649 Like Plex Good alternative? YES NO Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Chrome OS Windows RT Android Tablet ... Windows Phone iPad Apple TV Kindle Fire Roku DNLA Server Media Streaming Offline sync of media files Remote File Access Remote Media Access Stream audio Add a feature As already mentioned, a streaming platform isn't an alternative to a media player. Guest • Aug 2017 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Plex is a server program, kodi is a media program for end users. Where they can overlap in use, they are not the same kind of program. Guest • Mar 2017 • 10 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree It's probably the best alternative in terms of support and features but damn this program is frustrating to use and resource intensive on your system. ExquisiteDisaster • Jan 2017 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Kodi is a media client. Plex is a media server. Guest • 4 days ago Disagree Agree I'm a PC Dummy and i had to install it on my Fire TV 3 times before i realized it wasn't going to work anyway. I was able to install Kodi 17.1 plus Exodus though and after adding Phoenix,Droid Buddy,ES Explorer and a couple other Addons,i think i have enough to last a lifetime. patchho7 • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Not as many options as Kodi, and somewhat harder to manage but it's still a decent program if for whatever reason you can't use Kodi. EricaP • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Resource heavy. Lacks customization. Difficult to manage transcoding options. Guest • Nov 2016 • 6 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree
66 Like 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 Based on Debian Add a feature
71 Like Butter Project Alternative? YES NO Butter allows any user to easily watch movies through torrent streaming, without any prerequisites. Skip the downloads with Butter! The perfect container to plug in... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Peer-To-Peer Add a feature Discontinued In heavy development. No releases yet. It offers p2p streams as opposed to scrappers and does a very good job. lets you change the player to open the stream VLC or wvwn Kodi. Guest • Feb 2017 • 4 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
96 Like 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 Chromecast support Media Streaming Remote Media Access Remote playback Add a feature Like Plex, Emby is a server/player hybrid. Allowing you to manage users with unique watch histories and transcoding for any device. The player is robust, covering Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone amongst others, along with the most robust web player on the market. Guest • Aug 2015 • 5 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
81 Like Stremio Good alternative? YES NO Media center allowing to watch movies, series, YouTube channels instantly. You can watch in HD, with subtitles, and easily cast any file to TV through DLNA, Chromecast... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Chromecast support Cloud sync DNLA Server Add a feature I s one the best alternative software, 1- is free, 2- give choice to watch a TV show or movie, 3- the quality of content range from media to high and 4- the speed is quite good, the only small issue with this soft, is adaptability to remote control, and l think that they can correct soon.. Guest • Feb 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Super easy and fast to use. Excelent! The best! Guest • Apr 2017 Disagree Agree
24 Like Infuse Good alternative? YES NO Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone or iPad. No need to convert files! Infuse is optimized for iOS... Freemium iPhone iPad No features added Add a feature
56 Like 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 No features added Add a feature
16 Like TerrariumTV Good alternative? YES NO Terrarium TV is an Android app which allows you to watch, stream and download almost any HD TV shows and movies in 1080p on your Android devices for free!. Free Android Android Tablet Kindle Fire Fire TV Chromecast Chromecast support Support for subtitles Tv shows Add a feature its faster as kodi, and easy to find 1080p movies Guest • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree It is a very good stand alone platform for movies and tv shows. It has nice interface, subtitles etc. It doesn't have live tv. Rakun • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree
45 Like MediaPortal Good alternative? YES NO MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and... Free Open Source Windows Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Skinnable Add a feature
23 Like CinemaBox Good alternative? YES NO CinemaBox allows you to stream movies, TV series, cartoons, and anime in HD from your device. Free Android iPhone Chromecast support Kids Mode Support for subtitles Tv shows Add a feature
7 Like 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 No features added Add a feature Kodi crashes or stalls to often. Hardly ever have an issue with SPMC and use this on all my devices Guest • Mar 2017 Disagree Agree Essentially it is the same beast as Kodi but a good alternative when Kodi isn't working great this may have some different code that works more tidily. Guest • May 2016 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
69 Like PS3 Media Server Alternative? YES NO PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed, but last version, 1.90.1, released in August 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website. Kodi is primarily a front-end ("10-foot interface"), PS3 Media Server is primarily a back-end. nandhp • May 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
13 Like 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 No features added Add a feature
24 Like younity Good alternative? YES NO younity is your free personal media server: Access, stream, and share all your videos, music, photos, and files from any device. Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Media Streaming Remote desktop Add a feature
17 Like Squire Good alternative? YES NO Squire is a media center to stream movies and shows from torrents or local files. It’s an always-running menu bar app. The brain where all the local video files or... Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Apple TV No features added Add a feature
