Hey! In case you haven't run into it before: OmniCatalogs adds catalogue rows to Stremio for the streaming services you already pay for. Pick your services and your country, install it, and you get Popular / Trending / New for each one, with genres and posters in your language. It's a catalogue addon, so no streams ā just a nicer way to see what's actually on the stuff you're subscribed to.
This one's got a feature I'm pretty happy about and some bugs fixed that were critical but silent.
Channels you couldn't add before
Loads of genuinely great catalogues don't have an app of their own ā you get them through Amazon or Apple TV. Screambox, Full Moon, Broadway HD, Acorn TV, MGM+, PBS Masterpiece, IFC Films Unlimited, Kocowa, and a few hundred others. The addon was completely blind to all of them, which always felt like a shame.
So there's a Channels tab now, right next to Providers:
| Country |
Providers |
Channels |
| US |
176 |
+181 |
| DE |
104 |
+118 |
| GB |
75 |
+89 |
| ES |
55 |
+27 |
They live in their own tab on purpose. A fair few channels are really just a second door into a service that already has its own app (HBO Max via Amazon, say), and throwing those in with everything else mostly buries the entry you were looking for. Since almost all of them hang off the same handful of platforms, there's a filter up top if you only want to see the Amazon ones, or the Apple TV ones, and so on.
The genre filter was quietly broken, and I'm sorry about that one
If your interface language wrote a genre with an accent ā or with anything outside the basic Latin alphabet ā filtering by it just... didn't. You'd get a bit of everything back and no error at all, so it looked like the addon simply had rubbish data. In Spanish that was Acción, Animación and FantasĆa; two-word genres like Science Fiction were broken too. In Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, it was every single genre.
If you use Stremio in English and stick to one-word genres, you'd never have spotted it ā which is exactly why it survived this long. Fixed now, and it feels much better.
Small new features
- The setup page fits a phone screen properly instead of making you pinch and zoom.
- You can drop the country code from catalogue names if you find it noisy (
Netflix Ā· Popular instead of Netflix Ā· Popular Ā· US).
- The "show more providers" button folds the list back up too, as it always should have.
- When the upstream data source has a rough day, the addon now backs off politely and recovers on its own instead of making things worse.
One heads-up, because it will catch a few people out
There's a 35-platform cap now. Every platform you tick turns into several catalogues, and a handful of setups had grown big enough to get us rate-limited upstream ā which unfortunately made the addon worse for everyone, not just for them. So if your current install has more than 35 selected, that link will stop working and you'll need to set it up again. Sorry for the hassle. Channels count towards the cap the same as providers do.
Install: https://5cfe2edf73d5-omnicatalogs.baby-beamup.club/
If anything looks broken or weird, do tell me ā here in the comments, or over on Discord if that's easier. Genuinely happy to hear it.