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Kodi

Kodi is a media centre program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS: playlists.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Kodi is a media centre program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Media center” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Free software media player.” — Wikidata, 10 November 2026
  • “There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Kodi is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0 GPL-2.0+ LGPL-2.1+ MIT BSD-3-Clause BSD-4-Clause) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Kodi allows users to play and view videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local storage, network storage and the internet. It's optimized for a 10-foot user interface to be used with televisions and remote controls. Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Homebrew (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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