Your Plex library, done right on iPhone
[Entertainment] Free open source
released 2026-03
Crucible is a fast, native Plex client for iPhone — and a love letter to building iOS apps without a Mac. The whole app is Swift 6 and programmatic UIKit, cross-compiled on Arch Linux and deployed straight to an iPhone over USB. No Xcode, no storyboards, no macOS anywhere in the loop. Continue Watching, On Deck, and Recently Added greet you on the home screen. Browse libraries as poster grids with genre filters and sort options, or dig into raw folders for unindexed content. Skip Intro and Skip Credits straight from Plex markers, Picture-in-Picture with background audio, lock screen and Control Center controls, and Up Next that rolls the next episode as the credits start. Direct play when your device can handle the file, automatic HLS transcoding when it can't. Cast and crew, More Like This recommendations, subtitle and audio track selection, and adjustable playback speed. Hand a title off between your devices and find what you've watched in Spotlight. Crucible is free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license, with zero third-party dependencies — pure Apple frameworks. Read the code, file an issue, or build it yourself.
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Skip Intro/Credits, PiP, and background audio
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Direct play with automatic HLS transcoding fallback
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Open source under GPL-3.0 — zero third-party dependencies