Kore, Official Remote for Kodi

Great app for controlling multiple kodi boxes. One slight problem though, once you cue multiple tv shows, movies, or albums/songs, you cannot rearrange them. So you need to be sure you put them into the cue in the order you want or you'll have to start over from the beginning. Just a small bug, but one that needs to be fixed. Will rewrite review once bug is fixed.

So I've been using Kore for quite some time. It's been fantastic for everything I've needed it for. The only complaint I have is recently on Android Pie. The audio/subtitle quick button is gone. Where did it go? I used to be able to select and download subtitles as well as adjust subtitle offsets very quickly within Kore. Thanks so much! Edit: Absolutely correct in your answer. After using it more i realized that it does show up eventually and it does seem to be tied to the connection quality.

I like this, very handy and I love a graphical remote. I would suggest 2 improvements though.... 1) when not playing, to be able to browse the media files on the app, so I can pick and play without needing the TV on, or even be in the same room. 2) the option of hearing the audio files through the remote. Odd one I know, but I use the phone for audio more than visual, with files stored on a PC, and this app is basicallu 90% of the way there. Keep up the excellant work! :) :)

This app is so awesome and useful it almost defies description. With it I finally have a phone app that I can control a music player with at home into which I've integrated MusicIP mix technology and and it's beautiful and sweet. Still there are a few things that separate this app at present from perfection: 1) If I search my library for music to play, and then play a song and build a mix, and go to the remote control, then come back to search, the library search is reset. Aaargh. This lack of memory is the greatest frustration that has me trying other Kodi remote apps out. I spend ages homing in on an album I want to sample I try a song, and come back and I have to start again .. 2) It lacks any clear means of rating music that's playing. I want to be able to rate a song I hear say 1-5 stars and then be able to find songs by rating. TO be honest I haven't even worked out how to coax that out of Kodi yet let alone Kore. But man if Kore had this it would be another step toward perfection. 3) Lack of a Lyrics display. Kodi has a Lyric add on that display a best effort at lyrics of a playing song. It is pretty cool. Shazam can do same for me and technically I can shazam the danged song that's playing but wow, is that a round about way of doing things. Basically if there were an option to display lyrics in Kore, yet again one step closer to perfection! These three things would move me to a 5+* rating for the app, unable to sing its praises far and wide enough. As it is its' rocking awesome but has these little frustrations at the cusp of what it might offer.

Not satisfied. Remote keeps on disconnecting when something is playing on Kodi. Network is highly optimized. On same machine, VLC Player with its remote works extremely well. Don't know why connection keeps dropping on this one. Shame, looks well though. Full of features. Really. I would like to edit, and point out one thing as a response to XBMC. I have three android phones on the network. Of those three, two of them works fine, one that is running android 9 has issues mentioned above.

Good app. 2 suggestions: 1: Make the remote control buttons scalable so they show bigger on bigger screens, and move them up -- there's a ton of unused screen real estate there and it would work better for most users if the controls were centralized instead of being at the bottom. 2: Most of us have VPNs. So it would make sense to make it possible to use this app alongside VPNs. I suspect this is possible as is, but not easily. Thanks for your efforts/ consideration.

Great app, however it did have, in my experience, a bit of a learning curve. Due to modern device widths, the remote control positioning nowadays feels a bit small, meaning I often found myself pressing the wrong buttons several times. Networking-wise, despite other reviews, I found no connection issues using the app, having Kodi installed on a desktop Debian-based Linux system. Commands felt really responsive and quick. Overall, great app, but needs minor design improvements to really stand out

Lost the TV remote. With a bit of fiddling and set up I can use my phone instead. And my phone has search! Sometimes gets confused about what the Kodi instance is doing, but a close and restart fixes that. Recommend.

Great app for my OSMC I'm loving it. The only issue I find is it's slow to enable subtitles embedded in videos and it takes long at times to show movie length just in case I want to skip to a certain point. The app can't access my Local Files even though I allowed the app to have acces to storage. May you please fix the issue with Local Files.

thanks for that the app is great. actually,I have a little request adding a toggle on/off for local or remote playing in setting, then I am not necessary to press long on video to select locally playing every time when I want to play locally.

I've been using this app for many years and just decided to leave a review now I've built many htpc's in my tone for both myself and others, this is the go to app to control kodi. I have a lot of offline content and in time have learned the full potential of it's features. A static IP is recommended for those who drop connection every month or so.

