Kodi 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.

Kodi scores 95 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.
KodiKyoo
Health score 95/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 3191 1270
Commits (last 3 mo) 1138 303
Stars 21k 2.5k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 27 Aug 2026
Licence GPL-2.0 GPL-3.0
Built with C++, deb Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Kodi

Multimedia/Entertainment center, formerly known as XBMC. Runs on Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows.

95/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 94% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 202 commits 2025-11: 244 commits 2025-12: 209 commits 2026-01: 232 commits 2026-02: 321 commits 2026-03: 249 commits 2026-04: 258 commits 2026-05: 338 commits 2026-06: 172 commits 2026-07: 336 commits 2026-08: 630 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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