# Ruddarr — Software Controller

> Open source companion app for managing Radarr and Sonarr media servers. (iPhone/iPad app by Ruddarr.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruddarr/id6476240130 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ruddarr](https://appshunter.io/developer/1726271152)
- Category: Entertainment, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.90/5 from 696 App Store ratings · 214 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 42 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2024-04-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruddarr/id6476240130/reviews.md

## What is Ruddarr?

Ruddarr is a beautifully designed, open source, privacy-first companion app for Radarr and Sonarr instances. Manage your movies, documentaries and TV series from anywhere, anytime.

Features:

• Manage movies and TV series
• Browse upcoming releases in the calendar
• Receive fine-grained notifications
• View activity queue tasks and history events
• Switch between multiple instances
• Customize the app color scheme and appearance
• Synchronize settings/instances between devices (iCloud)
• Automate actions using Siri Shortcuts
• Connect to reverse proxies using custom HTTP headers
• Use Spotlight search to quickly jump to media
• Fully localized, ready to be translated

Notifications require a subscription to Ruddarr+, because sending push notifications to devices requires reliable server infrastructure, which incurs monthly operating expenses for this free, open-source project. Alternatively, *arrs come with many notification integrations that can be self-hosted.

Requirements:

• Ruddarr does not provide any media and requires a Radarr or Sonarr instance to interact with.

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Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Manage movies and TV series
- Browse upcoming releases calendar
- Receive fine-grained notifications
- View activity queue and history
- Switch between multiple instances
- Customize app appearance
- Synchronize settings via iCloud

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ruddarr+ | $5.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Ruddarr?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Nice app
- 👍 Good all
- 👍 Love it
- 👍 Looking good!
- 👍 Great for managing your media library on the go!
- 👍 Hirnficke the goat
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Fantastic
- 👍 Amazing and simple
- 👍 Perfect
- 👍 Early stages yet still polished
- 👍 Very polished clean design
- 👍 Truly outstanding
- 👍 Incredible tool for remote management
- 👍 awesome
- 👍 The best companion app for Sonarr and Radarr
- 👍 Outstanding work.
- 👍 Top work few tweaks thou
- 👍 Brilliant App
- 👍 Love this
- 👍 Your only IOS companion
- 👍 iOS Native
- 👍 Wow. Stellar
- 👍 Impeccable
- 👍 The perfect orchestrator!
- 👍 Better than anything!
- 👍 Beautifully Designed and Functional
- 👍 Incredible app to manage your services
- 👍 Fantastic App
- 👍 Best thing since sliced bread!
- 👍 Must Have
- 👍 Useful
- 👍 Perfect
- 👍 Best IOS Radarr & Sonarr manager
- 👍 Fantastic
- 👍 Must have for *arr
- 👍 Great app.
- 👍 How have I gone so long without this app?
- 👍 The best
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Brilliant work!

**Cons**

- 🐛 Import functionality
- 🐛 Doesn't work on iOS 18.4
- 🐛 If it didn't crash all the time it be awesome.
- 🐛 Good app, but constantly freezes

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Fails with error when trying to add any service
- Crashes and freezes all the time

**Most requested features**

- Support one time purchase
- List view not just posters
- Latest releases or trending lists that could be pulled from trakt or IMDb

## Recent user reviews (10 of 214)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruddarr/id6476240130/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Perfect companion for sonarr and radarr

*2026-08-23, version 2.0.1*

This app is the perfect companion for sonarr and radarr. It is easy to use, ergonomic, intuitive, and makes managing your libraries an absolute breeze.

### 5/5 — High WAF for Radarr and Sonarr

*2026-08-22, version 2.0.0*

This makes managing our media library in Radarr and Sonarr so easy that my wife, who isn’t the most tech-savvy, can add her own shows and movies and even delete/redownload them if they have a bad file. With the new backup server address (and tailscale, not included), she can do it while traveling, too. It’s made it so easy…that now she’s filling up the media server’s hard drive (in other words, it’s too easy). Still, I’m happy that I don’t have to download everything for her.

### 5/5 — This app does what everyone else is scared to do.

*2026-08-20, version 2.0.0*

:)

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-08-13, version 1.8.5*

Honestly the best way to manage Radarr and Sonarr

### 5/5 — Worth every penny for premium

*2026-08-08, version 1.8.5*

But the free tier is also excellent for basic needs

### 1/5 — Cannot add any media, browsing works fine.

*2026-08-02, version 1.8.5*

Always get a decoding error when trying to add a TV Show or Movie. Looking over the GitHub at others will the same issue, the general consensus is “it’s a you problem, not our end” so yeah. Restarting the app, fresh install, deleting all instances… nothing fixes the error for me.

### 5/5 — home lab

*2026-07-25, version 1.8.5*

absolutely phenomenal app. love how the paid version is not required for nearly every feature. thinking about buying it just to support this awesome dev

### 5/5 — Wish there was an Apple TV version

*2026-07-22, version 1.8.5*

Love this app for both Radarr and Sonarr. My experience so far has been seamless and it’s so good to have a polished mobile first interface to manage my media server. An Apple TV app would be the ultimate feature for this app.

