Customising Your Home Screen

Your home screen is fully yours to arrange. If building, removing, or moving rows isn’t obvious at first, this page walks you through it. Everything below lives in Settings → Home & Interface.

Home rows explained

Your home screen is made up of rows stacked top to bottom. There are two kinds:

Essentials are the staples Zuno gives you: Jump back in (where you pick up what you were watching), Airing This Week (shows with a new episode in the next 7 days) and a row for each of your libraries. You simply switch these on or off.
Custom rows are ones you build yourself with Create a Row from your collections, playlists, genres, favourite actors and directors, external lists and more.

Everything below lives in Home Rows, the card at the top of Settings → Home & Interface.

On Your Home

The On Your Home section lists the rows currently showing, in order.

Reorder: drag any row up or down. The order here is exactly how your home screen shows them, top to bottom.
Remove: tap the red minus next to an Essential to switch it off. To delete a row you built, tap it and choose delete; it’s removed for good, along with any cover image you added, after a quick confirmation.

Essentials

Under Essentials you’ll find Jump back in and a row for each library on your servers. Switch on the ones you want. These are always available and don’t count against your custom rows.

Airing This Week shows one poster for each show you’re watching, following or have on your watchlist that has an episode in the next seven days, with the day it airs on the corner. It hides itself when there’s nothing coming up. On iPhone and iPad, tap the row’s title to open the full calendar in Up Next.

Create a Row

Everything beyond the Essentials is built with Create a Row. You choose how the row should look, give it a name, choose where its titles come from, then check a live preview before adding it.

In Home Rows, tap the Create a Row card at the top and choose a row type:
- Standard Poster or Standard Landscape for a traditional shelf.
- Numbered Poster or Numbered Landscape to show each title’s position with a large rank number.
- Hub for one cover that opens a page of titles.
- Grouped to give each chosen source its own cover.
Give the row a name. Turn off Show row name if you want the name kept for managing the row without displaying it on your home screen.
Choose a source for its titles:
- Collection, Playlist or Genre from your own libraries.
- Person to pin favourite actors or directors and see what they’re in.
- Watchlist and Discover for things to watch next.
- Zuno Picks for curated selections.
- MDBList and Trakt List to pull in lists you follow elsewhere. Some of these ask you to sign in the first time, and stay connected after.
Pick the collections, lists or people you want. Use search to narrow a long collection or item list.
Choose the sort and filters, check the preview, then tap Add to Home. For MDBList and Trakt List rows, you can also choose to include titles you don’t have yet. If you use Rotating Rows, turn on Add to Rotating Rows to send the new row straight into your rotation instead of showing it all the time.

You can also start a row from the + button at the top of Home Rows, which is also where you’ll find Add Collections & Playlists.

How your row looks

The type you choose at the start sets the row’s layout and artwork. Standard rows use familiar poster or landscape cards. Numbered rows use the same shapes with a large position number beside each title. A Hub is one cover that opens a whole page, while Grouped gives every chosen source its own cover.

You can give a Hub your own cover image in place of the default title and poster fan. The final step lets you order the titles and narrow the row to Movies or Shows before checking the preview.

Lists with titles you don’t have yet

MDBList and Trakt List rows normally only show the titles that are already in your library, so a long list stays focused on things you can watch right now.

If you’d rather see the whole list, turn on Include titles not in your library in the sort and filter step. Titles you don’t have yet then appear in the row in the list’s own order, mixed in with the ones you do. Open one to see its details and, if you’ve set up requests, choose Request to ask for it.

The option is set for each row, so you can keep one list to your library and show another in full. It’s off unless you turn it on.

Rotating Rows

If you’ve built more rows than you want on your home screen at once, Rotating Rows keeps things fresh. Choose a set of rows to take turns, and Zuno shows a different selection of them every few days.

In Home Rows, tap Rotate Your Rows.
Tick the rows you want to take turns. You need at least two.
Choose how many show at once and how often they change: Every Day, Every 3 Days or Every Week.
Tap Turn On.

Your chosen rows move into a single Rotating Rows entry in On Your Home. Drag it up or down like any other row to choose where the rotating rows appear on your home screen. Every row outside it always shows, so to keep a favourite row on your home screen permanently, simply leave it out of the rotation.

