Kodi Good alternative? YES NO

Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. Kodi is designed to be the perfect...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad ... Raspberry Pi Fire TV

OSMC Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Free Open Source tvOS Raspberry Pi

Emby Good alternative? YES NO

Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use...

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD Windows Phone iPad ... Self-Hosted Apple TV Kindle Fire Playstation Roku Xbox

Splash Good alternative? YES NO

Splash 2.0 lets you watch and convert your videos like never before - superb performance, smooth motion, crisp details and vivid colors. Designed and optimized for...

Freemium Windows

Google Home Good alternative? YES NO

Set up, manage, and control your Chromecast, Chromecast Audio and Google Home devices.

Free Windows Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome

Playon Good alternative? YES NO

PlayOn is both browser and media server for your Windows PC which lets you magically stream your favorite shows, movies, even your personal media from your PC to your...

Commercial Windows Android iPhone Blackberry Android Tablet iPad Blackberry 10

JRiver Media Center Good alternative? YES NO

JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows. Media Center is a...

Commercial Mac Windows

Semper Media Center Good alternative? YES NO

Semper Media Center (SPMC in short) is a Android-minded fork of Kodi, by the former Kodi android maintainer, Koying.

Free Open Source Android

xPud Good alternative? YES NO

A Browser OS with an App Store - The desktop has never been this easy -- Get your favorite web browser with a simple web-based interface on top.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

VidOn Server Good alternative? YES NO

Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.

Free Windows

nextPVR Good alternative? YES NO

NextPVR. NextPVR is a popular free personal video recorder application for Microsoft Windows, making it easy to watch or record Live TV.

Free Windows

Portitle Good alternative? YES NO

Portitle Web App is a smart launcher to dozens of movie and TV related websites. Portitle will intelligently identify any video file stored at your HTPC, and then will...

Free Windows Chrome OS

Moovida Good alternative? YES NO

Moovida is transforming the way consumers experience digital entertainment media. In a world where the promise of on-demand media has yet to be realized, Moovida...

Free Open Source Windows

• Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.1.1, released in October 2011, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.

Tvheadend Good alternative? YES NO

Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources.

Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted

MythTV Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux