History
Yatse for Android was born in the end of 2011 and first present in Google Play Store in early 2012.
It was the successor of Yatse for Windows created in early 2010 and now Open Source with continued development as FrontView+ (https://github.com/Ghawken/FrontView).
Kore was born in early 2015 as a Yatse clone and only became "official" a few months later.
Yatse is currently rated 4.6 with about 77K ratings.
Kore is currently rated 4.1 with about 18K ratings.
Yatse have evolved a lot during it's long lifetime with more than 1.5 updates per month, each updates being driven by users need and feedback via multiple channels.
Kore have sparingly evolved with less than 1 update every 6 months.
All Kore features were always first seen in Yatse.
Yatse provides a lot more options and features to fit every needs, but everything is always made to provide all the basic needs at the highest performance while staying simple and easy for all use cases.
Every options have studied default values to prevent the need to ever touch settings if not wanting to.
Yatse paid features are all optional and Yatse is fully functional without ads and time limits. Paid features where added to allow providing monthly updates since 8 years and professional fast support for all. (On supported channels, Play Store comments will never be a support channel)
Yatse provides a complete Wiki with complete documentation and videos not only to configure Yatse but also for the more complex part Kodi.
Yatse provides fast professional support to all users via dedicated channels and tools like the issue tracker and performant debug logger. (Hint: Play Store comments are not for support)
Yatse is currently at 99,99% crash free sessions without known bugs, thanks to proper R.E.R.O. development principles. (Release Early, Release Often)
Yatse author have participated in Kodi JSON API definition and evolution with numerous patches and hundreds of hours of support in Kodi forums and Github.
All features not annotated with Pro version are free, fully functional and without limits. Everything is documented and explained in the Wiki section of this website.
| Yatse | Kore | Details | |
| Remote Control | 4 optimized layouts | 1 condensed layout | Prevent miss click and ease navigation without watching device. Different layouts fit different users habits. |
| Gesture pad | - | Faster navigation without looking at device | |
| Fast remote access | - | Swiping from outside right shows a remote panel to never interrupt your navigation flow | |
| Custom commands Pro version | - | Unlimited custom commands for fast access all possible features of Kodi + Media Player Classic (Documentation) Free version propose a limited set of non editable custom commands. More can be asked by contacting support. | |
| Secure remote | - | Secure mode to disable most buttons for kids remote (With password protected settings) | |
| Full virtual keyboard + paste function | Only paste | Support full virtual keyboard for faster text typing for those who prefers with direct access from the remote screen | |
| Physical keyboard emulation | - | Keymap mode to simulate real keyboard and trigger Kodi special keymap functions (Those functions can be directly used in Yatse via Custom Commands too) | |
| Remap remote buttons Pro version | - | Remap buttons to any custom command with custom icon to perfectly fit your needs (Up to 30 custom actions) (Documentation) | |
| Now playing | CEC compatible volume buttons | - | Allow control of volume in passthrough mode for compatible devices |
| Screen off volume control | - | Faster volume control without switching on the phone | |
| Volume control outside application | - | Faster volume control without returning to the application | |
| AV Receivers volume control Pro version | - | Control your AV receivers volume directly from Yatse via plugins for Yamaha, Onkyo, Integra, Denon, Marantz or UPnP receivers. (Including support for custom commands for example to switch on or off the receivers) | |
| Always accessible full now playing | Very few functions accessible | Allow full control from anywhere in the application to never stop your navigation flow | |
| Configurable buttons | - | Configure your most used buttons in the collapsed now playing panel | |
| Fast access to most audio settings | Limited functions requiring lot's of click | Direct fast control of audio stream, audio delay and volume amplification | |
| Fast access to most subtitle settings | Limited functions requiring lot's of click | Direct fast control of subtitle stream, subtitles delay, download and precise subtitle positioning | |
| Fast access to most video settings | - | Direct fast control of video stream, video speed (Atempo), aspect ratio, zoom, shift, 3D modes and pixel aspect ratio (Some options requires Kodi 17+) | |
| Song rating | - | Rate the song your are listening for a more personalized experience | |
| Reorder current playlist | - | No need to rebuild your full playlist if you have made a mistake | |
| Share to social networks | - | For those who like to show what they are doing | |
| PVR | Advanced channels listing | Basic listing | Fast and easy filtering, sorting and searching of the channels |
| EPG in channels lists | Only program name | Display full information about current and next programs directly in channel lists | |
