A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server

Anyone running a home media server knows the familiar headache: keeping six separate apps alive at once. A new project called HolyArrs promises to fold that sprawl into a single application. According to the report, the app is just 15 MB in size and lets you manage your shows, movies and music from one interface.

A typical media server setup runs six apps: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr and Seerr. That means six logins, six ports, six update cycles and six API keys to copy between them. As the article puts it, when a show fails to land, you have to check six different places to find out why.

HolyArrs bundles that chain into one spot. When a title is requested, the app searches your sources, picks the best release using your rules and sends it to your downloader. Once the download finishes, the file lands in your library. Users can keep their existing downloader such as qBittorrent or SABnzbd; according to the report, a built-in downloader is planned for a later release.

Migration is covered too. You add each old app's address and API key, choose what comes over and run a trial before committing. The article stresses that HolyArrs only reads your old apps and changes nothing in them, so both systems can run side by side until you trust the new one.