Radarr
Automatically download movies via Usenet and BitTorrent (fork of Sonarr).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 124 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v6.4.4.10685 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Sonarr Cloud.
At a glance
Radarr quick facts
- Health score
- 97/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 14,675
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v6.4.4.10685, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Radarr
Full rankings: Sonarr Cloud alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Radarr is a movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new movies and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of existing files in the library when a better quality format becomes available. Note that only one type of a given movie is supported."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Radarr scores 97/100, #2 of 30 in Media Management: 124 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v6.4.4.10685, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 14,675 stars add 16.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 3.3 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
124 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v6.4.4.10685 released 1 month ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 16.7 / 20
15k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 124
- Last 90 days
- 187
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 30 tools in Media Management by health , between MeTube (#1) and Sonarr (#3) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C#, Docker |
| Latest release | v6.4.4.10685 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 14,675 |
| Open issues | 666 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Radarr/Radarr ↗ |
Radarr vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Radarr (Media Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radarr (this tool) | 97 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Sonarr | 97 | 17k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Lidarr | 95 | 5.8k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Lingarr | 92 | 898 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| youtube-dl-nas | 89 | 201 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Medusa | 83 | 2k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Radarr: common questions
What does Radarr replace?
Repoly lists Radarr as an open-source alternative to Sonarr Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Radarr stands against the others.
Is Radarr still maintained?
Radarr had 124 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v6.4.4.10685, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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