Requestrr

Best Self-hosted Alternatives to Requestrr

A curated collection of the 1 best self hosted alternatives to Requestrr.

Requestrr is a request-management chatbot and web UI for home media servers. It accepts requests via Discord or a web portal, manages permissions/quotas and notifications, and forwards requests to automation tools like Sonarr, Radarr, Overseerr or Ombi.

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Gotify

Gotify

Gotify is a self-hosted notification server that delivers messages in real time via WebSocket, with a REST API, web UI, and optional clients like Android and CLI.

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Gotify is a lightweight, self-hosted server for sending and receiving notifications in real time. It provides a simple REST API for publishing messages and a WebSocket stream for subscribing to them, with a built-in web interface for users and administrators.

Key Features

  • Send notifications via REST API using application tokens
  • Receive messages in real time via WebSocket connections
  • Web UI for viewing messages and managing the server
  • User, client, and application management
  • Plugin system for extending server functionality

Use Cases

  • Push alerts from scripts, CI jobs, and homelab services to a central inbox
  • Provide a lightweight in-house notification hub for internal tools
  • Replace third-party push services for privacy-focused notification delivery

Gotify is designed to be simple, privacy-friendly, and easy to deploy while still supporting common notification workflows through its API, web UI, and extensibility options.

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Why choose an open source alternative?

  • •Data ownership: Keep your data on your own servers
  • •No vendor lock-in: Freedom to switch or modify at any time
  • •Cost savings: Reduce or eliminate subscription fees
  • •Transparency: Audit the code and know exactly what's running