I haven't been using this app to it's full potential the past few weeks. I didn't realise I could see all of my movies in one place, set playlists, read the synopses of the movies, same goes for tv shows. I was using it purely as a remote. Is that because I set an SQL server recently? Amazing.

Works fine if you have only one profile, if you switch to another profile then Kodi itself crashes. I have now lost all control of Kodi in the second profile. The actual TV remote control doesn't work anymore neither. Cannot exit the Kodi application at all, it is always running in its broken state in the background. This is quite a bad bug. This only begun since using configuring Kodi for this app.

Does not play folders of music in file browser. Will play albums from scanned library, but browsing folders only allows single files to be queued. Some of my collection isn't recognized by the library so it just doesn't show up. Being able to use folders would be helpful.

Can't seem to handle album cover thumbnails embedded in ID3 tags in my music files. About 70% seem to display, the rest won't, but they do on my Kodi main install on HTPC just fine. I hate flipping through my collection looking at giant letters where the album cover should be. I'll delete this app instead and look for a Kodi remote that gets thumbnails right.

Works perfectly. Dropping 1 star because of Uí, have P30 Pro but imagine it's the same for any larger phone where control buttons are at the bottom and therefore nowhere near where my thumb would be when holding the phone. Also my UI doesn't look like what is in the discription images?

When it works it works well. Basic but usable. When it forgets how to connect with my Kodi box, about every other time I use it, there's no obvious way to connect it and I have to clear the apps data in system settings to trigger the connect process. The usual level of incomplete thinking I'm used to in Kodi applied to Kore. At least they're consistently bad at usability ☹️

Very nice - when it works! Frequently fails to connect for no apparent reason (no settings changed). Wasted sufficient time on KORE that I may just give up on Kodi completely and try to find a working media centre product, as remote is an essential part.

It's ok. Happy that the sync and library updates can be done from the remote. But cannot seem to resume a show / movie from where I'd left, only option is to start from the beginning. And more often than not, the operation of the remote brings up menu items on the computer.

Worked great until Internet lost connection. Connection came 15 minutes later and now Kore is stuck at connecting. Reinstalled the app, restarted the phone, but still stuck on connecting. Seemed to become unusable. P. S. Fixed it myself. Apparently, IP changed and had to edit one digit in configuration. This is a common problem, so devs should've write about it somewhere, but they didn't and had to poke around myself until I found it.

Unusable with large music collections. Untested with video collections. After selecting an Artist, retrieving an album or song list results in an infinitely prolonged 'busy' icon being displayed. On the host, a Vero4K runing native OSMC, everything is instantaneous.

Slow and glitchy. Example: when I cast a video from YouTube it may take a few minutes before it starts playing and often it plays the wrong video - the one that it played the last time. Yatse works great - fast and no glitches

Really awesome frontend to one for multiple KODI servers. Gives access to almost all features of the backend. Nice gimmicks such as volume control via the phone's buttons. BTW, I really don't understand why some people write angry reviews and give only one star, when they only miss a single feature in the app (which is free and OSS!). Respect to the Kore team for responding to such moronic reviews in a polite manner.

Simple to set up and use. Integrates with multiple instances of kodi on a network and works beautifully. Allows management of every aspect of your media library and configuration. Excellent work by the developers, my hat comes off to you!

* the only problem I'm facing is that the app does not auto connect to Kodi on Android tv once it is paired. i have too delete the connection and add it again only then it works. * if there was an option to search the media of Kodi from Kore then it would be awesome.

Great app love it! Especially the pause on phone call. Only have on issue when I have the option to show over screen turned on where you can't go back to the lockscreen because the back button doesn't do anything.

unable to connect. nothing to do with firewall settings, public/private network conflicts, bonjour is installed and active for zconf, manual connections attempted multiple times, and yet still NOTHING. It sees my computer yet flatly will not connect to it. no password or port issues, no server name issues. SORT IT OUT

even with the manual set up it still won't work. I have looked at countless message boards, made sure all the settings were correct, nothing. it has nothing to do with my firewall either bc I went through that. trying to figure this out has been the biggest waste of my time

Remote works well. Problem is whenever i try to browse local files, the app says it doesnot have permission for storage access. I have given all permissions to the app, but no success.