Add a series once, set a quality profile, and everything downstream is automated: Sonarr is the smart PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It monitors RSS feeds from your indexers, detects new episodes the moment they release, sends matching grabs to SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Deluge, or another download client, then renames files with fully configurable templates, sorts them into consistent folder structures, and notifies Plex, Kodi, or Jellyfin to update the library. Quality profiles define what's acceptable (HDTV, WEB-DL, Blu-ray, up to 4K) and an upgrade cutoff - when a better release appears, Sonarr replaces the existing file automatically, stepping from HDTV to WEB-DL to Blu-ray until the cutoff is met. Custom formats add weighted scoring for finer-grained release selection, with community-maintained TRaSH Guides presets as the widely accepted defaults. Failed downloads are handled without intervention: Sonarr retries with another release, and manual search shows every candidate with the reasons any was rejected. It scans existing libraries for missing episodes, fully supports specials, multi-episode files, and daily and anime series types, and a calendar view shows upcoming episodes across every tracked show. Runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Raspberry Pi, and pairs naturally with Prowlarr for centralized indexer management.

The movie half of the *arr stack: Radarr is a .NET collection manager that automates acquiring films for Usenet and BitTorrent users the way Sonarr does for TV. Add a movie once and Radarr handles the rest: it monitors indexers and RSS feeds, grabs a matching release the moment one appears, sends it to SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission, rTorrent, or another connected download client, then imports, sorts, and renames the file into your library structure. Quality profiles are the control surface - define allowed resolutions and a cutoff, and Radarr keeps upgrading files automatically, replacing a DVD rip when a Blu-ray release lands. Custom formats go further, scoring releases by codec, HDR metadata, release group, streaming source, or arbitrary regex so the copy you want always wins the pick. Failed downloads retry with another release automatically; a manual search shows every candidate and explains why one was skipped. Release parsing recognizes director's cuts, special editions, AKA titles, and hardcoded subs. Plex and Kodi integration handles notifications, library refreshes, and metadata like posters, trailers, and subtitles, and a calendar view tracks upcoming releases. It pairs naturally with Jellyseerr for request management and shares its API conventions with the whole *arr ecosystem.

Browse trending titles, search anything, request it in two clicks: Jellyseerr gives Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex users a beautiful storefront for the media library. Born as the Overseerr fork that added Jellyfin and Emby support (the projects have since unified as Seerr), it handles the full request lifecycle - users authenticate with their existing media-server accounts, pick individual seasons or movies in a clean interface, and admins approve or decline from a simple queue, including on mobile. Approved requests flow straight to Sonarr and Radarr, which handle acquisition automatically, with support for separate 4K server instances. Regular library scans keep availability accurate, so users see instantly what already exists instead of requesting duplicates. A granular permission system controls who can request what - auto-approval for trusted users, quotas and limits elsewhere - and override rules adjust request routing by user, tag, or other conditions. Watchlist and blocklist functions curate discovery, notifications reach email, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Pushover, and Pushbullet, and both PostgreSQL and SQLite are supported. Localized into many languages, it turns "can you add this movie?" texts into a self-service system that runs itself.

Profilarr orchestrates media library quality profiles, custom formats, and release matching rules across all your Radarr and Sonarr servers from a single centralized management console. Instead of manually copying regex strings and scoring tables between home server instances, you can link community configuration databases like TRaSH Guides and Dictionarry to automate standardization. The visual pattern workbench lets you test regular expressions directly against real-world media release titles, highlighting matches for audio codecs, HDR formats, and release group tags. You can simulate release scoring before deploying, inspecting exactly why a candidate download gets accepted or rejected based on your custom ranking conditions. Media managers can define custom delay profiles, establishing protocol priorities and minimum score thresholds to prevent premature grabs before high-quality releases surface. Granular synchronization tools push updated profiles and formatting rules to multiple production Arr instances simultaneously while preserving your local server overrides. When indexers publish new release naming conventions, you can update conditions once in your central database and roll out updates across your entire infrastructure. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPLv3 licensed.

