Medusa
Automatic Video library manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 45 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.0.27 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Sonarr Cloud.
At a glance
Medusa quick facts
- Health score
- 83/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,992
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.0.27, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Medusa is a self-hosted automatic video library manager for TV shows. It monitors configured shows, searches supported Usenet and torrent providers, sends releases to configured download clients, and organizes completed episodes with configurable metadata, subtitles, and post-processing."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Medusa scores 83/100, #19 of 30 in Media Management: 45 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.0.27, 12 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,992 stars add 13.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
45 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.0.27 released 12 days ago
- Stars 13.2 / 20
2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 45
- Last 90 days
- 62
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 30 tools in Media Management by health , between Ratelog (#18) and TrackWatch (#20) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | v1.0.27 · 12 days ago |
| Stars | 1,992 |
| Open issues | 428 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | pymedusa/Medusa ↗ |
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Medusa: common questions
What does Medusa replace?
Repoly lists Medusa as an open-source alternative to Sonarr Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Medusa stands against the others.
Is Medusa still maintained?
Medusa had 45 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v1.0.27, is from 12 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.