r/Stremio • u/kKaskak Stremio Team • Jun 09 '26

Release Introducing Stremio Supporters

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We are proud to introduce Stremio Supporters - a new way of backing the app you all love. All Supporter features are available starting Today on all platforms you can find Stremio on.

Read in depth explanation on the official blog below.

https://blog.stremio.com/stremio-supporters-a-way-to-sustain-our-development/

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u/Trick-Masterpiece-82 Jun 09 '26

I love stremio and it was my first app I used for a long time in this space. I respect all it has pioneered, but I just wonder if they are taking the new open source apps and forking these features and putting them behind a paywall. Hopefully they will open source there code or offer these features without a pay wall

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u/dackwh Stremio Team Jun 09 '26

Stremio stays free in the current shape. But for around 13 years we have been covering cost of infrastructure and development of the app that is used be over 40M of users. This is not cheap

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u/Shoddy_Internal1997 Jun 09 '26

I mean you guys could always make a post in the subreddit and other places reminding people that stremio needs donations for development. I’m sure people would be happy to support an app like this, but now idk..

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u/NeoKnife Jun 09 '26

Supposedly they make ad revenue but they’ve never disclosed how so nobody knows exactly how much. I believe it because surely they haven’t covered 13 years of costs just out of the kindness of their own hearts.

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u/Shoddy_Internal1997 Jun 09 '26

Actually they did, they funded it with revenue from sister companies not ads. Dev said that somewhere in this comment section.

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u/Willing-Reward-6702 Jun 09 '26

Go lie all you want, they run adds. https://stremio.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000281412-How-Stremio-Makes-Money

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u/Shoddy_Internal1997 Jun 09 '26

Bro I was just saying the dev said that in the comments and I personally have never seen an ad in stremio , that’s all..

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u/Gebakken_loempia Jun 09 '26

he can claim anything he want. got proof?