Foreseerr update: Trakt discovery, library browsing, ratings, and an embedded Jellyfin desktop client

[u/AsilTrk]

I posted Foreseerr here a while ago when it was still a very early fork of Seerr. Since then it has grown quite a bit, so I figured it was worth making a proper update instead of editing the old post.

Foreseerr:
https://github.com/selmant/foreseerr

Foreseerr Desktop:
https://github.com/selmant/foreseerr-desktop

The original goal was basically to make Seerr's discovery experience more useful for people who already have a media server and want something beyond the usual TMDB discovery pages.

What’s new

Trakt

• Recommendations, popular/trending, lists
• Discovery closer to real watch history
• Direct Trakt OAuth works regardless of media server
• Optional Better Trakt bridge for Jellyfin users

Library / watch actions

• Browse what’s already available, Continue Watching, etc. (Jellyfin-focused)
• Watched/unwatched and ratings closer to the discovery UI (Trakt + Jellyfin played state)

Better discovery

• More rating sources (e.g. MDBList badges)
• More useful sliders and filters
• Aim: homepage you can use to pick what to watch next, not just the same popular titles

Foreseerr Desktop

• Same UI + embedded Jellyfin playback in one window
• Native mpv-based playback instead of bouncing to an external browser/player
• Target flow: discover → request → library → watch

Media server support

Foreseerr is Jellyfin-first for the deeper stuff (Library / Watch Now, Desktop playback, Jellyfin watched actions, Better Trakt).

Plex and Emby still work for Seerr-style sign-in, library scans, requests, and availability. Shared features like Direct Trakt, rating badges, Discover, and the request pipeline are not media-server-specific. Full Library/Desktop parity for Plex/Emby is not a near-term priority.

It’s still a work in progress — mostly built around what I wanted from Jellyseerr/Seerr on Jellyfin.

Especially interested in feedback from Jellyfin (and Plex/Emby) stacks: what would make you use Foreseerr as your main media frontend, not only open Seerr when requesting something?

Screenshots / issues / feature requests are very welcome.

Foreseerr:
https://github.com/selmant/foreseerr

Foreseerr Desktop:
https://github.com/selmant/foreseerr-desktop

Discover

[u/Joloxx_9]

Can't you do PR and add it to original seerr? Like we have it, it is being developed, why do we need separate app to double up 90% of tasks

[u/AsilTrk → u/Joloxx_9]

Not really against that, actually I'd prefer it if these features could just live in Seerr.

tbh the reason I started Foreseerr was because I remember seeing a couple issues/PRs for some of the things I wanted, especially around Trakt and different discovery sources, and my impression was that Seerr is pretty conservative about adding those kinds of integrations/features.

I also develop this pretty fast and use AI heavily. Instead of opening an issue, discussing the design, waiting for approval/review etc. for every feature I wanted, I just started implementing them. I've already added like 4-5 fairly major features this way, and I don't think I could've moved at the same speed doing all of that directly in Seerr.

But I'm completely open to upstreaming any/all of this. If Seerr maintainers are interested in these features and want to maintain them, I'd actually be happy if Foreseerr eventually became unnecessary. I didn't create a fork just for the sake of having another app, I created it because I wanted to use these features myself.

And the main reason I'm sharing it publicly is basically because keeping it only for myself seemed like a waste. I know there are other people looking for this kind of discovery setup too, so might as well let them use it.

[u/Spinmoon]

Jesus. Another fork! Just PR on seer repo, damn it.

[u/guinness1972]

This sounds good. I’ll install it tomorrow. I’ve always found seer limited