Kodi
Kodi is an open-source media center for Mac that lets you organize and play local or networked video, music, photos, and streamed media.
What is Kodi?
Kodi is a native media center application for macOS that helps users play, organize, and browse video, music, podcasts, and photos from local storage, home servers, and network shares. It is designed for people who want a full-screen living-room style media experience on a Mac connected to a display, TV, or audio system. Kodi includes a library interface for movies, TV shows, music, and images, with support for metadata, artwork, playlists, subtitles, and remote control options. Users commonly install it to manage personal media collections, access network media sources, and customize playback with skins and add-ons. It supports many common media formats and can work with keyboard, mouse, remotes, and companion remote apps. Kodi is published by Kodi Foundation and is widely used as a flexible entertainment app across desktop and home theater setups.
Key features
- Play video, music, podcasts, and photo libraries in one interface
- Organize movies, TV shows, and music with artwork and metadata
- Browse media from local drives, network shares, and home servers
- Use subtitles, playlists, and library views for easier playback
- Customize the interface with skins and community add-ons
- Control playback with remotes, keyboards, and companion remote apps
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Kodi is legitimate open-source media center software. Its normal behavior on Mac is consistent with a media player and library app, including access to folders you choose for local or network media. Use extra care with third-party add-ons or unofficial repositories, because they can introduce privacy, security, or legal risks that are separate from the Kodi app itself. If you only use trusted media sources and well-known add-ons, the app's permissions and behavior are generally proportionate to its purpose.
Recommendation: Keep Kodi if you use your Mac for local or network media playback, library management, or a TV-style media center setup. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app and then clean up its support files to recover space, but doing so may erase your library settings, add-ons, and interface customizations.
Common paths
/Applications/Kodi.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/org.xbmc.kodi
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Kodi
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/org.xbmc.kodi.plist
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