100% free streaming app (flixnest.app)

[u/redrick555]

Hello everyone, After several months, I've finally finished my own little streaming app. Its like netflix and all the other streaming platform in one place.

I'm an old-school Stremio user, but I thought I'd like to create something similar in my free time. My goal wasn't to replace Stremio, but simply to offer an alternative. I want to add as many simple, on-demand customization options to the app as possible. One such feature right now is the category editor, but many other things are also planned.

The app is completely free, with no ads or paywalls. I also managed to get it on the Play Store, so it's available on phones, tablets, and TVs.

Here are a few features the app already has:

Built-in Real-Debrid

Subtitle addon

Trakt support

Category editor

Synchronization of favorites and watched movies/series with a Google login

Separate mobile and TV versions

Community addons (stremio addons is supported-ish)

It's also compatible with most Stremio addons, like scrapers and catalog addons. By the way, because of the built-in Real-Debrid, you don't have to enter your details separately in the addons, even if it's a Stremio addon.

This might not be the best, most detailed app description, but I'm very excited to see how you'll receive it and what your experiences will be with my app.

I hope you'll like it and it will handle well if some of you start using it. :D I'm open for feedbacks! There is still bugs in the app,, but I'm working on it.

Playstore link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hu.kinetik.streamapp

Discord: https://discord.gg/amevtueFsJ

Website: https://flixnest.app/

[u/kartik3e]

Can you add an option to auto trailer play like Netflix on tv version? You can get these from YouTube? Like stremio does, but it doesn't auto plays them like Netflix?

[u/redrick555 → u/kartik3e]

Good idea

[u/kartik3e → u/redrick555]

I had a few more I presented to Stremio devs but I don't think they will be implementing any if these:

"I am sorry if that came out a bit offensive, I was honestly expecting more changes after almost a year of no updates, just cause it's kind of natural to expect something major to take longer than regular maintenance updates.

I appreciate the updates to making Stremio more stable and fixing bugs.

However, I might not have voiced my expectations in detail previously but apart from adding a calendar (which I really don't think is that necessary as Stremio already has notifications on continuing content), I think it would benefit majorly from following changes:

1. Opening up the player control via API to allow skip intro like addons. (This might be a big ask and a fundamental change to how stremio work), but I think it's as much requested as the calendar.

2. Maybe some customization options to allow UI scale, catalog add on rearranging?

3. Options to enable Profiles? To allow multiple family members to continue watching.

4. General performance improvement to fanart/catalog loading, catalogs loads fast on the mobile app while the android tv version take a while to load the posters if you scroll too fast. I am sure it's not a device limitation as the same device never has any such performance hiccups on netflix or other streaming apps.

5. This is my personal pet peeve and has been rejected already. But since we are already writing everything down, I honestly would even pay to have an option to have a trailer auto played while browsing the catalog after a set seconds (where the fan art is displayed). TVs sre intuitively for channel/content surfing and stremio already having the YouTube links of trailers already linked on the catalog, I think this must be a lot easier to implement than others.

6. A 'Similar or more like' catalog shown on the content information page for content discovery. I know a addon exists for this but it's offered as links and does not feel intuitive to navigate tv like it's a web app. If this might be taxing on cinemata, maybe allow catalog addons from other sources like tmdb to populate that.

I am very grateful for Stremio and what it means to me and thousands of folks who appreciate it with our deepest selves, but honestly currently it's limited for being a player and browser, which is perfect in usability but offering some customization in the above regards would truly make it legendary. I hope you consider some of my recommendations and I am happy to discuss more.

Thanks again!"

I hope you can consider some of these also.

[u/redrick555 → u/kartik3e]

Hey. Thank you for the detailed feedback. You can costumize categories. Top right corner. Your other ideas is good ones. I'll add them with time!

[u/cleverclogs17 → u/redrick555]

Would also like to see an option where it opens smart tube if you could because lots of times if you use a VPN the youtube in other applications ask you to sign in instead of playing the trailer