Stalled torrents, malware-laced archives, and failed imports can quietly paralyze an automated media server, and Cleanuparr eliminates those bottlenecks as an autonomous download queue manager and library seeker for the entire Servarr ecosystem. Connecting directly to Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Whisparr, Sportarr, and LazyLibrarian alongside qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, rTorrent, uTorrent, and SABnzbd, its configurable Queue Cleaner tracks slow transfers, stuck metadata downloads, and import failures using a strike system. Once a problematic download reaches its strike threshold or triggers the Malware Blocker against deceptive .lnk and .zipx payloads, Cleanuparr purges the offending files, blocklists the release, and instructs the media manager to search for a clean replacement. Beyond defensive queue hygiene, the built-in Seeker proactively searches your libraries for missing episodes or movies, hunts for Cutoff Unmet quality upgrades, and tracks Custom Format score distributions over time. Storage administrators can also enforce seeding duration limits, clean up orphaned torrents without breaking active cross-seed hardlinks, and quarantine unclaimed directory files before they consume disk capacity. A live web dashboard visualizes manual intervention alerts, strike histories, and searchable application logs while dispatching instant notifications through Apprise, Discord, Gotify, Notifiarr, Ntfy, Pushover, and Telegram. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Radarr, Sonarr, and their sibling apps watch RSS feeds for new releases but never go back for what your library is still missing, and Houndarr fills that gap by asking them to search in small, polite batches. It reads the wanted lists of every connected Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Whisparr instance and sends a few search commands per cycle, so a big backlog drains over days instead of arriving as one Search All Missing burst. Each instance has its own batch size, sleep interval, hourly cap, per-item cooldown, and post-release grace period, plus an optional download-queue limit, allowed search windows such as 09:00-23:00, and tag filters that include or exclude items. Three independent passes run per instance: missing items, cutoff-unmet items below your quality profile, and upgrades for files that already meet cutoff, with the last two off until you enable them. Sonarr, Lidarr, and Readarr can search by season, artist, or author, and search order is random or oldest-first. The dashboard shows library health, recent hunts, hourly budgets, and a cooldown schedule per instance, with Run Now buttons for on-demand cycles. The Logs page records every search and skip with its reason in a filterable audit trail that copies as TSV. A key-gated widget endpoint feeds Homepage dashboards, and built-in login or reverse-proxy authentication protects the interface. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Subtitles are the one chore Sonarr and Radarr leave behind - Bazarr finishes the *arr media stack by automating them. It connects to both via their APIs and mirrors their libraries - it doesn't scan disk itself, it manages exactly what your *arr apps index. For every monitored episode and movie it checks existing internal and external subtitles against your language profiles, then hunts missing ones across dozens of providers - OpenSubtitles.com, Podnapisi, Addic7ed, Subscene, and many regional sources - covering 184 subtitle languages including forced/foreign-dialogue tracks. Matching is smarter than filename guessing: releases are compared by release group and source, some providers support exact file-hash matching, and every downloaded subtitle gets a percentage score. Set a minimum score per Sonarr/Radarr connection and Bazarr rejects weak matches; enable upgrades and it replaces previously downloaded subtitles when better ones surface. Out-of-sync files get fixed too - automatic subtitle synchronization realigns timing after download, triggered only below a configurable score threshold so good subs aren't touched. Per-show and per-movie language configuration, download history, manual on-demand search, and adaptive searching that throttles provider API calls round it out, all behind a clean Sonarr-style web UI written in Python. If your library serves multilingual viewers, this removes the last manual step.

Configure each indexer once, not five times: Prowlarr is the indexer hub of the *arr stack, removing the most tedious duplication in a media automation setup. Instead of configuring the same torrent trackers and Usenet indexers separately in Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Mylar3, you add each one once in Prowlarr and it syncs them to every connected app automatically, complete with category mappings; with Full Sync enabled, adding or removing an indexer propagates everywhere, and a tracker URL change is a one-place fix. Coverage is the deepest available: 500+ torrent trackers with definitions added constantly, 24 native Usenet indexers, generic Newznab and Torznab support for anything else, and custom Cardigann YML definitions with JSON and XML parsing for obscure sources. Built on the same .NET/React base as its siblings, it also earns a place as a search tool in its own right: unified manual search queries every indexer simultaneously at a category level, and you can push multiple releases straight to your download clients without touching Sonarr or Radarr. Health checks and status notifications flag failing indexers, per-indexer statistics track success rates and response times so you can cull unreliable sources, and per-indexer proxy support (SOCKS4/5, HTTP, FlareSolverr) handles trackers behind Cloudflare.

