plex vs readarr

plex		readarr
	Project
1	Mentions	3
33	Stars	55
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	9.4
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

plex

Posts with mentions or reviews of plex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-28.

Linuxserver.io
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Jun 2021

LISO is open source, while Hotio has nothing on github: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-plex https://github.com/hotio/plex (it's just a json file to store pull counts)

readarr

Posts with mentions or reviews of readarr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

Alternatives to Calibre meant to run in Containers?
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Mar 2023

https://hotio.dev/containers/readarr/ x 2 (ebooks/audiobooks)
New Beta Release - Develop - v0.1.1.1320
2 projects | /r/Readarr | 10 May 2022

hotio/Readarr:testing
Can't pull docker image
1 project | /r/Readarr | 8 Jul 2021

Link to tagged image versions

What are some alternatives?

When comparing plex and readarr you can also consider the following projects:

docker-plex

sonarr - Sonarr docker image.

docker-mods - Documentation and Examples of base container modifications

DockerCheatSheet - 🐋 Docker Cheat Sheet 🐋

autoscan - Docker image for the Autoscan Go rewrite.

Readarr - Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)

docker

Calibre Web - :books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

docker-restic-cron - Automated Restic backups from Docker

Kavita - Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

s6-overlay - s6 overlay for containers (includes execline, s6-linux-utils & a custom init)

unpackerr - Extracts downloads for Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and/or a Watch folder - Deletes extracted files after import