.11.2 07/13/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Added the option to use Tautulli as single history source (can be enabled in settings)
- New: Show episode intro information in media details if available and detected by Plex
- New: Show hint if file is unavailable in media details
- New: Added connection check to support resolving connection issues
- New: Extended support for Magic Keyboard and pointers
- New: Release notes within the app
- New: Integration of Varys help center
- Improved: List layouts on larger screens
- Improved: Show progress on library refresh
- Improved: Migrated to newer Plex api versions
- Improved: Show larger library durations in weeks, months and years
- Improved: Added device and platform info to history details
- Improved: Charts design
- Fixed: Issue with history users cache
- Fixed: Issue while loading history entries
- Fixed: Issue with collections that contain "+" character
- Fixed: Plex release notes parsing

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.11.1 06/02/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Added the option to use Tautulli as single history source (can be enabled in settings)
- New: Added connection check to support resolving connection issues
- New: Extended support for Magic Keyboard and pointers
- New: Integration of Varys help center
- Improved: List layouts on larger screens
- Improved: Migrated to newer Plex api versions
- Improved: Show larger library durations in weeks, months and years
- Improved: Added device and platform info to history details
- Improved: Charts design
- Fixed: Issue while loading history entries
- Fixed: Issue with collections that contain "+" character
- Fixed: Plex release notes parsing

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.11.0 05/31/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- Improved: Local server connections
- Improved: Server identity check
- Fixed: History entries were duplicated on cover change

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.10.3 05/14/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Added library size and total duration info
- New. Added option to change collection title and sort title
- New: Collection support for tv shows and artists
- Improved: Added option to completely logout from app
- Fixed: Plex apps with synced contents were detected as servers in rare cases
- Fixed: Several smaller improvements and crash fixes

Do you need technical support or do you have questions on my app? Please use the contact form within the app or email me directly at support@varys-app.com. 1.10.2 05/11/2020 This update contains the following contents:
- New: Varys + Tautulli =