Media sync hub

CrossWatch

Keep your media servers, media clients and trackers in sync, for you and everyone in your household. Review changes before applying them with Interactive Sync.

Install CrossWatch View screenshots View on GitHub Open Wiki Reddit

One control room

Your media state, kept in sync.

CrossWatch (CW) links accounts, profiles, sync pairs, schedules, snapshots, scrobbling routes and repair tools into one local dashboard. Run it for yourself, then create separate profiles for family, friends, servers or tracker setups.

Emby Media server

Jellyfin Media server

Plex Media server

Silo Media server

Kodi Media client

Nuvio Media client

Stremio Media client

AniList Anime tracker

MyAnimeList (MAL) Anime tracker

Kitsu Anime tracker

CrossWatch Local tracker

Floppy Tracker

FlickList Tracker

PunchPlay Tracker

BingeBase Scrobble tracker

SCROB Tracker

MDBList Tracker

PublicMetaDB Tracker

SIMKL Tracker

Tautulli Tracker

TMDb Tracker and metadata

Tracearr Tracker

Trakt Tracker

WeTrakr Tracker

REVIEW

Interactive Sync

Review additions, updates and removals before applying them. Resolve conflicts and correct titles, IDs, seasons and episodes.

SYNC

Watchlists, ratings, history and progress

Keep media state aligned across servers and trackers, including collections, separate rewatches and unfinished playback where supported.

LISTS

Playlists and published lists

Sync playlists between providers and publish lists for Kometa, Radarr and Sonarr.

HUB

Profiles for everyone at home

Give family and friends their own profile, with a picture and an optional login. Each profile keeps its own accounts, pairs, routes and schedule.

LIVE

Watcher and webhooks

Send play events from Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Silo, Kodi or Scrob to supported trackers with Watcher, without Plex Pass or Emby Premiere. Webhooks are also available for Plex, Emby and Jellyfin.

USERS

One server, many users

Sync several Plex, Emby, Jellyfin or Silo users from one server connection, so each person keeps their own history.

SAFE

Snapshots and captures

Keep provider snapshots, compare changes and restore watchlist, ratings and history data when you need to recover.

TOOLS

Analyzer and saved mappings

Find missing items and correct mappings for pending retries in Analyzer. Use the Editor to inspect, add or block items and review or edit saved mappings.

ROUTES

Sync topology advisor

Visualize your sync routes and identify overlapping paths between providers.

LOGS

Events and live logs

Search sync history and open logs for a run. Filter live and saved logs by pair or run, highlight errors and keep logs for later.

ANIME

Anime ID mapping

Match anime across AniList, MyAnimeList (MAL), Kitsu, SIMKL and CW tracker pairs with AniBridge, animeApi and custom mappings. Watcher and webhooks also support anime mapping for supported providers.

Optional AI help

Ask CrossWatch for advice with your own AI model, or give AI apps like Claude, Codex or Cursor read-only access. Off until you set it up.

01 Connect

Add servers, trackers and metadata.

02 Pair

Choose what moves between providers.

03 Sync

Review changes with Interactive Sync, run automatically on a schedule or send play events through Watcher and webhooks.

04 Follow up

Open notifications for sync progress, pending reviews, reports and release updates. Use Events and Logs to investigate problems.

Profiles and managed users

Share CrossWatch with your household.

Create a profile for each person, pick their accounts and give them a login if you want. Choose read-only, monitor or full access. With full access they manage their own pairs, Watcher routes, webhooks and schedule, and can reconnect their own accounts. Use View as to see and manage any profile yourself. Sign-in supports Plex SSO, OIDC and two-factor authentication.

Set up profiles Managed users

Kodi add-on

One Kodi profile, separate watch histories.

CrossWatch for Kodi reports playback and household viewers to CrossWatch. Set up a Watcher route for each viewer to keep their watch history separate. The add-on is currently in beta.

Get the Kodi add-on Installation and pairing

Docker first

Start local. Stay in control.

The web UI is exposed at http://localhost:8787. Set CW_CLI_ONLY=1 when you want API/CLI-only mode. Keep your config in a Docker volume and update with the latest image when you are ready.

Installation guide Docker Hub

docker run -d \
  --name crosswatch \
  -p 8787:8787 \
  -v crosswatch_config:/config \
  -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  ghcr.io/cenodude/crosswatch:latest