Kyoo vs Navidrome

Kyoo vs Navidrome
Fact	Kyoo	Navidrome
Language	TypeScript	Go
Licence	GPL-3.0	GPL-3.0
Stars	2.5k	24k
Latest	v5.2.1	v0.64.2
Last push	2026-10-06	2026-10-06
Release cadence	about 46 days between releases	about 6 days between releases
Active contributors	11 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days	30 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Flags	none	none

How they relate

Both replace Plex. Alternatives to Plex →
Full replacementKyooStreams your films and series with transcoding and fetched metadata to its web and mobile apps.
PartialNavidromeMusic only, streamed to Subsonic-compatible clients.

v5.2.12026-08-27See v5.2.0 for release note, this is just a new release because ci didn't release artifacts.
v5.2.02026-08-27Android app finally there
v5.1.02026-07-12Add intro/credits detection
v5.0.02026-04-06Finally a proper release for v5! Almost all the code changed (full rewrite of the front, api, scanner). There's a lot o…
v5.0.0-beta12026-03-22First beta version of the v5. Almost all the code changed (full rewrite of the front, api, scanner). I've started to ad…pre-release

v0.64.22026-09-24This is a bug fix release. The main fix is for users on slow storage (USB disks, remote drives), who have seen floods o…
v0.64.12026-09-21v0.64.1 - Security Fixes
v0.64.02026-09-12This release brings an experimental Jellyfin Music API, so Jellyfin-compatible music clients like Finamp and Jellify ca…
v0.63.22026-07-11205c85da5523338807808202d8877ccaa6e82776: fix(plugins): surface host service failures when loading plugins (#5756) (@de…
v0.63.12026-07-09052f10fd68984a01cc2c87eee9edcc16dbfa6ad5: fix(build): prevent 32-bit startup crash (segfault/SIGILL) in downloads binar…

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