Written in optimized C++ where competitors use Python or Java, NZBGet saturates fast connections while idling on CPU and RAM - which is why the performance-obsessed Usenet downloader has long been the client of choice for NAS boxes, Raspberry Pis, and routers as much as full servers. The engineering shows in the recovery pipeline. Instead of shelling out to par2cmdline, NZBGet integrates the par2 source directly and exploits its knowledge of exactly which articles failed - quick par-verification checks only what needs checking, and its own multicore repair implementation runs 2-3x faster than the external tool on the same hardware. Fast par-rename deobfuscates scrambled filenames in seconds without a full verification pass, and rar-rename recovers names for multivolume archives even when no par2 files exist. DirectWrite assembles articles straight into sparse destination files, skipping temporary-file churn entirely, with an article cache and queue-pausing options to eliminate disk contention. Automation is complete: a remote web interface, full JSON-RPC API, RSS feeds with duplicate detection, scheduling and prioritization, and an extension manager for Python and Bash scripts triggered by download events. Sonarr, Radarr, and every major indexer integrate natively.

Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV stream proxy, electronic program guide manager, and DVR server that consolidates multiple M3U playlists and Xtream Codes providers into a unified live television and video-on-demand hub. Through its web dashboard, you can import and filter thousands of channels from unlimited upstream sources, automatically match XMLTV or Schedules Direct guide data to your lineup, and organize movies and series enriched with IMDb and TMDB metadata. The proxy streaming engine shares a single upstream provider connection across multiple local clients, switches seamlessly to backup stream URLs when buffering or drops occur, and routes backend traffic through FFmpeg, VLC, or Streamlink profiles with custom fMP4 or MPEG-TS output transcoding. To integrate with home media servers, Dispatcharr exports curated lineups as M3U playlists, XMLTV feeds, Xtream Codes API endpoints, or emulated HDHomeRun network tuners that Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Channels DVR discover automatically, while also offering a built-in DVR with series recording rules, Comskip commercial stripping, and timeshift catch-up playback. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

neTV turns any Xtream Codes or M3U IPTV subscription into a clean, fast player that you host yourself and open from a browser, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, or Chromecast. The EPG grid guide shows what is on now and next, and catchup lets you browse earlier listings, replay a program from the beginning, or start over a show already airing, with timeline seeking whenever your provider keeps an archive. Intelligent Handoff lets you switch off the living room TV mid-match and resume on your phone from the exact moment you stopped, because the server keeps the stream going until the program ends. Movies and series arrive with metadata, seasons, episodes, and resume points, while search accepts regular expressions and favorites support drag-and-drop ordering alongside playlists that you build on the web and see in every app. Smart passthrough remuxes h264 and AAC streams without re-encoding, and NVENC or VAAPI hardware transcoding serves low-latency HLS to clients that need it. Owners of an NVIDIA GPU can switch on real-time 4K AI upscaling that lifts 1080p channels above 70 frames per second on an RTX 5090. A separate gateway port exposes your live sources as an Xtream-compatible endpoint for other native players, with per-user source access and stream limits. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Point Emby at your movie, music, and photo libraries and it becomes a private streaming service: metadata and artwork arrive from TMDB and TVDB, everything lands in a polished browsable interface, and media transcodes on the fly whenever a client can't play the original format. The client reach is the selling point: native apps span Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, LG and Samsung smart TVs, iOS, Android, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, plus web browsers and desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and DLNA devices are auto-detected for casting and remote control. Multi-user support gives each household member their own account, watch history, favorites, and recommendations, with genuinely capable parental controls: content restrictions, access schedules, time limits, and live monitoring with remote control of kids' sessions. Live TV works with hardware tuners like HDHomeRun or M3U playlists, with free guide data in the US, Canada, and UK. The server and core features are free; an optional Premiere key adds hardware-accelerated transcoding, DVR recording, offline sync, and Cinema Mode intros.

