Plex is getting more artwork customization options

Published Nov 20, 2025

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Plex Media Server owners can finally customize the Logo and Square Artwork for titles in their personal libraries, bringing a professional polish to homegrown collections. This functionality is similar to how we’ve been able to customize Posters and Backgrounds for years.

I would say this is a great feature for those who want more control over their library organization. It means you can fill in those awkward gaps where metadata providers haven't supplied a clean logo for a niche movie or an old TV show you ripped years ago. Logos are visible on home and detail pages for movies and shows.

They also display on collection and playlist pages. If you don't select a logo, the app will just display a plain text title instead. Square artwork is the other big addition here. This art acts as the background on movie and show detail pages, collection pages, and playlists, though for now, Square Artwork is only visible on the iOS and Android Mobile apps. It’s great that the Plex Media Server will also recognize local artwork assets for these types, which lets you manage everything directly through file naming conventions.

To take advantage of this new customization, you're going to need to update your software. You'll need Plex Media Server version 1.43.0, which is currently in beta, along with specific versions of the client apps. This means Plex Web 4.155.0-0aa129a, and the 2025.30.0 versions of the iOS and Android Mobile apps. Roku users will need version 8.7.32.

This is nice, but it's not really fixing the broader issues Plex is dealing with right now, which is the messy migration to a unified design language across all platforms. Plex has been working to unify all its mobile and TV apps under one codebase and a similar design. The Android and iOS versions rolled out earlier this year, and the update arrivedfor Roku devices back in September. It’s fair to expect some complaints whenever a popular app gets a redesign, but we're still waiting for it to work smoothly all the time.

This difficulty in rolling out capable new clients is especially visible on newer hardware, too. Plex recentlylaunched on Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which runs on a Linux-based operating system called Vega OS, and the app is heavily feature-limited at launch. The biggest technical hurdle here is the extremely restrictive direct play support. The app only supports H.264 video with AAC audio up to a low 7Mbps bitrate.

You should also remember that while this is new for Plex, it shows how much alternatives like Jellyfin or Kodi can do. Jellyfin is one of the most popular open-source alternatives, and it often gives features for free that Plex locks behind a paid Plex Pass subscription, just like what's coming in this update. Besides this, Plex also charges for the ability to skip TV show intros, butJellyfin lets users do this for free using the third-party Intro Skipper plugin.

These smaller updates aren't helping Plex when the alternatives are fighting hard for its audience. We'll have to wait and see what the next update brings.