Official Kodi Remote: iPhone vs Android
Official Kodi Remote gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Official Kodi Remote by Kodi Foundation is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Rating
3.7 ★
342k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#21
Android · 
Video Players & Editors Free
Video Players & Editors FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
520480364
Publisher
Kodi Foundation
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
May 2012
14 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 12.0+
iPhone 5s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
22
AF BS CA HR CS NL EN FI FR GL DE ID …
Size
22 MB
Google Play
App details
App ID
org.xbmc.kodi
Publisher
Kodi Foundation
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Official Kodi Remote downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | – | – |
| Google Play | 5k+ | 50M+ Measured |
| Total | 5k+ Confidence | 50M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
iPhone: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Official Kodi Remote's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.4 ★ | 405 |
| Google Play | 3.7 ★ | 342k 24k written reviews |
| Both stores | 3.7 ★ weighted by ratings | 342k |
What users say about Official Kodi Remote
From the 100 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mostly negative (38% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for working reliably, and speed. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Crashes & bugs: “crashed now and or black screens android 13 oneplus nord”
- Speed & performance: “iek problem slow install from Google”
- Useful: “Excellent app works perfectly”
- Privacy & data: “enable special app access in settings or crash, if you just try to use the old way it will say permission denied”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “library function not working”
- Updates: “please update it and fix it soon”
- Speed & performance
- Design: “Also the UI is cheap and outdated with confusion”
About Official Kodi Remote
Official Kodi Remote is a full-featured remote control for Kodi Media Center.
It features library browsing, now playing informations and a direct remote control.
Features
- Control Kodi's volume
- Manage multiple Kodi instances
- Browse, search and sort your library
- Access your favorites
- Live view of currently playing playlist
- Displays music cover art where available
- Displays movie poster and actor thumbs where available
- Displays details for albums, artists, movies, TV shows and more
- Play and queue albums, songs, movies, genre selections and much more
– Switch to live TV channels and trigger or play recordings on your PVR setup
- Access and change settings of Kodi Media Center
- Browse files directly
- Clean and refresh your library
- Supports iOS Darkmode
... and much more!
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Please note
Supported Versions are: Kodi/XBMC version Eden (11) or higher
Additional actions can be accessed by long pressing items and remote control buttons.
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It features library browsing, now playing informations and a direct remote control.
Features
- Control Kodi's volume
- Manage multiple Kodi instances
- Browse, search and sort your library
- Access your favorites
- Live view of currently playing playlist
- Displays music cover art where available
- Displays movie poster and actor thumbs where available
- Displays details for albums, artists, movies, TV shows and more
- Play and queue albums, songs, movies, genre selections and much more
– Switch to live TV channels and trigger or play recordings on your PVR setup
- Access and change settings of Kodi Media Center
- Browse files directly
- Clean and refresh your library
- Supports iOS Darkmode
... and much more!
------------------------------------------------------------
Please note
Supported Versions are: Kodi/XBMC version Eden (11) or higher
Additional actions can be accessed by long pressing items and remote control buttons.
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Official Kodi Remote iPhone
Official Kodi Remote gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperKodi Foundation
CategoryUtilities
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (405)
Version1.19.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
22 Oct 2026
22 Oct 2026Rating
4.4 ★
405 ratings
Measured
Official Kodi Remote on the App Store
App details
App ID
520480364
Publisher
Kodi Foundation
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
May 2012
14 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 12.0+
iPhone 5s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
22
AF BS CA HR CS NL EN FI FR GL DE ID …
Size
22 MB
Official Kodi Remote downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Official Kodi Remote's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
405 ratings
Measured
Ratings
405
Measured
About Official Kodi Remote
Official Kodi Remote is a full-featured remote control for Kodi Media Center.
It features library browsing, now playing informations and a direct remote control.
Features
- Control Kodi's volume
- Manage multiple Kodi instances
- Browse, search and sort your library
- Access your favorites
- Live view of currently playing playlist
- Displays music cover art where available
- Displays movie poster and actor thumbs where available
- Displays details for albums, artists, movies, TV shows and more
- Play and queue albums, songs, movies, genre selections and much more
– Switch to live TV channels and trigger or play recordings on your PVR setup
- Access and change settings of Kodi Media Center
- Browse files directly
- Clean and refresh your library
- Supports iOS Darkmode
... and much more!
------------------------------------------------------------
Please note
Supported Versions are: Kodi/XBMC version Eden (11) or higher
Additional actions can be accessed by long pressing items and remote control buttons.
------------------------------------------------------------
It features library browsing, now playing informations and a direct remote control.
Features
- Control Kodi's volume
- Manage multiple Kodi instances
- Browse, search and sort your library
- Access your favorites
- Live view of currently playing playlist
- Displays music cover art where available
- Displays movie poster and actor thumbs where available
- Displays details for albums, artists, movies, TV shows and more
- Play and queue albums, songs, movies, genre selections and much more
– Switch to live TV channels and trigger or play recordings on your PVR setup
- Access and change settings of Kodi Media Center
- Browse files directly
- Clean and refresh your library
- Supports iOS Darkmode
... and much more!
------------------------------------------------------------
Please note
Supported Versions are: Kodi/XBMC version Eden (11) or higher
Additional actions can be accessed by long pressing items and remote control buttons.
