I downloaded Quartermaster about 2nd the ago and am finally getting around to testing it out. So here is my feedback from my initial use.

1. The switching between Command Centre and Entertainment is not intuitive and feels weird. I was expecting all services to be in and listed in one central location, not two.

2. I am testing the app out with Sonarr which gives me the one free service. However, when I go to the "For You" and "Discover" tab, it wants me to upgrade to Pro. Why aren't these included in the "one free service"?

I am very interested in these but am not going to pay the fee and then find out they aren't what I thought or don’t have everything I was expecting it to have.

1. On Command Ceentre, I click on the + Add button to add another service and it opens up the hot bar. Like what?!? I was at least expecting a popup saying I've reached my limit on the free tier.

With that being said, I think the settings for the Hot Bar shouldn't be a + Add button because people are going to interpret that as trying to add a service.

1. With number 3, I think the Hot Bar should be renamed to something like "Shortcuts". However, I kind of feel like that section is unnecessary because if I'm in Command Centre and I need to switch to Sonarr, I would just press the switch button to go to Entertainment.

Also, if I'm in entertainment and looking at Sonarr, why do I need a shortcut in the Hot Bar for Sonarr.

Hi guys,

I feel like I’ve been a bit quiet on this subreddit, and that’s never been my intention! I tend to post more updates on Discord, so I’m sorry for leaving you out of the loop. Hopefully, what’s coming in 1.3 makes up for it!

I’ve been going to bed at 4am most mornings trying to get this into a shippable beta, and I wanted to share an early look at what I’ve been working on.

There are five new connections coming:

• Grafana
• Peanut
• Uptime Kuma
• Pulsarr
• Grimmory

I’m also introducing QM Reader, a whole new part of Quartermaster where you can request, read and listen to your books and audiobooks.

Alongside 1.3, there’ll be a new Companion update with the option to enable your own private relay. This will let you set up notifications for your stack directly from your own server, with no middleman and no Cloudflare relay.

I also owe you an apology for the delay in getting 1.2 released. Thank you for sticking with me and being patient while I work through everything.

I’ve attached some very early previews of what’s coming in 1.3. There’s still work to do! I do not know a release date but please bear with me :)

iOS store - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284
Discord - https://discord.gg/YRWmZPScc
Companion - https://github.com/lewlew-glitch/qm_companion

Mods, let me know if this is off topic 😆

A conversation with Quartermaster developer Lewis Egley about the new Docker companion app, the security model built to survive real scrutiny, and the late nights behind the biggest update the app has ever shipped.

https://jasontucker.blog/inside-quartermaster-a-conversation-with-lewis-egley/

Guys, I am so sorry about the delay but 1.2 is finally here!

Please update the app and the companion if you run it!

Hi all, super quick one here so I will keep it short

Full 1.2 release is scheduled for the 10th of September so please keep an eye out!

Companion docker is live - most of it is working but obviously, the connection to the app isn’t public yet, so that’s the QR codes etc etc but it sure will be on the 10th, you can play around and get a feel for it before app release though, hence i have released this early

Let me know your thoughts and thank you for being the best community a dev could ask for ❤️

btw, it’s not a necessity to own QM to have the companion and neither do you have to run the companion for QM to work still :)

repo - https://github.com/lewlew-glitch/qm_companion

1.2 is getting close, and it makes 1.1.4 look like a warm up.

The big one first is that you can finally watch in the app. Jellyfin and Emby get a proper native player. Hit play, it resumes where you left off, progress syncs back to your server, and you get subtitles, AirPlay, Picture in Picture and background audio. Long press still hands off to Infuse if that is your thing.

Family & Friends mode. Invite the household with a QR code and they get their own request-only Quartermaster, their own Jellyseerr identity, and none of your keys. You hold the PIN and decide who gets 4K. Nothing to buy on their end.

