Here’s a comprehensive overview of the “*arr” ecosystem—automation tools like Sonarr—and their companion applications:
🎬 Core *arr Applications
- Sonarr – Auto-manages TV series (episodes detection, downloading, renaming)
- Radarr – Movie-centric fork of Sonarr
- Lidarr – Automates music collection management
- Readarr – Tracks and acquires books, magazines, comics, and audiobooks
- Whisparr – Same concept for adult movie collections
🔍 Indexer & Tracker Proxies
- Prowlarr – Central indexer manager for Torrent and Usenet searches
- Jackett – Alternate indexer proxy for many trackers
🌐 Subtitle Management
- Bazarr – Automates subtitle downloads synced with Sonarr/Radarr
📚 Comic & eBook Tools
- Mylar3 – Comic book (CBR/CBZ) downloader
- Lazy Librarian – Book and audiobook management
📽️ Alternative/Legacy Apps
- CouchPotato – Movie automation (now discontinued)
- Medusa – Fork of Sick Beard for TV series
- Sick Beard / SickChill / SickGear – TV-series downloaders
- FlexGet – Multi-purpose automation across media types
- Kapowarr – Comic library manager
🛠️ Complementing / Auxiliary Tools
- Tdarr – Automates video transcoding/remuxing
- Syncarr – Syncs between multiple *arr instances
- Traktarr – Syncs content with Trakt lists
- Unpackerr – Auto-extracts downloaded archives for import into *arr
- Pulsarr – Browser extension to add items from IMDB/TVDB to *arr
- Recyclarr – Syncs library with TRaSH-Guides standards
- Excludarr – Removes items already available on streaming platforms
- Elsewherr – Tags items based on availability on streaming services
- Radarr AutoDelete / StripTracks – Script utilities for library cleanup
🤖 Request & User Interfaces
- Ombi / Overseerr – Allow users to request media from *arr services
- Requestrr – Chatbot interface for handling requests with *arr
🧭 All-in-One / Alternative Setups
- Bobarr – Combines Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett, VPN in one Docker setup
- Bonarr – Radarr fork focused on adult content
- Whisparr Extended Tools – Docker variants and scripts add-ons
🎛️ Dashboards, Monitoring & Integrations
- Organizr – Multi-app landing page/dashboard
- Tautulli – Plex analytics and notifications
- NzbHydra – Aggregates Usenet indexers
- Prowlarr/Jacket companion apps – e.g., “qbit management,” “Twitter Connect,” among others
Recommended Next Steps:
- For user requests, consider Ombi or Overseerr.
- For subtitles, Bazarr integrates seamlessly with *arr tools.
- Use Prowlarr or Jackett for indexer management.
- Enhance your media library with Unpackerr, Pulsarr, and Tdarr for extraction, quick adding, and file optimization.
This ecosystem ensures a smooth workflow from discovery to download to library management across media types.
The purpose of these applications should not be Piracy but more to save you time managing your own library without going through the trouble of ripping it your self.
Set up these applications will be purely your responsibility and so tech support is offering by me or the creators of the projects.