Jellyfin vs Kyoo

Both are self-hosted media streaming - multimedia streaming projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Jellyfin scores 92 against Kyoo's 77, putting it ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Kyoo may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
JellyfinKyoo
Health score 92/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 1952 1270
Commits (last 3 mo) 813 303
Stars 58k 2.5k
Latest release 15 Sept 2026 27 Aug 2026
Licence GPL-2.0 GPL-3.0
Built with C#, deb, Docker Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Jellyfin

Media server for audio, video, books, comics, and photos with a sleek interface and robust transcoding capabilities. Almost all modern platforms have clients, including Roku, Android TV, iOS, and Kodi.

92/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 131 commits 2025-11: 87 commits 2025-12: 98 commits 2026-01: 89 commits 2026-02: 77 commits 2026-03: 152 commits 2026-04: 159 commits 2026-05: 346 commits 2026-06: 216 commits 2026-07: 265 commits 2026-08: 332 commits

Kyoo

Innovative media browser designed for seamless streaming of anime, series and movies, offering advanced features like dynamic transcoding, auto watch history and intelligent metadata retrieval.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 33/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 84% of tracked projects; popularity more than 54%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 72 commits 2025-11: 194 commits 2025-12: 108 commits 2026-01: 83 commits 2026-02: 107 commits 2026-03: 213 commits 2026-04: 125 commits 2026-05: 65 commits 2026-06: 81 commits 2026-07: 92 commits 2026-08: 130 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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