Stremio
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
10recommend
1warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I just use stremio with real debrid”
“Stremio is a good place to do this.”
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“I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents”
“This is my preferred option—this is the Spotify of movies and TV.”
“My favorite streaming service is open source”
Caveats and dissent
“Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time)”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- I built a multi platform torrent video streamer 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI 1 mention
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All comments 17
“Stremio (which has been down the hill for quite some time)”
“I just use stremio with real debrid”
“I created an alternative https://www.stremio.com/ app”
“a feature I was already able to build for the Stremio desktop player”
“Stremio is a good place to do this.”
“I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents”
“Saw this show connections on Stremio, sounded interesting and put it on.”
“This is my preferred option—this is the Spotify of movies and TV.”
“My favorite streaming service is open source”
“It’s 2 clicks with tools like Stremio.”
“https://www.stremio.com/”
https://github.com/lostb1t/Gelato
“And stremio handles UI and playback.”
“I've achieved comparable results on my Android TV with Stremio[1] and the Torrentio[2] plugin.”
“Switched to this and never been so satisfied.”
“I use stremio with pirate plugins which provides basically an identical experience to Netflix”
“Stremio + torrentio for me is a very good setup personally.”