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Stremio Tech Update #21 – Stremio Web Release, Android TV Update, Stremio on iPhone and More

Posted on June 2, 2023August 22, 2023 by Alex

It’s been a long time since the last update again, but this time it’s another big one! So big in fact, that we had to include a table of contents:
– What is Stremio Web and how to use it
– Android TV v1.5.8 Release
– Stremio Desktop v4.4.160 Release

What is Stremio Web and how to use it

We are very happy to announce the official release of Stremio Web!

We have been working on this project for many years, and we would like to thank all those in the community that joined us in building it.

But how does it work? Stremio Web is a project that can be used either alone or with the Stremio Service companion app.

When using it without the companion app (and thus with the server disconnected), Stremio Web will be able to play only browser supported sources, this means that it does not support all video/audio decoders and that it cannot play torrents.

When the companion app is connected, you will be able to use a fully featured Stremio app in your browser.

If you wish to know how to install and use Stremio Web along with Stremio Service, you can read about that in this article.

Many users have also chosen to use Stremio Web (without the companion app) on iPhone and iPad, for a more feature rich experience compared to the Stremio Organizer app that is available in the App Store. If you wish to learn how to use Stremio Web on iPhone / iPad in this way, there is an article available for that.

It should also be noted that Stremio Desktop also runs its own service, and can be used instead of the Stremio Service app to act as a companion app for Stremio Web. This means that if you have Stremio Desktop installed and running, you can also use Stremio Web to its full capacity on the same device without needing to install Stremio Service too.

And for those that are tech savy, we also created a docker version of Stremio Service.

Stremio Web and Stremio Service are both fully open source projects, and can be found on the following github pages:

  • https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-web
  • https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-service

Android TV v1.5.8 Release

The following changes have been made to the Android TV app in this release:

  • Sync user info (library and addons) on activity start
  • Fix search suggestions
  • Disable playback speed adjustment for ExoPlayer when audio is in passthrough mode
  • Color picker now allows changing transparency for subtitles color options
  • Allow moving app to external storage
  • Add frame rate matching setting
  • Do not save subtitle/audio delay when switching to next binge video
  • Clear subtitle/audio delay when changing tracks
  • Add addon management screen
  • Refresh context menu state when adding/removing meta from library via context menu in board/discover
  • Make the Discover filters more closely resemble a button
  • Add an option to show network stats while loading compatible streams
  • More accurate load progress
  • Retrieve and propagate video hash to subtitle addons
  • Update ExoPlayer
  • Update translations
  • Various small bug fixes

The Android TV app should auto-update for all devices that have Google Play, for the others, you will probably need to sideload the app again. The website download page may be cached for the next 24h, within this time you should use this link for an updated version with the new downloads.

Stremio Desktop v4.4.160 Release

The following changes have been made to the Desktop app in this release:

  • Fix local addon catalog update
  • Allow installing protected addons
  • Configurable max volume up to 200%
  • Added pop-out button that opens Stremio Web in the browser
  • Better subtitles sanitization
  • Updated official addons to add 2023 for guest accounts
  • Added warning for when the local addon is missing
  • Updated translations
  • Various small bug fixes

The app will update for all users within the next 48h. The website download page may be cached for the next 24h, within this time you should use this link for an updated version with the new downloads.

Stay tuned as we have many surprises planned for our users!

If you have any questions or comments about Stremio, feel free to ask them on one of our social channels:

Official Stremio Reddit – reddit.com/r/Stremio

Stremio Helpdesk – stremio.zendesk.com

Stremio Facebook – facebook.com/stremio

Stremio Twitter – twitter.com/stremio/

You may also enjoy chatting on the unofficial community of Stremio users:

Unofficial Stremio Addons Reddit – reddit.com/r/StremioAddons

88 thoughts on “Stremio Tech Update #21 – Stremio Web Release, Android TV Update, Stremio on iPhone and More”

  1. Mustafa says:
    June 2, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks

    Reply
  2. Ciwy says:
    June 2, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    Nice to see you are working on improving the app, well done and thanks!

    Reply
  3. Paul says:
    June 2, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    it’s a lot better than it was – i get hd video now, where i had very blocky low res video before. shame theres no scroll wheel volume control and the stream info button (showing bitrate % downloaded etc) is greyed out. very useful though, i’ll use this and the service from now on.

