Prowlarr
Manages your indexers and trackers once, then syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr and the rest so you never configure them twice.
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3 more ways to get Prowlarr
Package managers
- winget
winget install --id TeamProwlarr.Prowlarr - Chocolatey
choco install prowlarr - Homebrew
brew install --cask prowlarr
About Prowlarr
Anyone running several of the *arr applications has had to add the same indexers to each one separately, and update them all when something changes. Prowlarr exists to do that once: you configure indexers and trackers in it, and it pushes them to Lidarr, Mylar3, Radarr, Readarr and Sonarr automatically.
It supports 24 Usenet indexers natively plus any Newznab-compatible one, over 500 torrent trackers plus any Torznab-compatible one, and custom YML definitions through Cardigann. It also does manual searching across your indexers at a category level, tracks indexer history and statistics, notifies you when an indexer goes unhealthy, and supports per-indexer SOCKS, HTTP and Flaresolverr proxies.
Strengths
- Syncs indexers to Lidarr, Mylar3, Radarr, Readarr and Sonarr, so no per-app setup
- Over 500 torrent trackers and 24 native Usenet indexers, plus Newznab and Torznab generics
- Indexer health notifications and per-indexer statistics
- Per-indexer proxy support including SOCKS, HTTP and Flaresolverr
Limitations
- Useless on its own; it is infrastructure for the other *arr apps
- Adds another service to run and keep updated
- Tracker definitions break when sites change, needing updates
- The legality of what any given indexer serves is your responsibility
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL. Indexer and Usenet subscriptions you add to it are separate.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Team Prowlarr
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Running more than one *arr application without configuring indexers in each
- Categories
- Media servers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Media); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.
Alternatives to Prowlarr
Compare allSoftware that can replace Prowlarr for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Jackett
Connect media applications to multiple search indexers.
Jackett is a GPL-2.0 proxy that translates application searches into indexer queries, but indexers are configured in each connected app rather than synced automatically.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
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Radarr
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Lidarr
Music collection manager that watches artists and fetches new albums automatically.
Recyclarr
Command-line tool that syncs TRaSH Guides quality settings into Sonarr and Radarr.
