About Kodi

Let us entertain you!

Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is media center and 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.

Kodi on various devices

Kodi is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, tvOS and Android. It is designed around a "10-foot user interface" for use with televisions and remote controls.

Users can play and view most videos, music, podcasts, games and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.

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Disclaimer

Kodi does not provide any media content or sources. Users must provide their own content or manually configure Kodi to access third party online services. The Kodi project does not provide any support for bootleg content or other illegally sourced material, nor do we allow community support within our official web sites and services for such content.

What can Kodi do for me?

Kodi is the ultimate entertainment center software. It plays almost every kind of media you can find and it looks great while doing it! These are just a few things that Kodi excels at, why not try it yourself today?

Movies

Kodi is made for Movies! Supporting all the main video formats including streamable online media, Kodi can import, browse and play your Movie collection with ease.

TV Shows

Kodi's TV Shows library supports episode and season views with posters or banners, watched tags, show descriptions and actors. Great for keeping track of your progress.

Music

Kodi can play all your music including mp3, flac, wav and wma formats. It has cue sheets, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.

Photos

Kodi is the photographers friend. Import pictures into a library and browse the different views, start a slideshow, sort or filter them all using your remote control.

PVR

Kodi allows you to watch and record live TV all through an easy to use interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more.

Games

Kodi isn't just for passive entertainment media. You can also play games on Kodi. Pick from a large number of emulators, or even play a stand-alone game. There's even extensive support for game controllers.

Skins

Kodi allows you to completely change the whole appearance of the interface using a variety of skins. We have no doubt that you will find something that suits your tastes (or living room).

Add-ons

The real power of Kodi comes from the vast selection of community created Add-ons. There are Add-Ons for popular web services, applications and scripts. See which ones are currently available.

Web Interface

Interact with Kodi using its JSON-RPC based remote interface. This brings loads of possibilities for remote controls, web browsers, and 3rd party tools to take Kodi to the next level.

Remote Controls

With support for hundreds of remote controls, CEC-compatible TVs, or one of the new Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Kodi allows you to control your media your way.