    Reply
  4. sipulannas says:
    June 2, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    thanks for all of you whos developing this amazing app! i hope soon stremio will have watch later feature, or save film specially on phone. Thanks

    Reply
  5. jpants says:
    June 2, 2023 at 3:16 pm

    awesome – thanks for the hard work

    Reply
  6. Will says:
    June 2, 2023 at 3:37 pm

    I just cant believe this is happening! Amazing!
    Can I watch stremio on iPhone/iPad? When i try to watch on it, I get an option to open an external player but it doesnt do anything

    Reply
    1. Ossam says:
      June 3, 2023 at 2:28 pm

      i am having the same problem could anyone help with this please,

      Reply
      1. Harshala says:
        June 22, 2023 at 5:07 pm

        Try going on the stremio downloads and download from there. Make sure it’s an updated version. It works great on my phone and laptop (I’ve used it for 3 different phone switches due to technical issues with my phone and for the past 5+ years)

        Reply
    2. Bill says:
      June 8, 2023 at 12:53 pm

      On iphone you need Real Debrid (premium link subscription) for it to work. I’ve been using RD for years now and it works fine on iphone

      Reply
    3. Harshala says:
      June 22, 2023 at 5:04 pm

      Go to the stemio downloads and download the updated version there. It’s an apk but it honestly works amazing on my laptop and phone.

      Reply
    4. M says:
      July 2, 2023 at 6:27 pm

      use VLC and it will open it (if supported)

      Reply
  7. Alvaro says:
    June 2, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    Great update I hope you can add the label where shows the actors that are in the movie🎥👍📺

    Reply
  8. AMAN says:
    June 2, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    God bless you guys with all the tiddies. ♥️

    Reply
  9. ED says:
    June 2, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    Love Stremio and new features. Few I would love added:
    1: Volume booster for android TV.
    2: Time and Ended time while playing
    3: Film collections so you don’t need to manually search for Sequels in a franchise.

    Reply
    1. Josh says:
      June 6, 2023 at 1:06 am

      +1

      Reply
    2. M-yankov says:
      June 7, 2023 at 10:27 pm

      Collections and/or lists are a must! Learn from Letterboxd please!

      Reply
  10. João M. says:
    June 2, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    Very nice. Congrats!

    The only problem that I saw with Stremio Web was that the pop-up with the episodes list (with TV shows) doesn’t appear like with the desktop app. Besides that, very nice.

    Reply
  11. Jake says:
    June 2, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    It would be good if you guys have discord server!

    Reply
  12. Gha says:
    June 2, 2023 at 5:30 pm

    Thank you for all the effort in making the best app possible!

    I hope to see adding a subtitle file to a tv show or movie from the device.

    Reply
    1. Minh says:
      June 3, 2023 at 2:39 am

      of course the Stremio app can add external substitles to tv show or movie, if you use Window OS, you can drag the external sub and drop it directly into the show/movie

      Reply
  13. Nikolaos says:
    June 2, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    We would like to update the sound from simple stereo to at least 5,1 DTS. That would be really nice.

    Reply
  14. delfina says:
    June 2, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    thank you all for giving us the best streaming app! we owe you hours and hours of entertaining.

    Reply
  15. joao says:
    June 2, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    Se atualizar alguma dessas opções ou instalar algo perde-se as addons originais?

    Novas versões costumam ser restritivas, oferecendo bem menos opções de fontes, ou apenas fontes “árabes”, ou versões com áudio de pouca qualidade, além de um catálogo menor.

    Precisamos de atualizações não restritivas ou negativas.

    Obrigado

    Reply
  16. Muhammed ÖZCAN says:
    June 2, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    ı m so glad used to this app thank you all

    Reply
  17. Muhammed Özcan says:
    June 2, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    thank you all

    Reply
  18. Наско says:
    June 2, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    биг биг тханк ю. кееп тхе файтх.

    Reply
  19. ren says:
    June 2, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    Thank you for this amazing software!

    Reply
  20. hinki says:
    June 2, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    love stremeo the best pleas to se movies

    Reply
  21. Rafael says:
    June 2, 2023 at 10:21 pm

    thank you so much!

    Reply
  22. Dreadful says:
    June 2, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    Amazing work as always! This app is literally everything I need on my TV. ♥️

    Reply
  23. maria says:
    June 3, 2023 at 12:19 am

    thaaaaaanksss <3

    Reply
  24. azul says:
    June 3, 2023 at 1:21 am

    Thank you so muchhhh! <3

    Reply
  25. Matthias says:
    June 3, 2023 at 2:40 am

    Thanks a lot for the great work!!

    Reply
  26. Minh says:
    June 3, 2023 at 2:44 am

    as an iphone user, i hope your team somedays can bring the Stremio app with full features on iphone/ipad. Thank you so much

    Reply
  27. Vinnie says:
    June 3, 2023 at 3:10 am

    Absolutely love Stremio.
    Well done on an excellent app!

    Reply
  28. bárbara says:
    June 3, 2023 at 3:13 am

    gracias! stremio es lo mejor y es gratis ^_^ felicitaciones por el gran trabajo!

    Reply
  29. SKC says:
    June 3, 2023 at 4:08 am

    Thanks for this amazing app. You guys truly rock.

