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Watcharr v3

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https://github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Open source, self-hostable watched list for all your content (movies, tv series, anime, games) with user authentication, modern and clean UI and a very simple setup.


New

  • Redesigned the top half of content pages.
  • Redesigned people pages.
    • Added expandable biography (we are no longer limited to the first paragraph).
    • Added age.
  • Your watched list is now delivered with pagination and infinite loading.
    • Gets you to your data quicker.
    • Reduces bandwidth usage.
    • Sorting and filtering is now done server-side (saving your device).
  • Created a new centralized Search service.
    • Search by (external) id now occurs on server.
  • Search: Support searching your own watched list for results before needing to go out to external db.
  • Import: You can now provide your own api key when doing a Trakt import (incase our included api key ever stops working).
  • Games: Added providers (currently just: Steam, GOG & itch.io)
  • Discover: Overhauled the entire experience.
    • Added games and people types.
    • Added sorting options.
    • Now with pagination so you can keep browsing past the top results for each media type and sort.
  • Nav: The main search bar is now truly centered on the page and no longer jumps around when navigating through different pages.
  • Added version log to server (with nice art if you are looking at cli output).

Changed

  • Games now use the normal Poster component (GamePoster has been deleted).
  • Game results now loads max 40 records at once (previously was 10).
  • Restyled the Error component that is shown when data fails to load for pages.

Fixed

  • Removed spammed duplicate styling being added to built styles (reducing wasted bandwidth on duplicate styling).
  • Trakt importing.
  • Replaced some log.Fatals with real error responses.
  • Improve twitch config by not writing empty time.

Documentation

  • Importing/Trakt: New section for optional api key field.
  • Update screenshots to match new UI and add a person page screenshot.

Maintenence

  • Watcharr is now licensed under GPLv3!
  • Server code has been completely redesigned/restructured.

I'm not affiliated with the project, just noticed a new version has been released after nearly a year.

Posted Mar 5, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

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