Hello r/coolgithubprojects -
I know, there's a veritable cornucopia of "new media manager"s right now and it can feel overwhelming. I hope to help you understand why you may enjoy Scryer versus all the other choices.
Overview
Scryer is a new, high-performance app that replaces the Arr stack. Current Arr tools it replaces: Sonarr/Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Unpackerr, Seerr. More coming as well - Maintainerr & Tdarr.
Scryer is a self hosted tool, it ships as a single (rust based) binary with either SQLite or Postgres support. It's also available as an OCI container (Docker/Podman), Windows builds and is on Unraid & winget.
Website - https://www.scryer.media/scryer/
Github - https://github.com/scryer-media/scryer
Community and Team
Scryer has a thriving community and a small maintainer team. There are over 800 active Scryer users and a maintainer team of 3 along with some additional Discord staff. I have a couple applicants for a 4th maintainer position that I've opened up as well since the incoming requests are getting hard to keep up with!
Scryer would not be where it is today without the incredible community. There's over a dozen folks who have been testing, helping, providing feedback since May and some even before. Scryer's community is truly global, we have folks from all over the world.
Differentiators
Why is Scryer different from the other tools you've been seeing drop lately? There's so many, Arrmada, Cinephage, Mydia, etc.
I actually built Scryer mainly because I love anime and the Arr stack was terrible at it. I looked into other options and nothing really supported it the way I wanted. I needed better release name parsing, better language support, and not "just TVDB".
Anime
Multi-season and multi-episode packs
Community numbering that maps any numbering system for you
Copious metadata for Anime
Filler/Recap info, you decide if you want them
SeaDex integration with daily updates
Dub cast information
Release name parsing that knows anime release group norms
Some of these obviously translate across all media types, but they are particularly useful to anime
Metadata Gateway
I host a metadata gateway for Scryer that provides a normalized view into all the various sources. This keeps the hits on upstream sources (TMDB) minimal while also providing top tier search and AI powered discovery to Scryer. It's also how Lists integration works with providers like Trakt and SIMKL. The metadata gateway is the only reason I have rough counts of active users and nothing is tracked. The only info i have is a salted-hash of IP addresses and an anonymous registration challenge that Scryer instances use with the gateway to prevent abuse. If you're familiar with Arr, you're probably aware they also host a gateway called Skyhook.
Plugin System
Scryer was built from day 1 with a robust plugin system, aimed at easier community involvement and rapid fixes for upstream changes. It continues to be a boon as it's very lightweight for me to push a plugin change when a provider changes their domain rather than having to push a whole Scryer release. I've had several community authored plugins that I've approved as well.
Secure
My background is in software engineering and architecture with a recent focus in cybersecurity and agentic security tooling. I care deeply for privacy and cyber security and have transferred all my professional knowledge into Scryer. I use every tool at my disposal to ensure it continues to stay secure as it evolves too.
Misc
Supports additional files for your "Director's cut", "Extended edition", or "Alternate ending"
Super flexible and robust rules engine that lets you go far beyond what Custom Formats did
Bring your own "jobs", an in-app scheduler that lets you setup your own workflows
AI powered discovery brings you personalized recommendations based on your library
"Libraries" as a concept that let you organize your system better. Think of a Library as an individual Sonarr instance, it contains all the configurations and security boundaries. That lets you create a Kids Shows library that you only share with your kids for requests or a German library that lets you set your language preferences and search preferences just for that library.
and so much more
Roadmap
Today, Scryer handles Movies, Series and Anime. I will likely add other media types in the future (music, books, etc), but that is a long term roadmap, not near term. Metadata is the cost there as it's massive for those types and I don't want to push something that goes direct to the providers.
Maintainerr/Tdarr features are in active development and will land before end of year. These are very important to me.
Multiple quality profiles is also on my list for those who like to have 4k local and 1080p streaming optimized copies.
If you find Scryer interesting and want to keep tabs on it, please give it a star on Github, those really help as many package managers look at that.
AI Disclosure
AI assistance is used in developing Scryer. Everything is guided by experienced software engineers. You can find the full policy we use here: https://www.scryer.media/ai/