Now with Trakt doing their best to get rid of their non-paying users, I’m looking for self-hosted alternatives to track my movie/show catalog and my progress in watching it.

So far, I’ve found:

  • devfake/flox - the original, hasn’t been updated in 5 years
  • Simounet/flox - fork of flox - started further development early 2024, added ActivityPub, reviews and some more features
  • MediaTracker - “highly inspired by flox” and also tracks books and computer games

These all come with (one-way) Plex integration to track what you’re watching.

Before trying all the other ones mentioned in MediaTracker’s README - is anybody using one of those already? Or some similar product?

EDIT: Suggestions from this thread:

  • @[email protected]English
    10•1 month ago

    There’s Ryot.

    Besides that, there’s also Movary, which has contributions from yours truly, but it only supports tracking movies at the moment. I’m planning on adding TV show support later, probably after the first stable 1.0 has released (In my mind it’ll probably be major release 2.0 or 3.0). The main dev and I don’t have much time these days, so it might take a while…

  • @gaylord_fartmasterEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    I use Tautulli, but I’m not sure if that is going to cover all the same use cases.

  • BlxterEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    I think I tried out mediatracker but switched to watcharr because of how much faster it was but I just tried out the demo for mediatracker and it seems to buy much faster than what I remember maybe will try it out again

    • @GentleWayEnglish
      1•29 days ago

      I use mediatracker but later versions seem to load a lot slower. I have mine pinned at version 0.2.5. The demo looks like an even older one.

      • BlxterEnglish
        2•29 days ago

        Ok thanks. I’m pretty happy with watcharr at the moment.

  • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    Trakt also sells your data off to whoever wants it even though they explicitly say that they don’t. https://trakt.tv/privacy

    I hadn’t had anything on any ad service about harry potter in years. Never searched anything about it or anything. Watched a quarter of one movie via jellyfin on linux completely locally with the trakt plugin. A few hours later I had harry potter advertisements everywhere that I don’t have an ad blocker.

  • gonzo-rand19
    3•1 month ago

    Is there any reason you want a self-hosted service for this rather than making an account with TMDB or TVDB? Trakt fetches all of its metadata from those 2 sites (it prioritizes TMDB).

    Not that you shouldn’t self-host an alternative, but you don’t have to.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      I’d like to track these things:

      • movies/shows I’d like to see at some point
      • movies/shows I have in my collection
      • movies/shows I have watched (and when/how often)
        • and they should automatically get removed from the watchlist once watched

      I believe TMDB only does the first. And self-hosting makes sure the data stays under my control and the service doesn’t vanish or gets paywalled anytime soon.

  • @ikiddEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    If I remember right, the Kodi addon for Mediatracker doesn’t work, which would be a dealbreaker for me as we watch everything via Kodi debrid addons.

  • BakkodaEnglish
    1•29 days ago

    After trying Watchstate and Ryot it depends on what you want. Do you just want an easy easy to backup/sync playstate between platforms? Watchstate. Do you need more? Not Watchstate.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 month ago

    I’ve been looking for one as well to no avail. Let me know if you find a suitable replacement