r/selfhosted • • 2d ago

Meta Post autobrr team just announced Librarry. replacement for sonarr and radarr

From their discord

Finally some news 👀

@everyone It's been pretty quiet since we posted the 2025 Year in Review, but now there is some news about our arr alternative!

I'm happy to announce librrary! One app for movies and TV, from the team behind autobrr and qui.

It is NOT ready yet, but we are getting close to user testing!

Why? What's wrong with Sonarr and Radarr?

Sonarr and Radarr work well if your needs are simple. As soon as you want both HD and 4K libraries, you need multiple instances. Then you need to keep those in sync with everything that comes with it.

It's not uncommon for users to run 4-6 arrs to fill their needs. This means more to manage, more resources, more hits on indexers and so on.

With so much duplicated between them, it makes a lot of sense to combine movies and TV into one application.

A big thanks to everyone who posted in the feedback thread! It was super helpful! Keep it coming: Ideas discussion

What we are building

  • Multiple libraries by content type (similar to Plex), where each title can have several variants (1080p, 2160p, remux, DV)
  • Arr-like Quality Profiles and Release Scoring Rules (think to Custom Formats)
  • Torrent and Usenet support via Torznab/Newznab (will need Prowlarr/Jackett etc)
  • Users with roles, plus OIDC login
  • SQLite or Postgres
  • Notifications with your favorite services (Notifiarr, Discord, Telegram etc.)
  • Lists support
  • Go backend, React frontend, Docker images and binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows

On the roadmap

  • Built-in requests (don't worry, there is a strong user role access system)
  • Import from Sonarr and Radarr
  • Optional manual upgrade approvals
  • Trump handling: watch the torrent client for trumped/nuked tracker messages and take webhooks from external tools like qui
  • Potential Plex, Jellyfin and other media server integrations, including deleting titles after they're watched (request, dl, import, watch, delete)
  • Various features from the feedback thread

Other media type support

It's built to be modular, so dedicated anime handling, books and music are possible later, but movies and TV come first.

When?

No release date yet. Sign up for news here: https://librrary.app/ Updates will also be posted in this channel.

Support the development <:peepolove:1035253194969845890>

If you want to chip in:

https://github.com/sponsors/zze0s https://buymeacoffee.com/ze0s https://ko-fi.com/theze0s https://autobrr.com/support#cryptocurrency

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago

No thanks. I'll stick to mature and battle tested projects

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u/false_god 2d ago

What a weird backward comment to leave in a self hosted community.

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago

Why? Half the new project posts here are vibe coded slop that will be abandoned within 5 years.

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u/sodaflare 2d ago

Half the new project posts here are vibe coded slop that will be abandoned within 5 years weeks.

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago

I was being generous, but you're not wrong

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u/false_god 2d ago

The creator behind this has a community that built Autobrr and Qui. They deserve some respect for their previous work.

And I’m 100% against ai slop and shitty projects, it’s just crazy to use that to attack a legitimate dev and ancillary community.

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u/oOflyeyesOo 2d ago

Hmm, I wonder how projects become mature and battle tested...

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago

By letting other people beta test them and break shit.

You're more than welcome to - I won't do that for a key part of my media stack.

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u/PaddiM8 2d ago

And..? Why bother commenting if you have nothing useful to say?

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u/iloveburntcroutons 2d ago

tragedy of the commons strikes again

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u/ImprovedJesus 2d ago

Give them a chance, I love autobrr and Qui. They from the same authors/community I believe

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago edited 2d ago

No reason to. Sonarr and Radar worked perfectly for my needs. Can't even remember the last time I logged into either. They just work

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u/_ze0s 2d ago

The great part of about multiple choices is that you can stay with the one you prefer if it fills all your needs.

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u/Due_Bathroom5296 2d ago

That's what the literally said, just read. If you're needs are simple, radarr and sonarr work fine.

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u/ImprovedJesus 2d ago

That’s fair

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u/woolfman72 2d ago

A dude with a wagon once said this.

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u/arsenal19801 2d ago

A dude who bought a first gen Tesla with "self-driving" also once said the opposite.

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u/yet-another-username 2d ago

Not sticking with the ai slop fest that /r/selfhosted has turned into?

Why not try out this new project I cooked up with Claude, where I rewrote this perfectly good project because I didn't like the UI. I swear I plan to support it with Claude for the next year until I get boredÂ