@kyronis_talks: Two Bulgarian friends killed the entire streaming industry. It's called Stremio + Torrentio. You get 4K content from Ne…
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Stremio and Torrentio are open-source tools that enable free 4K streaming from multiple services, offering an alternative to paid subscriptions and disrupting the traditional streaming industry.
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Two Bulgarian friends killed the entire streaming industry.
It’s called Stremio + Torrentio. You get 4K content from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max combined for free.
Here’s how it works.
Stremio is the player. Clean interface. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and TV. You install it once and it looks like any other streaming app.
Torrentio is the addon. You add it to Stremio in one click. It scrapes content from every major torrent provider on the internet simultaneously and delivers the best available stream directly to your player. 720p, 1080p, 4K. You pick the quality. It finds the link.
→ No account required → No subscription → Works on every device → 4K and HDR supported → Subtitles built in
Netflix cannot shut this down. There is no central server to seize. No company to pressure. No domain to kill. It runs on your device and pulls from the open internet.
The entire streaming industry is built on one assumption. That you will keep paying $70/month rather than spend 5 minutes on GitHub.
That assumption just died in Sofia, Bulgaria.
MIT License. 100% Opensource.
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-web…
Get the addon here: http://stremio-addons.com/torrentio.html
Stremio/stremio-web
Source: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-web
Stremio Web
Freedom to Stream — the official web UI of Stremio, a modern media center that’s a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.
🌐 Open the Web App · Website · Report a bug
✨ Features
- 🧩 Addon-powered — discover movies, series and channels from catalogs provided by addons
- 🔄 Sync everywhere — your library and Continue Watching follow your Stremio account across devices
- 📺 Casting — play on the big screen via Chromecast
- 💬 Subtitles — addon-provided or local, with customizable styling
- ⌨️ Keyboard-first player — full playback control without touching the mouse
- 🌍 50+ languages — community-translated via stremio-translations
- 📱 Installable — runs as a standalone PWA
📸 Screenshots
| Discover | Meta Details |
|---|---|
🛠 How it works
The UI (this repo) is a React app, but the brains live in stremio-core — Stremio’s Rust engine compiled to WebAssembly and running in a Web Worker. The UI renders state, the core computes it. Playback goes through stremio-video, which picks the right player implementation for the environment.
flowchart LR
UI["React UI<br>(this repo)"] <--> Core["stremio-core<br>Rust → WASM, Web Worker"]
Core <--> API["Stremio API"]
Core <--> Addons["Addons"]
UI --> Video["stremio-video"]
🚀 Getting started
You’ll need Node.js 22+ and pnpm 11+.
pnpm install
pnpm start
The dev server runs at http://localhost:8080.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
pnpm start | Development server with hot reload |
pnpm run start-prod | Development server in production mode |
pnpm run build | Production build |
pnpm test | Run tests |
pnpm run lint | Lint the source |
pnpm run scan-translations | Check for missing translation keys |
🐳 Docker
docker build -t stremio-web .
docker run -p 8080:8080 stremio-web
🤝 Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome — good first issue is a great place to start. Want Stremio in your language? Contribute to stremio-translations. Please read the Code of Conduct first.
🧩 Ecosystem
| Repository | What it is |
|---|---|
| stremio-core | Rust engine: state, addon protocol, library, sync |
| stremio-video | Video player abstraction used by this UI |
| stremio-translations | Community translations |
| stremio-addon-sdk | Build your own addon in Node.js |
💬 Community
Website · Blog · Reddit · X · Help center
📄 License
Copyright © 2017-2026 Smart Code OOD. Released under the GPL-2.0 license — see LICENSE.
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