Media Companion is described as 'The original free to use Movie/TV Show manager and organizer that offers full XBMC integration. Simply put, Media Companion gathers information from the Internet and make this information available to you in an organized manner' and is a Media Manager in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Media Companion for Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Docker. The best Media Companion alternative is GCstar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Media Companion are tinyMediaManager, MediaElch, Ember Media Manager and Mydia.
Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).
It is not a "media manager" for Kodi
GCstar is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Media Companion.
GCstar is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Media Companion.
tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server.
MediaElch is a MediaManager for Kodi. It directly accesses XBMCs database (SQLite and MySQL) and thumbnail cache to store information about movies and TV shows.
Ember Media Manager is just that: a media manager. Once configured, it let's you fetch, store, and view various details about your media collection. Movies and TV shows are the type of media that Ember can handle.
A modern, self-hosted media management platform for tracking, organizing, and monitoring your media library.
Mydia is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Media Companion.
myCollections is the perfect tool to catalog Applications, Books, Games, Music, Movies, TV show or Adult contents, into the same and unique tool.
Numento is a elegant collection software fully customizable that will let you freely choose your method of management. Manage your library (Books,CD, DVD, comic books, games), your coins, your stamps, your postcard, etc.
Numento is the most popular commercial alternative to Media Companion.
Dim is a self hosted media manager. With minimal setup, Dim will organize and beautify your media collections, letting you access and play them anytime from anywhere.
ViMediaManager is a media manager for Mac OS X, allowing you to gather, store and manage the information and extra images for your movie, television & anime collections, and can be used on it’s own, or in combination with XBMC, Plex & YAMJ.
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GCStar is designed to handle various collections whereas MC handles specifically video collections for the Kodi platform.