Arrmada

The challenge

Self-hosters run their media libraries on Sonarr and Radarr — powerful server tools with web interfaces that were never designed for a phone. Checking what's airing tonight, watching a download queue, or grabbing a specific release from the sofa meant pinching and zooming through desktop UIs.

The audience is also the most privacy-conscious there is. Any app that routed their server credentials or library data through someone else's cloud would be dead on arrival.

What we built

Arrmada is a native mobile remote built around a simple architectural promise: no backend, no account, no cloud. The app talks directly to your own servers on your own network, and your URLs and API keys live only in the device keychain.

One app covers the daily loop: browse your library as a poster grid, see what's airing on a calendar that merges every server, watch the download queue update live with progress bars, and add new titles with quality profiles and automatic searching. An interactive search puts release selection in your hand — sort by seeders, size, or age, filter out hardcoded subs or 3D, and see exactly why a release was rejected before you grab it.

Under the hood it's engineered like a product, not a wrapper: a stale-while-revalidate cache keeps every screen instant, caches warm on app open so tabs paint with data, and the queue refreshes every five seconds while you're watching it. Support for the wider *arr family — music, books, and the NZBGet download client — is on the way.

• Direct connection to your own Sonarr and Radarr servers
• No account, no cloud, no tracking — ever
• API keys stored in the device keychain only
• Library browsing with search and sort
• Unified calendar of upcoming episodes and releases
• Live download queue with progress and blocklisting
• Add titles with quality profiles and auto-search
• Interactive release search with filters and rejection reasons
• Instant-feel UI with background cache revalidation

The outcome

Arrmada gives self-hosters what the web UIs never could: the whole library in your pocket, with the privacy stance the community demands baked into the architecture itself. It's an APX Digital product, built and store-ready, heading to the app stores now.