646 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 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 • 9 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree As already mentioned, a streaming platform isn't an alternative to a media player. Guest • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 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 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees 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 Resource heavy. Lacks customization. Difficult to manage transcoding options. Guest • Nov 2016 • 6 agrees and 7 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
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 Mac Windows Linux Android BSD Windows Phone Self-Hosted Kindle Fire 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
70 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 • 2 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
79 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
55 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
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
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
19 Like 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 Chromecast support Add a feature Kodi is a media center. This isn't. It controls devices that content streamed from kodi can't be played on. There's a big difference. Guest • Feb 2017 • 8 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Google Home is new, but it's a great app! Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
14 Like HomeNet Local Media Server Alternative? YES NO HomeNet Local Area Network Media Server - lightweight alternative to Plex - ( HTML5 + Chromecast support ) A relatively simple, minimalist, lightweight media center... Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Self-Hosted PHP No features added Add a feature
6 Like 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 No features added Add a feature
31 Like 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 Music Library Add a feature
11 Like Pith Good alternative? YES NO Pith sits on a server or NAS. It scans your media for movies and tv shows and you access it through a modern web UI from your tablet, phone or PC. From there you can... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
7 Like Vidine Good alternative? YES NO Vidine is a media center and thumbnail video clip manager. It organizes video clips as thumbnail sheets where you can search, browse and play videos straight from the... Commercial Windows Convert video to DVD Add a feature