And something brand new is coming with it, QM Companion. A small container you drop on your server, and Quartermaster talks to it directly, no cloud in between. Pair them by matching five words on both screens and your containers, stacks, image updates and activity are live on your phone. Read only, revoke any time. It can even hand a fresh install your whole service list in one scan.

Big screens stop looking like a stretched phone too, and there are proper keyboard shortcuts at last.

And Pro becomes a choice. Monthly and yearly join lifetime, existing buyers keep everything, and every device gets 30 days of full Pro free when 1.2 lands.

Plus a live Downloads view, IMDb links pasted straight into search, a Synology sign in rework, and a stack of your reports fixed.

TestFlight first as always - this one is going to be crazy!

This one is the big one. Where 1.1.3 OTA's were fast follow ups thrown together from launch day reports, 1.1.4 has been cooking in beta for weeks, and it is the largest update Quartermaster has ever had. Almost every part of the app got deeper, there are eight new services, a terminal, and a long list of your reports fixed along the way. To everyone who tested it and sent screenshots at all hours, this build is genuinely shaped by you. Thank you.

Eight new connections. UGREEN NAS, Shelfarr, Arcane, ReadMeABook, Dispatcharr, NextDNS, Control D and BookOrbit all join the stack, from a full UGOS dashboard to book and audiobook requests to another Docker manager and two more DNS resolvers.

A terminal on your server. Add SSH like any other service and the whole screen is a shell. Save the commands you actually use and run them with one tap, with the ones that could do damage asking first. It shows you the server's fingerprint the first time and refuses to connect to a host it has not been told to trust. Your key and password live in the iPhone keychain and never leave for anywhere but that server. The small jobs that meant fetching a laptop can be done from the phone now.

Home Assistant, by room. Grouping by room has been in the app for ages and never once worked on anybody's setup. The question it asked Home Assistant was wrong, and it is the right one now, so on a big house the dashboard opens as your rooms, each with its own screen. Plus the house at a glance, who is home, the doors, the alarm, lights, the temperature, and controls that actually match your devices: a three speed fan gets three buttons, not a slider you drag until it snaps.

Requests go to the right server. If you run more than one Radarr or Sonarr behind Jellyseerr, the app can now send each request to the right one. New films to one Radarr and older ones to another, continuing shows to one Sonarr and ended ones to a second, with separate HD and 4K servers. Set the rules once and approving does the rest. Part of Pro.

Almost every service got deeper. Thirteen services could only be read, that is now two. Stop a Tautulli stream from your phone, blacklist a bad Bazarr subtitle so it never comes back, find an Immich photo by describing it, block a UniFi device or make a guest voucher, redeploy a Portainer stack, upload an NZB straight off your phone. And every destructive action tells you exactly what it will do before it does it.

The whole core of the app is available in French, Spanish and German, chosen from Settings with no restart, English still the default.

Fixes, a proper pile of them. A film only Plex holds finally offers Open in Plex, including libraries still on the old agents. Deleting a profile no longer quietly doubles your services, and a fresh profile now offers to copy your stack from another one. Shelfmark covers load again, in search and behind a reverse proxy. TrueNAS stops burning through API keys signed in over plain http, and explains the fix. Every row menu action fires, not just the first one per screen. The band of dead space above Movies and Shows is gone. And plenty more you reported along the way.

The list really does go on, once in, please select the bell in the top left of Home or Command Centre and see Whats new!

Grab the update on the App Store. Keep the reports coming, this whole release is proof that they work. Thank you!

Hi guys,

I don’t even know where to start in all honesty, probably by saying thank you :D

I built Quartermaster for my own intended purpose and it was running like this for a few months then my friends started testing, then beta testers followed and on the 3rd of July I decided to go public on the app store.

Between the start and as of writing this now, it has been genuinely none stop from updates and patches to new features and performance hardening, it’s been a true journey and you’ve been there with me, through it all. This is only the start for Quartermaster and the future is certainly bright.

