sumocomputers/sonarr-radarr-updater

This project automates updating Sonarr and Radarr, two apps for managing TV and movie downloads, on Apple Silicon Macs. The author explains they are not a professional developer but built this with Claude Code because the built in updater for both apps is broken on Apple Silicon, and manually updating them was tedious. Sonarr and Radarr's Mac builds are not notarized by Apple, so their own auto updater does not work on M series chips. Normally you would have to download each new version yourself, drop it into the Applications folder, and re sign it by hand. This tool checks GitHub for the latest Apple Silicon build of each app, compares it to the version currently running, and if there is a newer one, shuts the app down, downloads the new build, replaces the old app, re signs it, clears a security flag, and reopens it. If both apps are already current, it simply exits without doing anything. It only works on Apple Silicon Macs, not older Intel based ones, and expects Sonarr and Radarr to already be installed in the standard Applications folder using their normal configuration file locations. It can be run from the command line as a shell script, or through a small SwiftUI app included in the project that shows the update process in a window and remembers your settings between runs. Because the app itself is not signed with a paid Apple developer account, macOS will initially refuse to open it and claim it is damaged. The README explains this is just a standard security warning, not an actual problem, and shows the one time terminal command needed to clear it. The project is released under the MIT license.