Phlix Photos
phlixapp.com
- Performance
- 100
- Accessibility
- 96
- Best practices
- 100
- SEO
- 100
Lighthouse · mobile ·
Facts
- Client
- Loomis Builds (own product)
- Industry
- Photo & Video app
- Built with
- SwiftUI
- Static marketing site
Story
Challenge
Phlix is my own product. No client, no brief. Just a problem I wanted solved.
Lots of people keep their family photos on a Plex Media Server at home. Some of those libraries are huge. I wanted a way to flip through all of them on a phone, in date order, without waiting on every scroll.
So the job had two parts:
- The app. It had to stay smooth with a very large library, show photos at full quality on a TV, and work on both iPhone and iPad.
- The website. It had to explain the app in a few seconds and send people to the App Store.
Build
The app (SwiftUI, iPhone and iPad)
- A timeline by date. Your photos run in order, with a year scrubber to jump straight to any year.
- Built for big libraries. The App Store listing says it supports libraries of 100,000+ photos. The app asks the server for one year at a time, loads photos in pages, and fetches the next ones before you get there.
- 4K slideshows on a TV. Send a slideshow to the big screen with AirPlay 2 or an HDMI adapter. Your phone becomes the remote.
- Offline downloads. Save photos to your iPhone’s photo library so you have them without a connection.
- Easy on cell data. On cellular, the app uses smaller thumbnails and holds off on loading ahead. On Wi-Fi you get full quality.
- Search and more. Search, favorites, more than one library per server, and an iPad split view.
- VoiceOver support. The listing describes VoiceOver with position announcements.
- Small download. The App Store lists the app at 4.3 MB. It needs iOS 17 or later.
How it’s sold
Browsing, the timeline, search, favorites and on-device slideshows are free. Phlix Pro adds unlimited downloads and big-screen slideshows. It costs $6.99 a year or $19.99 one time, with a 14-day free trial. No ads and no tracking.
The marketing site
A fast static site at phlixapp.com. One clear job: show what the app does and get you to the App Store. It has a feature rundown, a comparison table, pricing, a support page with a contact form, and a blog of Plex how-to guides.
Results
Measured on the marketing site with Lighthouse mobile on October 12, 2026:
- Performance: 100
- Accessibility: 96
- Best Practices: 100
- SEO: 100
- Largest Contentful Paint: 867 ms
- Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
In plain terms: the page shows up in under a second on a phone, and nothing jumps around while it loads.
The app is live on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The listing’s version history runs from 1.0 to 1.0.11.
Measured