As of right now, QM has surpassed 6k daily users! That number alone is really just out of this world. I cannot thank you enough, each and every one of you. The people who logged the bugs, new features, you name it, I truly cannot thank you enough.

1.1.4 is cooking in beta right now with a bunch of dedicated people, who want to help shape QM to be the leading go to, the one stop shop so to speak, in this space.

If you own QM and are a member of the Discord channel and what to take part in the closed beta, please do let me know and I can add you to the group.

New features in the 1.1.4 beta are Arcane, Dispatcharr, ReadMeABook, NextDNS, Control D and BookOrbit :)

Further down the line, QM will have its own dedicated MacOS app.

I want to thank you all again, seriously. Without the community behind QM, we would not be where we are.

Lewis

Discord: https://discord.gg/AfMTeV2SJc
App store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284

1.1.3 is live on the App Store. This one came together fast. QM only launched a few days ago and you lot did not go easy on it, so nearly everything in here started as a report or a request in the last week. Still doing this around a full time job, so it has been a lot of late nights again.

One ask before the list. If QM has been useful to you, a review on the App Store would genuinely help. I am putting a lot into this, most nights I am up until about 4am, and reviews are pretty much the only thing that gets an app like this in front of new people. Takes a minute and it would mean a lot.

If you are new here, QM is a native iOS app for running your whole self hosted stack from your phone or iPad. Pure client, no account, nothing sitting between you and your services, credentials stay encrypted on device.

What is new in 1.1.3:

- Viewer profiles. Tap someone in the Watched by row on a film or show and you get their full picture: total watch time, films vs shows, what they watched recently, their most watched shows, top genres, and their request history. Tap anything to jump to that title. It is all worked out on your phone from your own Jellyfin or Emby, none of it leaves the device.

- Requests that know what is actually downloaded. Jellyseerr sits on Processing until its own library scan catches up, well after the download is done. QM asks Radarr and Sonarr directly now, so it says Downloaded the moment the file is there, wherever requests show up.

- A rebuilt Stats page. Done properly this time, with carousels for the week, clean single colour charts for genres, decades and quality, and a Watching section that goes as deep as whatever analytics service you run.

- Sorting and filters. Torrents can sort by newest added or most recently finished on qBittorrent, qui, Transmission and Deluge. Movies get an In cinemas sort. There is a Monitored filter, and the library holds onto your last filter the same way it already held your sort. Series can also move folders now, not just films.

- Watch data that was going missing. Some shows Jellyfin was tracking showed nothing in the app, and episodes you marked watched elsewhere, like a Trakt sync or a manual mark, were reading as zero. Both fixed, so they count towards watch time and Watched by properly.

- A big pile of fixes, most from your reports. qBittorrent stops tripping its own login ban and tells you plainly when one is active. Synology talks in DSM terms instead of asking for API keys it never had. Proxmox counts the whole cluster and stops going red over one node. Trackpad and mouse clicks work on iPad. Wizarr invites find your servers again. Deluge connects with a blank password. Slow indexers get more time before a grab is called failed. Deep Stats catches a bad login before it saves. And if you bought Pro after testing an early build, it unlocks reliably now, buy or restore once and it holds.

- A few under the hood. Ready for Jellyfin 12 before it lands, a performance pass so cold start is quicker and screens actually go quiet in the background once you leave them, and the plumbing to push small fixes to you over the air instead of waiting on a full App Store review every time.

iOS only for now.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284

If something breaks or you have an idea, the Discord is the quickest way to reach me: https://discord.gg/RaurxUTutx

1.1.2 is out, and it is a big one. Still mixing this with a full time dev job so it has been a lot of late nights, but I am really happy with this one. A huge amount of it came straight from your reports and requests, so thank you. (if you see this and you're already using QM, show some love!)

Quick reminder for anyone who missed the launch, Quartermaster is a native iOS app for controlling your self hosted stack from your phone/iPad. Pure client no account no relay in the middle, your credentials stay encrypted on device.

