#1
Sonarr is a smart PVR for TV series that monitors RSS/indexers, grabs releases via Usenet or BitTorrent clients, and organizes your library with renaming and upgrades.
15.3k stars1.9k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
7 self-hosted Simkl alternatives
Simkl is an online tracking service for TV shows, anime, and movies. It provides watchlists, viewing history, recommendations, and syncs watched status across apps and devices, with integrations and API access for cross‑platform tracking.
Alternatives to Simkl
Open-source .NET-based ROM and title manager that organizes ROMs, fetches metadata from external sources, and provides in-browser emulation.
928 stars36 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
CrossWatch synchronizes watchlists, history, ratings and live scrobbles between Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and trackers like Trakt, SIMKL, AniList and MDBlist.
819 stars16 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#4
Mydia is a Phoenix LiveView-based media manager for tracking, organizing, and automating downloads of movies and TV shows with TMDB/TVDB metadata.
783 stars21 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#5
Movary is a self-hosted web app to track, rate, and explore your movie watch history with statistics, integrations, and automatic scrobbling from media servers.
773 stars29 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#6
Web-based GUI that recommends similar TV shows from TMDB based on selected Sonarr shows; supports filters and can add recommendations back to Sonarr via its API.
82 stars1 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#7
Flox is a Laravel + Vue.js self-hosted watchlist for movies, TV shows and anime with episode tracking, calendar, reminders, Plex sync and ActivityPub federation.
32 stars3 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
What replacing Simkl actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 7 of 7 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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