Best Self-Hosted Media automation Tools

7 self-hostable media automation tools you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

Media automation

Bazarr

A companion to Sonarr and Radarr that finds and downloads subtitles for your TV shows and movies, based on language preferences you set per series or film.

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Media automation

Lidarr

A music collection manager that monitors artists for new releases, sends them to a Usenet or BitTorrent download client, then renames and files them into your library.

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Media automation

MeTube

A web UI for yt-dlp: paste a link from YouTube or another supported site and it downloads the video or audio to your server, including whole playlists, channels and subscriptions.

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Media automation

Prowlarr

An indexer manager for the *arr apps: you configure Usenet indexers and torrent trackers once in Prowlarr, and it syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr and the other apps instead of setting them up in each one.

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Media automation

Radarr

A movie library manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users, built on the same codebase as Sonarr. It monitors for releases, hands them to your download client, and renames and organizes the files in your movie library.

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Media automation

Seerr

A media request and discovery app for Jellyfin, Plex and Emby: users browse and request movies and shows, and approved requests are passed to Sonarr and Radarr. Seerr is the 2026 merger of Overseerr and Jellyseerr into one codebase.

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Media automation

Sonarr

A TV series library manager that monitors RSS feeds for new episodes, sends them to a Usenet or BitTorrent download client, then renames and files them into your library. It connects to media servers such as Plex, Jellyfin and Emby.

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