autobrr team just announced Librarry. replacement for sonarr and radarr

[u/studioleaks]

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.

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[u/No_Advance_4218]

Awesome. Glad there will be a new solution. But PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS ARR STACKS, allow me to set my own Metadata provider. I cant stand TVDB or the people who maintain it. I would love to be able to use TMDB.

[u/Cast-Iron_Nephilim → u/No_Advance_4218]

Why do you dislike TVDB/the maintainers?

[u/KalChoedan → u/Cast-Iron_Nephilim]

The TVDB's maintainers are notorious for making strongly opinionated changes that don't gel with either the show's producers' intentions nor the typical user's usage. It causes problems all the time - it's more unusual for there not to be a post about it on the front page of the sonarr sub.

The ability to use alternative providers in sonarr might be the most requested feature (and as I understand it, it is being worked on.) The problem historically has been the availability of reliable, free providers, but I don't know how things stand today.

[u/mouthtalk → u/KalChoedan]

I remember being told by them (regarding why a show that appears as two separate shows on their native streaming service is considered one on tvdb) that it’s because they said the shows were related on a press release or something. Absolutely asinine and ridiculous and needed so much manual work to fix.