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From Discord:

Hello @everyone,

Unfortunately today is the day I have to announce that LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future.

For more information on when things will be shut down, please read the details here: https://www.lunasea.app/


I understand that this comes as a surprise and originally was not the intention for the project. However, with recently enforced changes by the Play Store (and possible other storefronts in the future) to require showcasing your legal personal residential address, I am no longer comfortable publishing mobile applications for privacy reasons.

Luckily for some time I have been able to get around this by utilizing an older ID to showcase an address I no longer reside at. Unfortunately, this no longer works and I am required to re-verify which I am not willing to do.


With this shut down also marks the closure of the Discord and Subreddit. For the time being this Subreddit and Discord will remain open, however all channels have been removed and no new posts allowed in the subreddit.

Once again, thank you to everyone for everything over the years, I couldn't have asked for a better community. ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is a shame, but Overseerr and the like work just fine and is as convenient as LunaSea ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

¯\_(ツ)_¯

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder why they just don't publish on the fDroid store and continue?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

Scratching my head over this as well. Yes, it might diminish casual discovery uptake that the app isn't in the Play Store, but for this target group I think most users would be comfortable downloading the app from Fdroid.

The larger issue with closing down the entire project including notification servers(!?) is probably a tell that there have been other factors weighing on the developer?

Either way, if the source code is openly available maybe others will pick up development in a way that isn't as vulnerable to corporate policy changes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because they don't want to obviously and is using this as a good way to shut down their work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The app has already been inactive for a while now. There hasn’t been any active development in several years. They clearly have no interest in continuing it, and just want to move on to other projects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

... or just publish the source on Github and let someone else continue the legacy.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha. Oops. I should have checked first. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Silly billy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Just go on fdroid or something, I don't understand why android app devs just give up with the play store. I get the reach is minimized but let's be real, the reach for this kind of app is already limited.

We are still allowed to sideload apps on Android, and the more projects on Fdroid or other alternative repos the better.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

wow this really is too bad.

This was by far the best mobile interface for radarr, sonarr, etc.

Sad day.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you're on Android, there's nzb360. The dev is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

But not FOSS like LS unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a bit pricey (and likely only going up in price with the upcoming licensing changes), but by far the best there is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You lose a bit of functionality but you can use it for free

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does someone use something like this discreetly if its setup in the us?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean? The nzb360 app is just a front end for services you have running on a server somewhere. Are you asking how to run the backend part discreetly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, usually I run mulvad on my laptop before firing up qbtorrent, but how would something like this work? Is it just an app running on my phone where I still have to use mulvad?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This would just be a way for you to see what qbittorent is doing from your phone. In qbit you'd turn on a few settings and then point this app to what you just turned on, and then see what's downloading from your phone.

The app isn't doing anything beyond taking interpreting what your other programs (e.g., qbit, sonarr, radarr, etc) are doing while you're away. Depending on the program you could also tell it to download something, but that's all still happening on your laptop. Your phone is just the middle man.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The app points back to always on servers you have setup to automatically download media on their own.

It wont do anything for you if you fire up a torrent client and go download media manually.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Dang I didn't even consider this as a thing to look for and now it's gone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve shrugged off a couple other apps because LunaSea was so good. Gonna miss it when it finally breaks.

I was looking forward to the successor app, but given the circumstances of the present situation I don’t see that happening now :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personal opinion, but for android at least, I always though nzb360 was dramatically better. May be a good alternative for anyone who will be missing LunaSea there.

Too bad about iOS though, the options there have always been sparse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I looked it up and it looks really good. Kinda gushing over that torrent monitoring and Readarr support in beta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I just wish the Dev would come up with a way to allow me to buy it without the play store.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The writing was on the wall for this one, development had effectively ended two years ago and had already slowed down significantly before that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone have an iOS app recommendation?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Ruddarr. Not bad, but it’s no LunaSea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I honestly find Ruddarr better. I made the switch after the announcement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Depends on what you need it for. The only way I need to interact with arr stuff normally is add new things. This I do with Ombi, which has a great app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

So, anyone forking and setting it up with ntfy.sh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

One is allowed to fork it and release it by themselves, I suppose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fo' shame, I kinda liked it but the writing was on the wall when they promised a V2 and things stalled, which, I suspect is because of things like Jellyseerr working on mobile not only just as well as Lunasea but, better?

I had the problem of someone who's usually not too bad at setting things up remotely telling them to go to a locally hosted Jellyseerr page, instead of them inputting API keys into Lunasea was night and day. :/