{"slug": "stremio", "name": "Stremio", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 10, "commenters": 15, "warners": 1, "score": 7.93, "rising": -1.95, "first": "2025-11-07", "latest": "2026-10-20", "why": "This is my preferred option\u2014this is the Spotify of movies and TV.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 10, "neutral": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "spark": [3, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "This is my preferred option\u2014this is the Spotify of movies and TV.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "stremio.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.stremio.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Stremio"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 796371504, "item_id": 49773219, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773219", "by": "profstasiak", "date": "2026-09-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just use stremio with real debrid", "excerpt": "ehh I pay for netflix and hbo but dont even bother with them, I just use stremio with real debrid. I cant deal with all this shit of trying to find out which streaming service has a movie I want to see. And now I will be also forced to watch ads? i\u2019d rather touch grass", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming movies", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan"}, {"id": 773856816, "item_id": 48366051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366051", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stremio is a good place to do this.", "excerpt": "Stremio is a good place to do this. I of course use it to watch freely and legaly available science and craft videos and nothing else. By the way, Stremio is not at all torrent or p2p software. It's just a streaming software and you can plug in any streaming source/add-on for this, including torrents, of course just to watch legally available videos. Maybe check it out: https://github.com/stremio https://www.stremio.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"}, {"id": 773721728, "item_id": 48357608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357608", "by": "moi2388", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents", "excerpt": "I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents. There literally isn\u2019t anything that came out and isn\u2019t on there.", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming media", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"}, {"id": 763777328, "item_id": 47736083, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736083", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-04-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is my preferred option\u2014this is the Spotify of movies and TV.", "excerpt": "You can solve all the problems you describe; it just takes some setup. >Watching TV/Movies through any device is a bother, I have to sift through all the advertisements/brand placements for that device to find anything, and most of the time it's the same 20 movies repeated over and over in every section. Pirate streaming sites[1] are more convenient, have fewer ads, and offer more selection than commercial streaming;", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming movies and TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"}, {"id": 761857168, "item_id": 47616073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616073", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite streaming service is open source", "excerpt": "My favorite streaming service is open source[1] and I have never had a billing[2] issue. Did I mention it has had everything I've tried to watch in high bitrate 4k? [1] https://github.com/stremio [2] https://torbox.app", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming media", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Self-Cancelling Subscription"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 802636800, "item_id": 50164800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164800", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-10-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time)", "excerpt": "I recently discovered (I knew of it but had never tried) debrid and now I resent all the time I wasted on private trackers over the years. Next step is trying an easy and stable alternative to Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time). 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Next step is trying an easy and stable alternative to Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time). This serves both my laptop and my old fire stick (which is fire os \u2190 android tv) as of now.", "context": "", "use_case": "media streaming", "switched_from": "", "story": "An ad-free Android TV"}, {"id": 796371504, "item_id": 49773219, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773219", "by": "profstasiak", "date": "2026-09-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I just use stremio with real debrid", "excerpt": "ehh I pay for netflix and hbo but dont even bother with them, I just use stremio with real debrid. I cant deal with all this shit of trying to find out which streaming service has a movie I want to see. And now I will be also forced to watch ads? i\u2019d rather touch grass", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming movies", "switched_from": "", "story": "Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan"}, {"id": 795902576, "item_id": 49743911, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743911", "by": "zond", "date": "2026-09-17", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I created an alternative https://www.stremio.com/ app", "excerpt": "With the help of Claude I created an alternative https://www.stremio.com/ app, for every platform supported by Rust and Flutter (not tested on all, not built on iOS) that shares torrents back to the universe, uses almost-official stremio-core to handle existing Stremio accounts and add-ons, and also provides new features (so far only \"dl for offline viewing\"). It took a couple of weeks (mostly spent patching a fork o", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I built a multi platform torrent video streamer"}, {"id": 775307604, "item_id": 48456725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456725", "by": "Jordan-117", "date": "2026-06-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a feature I was already able to build for the Stremio desktop player", "excerpt": "Gemini has been indispensable for helping me move from Windows to Linux. I'm reasonably proficient, but moving to a brand-new OS brought so many random questions and weird edge cases that I never would have had the confidence, patience, or time to tackle it alone, even with pretty strong Google fu. It's been so nice to have instant access to answers for my specific problems, without judgment or having to wait on a re", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 773856816, "item_id": 48366051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366051", "by": "crossroadsguy", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stremio is a good place to do this.", "excerpt": "Stremio is a good place to do this. I of course use it to watch freely and legaly available science and craft videos and nothing else. By the way, Stremio is not at all torrent or p2p software. It's just a streaming software and you can plug in any streaming source/add-on for this, including torrents, of course just to watch legally available videos. Maybe check it out: https://github.com/stremio https://www.stremio.