    Reply
  30. lais daniel says:
    June 3, 2023 at 5:17 am

    obrigado, isso e incrivel

    Reply
  31. tartar says:
    June 3, 2023 at 5:48 am

    really good

    Reply
  32. far says:
    June 3, 2023 at 8:17 am

    great updates! thank you very much for your hard work

    Reply
  33. oldman says:
    June 3, 2023 at 9:08 am

    Is there a donation link somewhere?

    Reply
  34. Michel says:
    June 3, 2023 at 10:18 am

    Thanks for this wonderful application, the best one with Debrid.

    Would be good if we can sort the movies in the library by name on android tv.

    Reply
  35. Cristian says:
    June 3, 2023 at 10:48 am

    how can i help stremio?

    Reply
  36. Maher says:
    June 3, 2023 at 11:50 am

    In the Android TV app –
    Please add sub-division for the torrents resolutions, so I can easily navigate to 720P, 480P. 1080P and so on.
    Right now, the only division is the source of the Torrents.

    Thanks
    MTO

    Reply
  37. tasos says:
    June 3, 2023 at 12:30 pm

    i had some isues before .i hope that they are solved

    Reply
  38. Dhruv Mishra says:
    June 3, 2023 at 1:24 pm

    before this app i had so much difficulties to watch stuff but this app makes it soo easy to watch and maintain library of my fav shows/movies. I am very grateful to you all who are behind/part of streamio team and wish you all the happiness of this world!! <3

    Reply
  39. mircea says:
    June 3, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    good job!

    Reply
  40. Alberto Silva says:
    June 3, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    Not working with High Sierra version (10.13.6 MacOS).

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      June 4, 2023 at 1:20 pm

      We recently learned that the new version crashes on High Sierra and Mojave, we stopped updates on these versions while we investigate and created a new download option for them, see: https://www.stremio.com/downloads?macos-downloads

      Reply
  41. ab at says:
    June 3, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    Hi !
    First, Thank you so much for your effort, and I want to tell you that the method of Stremio Service companion app doesn’t work in Brave browser.

    Reply
  42. Minh says:
    June 3, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    anyone here has the issues that the video cannot load the subtitle and the external subtitles cannot be added to video in the Stremio latest version? This issues are so annoying, i have to uninstall this app and install the previous ver, fortunately i still keep the previous ver download file.

    Reply
  43. karina says:
    June 3, 2023 at 9:05 pm

    Thank you. I hope one day you guys can update the UI.

    Reply
  44. bouchriha yassine says:
    June 4, 2023 at 12:03 am

    great app guys keep the good work
    i’ve been using it for 2 years now and I’m still discovering new content that i can watch in the app
    just one thing if u could add a search bar for the discover page that would be great.

    Reply
  45. Lusitanio says:
    June 4, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    Completely stopped working on my mac , trying to use the web , no Addons work
    such a shame, was good while it lasted.

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      June 4, 2023 at 1:21 pm

      We recently learned that the new version crashes on High Sierra and Mojave, we stopped updates on these versions while we investigate and created a new download option for them, see: https://www.stremio.com/downloads?macos-downloads

      Reply
  46. Ravi says:
    June 4, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    Video Not Supported. Open in External Player when trying to watch anything in https://web.stremio.com/

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      June 4, 2023 at 4:32 pm

      Check the settings of Stremio Web, is the server online? What device?

      Reply
  47. umer bin khalid says:
    June 4, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    so good thankyouuuuuu >3

    Reply
  48. Ihtasham ud din says:
    June 5, 2023 at 1:20 pm

    Team, streamio is a great platform.

    Reply
  49. Josh says:
    June 6, 2023 at 1:08 am

    Man, extremely grateful for always updating and adding new stuff on this already great app!

    Reply
  50. Nicolene says:
    June 6, 2023 at 9:06 am

    After the update the ExoPlayer keeps on crashing on Android TV 9. When loading a stream the screen will flash blue and sound of stream will play. Had to switch to external player (VLC) to watch movies/series

    Reply
  51. Thuy says:
    June 6, 2023 at 10:19 am

    When I’m on the Web Stremio, it doesn’t have any sound. Why does it happen?

    Reply
    1. Alex says:
      June 7, 2023 at 8:19 am

      Then you did not set a default external player in the settings. All audio tracks work when an external player is used.

      Reply
    2. Harshala says:
      June 22, 2023 at 5:08 pm

      Probably because it’s still a beta app in progress. Try reloading it.

      Reply
  52. Emre says:
    June 7, 2023 at 10:06 am

    That is an amazing approach but please can you maybe make it compatable with Lg tvs in the future ?

