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Octopus Explorer is a universal iOS app — the same binary that runs on iPhone installs directly on iPad from the App Store. On iPad Pro 13-inch and iPad Air, the larger canvas gives every screen more room: poster art renders at higher resolution, lists show more rows, and the request sheet has space to breathe.

A dedicated native iPad layout pass — using NavigationSplitView, sidebar-adaptive TabView, and size-class branching — is in active development and will land before any non-Apple platforms are added.

All features available on iPhone are fully functional on iPad with no limitations:

  • Discover — browse your server’s content rows with larger poster art
  • Search — find movies, TV shows, and people with type-ahead search
  • Media detail — full backdrop, cast row, request button — the same screen, more space
  • Request flow — season picker, quality profile, submit — identical to iPhone
  • Watchlist — Jellyfin watchlist with per-item request controls
  • Multi-server — add, switch, and manage multiple Seerr instances

The screenshots below were taken on an iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) simulator at 2064 × 2752 px — the size required by App Store Connect for iPad submissions.

Poster artwork courtesy of The Movie Database (TMDB). All rights belong to their respective owners.

The current layout is the iPhone layout displayed on iPad. A native iPad layout pass is in active development:

  • NavigationSplitView — sidebar navigation with a persistent left column on iPad Pro and iPad Air
  • Sidebar-adaptive TabView — tabs collapse into a sidebar on regular-width horizontal size classes
  • Size-class branching — content layout adapts to horizontalSizeClass so the UI never simply stretches the phone layout

This pass is required before Android, Android TV, or any other non-Apple platform work begins.

SeerrClient runs on Apple Silicon Macs via Designed for iPad — no separate download, no code changes. Open the App Store on a Mac with Apple Silicon, search for SeerrClient, and install it exactly as you would on iPad.

A native macOS target (SwiftUI multiplatform, not Catalyst) is planned as Phase 1.6, reusing the SwiftUI view layer with a macOS-tuned layout. That work begins after the iPad layout pass is complete.

Install SeerrClient from the App Store — it’s free and universal. Connect your Jellyseerr, Overseerr, or Seerr server and you’re up and running in under two minutes.