Ombi
Content request system for Plex/Emby, connects to SickRage, CouchPotato, Sonarr, with a growing feature set.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 58% of tracked projects; popularity more than 63%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 4.1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v4.60.16 · 4 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 4 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | C#, deb |
Is Ombi actively maintained?
Ombi is under active development: 387 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 15 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 75% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, v4.60.16, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Ombi ranks #11 of 31 in Media Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Ombi actually does
Ombi provides a self-hosted platform allowing users to submit requests for media content to be added to their personal servers. It integrates with various media management and automation tools to handle the request lifecycle from submission to availability. The project is open-source, written in C#, and maintains an active development cycle.
Best fit: This is a suitable choice for administrators of shared media servers who want a dedicated interface for user requests rather than managing them informally.
Worth knowing: You may find that setting up and maintaining multiple downstream integrations requires careful configuration and troubleshooting when upstream APIs change.
Deployment notes
As a C# application typically distributed via deb packages, you will usually need to configure persistent storage for application data and place it behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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