Kometa vs Ryot in 2026

Kometa and Ryot put side by side with Watcharr for self-hosters: what each is said to do, what each is said to cost, and what to check first.

By VLClean · 2026-10-12

VLClean is published by the makers of Askarr and Watcharr, which are compared here alongside other tools.

Kometa and Ryot are two tools a self-hoster may meet while setting up a media library, and the facts supplied for this page quote neither of their own pages, so what each of them does is not described here. Watcharr is a website where you paste one public IMDb list and get back two links, one for Radarr with the movies and one for Sonarr with the shows. ^[1] The hosted version needs nothing to install and no account. ^[1] Read Kometa's and Ryot's own pages for their side of the comparison.

Option	Price	What it does	Also stated
Kometa	not published	not published	not published
Ryot	not published	not published	not published
Watcharr	not published	You paste one public IMDb list and get one Radarr link with the movies and one Sonarr link with the shows ^[1]	The same list always gives the same two links ^[1]

The short answer

Kometa and Ryot are compared here with Watcharr, and the facts supplied for this page quote neither of their own pages, so what each of them does for a self-hoster is not described here. Their own pages are the place to read that.

Watcharr is a website where you paste one public IMDb list and get back two links, one for Radarr with the movies on the list and one for Sonarr with the shows. ^[1] The hosted version needs nothing to install and no account. ^[1] Each link behaves like a small Radarr or Sonarr server, so Radarr checks it every 15 minutes and Sonarr every 5, and pasting, copying and browsing work from any screen in the web app. ^[1] ^[1]

What Kometa, Ryot is built for

The facts supplied for this page hold no line from Kometa's pages and no line from Ryot's pages, so this section cannot say what either of them does, what it runs on, or who it suits. Every sentence about a tool on this page has to follow a source line, and for these two there is no line to follow.

What can be said is where to look. Kometa's own pages and Ryot's own pages are the place for the description of each tool, for what it expects you to have already, such as Plex, Radarr or Sonarr, and for what running it involves. This page marks those parts as not published rather than filling them in.

If you arrived here weighing the three, read their pages first and then come back to what Watcharr's claims say below. That way the comparison rests on their words and not on this page's silence about them. The table follows the same rule: where a source line is missing, the cell says not published.

What Watcharr is built for

Watcharr is made by the team that publishes this site. You paste one public IMDb list and it gives you one link for Radarr with the movies on that list and one link for Sonarr with the shows. ^[1] It accepts any public IMDb watchlist or list, from the desktop site, the phone site, or IMDb's other-language pages. ^[1]

The page shows the list's covers in a row, and each cover opens TMDB's plot, genres, rating, backdrop and trailer. ^[1] Both links are built from the IMDb list's id, so the same list always gives the same two links. ^[1] It looks up TheTVDB ids through TVMaze and TMDB, leaves out shows it cannot match, and tells you which ones it skipped. ^[1]

If a read of your list fails, the links keep serving the last list that loaded correctly. ^[1]

Pricing and fees

No price for Kometa appears in the facts supplied for this page, and no price for Ryot does either, so both are marked not published. Their own pages are the place to check what each costs and whether anything is charged at all.

The claims for Watcharr state no price for the hosted version either, so that part is not published here. What the claims do say about money is that commercial use is not licensed and no commercial licence is for sale. ^[1] The code is available to read under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 licence, and older versions remain under MIT. ^[1]

No card fee or other charge from a payment service is stated for any of the three tools, so that part is not published here either. Where a price is not published, this page does not estimate one, so check each tool's own pages before you plan around a total cost.

Setting it up with your server

The facts supplied here say nothing about how Kometa or Ryot connects to Plex, Radarr or Sonarr, or about how either is run, so their own pages are the place for that.

For Watcharr, the hosted version needs nothing to install and no account. ^[1] You add the two links to Radarr and Sonarr by clicking a bookmark inside those apps, and it uses each app's API key without sending that key anywhere else. ^[1] Radarr then checks each link every 15 minutes and Sonarr every 5. ^[1]

The one-click sticker shows on bigger screens, while pasting, copying and browsing work from any screen in the web app. ^[1] The claims for Watcharr do not mention Plex, so check how your library fits. If you sign in, it re-reads your list about every 15 minutes and warns you when a list fails three reads in a row. ^[1]

Things to check before you choose

Start with each tool's own pages, since Kometa and Ryot are not quoted here at all. Look for what the tool does, what it runs on, and what it expects you to have set up already, such as Plex, Radarr or Sonarr.

Ask what should happen to an IMDb list, and whether you want one list split into a Radarr link and a Sonarr link. Ask how often the list should be read, since Watcharr's claim says Radarr checks every 15 minutes and Sonarr every 5. ^[1] Ask what happens when a read fails, and check what each tool says about that. Ask how your library fits, because the claims for Watcharr do not mention Plex.

Ask what anything costs, and whether the licence allows what you plan to do, since none of the three publishes a price here.

How to choose

If you want one public IMDb list turned into a Radarr link with the movies and a Sonarr link with the shows, Watcharr's claims say it does that. ^[1] If you want the same list to always give the same two links, its claims cover that too. ^[1]

If several people share the library, signed-in users can combine several IMDb lists into one Radarr link and one Sonarr link for the whole household, and a title that is on two lists is added only once. ^[1] If you want the links to keep working when a read fails, its claims say they serve the last list that loaded correctly. ^[1]

If you want to read the code first, it is available under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 licence, and older versions remain under MIT. ^[1] If you are choosing Kometa or Ryot instead, their own pages are where the description, the price and the setup have to come from, because nothing of theirs is quoted here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kometa free?

No page of Kometa's is quoted on this page and the facts supplied here hold none of its own words, so its price is not published here and this page does not guess at one. Kometa's own pages are the place to check whether it is free, whether anything is charged for it, and what running it costs you. The same is true of what it does and what it works with, since there is nothing of its to cite.

Is Ryot free?

The facts supplied for this page include no line from Ryot's own pages, so its price is not published here and this page will not estimate one. Ryot's own pages are the place to check whether it is free, whether any plan is charged for, and what it costs you to run. What it does, what it runs on and what it needs are also unstated here for the same reason.

How much does Watcharr cost?

The claims state no price for the hosted version, so the cost is not published here. What the claims do state about money is that commercial use is not licensed and no commercial licence is for sale. ^[1] The code is available to read under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 licence, and older versions remain under MIT. ^[1] No card fee from a payment service is stated for it.

Does Watcharr need anything installed?

The hosted version needs nothing to install and no account. ^[1] You add the two links to Radarr and Sonarr by clicking a bookmark inside those apps, and it uses each app's API key without sending that key anywhere else. ^[1] After that, Radarr checks the link every 15 minutes and Sonarr every 5. ^[1]

How does Watcharr handle a show it cannot match?

It looks up TheTVDB ids through TVMaze and TMDB, leaves out shows it cannot match, and tells you which ones it skipped. ^[1] If a read of your list fails, the links keep serving the last list that loaded correctly. ^[1] Kometa's own pages and Ryot's own pages are the place to check how each of them handles matching.

Its code is available to read under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 licence; older versions remain under MIT. ^[1]

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Sources

Watcharr's own description of itself (the product of this site's publisher)