LibreELEC AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Media Centers

The best Media Center alternative to LibreELEC is Plex, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to LibreELEC and six of them are Media Centers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Media Center alternatives to LibreELEC are OSMC, OpenELEC, CoreELEC and MythTV.

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LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware....

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LibreELEC alternatives page was last updated Mar 5, 2023
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  1. Plex icon

    Plex

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    A multimedia tool for streaming movies, TV shows, sports, and music while facilitating personal media organization with versatile libraries and metadata retrieval.

    90 Plex alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
    • Daydream
    • Kindle Fire
    • Android TV
    • Kodi
    • Roku
    Plex screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Media Server
    2.  Media Streaming
    3.  Play local content
    4.  Local Storage
    5.  Media Center
    6.  Media Transcoding
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Chromecast Support
    9.  No Tracking
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  Dark Mode
    12.  No registration required

    Plex VS LibreELEC

     
    Comments about Plex as an Alternative to LibreELEC
    Guest
    Negative Mar 5, 2023
    1

    LibreELEC is an OS for Arm devices. Plex is an application.

    Guest
    Negative Apr 13, 2019
    4

    plex is more similar to kodi and emby than libreellec which is more a operating system than a software

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    • Plex is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to LibreELEC.

    • Plex is the most popular free alternative to LibreELEC.

    • Plex is Freemium and ProprietaryLibreELEC is Free and Open Source
    • Plex is LightweightLibreELEC is not according to our users
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    OSMC

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    OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based...

    44 OSMC alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Apple TV
    • Raspberry Pi
    OSMC screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Designed for TVs
    2.  Momentjs integration
    3.  Auto-identifies vids
    4.  Based on Debian
    5.  Stream video to Apple TV

    OSMC VS LibreELEC

     

    • OSMC is the most popular Open Source alternative to LibreELEC.

    • OSMC is Free and Open SourceLibreELEC is also Free and Open Source
    • OSMC is LightweightLibreELEC is not according to our users
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    OpenELEC

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    Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center.

    11 OpenELEC alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    OpenELEC screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Since 2017 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenELECalso, the website is dead.

    OpenELEC Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Streaming
    3.  TV Streaming
    4.  OPENGL

    OpenELEC VS LibreELEC

     
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    CoreELEC

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    CoreELEC is a ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution for running Kodi® on popular Amlogic hardware. CoreELEC is a fork of the LibreELEC project with a stronger focus on Amlogic hardware and the community.

    4 CoreELEC alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Kodi
    CoreELEC screenshot 1

    CoreELEC VS LibreELEC

     
    Comments about CoreELEC as an Alternative to LibreELEC
    ronwolf
    Positive May 25, 2019
    1

    Works great on my s905w android box.

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    • CoreELEC is Free and Open SourceLibreELEC is also Free and Open Source
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    MythTV

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    MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. With its plugin architecture, MythTV can be transformed into a home media center suite, capable of managing your personal photo, video, and music collections...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    MythTV screenshot 1

    MythTV Features

    1.  TV Tuner
    2.  DVR
    3.  TV Streaming

    MythTV VS LibreELEC

     
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    XBian

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    XBian is a small, fast and lightweight media centre distribution for the Raspberry Pi, CuBox-i, Hummingboard and many more devices to come. It is based on a minimal Debian and therefore offers much of the same freedom as Debian offers.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • HummingBoard
    • Raspberry Pi
    XBian screenshot 1

    XBian Features

    1.  Live updating

    XBian VS LibreELEC

     
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