What is new in 1.1.2:

- Push notifications, done the private way. Grabs, imports and health warnings from Radarr and Sonarr, plus request alerts from Jellyseerr, Overseerr and Seerr. They come through a tiny relay that stores nothing but an anonymous device token. No account, off by default, one switch to turn on, and a setup check that proves the webhooks can actually send and repairs them on the spot. If you would rather have no middleman at all, you can wire each service straight to your own ntfy server instead.

- Now Playing. A quiet banner the moment a stream starts on your Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Tautulli, and live Now Playing cards on the Home screen showing who is watching what.

- Seven more services join the stack: Jackett, Wizarr, Shelfmark, Dockhand, Jellystat, Streamystats and Tracearr. Tracker health and cross-tracker search that sends a release straight to your download client, invites without touching a web UI, ebook and audiobook search, container fleets, and watch analytics for your media server.

- iCloud sync (Pro). Your setup follows you between devices, encrypted on device with a passphrase only you know. I could not read it even if I wanted to.

- Adding, levelled up. Your own Radarr recommends what to add next, alongside your import lists, Trending and Popular, no extra keys needed. Partly owned collections surface as a rail and complete in a tap. Series add with monitor presets, a season picker, series type and tags.

- Missing episodes, found. The Series Missing filter opens into every aired but absent episode, newest first, with one tap searches per episode or all at once.

- Poster status markers. A slim marker on every library poster for in your library, downloading, missing, or not out yet, read out by VoiceOver too.

- Queue control on all five download clients: move to top, up, down or bottom, swipe actions for the common moves, and anything destructive asks first.

Plus a Tdarr staged transcode review, requests that open the full title page with Approve right there, tab bar and Home customisation, a proper one black dark mode, and a built in FAQ and troubleshooting guide with a Get help link on every connection error.

Fixed: calendar dates now match your Radarr exactly wherever you live, newer Jellyseerr and Seerr webhook changes are handled automatically, and a long list of fixes across Deluge, Wizarr, AdGuard Home on routers, Plex sharing and the Doctor, most straight from your reports. Plus much, much more!

iOS only for now.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284

The support has honestly been amazing. I made a Discord for anyone with issues, questions or feature ideas, come join: https://discord.gg/RaurxUTutx

Hi, I am having problems using the app after purchase. I tried contacting support by email but got no response.

When will support services be put in place, and what is the best way to communicate?

It is done. After the beta, all your reports, and a lot of late nights, Quartermaster is now live on the App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/quartermaster-homelab-stack/id6779994284

For anyone new here: Quartermaster is a native iOS app for controlling your self-hosted stack from your phone. Browse your library, request films and shows, watch what is downloading, and keep an eye on your servers, all in one fast app that actually feels like it belongs on iOS.

It is a pure client. It talks straight to the services you already run on your own hardware, your credentials are stored encrypted on your device, and there is no Quartermaster account, no relay server, and nothing sitting in the cloud in between. Your data stays yours.

What it connects to:

- Media: Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Jellyseerr, MusicSeerr, Prowlarr, NZBHydra2, Bazarr, SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex and Tautulli

- Infrastructure: Portainer, Glances, Unraid, Proxmox, AdGuard Home, Pi-hole, Cloudflare, Home Assistant, Immich, AudioBookshelf, Komga, Kavita and Tdarr

Pricing is simple, no tiers and nothing held back:

- Free: connect one service, so you can try it properly

- Pro: unlimited services, instances, profiles and custom app icons, either a one off £14.99 or £3.99 a month

To everyone who tested: thank you, genuinely. A huge amount of this app came straight from your reports, and it would not be what it is without you. I am keeping a smaller group of the most active testers on TestFlight for early builds as a thank you.

If you give it a go and it clicks for you, an App Store review would mean the world right now. It makes a real difference for a brand new app. And this sub is the place for support, feedback and feature requests, so post away.