The Perfect Media Janitor
Welcome to the Solution
Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
Maintainerr helps you find those outlying media items that have just been sitting there in your library. If you use Seerr, it is easy for your users to start downloading everything they can think of. Sometimes, they don't even watch it.
Utilize multiple parameters across Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Tautulli, Streamystats, and Seerr to find unwatched/unwanted media, and get rid of it.
Maintainerr was created to assist you in freeing up storage space. Here are some of its useful features :
Make Collections from a specific set of rules, defined by you.
See an overview of your media library contents (Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby)
Browse any library inside Maintainerr and sort by title, date added, release date, rating, or size to spot what to clean up.
Manually add or remove media, and exclude items from a collection even when they match a rule
Show your new collection on your media server home screen
Set a number of days the collection will exist before its contents are deleted
See exactly when scheduled deletions and *arr actions will run, in a month or week calendar view.
Set Radarr and Sonarr to either remove or unmonitor media in the collection
Auto clear requests from Seerr
See how much space your media uses
Use information and statistics from your Tautulli installation.
See Jellyfin watch statistics from your Streamystats server inside Maintainerr.
Stay in the loop with alerts via Discord, Telegram, Slack, Email, Gotify, Ntfy, Pushover, Pushbullet, LunaSea, and Webhooks.
Brand collection items with custom poster and title-card overlays, like a "Leaving soon" badge, designed in a visual editor.
Upload your own artwork for a collection. Maintainerr pushes it to your media server and restores it on recreation.
Move between Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, with automatic rule migration.
Import ready-made rule presets shared by the community, or export and share your own.
Manage media straight from the collection in your media server; Maintainerr syncs additions and exclusions back.
Sound like the solution?
Maintainerr works with Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby, and is easy to get up and running with Docker. You can find instructions and tutorials in our documentation. If you need help, feel free to reach out.
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Join our DiscordFrequently asked questions
What is Maintainerr?
Maintainerr is a free, open-source, self-hosted app that automatically finds and removes unwatched or unwanted movies and TV shows from Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby using customizable rules.
Can Maintainerr automatically delete movies and shows from my media server?
Yes. Maintainerr groups stale media into rule-based collections and can delete the files from disk, unmonitor them in Radarr and Sonarr, and clear the original requests from Seerr.
How does Maintainerr compare to other media-cleanup tools?
Maintainerr is free, open-source, and was one of the original rule-based media-cleanup tools for Plex, later adding Jellyfin and Emby support — newer utilities such as Reclaimarr and Deleterr tackle the same problem. Maintainerr offers a visual rule builder, "leaving soon" poster overlays, notifications, and a deletion calendar.
How does Maintainerr decide which media to remove?
You build rules from parameters across Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, and Seerr — such as last watch date, release date, rating, file size, or request status — to target exactly the unwatched media you want to clean up.