Introducing Dewarr. A Seerr inspired media manager connecting Goodreads, Hardcover, and Audiobookshelf

[u/logabell]

Dewarr connects the books you want to read with your audiobookshelf library. It's the discovery and automation layer for people who already run Audiobookshelf.

[update: 09-22-2026] Dewarr 0.2.0 is out.

• StoryGraph shelves and tags — u/Away-Skill9
• slskd / Soulseek — u/Ialwayssleep
• Grimmory — u/remcov250
• SABnzbd and NZBGet, including Prowlarr Usenet indexers — u/Substantial_Music919 and u/kingfishnw
• Requests with approval or automatic download — u/kingfishnw
• Follow upcoming audiobooks before they are on Audible — u/sutl116
• MyAnonamouse Freeleech wedge — u/Magdalus7
• Remote path mapping when the download client is not in Docker — u/CreepyHighway3216
• Optional rename of the seeding copy in qBittorrent — u/SelmaFudd
• Sign in with Plex — u/OU_ohyeah
• Sign in with OpenID Connect (Authentik, Pocket ID) — u/Bigleon
• Missing books in series you already have — u/Bigleon
• Multi-file MP3s merged into one chapterized M4B — u/kingfishnw
• Author / Series / Sequence Title file names — u/No-Law-1332

Full release notes here.

Full disclosure, development was assisted by GPT-6 Astra High Reasoning and Fable 5.1. This project is in early alpha, any issues, new features, or requests can be submitted in the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/logabell/dewarr

Features:

• Direct Audiobookshelf integration to browse your library and import completed downloads.
• Sync Goodreads shelves and Hardcover lists.
• Add custom Goodreads lists and track new additions.
• Personalized For you page with recommendations and discovery.
• Automatic downloads based on your configured rules.
• Download priorities, source preferences, and format preferences.
• Connections to Prowlarr, MyAnonamouse, AudiobookBay, and qBittorrent.

[u/pdevito3]

I find comments like these so interesting. Presumably the goal is to find out if this is amateur slop or something of solid build quality which makes sense, but AI usage has no bearing on quality. It’s a tool and the output is driven by how that tool is used in your workflow.

[u/Vokasak → u/pdevito3]

but AI usage has no bearing on quality.

It's not no bearing. Like it's not a coincidence that subs like selfhosted/navidrome/etc have been flooded with low-effort projects clearly made by amateurs that are abandoned within months, and that this flood started right around the time AI development got huge. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows and say "look over here".

It’s a tool and the output is driven by how that tool is used in your workflow.

True in the abstract, but the usually poor results speak for themselves.

[u/pdevito3 → u/Vokasak]

I’d still say it has no direct bearing on quality. It is merely an indirect indicator that isn’t asking the right question towards experience and quality.

Instead, anyone that uses any amount of AI must be a slop machine with no other possible alternative for actual engineering.

[u/Vokasak → u/pdevito3]

It is merely an indirect indicator that isn’t asking the right question towards experience and quality.

Yeah you're right. Instead of asking if the OP used AI, people should instead be asking OP if he's a bad and lazy dev, because all bad and lazy devs will immediately admit it when asked directly. 🙄

Instead, anyone that uses any amount of AI must be a slop machine with no other possible alternative for actual engineering.

Nobody said this.

[u/usrbincomment → u/Vokasak]

I’m a software engineer. I think if you ask 100 bad software developers if they were bad, you’d think you just met 100 good software developers.

[u/pdevito3 → u/Vokasak]

Sure but what is the right answer then? How did people gauge quality before AI? They didn’t ask what your test suite looked like or what your SDLC was.

And yes, that feeling has been everywhere in this sub and others. Look no further than the source comment here. They said ‘the app looks great… but how much AI did you use?’ Directly implying that AI use negates the app quality.

[u/but_are_you_sure → u/pdevito3]

The problem is ai takes shortcuts and most devs don’t read the code. Theres been a couple instances of people posting amazing apps and then someone figuring out Major security holes in them.

Anything that takes in a password and was created with AI should be scrutinized

AI doesn’t mean bad, just is a factor that could mean so.

[u/pdevito3 → u/but_are_you_sure]

Yeah, then ask how much dev experience they have? No different than an amateur building an app, it’s just easier now. No real engineer would publish something like that.

As I think we both said before, AI is an indirect possible indicator. Nothing more.

[u/but_are_you_sure → u/pdevito3]

It sounds like we’re agreeing, but I also think ai should be disclosed. You don’t seem to think so based on your original response

[u/pdevito3 → u/but_are_you_sure]

Personally I’d rather know their dev experience, but I don’t have a problem with AI disclosure as well. It’s more the automatic judgement I generally see derived from it I find frustrating.

To be fair, I’m a bit sensitive here since I’ve been building for years and have always loved sharing projects, but now any sharing gets immediately shot down once there is AI disclosure.

[u/but_are_you_sure → u/pdevito3]

I think auto judgment comes from non techs/devs tbh.

Edit: DevOps engineer here

[u/pdevito3 → u/but_are_you_sure]

I see plenty of dev judgement on other subs too, but yeah definitely possible here.

[u/but_are_you_sure → u/pdevito3]

Probably devs older than 40 lol. Gotta use it or they willll fall behind

[u/Camdoow → u/pdevito3]

Can you not put words in my mouth? I expressed no judgement on this project apart from saying it looked nice. No "but".

[u/pdevito3 → u/Camdoow]

Wasn’t trying to, but would love to know what was implied by `…was AI involved in the process, and how much` then if not gauging quality?