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The flexibility offered by the XBMC/Kodi skinning-engine is also useful for third-party companies who wish to make derivative work of Kodi as it makes it easy to rebrand the environment or make deeper changes to the look and feel of the user interface. Many such third-party skins exist that are well maintained by the community, and while some skins are originals with unique designs, most initially begin as a clones or an exact replica of other multimedia software interfaces, such as DivX Connected, Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center Edition (MCE), MediaPortal, Meedio/MeediOS, HDeeTV, Kaleidescape, Wii Channel Menu (Xii), Xbox 360 Blades (MC360), Xbox 360 New Xbox Experience (Xperience), and others.

Users can also create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites that are used for XBMC/Kodi skins trading and development. "Confluence" and "Project Mayhem" are the two official skins "Confluence" is the default since version 9.11, and "Project Mayhem" was the previous default which is now in its third version, commonly known as "PM3.HD" (PM III High-Definition). Skins allow users to drastically change the appearance and fundamental user interface of XBMC/Kodi. Scrapers use sites like to obtain thumbnails and information on movies, for TV show posters and episode plots, or CDDB (via freedb and Discogs, etc.) for audio CD track listings. XBMC/Kodi GUI then provide a rich display for audio and video files that the scrapers has identified. It can get synopses, reviews, movie posters, titles, genre classification, and other similar data. These "scrapers" are this way used as importers to obtain detailed information from various Internet resources about movies and television shows.

XBMC/Kodi has the built-in optional function to automatically download metadata information, cover art and other related media artwork online through its web scrapers that looks for media in the user's audio / video folders and their sub-directories. Kodi has a growing list of community driven add-ons which can be installed from a common official repository, while still enabling third-party developers to also host their own unofficial repositories for add-ons that any user can choose to add themselves. Kodi has the same ability and these apps are referred to as Add-ons. Imagine a smart phone and all the additional Apps that can be installed to enhance its functionality.