Lidarr
Lidarr is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Management category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in C#. It ships a Docker image. It has 5,770 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 5,770
- Forks
- 400
- Open issues
- 1,005
- Commits, last 12 months
- 84
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.1.6.5079Oct 26, 2026
- Created
- May 6, 2017
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 84 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 84 |
| Latest release | v3.1.6.5079 (Oct 26, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 |
| Releases, all time | 133 |
| Open issues | 1,005 |
| Open pull requests | 69 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | May 6, 2017 |
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About Lidarr
Music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr.
Topics
- hacktoberfest
- music
- nzb
- torrent
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Is Lidarr free and open source?
Yes. Lidarr is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Lidarr with Docker?
Yes. Lidarr provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Lidarr?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Lidarr include Sonarr, MeTube and Radarr.
Is Lidarr actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Lidarr was on Oct 26, 2026 with 84 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.1.6.5079, published Oct 26, 2026. It had 1,005 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.