| Full featured EPG | Limited EPG list | Show EPG in a calendar style view with full details about programs and easy viewing (With support for program timer recording) | |
| Support recording timers | - | Add, remove or list all your timers to be sure to record what you want when you want. (Require Kodi 17+) | |
| Configurable channel action | - | Configure your preferred action when clicking a channel like start playing or show EPG. | |
| Virtual keypad | - | Includes a virtual keypad to quickly enter channel numbers like on a physical remote | |
| Add-Ons | Complete addons listing | Basic listing | Fast and easy filtering, sorting and searching of the addons with different display types (list, grids, ...) |
| Favorite addons | - | Filter only the addons you use and love | |
| Favorite addon content | - | Save internal addon path as favorites for faster access to the content you use most | |
| Files | Advanced file listing | Basic listing | Fast and easy filtering, sorting and searching of your files with different display types (List, grids, ...) |
| Real files browsing | - | Support browsing your files like they are on your disk and not how Kodi have scraped them | |
| Sort your files | - | Sort your files by 10 different criteria both ascending and descending | |
| Kodi playlists | - | Support Kodi playlist with necessary hacks to play them on all Kodi versions | |
| Kodi database and custom nodes | - | Allows browsing your data using the nodes you created | |
| Favorites | - | Allow adding files and directory to Yatse favorites for fast access | |
| Picture viewer | - | Include a complete picture viewer synchronized with Kodi for zooming and changing images | |
| Library | Advanced library display | Basic library display | Support up to 10 different display modes from simple list to detailed grid, fanarts or banners to fully enjoy your data like you meant it to be. (Demo video) |
| Advanced sorting | Basic sorts | Support all the sorting you want both ascending and descending, with quick filters like in progress media | |
| Full offline cache | Offline cache | Provide full image offline cache with pre fetching to be sure to have your complete library when offline | |
| Advanced personal audio mix | - | Provide personalized music experience with automatic mixes based your preferences. | |
| Custom and smart playlists Pro version | - | You can create any number of playlists or smart playlists. | |
| Advanced media download Pro version | Basic media download | Complete integrated media download with all management and playing available directly from inside the application including support for external subtitles and with easy filtering to only see your offline media when not connected | |
| Smart Sync Pro version | - | Configurable automated download/remove of episodes and music from device offline cache, to always have episodes to watch offline (or music to listen to), without the fear of forgetting to download or lack of space | |
| Full support of all Kodi versions new metadata and functions | Limited support | Yatse always support the old and latest Kodi version with necessary workarounds to ensure a smooth always working experience Feature list | |
| Resume media | - | Continue watching your media where you stopped them | |
| Watch trailers | - | Watch media trailers on your device or on Kodi | |
| Smart filters Pro version | - | Filter your collection with any combination of filters like all movies with rating > 5 and year > 2000 with actor Brad Pitt (Demo video) | |
| Global search | - | Search for media in your whole collection from a single point | |
| Actor browsing | - | List all shows / movies by actor | |
| Swipe browsing | - | When watching a media detail you can swipe left / right to switch to the other media from your selection without the need to go back and forth each time | |
| Overview tabs | - | Quickly see your collection status with unfinished media, recently added or even suggestions to what to watch / listen next (Completely configurable) | |
| Home section | - | Complete overview of all your library in a single point showing all the important things at one glance (Completely configurable) | |
| Special seasons / episodes | - | Can show special episodes in normal listing if they have the proper meta data | |
| Collection grouping | - | Support grouping movies by collection in main movie listing | |
| Advanced music navigation | - | Propose lot's of way to navigate in your music collection including full support for compilation artists and guest appearance (Require Kodi 17+ for the last 2) | |
| No spoiler | - | Have a no spoiler option to never be spoiled by a movie or episode plot before watching | |
| Favorites | - | Allows you to define favorites media for faster browsing of your collection. | |
| Multi selection | - | Support selecting multiple media with long press to apply multiple actions in batch like playing, queuing or downloading | |
| Queue next | - | Allows media to be played, queued and queued next to fully drive your current playlist | |
| Stream | All streaming points requires Pro version (Demo video) | - | Allows streaming and cast from and to many different things with advanced features. |
