A self-hosted recap tool that has spent three years giving Plex users a Spotify Wrapped-style look back at their viewing has now widened its scope. The project, previously called Plex Rewind and now rebranded Rewindarr, adds Jellyfin support, according to the announcement on r/jellyfin.
The developer describes himself as a long-time Plex user who only recently set up Jellyfin alongside his existing Plex server. The trigger was playback trouble with DoVi Profile 8 files on Apple devices in the official client, which he says left more than half of his library unwatchable there. Rather than stop at installing a third-party client, he stood up a Jellyfin instance — and then extended his recap project to cover it. On the Plex side the tool has been pulling data through Tautulli; the Jellyfin side works via Tracearr.
What the tool does
- Rewind: a story-style recap per user, covering total watch time and how it splits across shows, movies and music, plus top titles and artists, favorite actors, directors and genres, the favorite day and hour to watch, and comparisons with other users.
- Dashboard: most-watched movies, shows and music and top users for any time period.
- Activity: what is playing right now.
- Login with a Jellyfin account.
- Extras include ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and TMDB, optional anonymization, installable as a PWA, and availability in six languages.
It ships as a single Docker container, and setup instructions live in the README. This release also includes a full UI redo, so anyone who tried an earlier version may want another look. The developer asks for constructive feedback and routes bugs to GitHub issues, and notes that he has used LLMs for parts of the work while reviewing and testing everything that goes in.
Why it matters for self-hosters
Recap tools are a small but pleasant part of running your own media server: they turn watch history into something you can actually look at, and they are the kind of thing hosted platforms offer as a matter of course. Having a single container that covers both Plex and Jellyfin is convenient for anyone running the two side by side during a migration or as a permanent arrangement. The Jellyfin login is a sensible touch, since it avoids a separate account system.
Commentary
If you are mid-migration from Plex to Jellyfin, or simply keep both running, this is an easy experiment: one container, your existing Jellyfin account, and no changes to your library. As always with community projects, read the README before deploying, keep it on your internal network or behind your usual reverse-proxy setup, and report problems upstream rather than patching locally. If you want to go further with your Jellyfin install, our Jellyfin plugins cover user registration, payments and access logging.