Houndarr
Scheduled backlog searches for Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Readarr and Whisparr. Works through missing and cutoff-unmet items in small rate-limited batches with per-item cooldowns and hourly caps, to avoid overloading indexers.
Active Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 97 commits in the past 12 months
At a glance
- GitHub stars
- 308
- Last commit
- 2026-11-10
- Latest release
- v1.13.3
2026-09-19 - Commits (12 mo)
- 97
- Releases (12 mo)
- 10+
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Language / platform
- Python, Docker
Maintenance health: Active
Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 97 commits in the past 12 months.
How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub); release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).
Run Houndarr yourself
- RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
- Docker: yes
Estimated monthly server cost
| Provider | Plan size | ~ USD / month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| Akamai (Linode) | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| DigitalOcean | 1 GB | $6 | Deploy → |
Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.
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Sonarr
Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.
MeTube
Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites.
Radarr
Automatically download movies via Usenet and BitTorrent (fork of Sonarr).
Seerr
Manage requests for your media library, supports Plex, Jellyfin and Emby media servers (fork of Overseerr).
Lidarr
Music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
Ombi
Content request system for Plex/Emby, connects to SickRage, CouchPotato, Sonarr, with a growing feature set.
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