------------------------------------------------------------
Latest updates
1.19.1
Changes:
- Fix crash when deleting active server from list
- Small translation update
Beta-testers are welcome to join TestFlight! Please follow us on https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=193
Kodi Android
Kodi gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Kodi is #95 in Video Players & Editors Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 16 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperKodi Foundation
CategoryVideo Players & Editors
PriceFree
Released
Installs50M+
Rating★ 3.7 (342k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
3.7 ★
342k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#95
Video Players & Editors FreeMeasured
Kodi on Google Play
App details
App ID
org.xbmc.kodi
Publisher
Kodi Foundation
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Everyone
Kodi downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Kodi's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
On Android app stores
The same app (org.xbmc.kodi) on every Android store we track. Known Android installs: at least 51M (Google Play band + AppGallery count).
| Store | Installs | Rating | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Play | 50,000,000+ | ★ 3.7 (342k) | 21.2 | Open ↗ |
| Huawei AppGallery | 1M | – | 20.1 | Open ↗ |
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Video Players & EditorsFree | #95 |
| Spain | Video Players & EditorsFree | #21 |
 United Kingdom | Video Players & EditorsFree | #68 |
 Germany | Video Players & EditorsFree | #72 |
 Italy | Video Players & EditorsFree | #38 |
 France | Video Players & EditorsFree | #62 |
 Australia | Video Players & EditorsFree | #58 |
 Japan | Video Players & EditorsFree | #197 |
 Netherlands | Video Players & EditorsFree | #23 |
 Canada | Video Players & EditorsFree | #65 |
 Russia | Video Players & EditorsFree | #59 |
 Brazil | Video Players & EditorsFree | #124 |
 Sweden | Video Players & EditorsFree | #41 |
 Taiwan | Video Players & EditorsFree | #109 |
 Vietnam | Video Players & EditorsFree | #86 |
 Turkey | Video Players & EditorsFree | #180 |
Apps near Kodi on the chart
Video Players & Editors Free, around #95.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
3.7 ★
342k ratings
Measured
Ratings
342k
Measured
Written reviews
24k
Measured
What users say about Kodi
From the 100 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mostly negative (38% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for working reliably, and speed. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Crashes & bugs: “crashed now and or black screens android 13 oneplus nord”
- Speed & performance: “iek problem slow install from Google”
- Useful: “Excellent app works perfectly”
- Privacy & data: “enable special app access in settings or crash, if you just try to use the old way it will say permission denied”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “library function not working”
- Updates: “please update it and fix it soon”
- Speed & performance
- Design: “Also the UI is cheap and outdated with confusion”
About Kodi
Kodi® media center is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). It uses a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.
IMPORTANT:
The official Kodi version does not contain any content what so ever. This means that you should provide your own content from a local or remote storage location, DVD, Blu-Ray or any other media carrier that you own. Additionally Kodi allows you to install third-party plugins that may provide access to content that is freely available on the official content provider website. Any other means of watching illegal content which would otherwise be paid for is not endorsed or approved by Team Kodi.
Estuary is the new standard skin and is designed to be fast and user friendly.
With the skin Estouchy, Kodi has now been enhanced to better work with larger 5" or up phones and tablets. Kodi is not designed or recommended for use with smaller phones.
Disclaimer:
- Kodi does not supply or include any media or content.
- Users must provide their own content or install one of the third party plug-ins
- Kodi has no affiliation with any third-part plug-in or add-on provider what so ever.
- We do not endorse the streaming of copyright protected material without permission of the copyright holder.
- In order to upgrade from a previous version you must have installed an official released version by Team Kodi. Any other version may cause failure to upgrade.
License and development:
Kodi® is a trademark of the XBMC Foundation. For further details you can visit http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Trademark_Policy
Kodi® is fully Open-Source and released under the GPLv2.0+ license. It includes many third-party libraries which use compatible licenses. Due to the inclusion of some GPLv3.0 libraries the entire application becomes GPLv3.0 as binary.
Should you wish to help on future development you can do so by visiting our forum for further questions.
IMPORTANT:
The official Kodi version does not contain any content what so ever. This means that you should provide your own content from a local or remote storage location, DVD, Blu-Ray or any other media carrier that you own. Additionally Kodi allows you to install third-party plugins that may provide access to content that is freely available on the official content provider website. Any other means of watching illegal content which would otherwise be paid for is not endorsed or approved by Team Kodi.
Estuary is the new standard skin and is designed to be fast and user friendly.
With the skin Estouchy, Kodi has now been enhanced to better work with larger 5" or up phones and tablets. Kodi is not designed or recommended for use with smaller phones.
Disclaimer:
- Kodi does not supply or include any media or content.
- Users must provide their own content or install one of the third party plug-ins
- Kodi has no affiliation with any third-part plug-in or add-on provider what so ever.
- We do not endorse the streaming of copyright protected material without permission of the copyright holder.
- In order to upgrade from a previous version you must have installed an official released version by Team Kodi. Any other version may cause failure to upgrade.
License and development:
Kodi® is a trademark of the XBMC Foundation. For further details you can visit http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Trademark_Policy
Kodi® is fully Open-Source and released under the GPLv2.0+ license. It includes many third-party libraries which use compatible licenses. Due to the inclusion of some GPLv3.0 libraries the entire application becomes GPLv3.0 as binary.
Should you wish to help on future development you can do so by visiting our forum for further questions.
What's new in 21.2
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-2-omega-release/
Full list of changes can be viewed at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/21.2-Omega
Full list of changes can be viewed at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/21.2-Omega
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