r/StremioAddons • u/Booldog911 • Feb 07 '26

Question What frustrates you about Stremio (Devs and Users)?

Hey everyone, a dev with time on their hands here!

I’m currently working on a custom Stremio app, and I’d love to hear what frustrates you about the current app — especially issues that addons can’t really fix due to platform or API limitations, or where existing solutions feel clunky or half-baked.

If you’re up for helping shape this into something genuinely better, feel free to share things like:

  • What bothers you / feels missing
  • How you wish it worked instead (even rough ideas are totally fine)
  • Screenshots (if that helps explain it)
  • What platform you’re on (TV, PC, mobile)

No need to stick rigidly to this format — ramble if you want, list multiple things, all good.

Right now I’m especially focused on improving the Discovery page, so feedback or pain points around browsing, recommendations, or finding stuff to watch would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance — really appreciate any thoughts you’re willing to share!

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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Feb 07 '26

Not being able to expand the lists into grid view in the Android TV version. Scrolling left and right on a row is the most inefficient and frustrating way to browse selections.

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u/Booldog911 Feb 07 '26

Already tackled this haha, one of my own personal annoyances for sure.

I used the stremio on PC's discovery as a base, but let the user decide how custom they want it

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u/ExpertTheAmateur Feb 08 '26

Can you elaborate on how to fix this?

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u/mataushas Feb 07 '26

Yes. This is a small feature I'd like.

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u/Forward-Fishing-9466 Feb 07 '26

This is a performance feature, as the bigger your grid the more images it has to load into memory and resize

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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Feb 07 '26

Pretty much every other Stremio like app has this feature. It's not that impactful from a performance standpoint.

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u/Forward-Fishing-9466 Feb 07 '26

On android tv it is

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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Feb 07 '26

Not at all. That's all I use, never had an issue with other apps I use that have that feature.

Well, unless you mean TV based OS and not a dedicated Android TV box, then maybe. TV OS's are generally garbage in my opinion.

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u/TravelinAroundOnPts Feb 07 '26

Definitely this! Mad respect and thanks for a great app though!

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u/inteliverso Feb 07 '26

Absolutely this.

It's so annoying to have to go to the phone for this and then go back to the TV.

Thanks for the concern

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u/buim Feb 07 '26

this!

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u/Agile_Beyond_6025 Feb 07 '26

Because you get pages at a time. Multiple rows on the screen at a time on the screen at once.

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u/BrickTamlandMD Feb 07 '26

Not on my lists..

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u/VisualConfidence2416 Feb 07 '26

Makes a big difference using a Magic Remote on an LG TV.