### 5/5 — Makes managing media so easy

*2026-07-22, version 1.8.5*

A single agreegator for Sonarr and Radarr that is well designed and super helpful. I can add new movies, tvshows, trigger a search, delete media all in one app.

### 5/5 — Really polished app.

*2026-07-22, version 1.8.5*

I have a fully automated media stack with Sonarr and Radarr. I’ve tried quite a few alternatives, but this is by far the most polished and functional. I use it to ‘keep tabs’ on what’s happening all the time. Keep up the good work!

## Frequently asked questions about Ruddarr

### What does Ruddarr do?

Ruddarr is an open-source companion app designed to help you manage your Radarr and Sonarr media server instances. It allows you to control your movies, documentaries, and TV series collections from anywhere, anytime, browse upcoming releases, and view activity queues.

### What are the key features of Ruddarr?

Key features include managing movies and TV series, browsing upcoming releases in a calendar view, receiving notifications, viewing activity queues and history, switching between multiple server instances, customizing the app's appearance, and synchronizing settings across devices via iCloud.

### How much does Ruddarr cost?

The core functionality of Ruddarr is free and open-source. However, receiving fine-grained push notifications requires a subscription to Ruddarr+ due to the server infrastructure costs involved in sending these alerts reliably.

### What are the requirements to use Ruddarr?

Ruddarr does not provide any media content itself. It requires an existing Radarr or Sonarr instance to be set up and running to interact with. The app is available for iOS devices.

### Can I automate actions with Ruddarr?

Yes, Ruddarr supports automating actions using Siri Shortcuts, allowing for more integrated control and workflows. It also allows connecting to reverse proxies using custom HTTP headers and uses Spotlight search for quick media access.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.1 — 2026-08-21

- Collapse descriptions when tapping them again
- Remove deleted tasks from queue instantaneously 
- Fixed a false connection failure during cold start
- Fixed a stale movie files being shown after a successful refresh

### 2.0.0 — 2026-08-18

Added
- Support alternate instance URLs and automatic network detection
- Display queue status for movies, seasons and episodes
- Added option to display a more detailed releases layout
- Switched to sheets for calendar navigation
- Display available storage for root folders
- Display disk space usage and statistics for instances
- Added Trakt movie ratings
- Added quick look preview to media posters
- Added "History" to sidebar on iPadOS
- Added discovery grid toggle for items already in library
- Added a release group filter for releases
- Show library counts below media grids
- Jump from a queue task to its movie or series
- Trigger haptic feedback when an alert is displayed
- Show colors in the accent color picker
- Open the instance web interface from its settings

Changed
- Improved instance synchronization across devices
- Improved byte formatting precision
- Improved image loading performance
- Improved media grid sorting/filtering performance
- Improved performance of loading movie files
- Animate media grids, calendar and loading indicators
- Detect instance protocol automatically when none is set
- Debounce library search queries
- Removed sidebar header on iPadOS
- Refined sections in settings view
- Refined various buttons designs across the app
- Disambiguate root folder filter labels
- Reworked the networking layer
- Reflect queued manual imports immediately in the queue
- Release search now also matches indexer flags and custom formats
- The FreeLeech filter now also matches partial freeleech releases
- Several dozen of internal code improvements and fixes

Fixed
- Fixed toasts not displaying above some sheets
- Fixed calendar/queue not updating instances when changed
- Fixed sidebar colors on macOS 27
- Fixed blurry discovery headline on iPadOS
- Fixed monitor toggles not reverting on failure
- Fixed series files failing to load when a language was missing
- Fixed episode file details missing when opening episodes directly
- Fixed newly added movies not being monitored
- Fixed poster size changing between grids and details on macOS
- Fixed library filters being reset after adding a movie or series
- Fixed freeleech flag missing from series releases
- Fixed redundant network requests when opening views and at launch
- Fixed calendar day highlight not updating at midnight
- Fixed activity tab hiding tasks when many seasons are downloading
- Fixed deeplinks reloading the movie, series or season already on screen
- Fixed search results not updating after adding media
- Fixed home tab preference being ignored on macOS
- Fixed release search briefly showing an empty state after searching
- Fixed discovery grid ignoring library items excluded by active filters

Removed
- Dropped support for Sonarr v3

### 1.8.5 — 2026-07-15

- Fixed a freeze when opening some movie/series

### 1.8.4 — 2026-07-07

- Fixed force grabbing season releases
- Fixed media grid flicker when while sorting
- Fixed iOS 26.4+ toolbar crash

### 1.8.3 — 2026-06-23

- Added Brazilian Portuguese localization
- Added episode links to Callsheet
- Added support for downgrade notifications
- Improved calendar filtering/ordering 
- Clarified search placeholder text
- Fixed broken Trakt links
- Fixed poster size when screen sharing
- Fixed negative custom format scores double minus sign
- Fixed missing top padding on media info sheet on macOS
- Fixed iOS 26.4+ toolbar crash
- Fixed various small iOS 27 issues

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*