    Reply
  53. Jose says:
    June 7, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    I really enjoy this app but why android tv app uses 261mb of storage . I couldn’t update the app from play store and kept getting error messages until I deleted some cache from others apps and uninstalled other apps. I use Google TV 4k. stremio version 1.5.8 com.stremio.one (it’s the app that uses more storage from my apps by far)

    Reply
  54. Dys says:
    June 8, 2023 at 6:43 am

    Color theme options PLEASE

    Reply
  55. Andrew says:
    June 8, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    I want to thank the whole team that has made this wonderful app possible. Good job guys

    Reply
  56. byodzyos says:
    June 9, 2023 at 11:09 am

    Thank you for what you’re doing, always supporting you, STREMIO

    Reply
  57. Alex says:
    June 10, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Well done! Would an Apple TV app be in the works? 😀

    Reply
  58. Anno says:
    June 11, 2023 at 5:59 pm

    Stremio Web was working GREAT till today. It suddenly says “Video is not supported.” Server says its online. MacOS Ventura 13.0.

    Reply
  59. anon says:
    June 13, 2023 at 1:12 pm

    I LOVE YOU – keep doing what u r doing, there are people around the world that u actually changing their lives

    Reply
  60. Luana says:
    June 14, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    Hey guys. Stremio hasn’t been working here for 2 days now. I’m from Brazil and when I open it, it almost instantly shuts down by itself. I already downloaded it again but the problem persists.
    I appreciate any help someone could give me. Thanks.

    Reply
  61. jmaxe says:
    June 15, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    Thank you guys you’re awesome!

    Reply
  62. Brett S. says:
    June 16, 2023 at 12:30 am

    Love the app! Thanks to everyone who has worked on it and keep up the great work!

    Reply
  63. Dr Blu3 says:
    June 24, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    awesome job guys, keep up the good work, really wish we could have a download button tho

    Reply
  64. me says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:46 am

    constantly crashing on windows 11 . usually when trying to go full screen mode. AMD based pc

    Reply
  65. Ben says:
    June 25, 2023 at 7:43 pm

    when update for the pc clients? it needs serious UI overhaul, and better joystick/gamepad support. Least i wanted is at least looked like the TV one but has more desktop Amazon prime looks and a little more customizable like Kodi, just for an idea

    Reply
  66. Fred says:
    June 25, 2023 at 7:54 pm

    so when is the Stremio desktop be updated and has the same features and UI as the web version? i personally prefer desktop app variants since alot more versatile and has close to tray features. Please make it soon like the web version, or at least make a web app inside the desktop build.

    Reply
  67. Abdullah Ashour says:
    June 27, 2023 at 12:53 am

    Update is great thanks so much for the effort and the team. since the Stremio app is back on android & google TV’s i bought a Chromecast device solely to have stremio on my s95b TV. Here are some of finds i dug during my use. App works like magic, but the Frame rate match is a bit sluggish sometimes. it locks the chromecast to 24p at all times sometimes that is if the Framerate option from the chromecast settings is set to seamless. Secondly i found that a caching option is a bit necessary for large torrent files such as 4k hdr10+, i do get 4mb/s down for a bit then it drops down and just before its gonna buffer it gets faster. I know that a lot of issues are introduced when caching is on however i think if 1gb caching is allowed it would fix a lot of streaming large files. Again Thank you so much for all the love you share via this amazing app an as appreciative community i hope my comments are put under consideration.

    Reply
  68. Stephen says:
    July 5, 2023 at 7:06 pm

    As of version 1.5.11, Stremio doesn’t have any sound. I’m using an Nvidia Shield Pro 2022. I checked all settings / tried everything but can not get it to work. Really is a Stremio issue. Please fix!

    Reply
  69. You says:
    July 5, 2023 at 9:27 pm

    No sound on many series on Stremio Web. Is it me or others have the same problem?
    I tried different browsers !

    Reply
  70. Oswaldo Bellido says:
    July 13, 2023 at 12:48 am

    Will Stremio Web work in LG TVs with WebOS? I’ll try it and let you know.

    Reply
  71. eleni says:
    July 16, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    Very nice. Congrats!

    Reply
  72. Alex M says:
    July 25, 2023 at 10:42 am

    Thank you for the hard work.

    Reply
  73. Marvin says:
    July 26, 2023 at 9:53 am

    Amazing developers, thank you so much

    Reply
  74. Luiz says:
    August 3, 2023 at 11:35 pm

    Is possible to can create an New option to user can set an “buffer Size” for Android tv app? I think of create an Size tô set starting in 100Mb to 1Gb cache Size (disabled By default) can be good and works well, because user can set it according to device…

    Os not possível return again The cache option as an New option “Buffer Size”?… I think and Believe can be very good! Please devs, see my ideia, think about it

    Reply
  75. Firoz says:
    August 4, 2023 at 8:56 am

    most of the video doesn’t work on mac os. i am using edge browser. seems like some codec issue

    Reply

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