Jellystat is a self-hosted media analytics and live session monitoring dashboard for Jellyfin and Emby servers that turns raw streaming activity into detailed user, library, and playback insights. Media server administrators use the live dashboard to watch active streams in real time, inspecting transcoding status, client devices, bitrates, and playback progress as sessions happen. Every completed or partial stream is logged automatically so you can browse chronological watch histories, filter by library or stream type, and analyze peak concurrent streaming hours across the week. Dedicated library and user views break down total watch duration, play counts, and most popular movies, episodes, or music albums per account. If you already use the official Jellyfin Playback Reporting or Statistics plugins, you can import existing historical records directly into your instance without losing past data. Built-in database backup and restore tools, automatic library synchronization tasks, IP geolocation via MaxMind GeoLite, and interactive Swagger API documentation at the /swagger endpoint round out the administrative toolkit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Plex's own dashboard shows current streams and forgets everything else - which is why every Plex server admin eventually installs Tautulli, the analytics layer. This Python web application (descended from PlexWatch and Headphones) logs complete watch history - what was watched, who watched it, when, where, from which device and IP, and whether it played directly or transcoded - and turns it into clean Highcharts graphs of daily plays, concurrent streams, bandwidth, and platform breakdowns. The home page surfaces top statistics over configurable windows: most-watched content, most active users, stream type ratios. For running a server shared with family and friends, this is operational truth: spot the user forcing 4K transcodes on a phone, see which libraries earn their disk space, and track sync activity across users. The notification engine triggers on server events - playback starts, transcode decision changes, recently added media, server down - through dozens of agents (Discord, Telegram, Slack, email, webhooks) with fully customizable text and conditions, plus arbitrary script execution. Scheduled newsletters email your users a styled digest of recently added content. A comprehensive API exposes every statistic for dashboards like Homarr, and an official mobile app monitors activity on the go. Themed to match Plex/Web. GPL-licensed.

Automating media server storage reclamation, Maintainerr is an open-source library maintenance platform that identifies unwatched, abandoned, or stale movies and shows across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby and clears them on a schedule. Storage drives fill up rapidly when household members request four-season series or high-bitrate films, watch a single episode, and abandon the rest indefinitely. Instead of forcing administrators to audit disks by hand, the rule engine evaluates metadata from your media server alongside Tautulli watch histories, Seerr and Ombi request records, and Radarr, Sonarr, or Sportarr profiles every eight hours. Matching items enter a staging collection that syncs back to your media server home screen as a Leaving Soon row, complete with dynamic poster overlays displaying the exact removal date so viewers have a grace period to finish watching. Before enabling any destructive workflow, you can run the Test Media inspector against any movie or episode to preview rule evaluations and protect favorites with global or per-collection exclusions. Once the countdown expires, the collection handler deletes or unmonitors files, updates import-list exclusions so automated lists never re-download removed titles, clears orphaned requests in Seerr and Ombi, removes leftover sidecar folders, and dispatches alerts through Discord, Slack, Telegram, Pushover, Gotify, Email, or webhooks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Getting non-technical friends and family onto a media server is its most tedious chore - Wizarr solves it. Instead of manually creating accounts, dictating server addresses, and explaining which app to install, you send one invite link. When the recipient clicks it, Wizarr creates their account on your server automatically - Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Audiobookshelf, Komga, Kavita, and Romm are all supported - then walks them through a mobile-first, app-like onboarding wizard: download the right client, sign in, and learn how to request movies through your Overseerr or Ombi instance, with an optional Discord server invite along the way. Invitations are genuinely manageable: set expiration dates, usage limits, passphrases, library-scoped access tiers, and time-limited memberships that end access automatically. The wizard itself is fully customizable - Markdown-based steps managed from the admin UI, organized into pre-invite and post-invite phases (terms of service before joining, app setup after), reorderable bundles assignable to specific invitation types, and combined flows for invites spanning multiple servers. Multi-server and multi-admin support manages several backends from one dashboard, SSO support is plug-and-play, and a REST API with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation covers automation. A Flask/HTMX app in a single Docker container.