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"}, {"id": 773721728, "item_id": 48357608, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357608", "by": "moi2388", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents", "excerpt": "I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents. There literally isn\u2019t anything that came out and isn\u2019t on there.", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming media", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"}, {"id": 770614672, "item_id": 48163417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163417", "by": "Jonovono", "date": "2026-05-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Saw this show connections on Stremio, sounded interesting and put it on.", "excerpt": "Saw this show connections on Stremio, sounded interesting and put it on. This scene caught my attention ;p From: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818341/?ref_=ttep_ep_1", "context": "", "use_case": "watching TV shows", "switched_from": "", "story": "\"Run the agent program\" in 1978"}, {"id": 763777328, "item_id": 47736083, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736083", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-04-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is my preferred option\u2014this is the Spotify of movies and TV.", "excerpt": "You can solve all the problems you describe; it just takes some setup. >Watching TV/Movies through any device is a bother, I have to sift through all the advertisements/brand placements for that device to find anything, and most of the time it's the same 20 movies repeated over and over in every section. Pirate streaming sites[1] are more convenient, have fewer ads, and offer more selection than commercial streaming;", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming movies and TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"}, {"id": 761857168, "item_id": 47616073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616073", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite streaming service is open source", "excerpt": "My favorite streaming service is open source[1] and I have never had a billing[2] issue. Did I mention it has had everything I've tried to watch in high bitrate 4k? [1] https://github.com/stremio [2] https://torbox.app", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming media", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Self-Cancelling Subscription"}, {"id": 760741936, "item_id": 47546371, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546371", "by": "micael_dias", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s 2 clicks with tools like Stremio.", "excerpt": "It\u2019s 2 clicks with tools like Stremio. I use Plex with the arr stack and sure it has more configuration needed upfront but once that\u2019s done you no longer need to figure out which streaming service has what. Plus things like realdebrid mean you don\u2019t even need storage anymore.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"}, {"id": 760735152, "item_id": 47545947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545947", "by": "xnx", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://www.stremio.com/", "excerpt": "https://www.stremio.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netflix raising prices for a second time in a year"}, {"id": 741862866, "item_id": 46366429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366429", "by": "bl4kers", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://github.com/lostb1t/Gelato", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: CineCLI \u2013 Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"}, {"id": 741850113, "item_id": 46365632, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365632", "by": "Frotag", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And stremio handles UI and playback.", "excerpt": "So torrentio provides the metadata and downloads the video on-demand. And stremio handles UI and playback. That's a pretty neat way to keep the storage reqs minimal. This got me thinking if jellyfin could be configured for something similar (I don't feel like migrating to yet-another-media-library) and turns out it supports .strm files [0], which are literally just urls in a text file (much like .m3u8 playlists) [1].", "context": "", "use_case": "Media UI and playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: CineCLI \u2013 Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"}, {"id": 741814113, "item_id": 46363382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363382", "by": "pedromoss", "date": "2025-12-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've achieved comparable results on my Android TV with Stremio[1] and the Torrentio[2] plugin.", "excerpt": "Great job! I've achieved comparable results on my Android TV with Stremio[1] and the Torrentio[2] plugin. Being able to use the terminal for streaming would be a nice thing to have in Linux. It would also be cool to check for malicious files before downloading. [1]: https://www.stremio.com [2]: https://torrentio.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming on Android TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: CineCLI \u2013 Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"}, {"id": 736699984, "item_id": 46043749, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043749", "by": "dustypotato", "date": "2025-11-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to this and never been so satisfied.", "excerpt": "Switched to this and never been so satisfied. Hard to get old and not streamed shows though. And stremio has plugins that support some streaming sites as well.", "context": "", "use_case": "Streaming media hub", "switched_from": "", "story": "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"}, {"id": 733872432, "item_id": 45867027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867027", "by": "ninetyninenine", "date": "2025-11-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use stremio with pirate plugins which provides basically an identical experience to Netflix", "excerpt": "Same with paying for your software. One time setup and it just works afterwards, but easier. I use stremio with pirate plugins which provides basically an identical experience to Netflix. Don\u2019t even need a setup. I think you get it though. You use Usenet because you don\u2019t want to pay right? Pure and simple.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"}, {"id": 733530192, "item_id": 45845637, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845637", "by": "whynotmakealt", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Stremio + torrentio for me is a very good setup personally.", "excerpt": "Stremio + torrentio for me is a very good setup personally. It just works but I know of other mechanisms too. One of these was to actually download a torrent and use torrentfs or something similar and you can stream a video directly from the mirror without downloading it fully and on linux, I really appreciate its simplicity and I love it ngl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site"}]}