MeTube vs Sonarr

Both are self-hosted media management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

MeTube and Sonarr are closely matched on maintenance health (77 vs 77). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
MeTubeSonarr
Health score 77/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 283 557
Commits (last 3 mo) 115 129
Stars 15k 17k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 16 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 GPL-3.0
Built with Python, Nodejs, Docker C#, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

MeTube

Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 20/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 51% of tracked projects; popularity more than 84%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 6 commits 2025-11: 6 commits 2025-12: 23 commits 2026-01: 20 commits 2026-02: 25 commits 2026-03: 32 commits 2026-04: 44 commits 2026-05: 12 commits 2026-06: 17 commits 2026-07: 61 commits 2026-08: 37 commits

Sonarr

Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 27/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 23 commits 2025-11: 73 commits 2025-12: 74 commits 2026-01: 62 commits 2026-02: 19 commits 2026-03: 43 commits 2026-04: 52 commits 2026-05: 82 commits 2026-06: 30 commits 2026-07: 51 commits 2026-08: 48 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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