Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).




GCstar vs Media Companion Comments
It is not a "media manager" for Kodi

- GCstar is Free and Open Source
Media Companion is described as 'Free media manager for organizing movies and TV shows, supports XBMC integration, scrapes metadata and artwork, auto-renames files, and exports HTML details' 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, Mydia and Ember Media Manager.
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

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.
A modern, self-hosted media management platform for tracking, organizing, and monitoring your media library.




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.

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.






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.

GCStar is designed to handle various collections whereas MC handles specifically video collections for the Kodi platform.