| Complete advanced streaming | Very limited video playing to local device | Allow streaming from Kodi, Plex and Emby to Local device, Chromecast, Kodi, UPnP clients, Roku, FireTv, Airplay (Including resuming, external subtitles, switch to UPnP for Kodi webserver issues all with proper handling and documentation for necessary Kodi settings and issues) | |
| Complete cast | - | Allow casting from your local device to Chromecast, Kodi, UPnP clients, Roku, FireTv, Airplay (Including external subtitles) | |
| Streaming migration | - | Allow migrating what you are watching from any supported player to any other player including remaining playlist | |
| External subtitles | - | Support external subtitles when streaming or casting to all players that support them | |
| Audio player | - | Advanced internal audio player with support for gapless playback and many audio codecs. (Can play media from all supported sources like Kodi, Plex, Emby or your local device) Advanced audio book features, like song / album / playlist resuming and audio player speed. | |
| Status update | - | Update your media center watched status and resume point when streaming or casting your media. Including when watching them offline, the status will be updated when connected back | |
| Play offline | - | Full integration with Yatse offline cache for easy playing or casting when offline including updating watched status on reconnexion and external subtitles | |
| Other | 7 themes + variations Pro version | 5 themes | 7 full material design themes with unlimited accent color selection made by Liam Spradlin, a recognized designer that now works for Google. (Free version is limited to 1 theme and 3 accent color) Support automatic day/night toggling. |
| Call handling | Call handling | Support pausing media and caller id display on Kodi (provided as a plugin to avoid requesting a permission that should not be needed for just a remote) Play Store | |
| SMS handling | - | Support forwarding SMS to Kodi (provided as a plugin to avoid requesting a permission that should not be needed for just a remote) Play Store | |
| Notification handling | - | Support forwarding notifications to Kodi (provided as a plugin to avoid requesting a permission that should not be needed for just a remote) Play Store | |
| Settings for every needs | Very few settings for simplicity | Provides lots of settings to fit all users needs but with carefully chosen default values to fit the majority's needs and never requiring to mess with them (Documentation) | |
| Complete send to Kodi | Limited sharing | Support sending Youtube to Kodi as Kore but also hundreds of other sites via a dedicated Kodi plugin, including support for metadata, no more ?play entries in playlist when you queue Youtube videos. With Pro version you can also send all your phone content or from other apps that support that | |
| Phone wallpaper | - | Allow changing your phone wallpaper with the currenly playing media fanart or thumbnail | |
| Widgets | - | Propose 11 different widgets to browse and control everything without the need to open the application (Description) | |
| Quick settings tile | - | Propose 3 different Android 7.1 quick settings tile for fast access | |
| Android Wear | - | Full support of Android Wear with a companion application | |
| Android Audio | - | Full support of Android Auto | |
| Media Player Classic | - | Full support of MPC and MPC HC as external players on Kodi | |
| Muzei / DashClock | - | Provides extensions for Muzei and DashClock | |
| Android 8, 9, 10, ... | - | Full support of Android 8 notification channels and application shortcuts Support seeking from notification on Android 10+. Always updated to support all the new Android features. | |
| Voice commands | - | Natural voice commands. Play media by saying for example "Play the next episode of the Simpsons" (Documentation) | |
| API | - | Provides a complete API to allow other applications like Tasker to interact with Yatse and Kodi (Documentation). Pro version provides a Tasker plugin for easier API usage | |
| Plugins API | - | Provides open sources API to allow any one to build AV receiver and Custom Commands plugins to extends Yatse (AV receiver plugins, Custom commands plugins) | |
| HTTP commands | - | Support http(s) commands directly from Yatse for integration with home automation (Documentation) | |
| DHCP hosts | - | Support reconnecting to hosts that change IP if Zeroconf is correctly working | |
| Settings export Pro version | - | Support exporting settings and hosts to files / QR code for easy migration | |
| Cloud Save Pro version | - | Support exporting settings, hosts and custom commands to the cloud for easy restoration and device migration (Documentation) | |
| Emby server Pro version | - | Full native support for Emby server as Media Center including transcoding and media downloading | |
| Jellyfin server Pro version | - | Full native support for Jellyfin server as Media Center including transcoding and media downloading | |
| Plex server Pro version | - | Full native support for Plex server as Media Center including transcoding and media downloading | |
| Kodi remote starter | - | Provide tools to start Kodi remotely directly from Yatse. (Including an optimized full low price app for Android box / Shield) |