Scryer vs. Prowlarr
Prowlarr exists because Sonarr and Radarr each hold their own indexer list. It centralizes indexer definitions and pushes them to every *arr. With one application for movies, series, and anime, Scryer has one indexer list already.
Side By Side
Section titled “Side By Side”| Scryer | Prowlarr | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Indexers configured once in Settings → Indexers | Separate app syncing to each *arr |
| Definitions | Native plugins for major trackers and Usenet indexers, generic Newznab and Torznab, and a Cardigann engine plugin that runs Prowlarr-style definitions | Cardigann YAML for hundreds of trackers, plus native indexers |
| Per-app routing | Facet routing decides which indexer serves Movies, Series, or Anime | Sync profiles decide which *arr gets which indexer |
| Cloudflare | FlareSolverr-compatible challenge solver, works with Byparr | FlareSolverr as an indexer proxy |
| Health | Indexer status, backoff, and history in Scryer | Prowlarr health checks and history |
| Serving other apps | Indexer clients (beta): Newznab and Torznab endpoints with per-client keys and per-indexer grants | Newznab and Torznab endpoints per indexer |
| Migration | The migration wizard imports indexers from Prowlarr, Sonarr, and Radarr | n/a |
What Changes In Practice
Section titled “What Changes In Practice”No sync step. Adding an indexer in Scryer makes it available to every facet immediately. Routing lets you restrict it, for example an anime-only tracker that should never serve movie searches.
Keep Prowlarr if you want. Prowlarr exposes each indexer as a Newznab or Torznab endpoint, and Scryer’s generic Newznab and Torznab plugins consume those. This is a reasonable bridge while migrating or when other apps still depend on Prowlarr.
Interactive search is faster. Scryer parses and scores large result sets quickly, which shows most on long-running series and anime. See Context-Aware Release Parsing.
What Prowlarr Still Does That Scryer Does Not
Section titled “What Prowlarr Still Does That Scryer Does Not”- Prowlarr syncs indexer definitions into Lidarr, Readarr, and Mylar automatically. Scryer’s indexer clients (beta) expose your indexers to those apps as Newznab and Torznab feeds, but each app is configured by hand with its own client key.
- Prowlarr’s definition library is larger. If a tracker has no native Scryer plugin and no Cardigann definition, use Prowlarr as a Torznab bridge.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Indexer and Routing define the concepts.
- Plugins covers installing indexer plugins.
- Migrate From Sonarr/Radarr imports Prowlarr indexers.