Aletheia

All-in-one media manager for movies, books, and audiobooks.

Overview

Aletheia (from Greek ἀλήθεια - "truth, disclosure") is a unified media management system forked from Radarr. It provides automated monitoring, downloading, and library management for multiple media types through a single interface.

Current Status: Active development. Movie functionality inherited from Radarr is working. Multi-media foundation being implemented.

Features

Movies (working):

• Automated monitoring and quality upgrades
• Metadata and artwork management
• Integration with download clients and indexers

Books (in development):

• EPUB, MOBI, PDF quality tracking
• Author and series hierarchy
• Goodreads/Hardcover metadata

Audiobooks (in development):

• M4B, MP3, FLAC support
• Narrator tracking (competitive differentiator)
• Duration metadata and Audible integration

General:

• Usenet and BitTorrent support
• SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent, Transmission integration
• Plex and Kodi integration
• Built-in archive extraction (Unpackerr functionality)

Privacy

Telemetry and analytics are disabled by default:

• No usage analytics or behavior tracking
• No machine fingerprinting
• Error reporting is opt-in

To enable error reporting, toggle Analytics in Settings → General.

Quick Start

docker run -d \
  --name=aletheia \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -p 7878:7878 \
  -v /path/to/config:/config \
  -v /path/to/media:/media \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/cheir-mneme/aletheia:latest

Web interface: http://localhost:7878

Building from Source

Requirements: .NET 8.0 SDK, Node.js 20+, Yarn

git clone https://github.com/cheir-mneme/aletheia.git
cd aletheia
./build.sh --backend --frontend
dotnet run --project src/Radarr

Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md for detailed phase planning.

Completed:

• Phase 0-1: Privacy & security fixes
• Phase 2: Foundation (fork, CI/CD, branding)
• Phase 2.5: Community standards, quality gates, Unpackerr absorption

Current:

• Phase 3: Multi-media foundation (database generalization, indexer management)

Planned:

• Phase 4: Books & audiobooks support
• Phase 5: TV shows
• Phase 6: Music (with fingerprinting and quality analysis)
• Phase 7: Subtitles (Bazarr replacement), podcasts, comics

Key Differences from Radarr

Feature	Radarr	Aletheia
Media types	Movies only	Movies, books, audiobooks (planned: TV, music, podcasts)
Telemetry	Enabled by default	Disabled by default
Indexer management	External (Prowlarr)	Built-in (planned)
Archive extraction	External (Unpackerr)	Built-in
Narrator tracking	N/A	Native support for audiobooks

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, code guidelines, and PR process.

Development standards:

• Conventional commits (feat:, fix:, docs:, etc.)
• Feature branches + PRs to develop
• Pre-commit hooks for linting

License

GNU GPL v3

Aletheia is a derivative of Radarr. Copyright 2010-2025.