Plex

easy
Media

Polished media server with wide device support and optional cloud features.

2 GB RAM min Active development iOS & Android
GitHub Docs Website

Replaces

Netflix

Pros

  • Best-in-class client apps
  • Wide device support
  • Polished UI
  • Hardware transcoding

Cons

  • Not fully open source
  • Plex Pass required for some features
  • Phone-home requirement
  • Ad-supported free tier pushed

Tags

mediastreamingmoviestvtranscoding

Pairs nice with

Commonly used together in self-hosted setups.

Sonarr

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TV show collection manager that monitors for new episodes and integrates with download clients.

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Radarr

medium

Movie collection manager that automatically finds and downloads movies from various sources.

0.5 GB RAM

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