Instead of manually hunting for what to watch next after finishing a series on Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, let SuggestArr turn your household's recent viewing history into automated media discovery and download requests. The platform analyzes recently watched movies, shows, and anime, queries TMDb or any OpenAI-compatible LLM (including Ollama, OpenRouter, and LiteLLM) for tailored recommendations with plain-language explanations, and dispatches requests straight to Seer, Jellyseerr, or Overseerr. Built-in AI Search lets users describe a mood or plot in natural language and request matching titles in a single click. Administrators can schedule recurring discovery jobs, import public watchlists from Trakt and MDBList, and enforce granular filters for minimum ratings, release years, genres, and regional streaming service availability so you never download content you already pay to stream. Smart request controls pause jobs when Seer queues are full, require optional human approval before submission, auto-decline stale requests, and clean up unwatched suggestions automatically. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Why split your entertainment life across half a dozen siloed apps when Floppy tracks every movie, television episode, anime season, book, comic, video game, board game, album, and podcast in one unified self-hosted library? A configurable home dashboard shows exactly how much runtime remains in your current shows alongside personalized recommendation rows driven by your genre, studio, cast, and tag history. Music and podcasts are first-class citizens backed by MusicBrainz discography metadata, track-level scoring, Last.fm scrobble polling, and live Pocket Casts episode synchronization. Collectors can catalog physical and digital media ownership down to the exact disc format, video resolution, HDR standard, audio codec, and bitrate, complete with automated Plex collection syncing. Live webhooks and scheduled jobs connect directly to Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Audiobookshelf, Sonarr, Radarr, and Seerr so watches, listens, and library additions log themselves automatically. You can curate public or private lists with programmable smart-list rules, RSS and JSON feeds, Trakt watchlist imports, and barcode ISBN scanning for physical books. Recap-style statistics let you compare custom date ranges across reading streaks, pages read, listening hours, and top actors or authors, while a REST API and built-in Model Context Protocol server power custom automations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Catalog, rate, and analyze every film you watch with Movary, a self-hosted movie tracking hub and personal cinema diary that replaces Letterboxd and Trakt. Each time a movie finishes playing on Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or Kodi, automated webhook scrobblers record the viewing session and star rating directly into your timeline without manual logging. You can also bring over years of existing watch history by importing exports from Letterboxd, Trakt, or Netflix, and automatically cross-post newly logged reviews and ratings to Mastodon or feed Watchlist additions straight into Radarr. Customizing your personal dashboard lets you rearrange analytical widgets that break down your viewing habits by most-watched actors, directors, genres, original languages, release decades, and custom watch locations like local cinemas or home theaters. Movie metadata, posters, and ratings pulled from TMDB and IMDb are cached locally on your server, while built-in background job schedules keep artwork and cast details refreshed automatically. Multi-user account controls, TOTP two-factor authentication, granular profile visibility settings, and personal Bearer API tokens make it easy to run a private household log or a shared film club server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Instead of relying on third-party cloud trackers to keep watched history aligned across Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, WatchState synchronizes playback state and watch progress directly between your own self-hosted media servers. Household administrators can map multiple family members across independent backend accounts using isolated user identities, configuring either one-way mirroring from a primary server or full many-to-many synchronization across every connected instance. A unified generic webhook endpoint captures play, pause, stop, and watched events from Plex, Tautulli, Jellyfin, and Emby for near-instant state propagation, while scheduled background import and export tasks reconcile any missed updates automatically. When libraries grow across multiple servers, the built-in Media Health diagnostic engine audits the database for external GUID conflicts, duplicate file references, metadata disagreements, weak matches, and missing local files, complete with exportable reports and per-record action hints. Users can also search backend metadata, inspect detailed item event logs, and export portable JSON backups of their entire watch history for safe server migrations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.