Tap Rotating Rows to manage it:

Shuffle Now picks a fresh set straight away.
Showing Now and Waiting Their Turn list which rows are on your home screen at the moment and which are next.
Choose Rows adds or removes rows from the rotation.
Turn Off Rotating Rows puts every row back exactly where it was before.

New rows change the next time you open Zuno, so your home screen never shifts while you’re browsing. Your rotation follows you across your devices, and they all show the same rows at the same time.

Home layout

Your Apple TV home screen comes in two styles, and you can switch between them any time in Settings → Home & Interface → Home Layout. A full-screen preview shows you each one before you choose.

Grid is the classic layout: a featured banner at the top with your rows stacked below, scrolling as you go.
Spotlight fills the whole screen with artwork of whatever you’re focused on. A single row sits along the bottom, and moving up and down pages through your rows while the artwork and details behind change to match.

Grid options

Focus Previews: expand a backdrop panel when you focus a card.
Focus Preview Trailers: play a short trailer inside that panel, with an optional start delay.

Spotlight options

Play Trailers: play a trailer behind a title once you settle on it. Turn this off to keep still artwork.
Immersive Trailer: after a moment on a title, the row slides away for a full-screen trailer. Move in any direction to bring it back.
Immersive Delay: how long to wait before the trailer takes over the screen.

Whether a trailer actually plays here depends on your server and its files. See Trailers for how this works on Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby.

The large featured banner at the top of the Grid home screen is the Hero section. Turn Show Hero Section on or off in Home & Interface to suit your taste.

How cards look

Under Global Card Settings you can change how every poster and card looks across the app:

Card shape: Poster, Square, Standard, or Compact.
Show Progress Bar on cards. Ratings, tags and watched markers on posters now live in the Poster Builder, below.
Image quality: smaller images load faster and use less bandwidth; higher detail looks sharper on large displays but uses more.

Poster Builder

The Poster Builder overlays useful details straight onto your poster art, so you can see them at a glance without opening a title. Open it from Settings → Home & Interface → Poster Builder, where a live poster preview updates as you change each option.

Set Poster Enhancement to On to show your chosen details, or Off to keep your posters clean. When it’s on, pick any combination of:

Genre: the title’s main genre.
Rating: its review score. Set the Rating Source to an overall average or a specific source such as IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes or TMDB.
Age Rating: the certification, such as PG or 15.
Quality Tags: the resolution and range, such as 4K or Dolby Vision.
Trend Tags: a marker on titles that are trending.
Episodes Remaining: how many episodes of a show you’ve yet to watch.
Watched Indicator: a tick on titles you’ve finished.

Your choices apply to newly loaded posters across your shelves and libraries.

Appearance

Choose your look under Appearance:

Pure Black is best for OLED displays, giving true blacks.
Graphite, Slate and Espresso use a subtle tinted gradient across the app.
Midnight, Crimson, Emerald, Ember and Nebula come with the Supporter Pack.

App Icon

Tap App Icon to change how Zuno looks on your Home Screen. You can also change your icon and theme from Settings → Subscription, under Personalise.

Default, Classic, Halloween and Christmas are free for everyone.
The Movies & TV icons are part of the Supporter Pack: Digital Rain, Upside Down, Light Cycle, Night Signal, Hyperspace, Fire Trails, Overgrown, Web and Reactor.

Themed icons come with their own animated splash screen that plays when Zuno opens. Tap the play button on an icon to preview its animation, even before you own it. If you’d rather Zuno opened straight away, turn off Themed Splash Screen at the bottom of the App Icon screen.

Other handy toggles

A few more options in Home & Interface worth knowing about:

Instantly Play: tapping a Continue Watching card starts playback right away. Turn it off to open the detail page first instead.
Play Theme Songs: play a title’s theme music while you browse it.
Hide Episode Spoilers: hides episode thumbnails and descriptions for unwatched episodes.
Prefer Media Server Artwork: use your server’s backdrops on detail pages instead of Zuno’s default artwork.
Detail Screen Button: choose what the button beside Play does on a movie or show page. Pick from Download, Trailer, Watchlist, or Mark Watched.

If a row looks empty

If you add rows and they appear empty, open your home screen first so Zuno can load your content, then return to settings. Some rows only populate once the home screen has loaded them.

If your home screen shows No Home Rows, your server is connected but no rows are switched on. Tap Set Up Home Rows to choose some, or Restore Default Rows to bring back the standard set.