Fireside Labs

Small apps for home

Music, movies, live TV, recipes and groceries. Five apps that share one look and one idea: your own library, on your own Apple devices, without ads or tracking.

Spark

Music, from your own Jellyfin library

Spark plays your music collection in full quality on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It shows exactly what you're hearing, follows every lyric line, and keeps playing with the screen locked.

In testingiPhoneiPadMacJellyfin 10.9+
  • Lossless when it can be. FLAC, ALAC and WAV play as the original file; on cellular it steps down quality and back up on its own.
  • Synced lyrics. The current line lights up; tap any line to jump there.
  • Offline albums and playlists with lyrics and artwork, and playlists that save back to your server.
  • Colour from the cover. Now Playing takes its colour from the album art.

Try itTap play, then a lyric

LanternsThe Harbor Lights
FLAC · LOSSLESS

Ember

Movies and shows for Apple TV

Ember is a Jellyfin player built around the Siri Remote. Everyone in the house gets their own profile, and it plays the original file whenever it can, Dolby Vision and Atmos included.

In testingApple TVtvOS 26Jellyfin 10.11+
  • A profile for everyone. Separate history, Continue Watching and favourites, with an optional PIN.
  • Smart Playback. Skip intros, recaps and credits automatically or with one click.
  • Seeking with previews. See the frame you'll land on; hold to fast-seek up to 80×.
  • Top Shelf shows what you're watching right on the Apple TV Home Screen.

Try itArrow keys or tap a poster

Ember

Continue Watching

North Light · S1 E4 · 34 min left4K · Dolby Vision · Atmos
North Light

Hearth

Live TV and recordings

Hearth brings live channels, a channel guide and your recordings to the big screen, with the same menus on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and the web.

In developmentApple TViPhoneiPadWeb
  • A guide that's easy to read from across the room, with what's on now marked.
  • Record with a click, a single show or every new episode.
  • Keep Watching picks up recordings where you stopped.
  • Radio for favourite stations, alongside TV.

Try itTap a show, then Record

5:005:306:006:30 4KTV 9PBS 13SPT

Sear

Your family's recipes

Sear keeps a household's recipes in one shared library. Import any recipe from the web, scale it, and cook from a big, step-by-step view with timers built in.

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  • Import from any recipe page, photo included. Importing it again updates it instead of making a copy.
  • Share with the household, with every edit kept in history and a Recently Deleted to undo mistakes.
  • Scale to ½×, 2× or any amount, and tap a time in a step to start a timer.
  • Cooking mode shows one step at a time, keeps the screen on, and listens for "next".

Try itScale it, tick, tap the time

Weeknight Chili

Serves 4 · 45 min

Add the beans and spices, then simmer for .

Gather

Grocery lists the whole house shares

Gather keeps shared lists for the household, live while you shop: someone checks off milk and it disappears from everyone's phone. Sear sends a recipe's ingredients straight to it.

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  • Lists for every store, sorted in the order you walk the aisles.
  • From recipe to cart: ingredients arrive combined and scaled, and remember which recipe they're for.
  • Works in the store with no signal, and catches up when you're back.
  • "Add milk to Costco" with Siri, or check things off on your Watch.

Try itTap items, add your own

Groceries 6 to get

Produce

Pantry

In the cart

    Nothing yet.

    How they're made

    Your library, your server

    Spark and Ember play from your own Jellyfin server. Fireside Labs never sees your music or movies.

    No ads, no tracking

    None of the apps show ads or follow you around the web. Sear and Gather store only what your household puts in them.

    Made for Apple devices

    Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, signed in with your Apple ID where an account is needed.