How your apps connect
A download client is no use until something tells it what to fetch. This page is the plain list of which of your apps Cresdock introduces to each other on its own, which ones need something only you have, and how to tell the two apart before you buy anything.
1.What connected means here
Most panels install apps. The part that eats an evening is what comes after: opening each app in turn, finding where it keeps the details of the others, and copying them across without a typo.
Cresdock does that part for the pairs it can. Install two apps that belong together, in whichever order suits you, and they find each other — the second one to arrive is introduced to the first, not just the other way round. It happens again by itself after an update, after a rebuild, and after you reset an app back to a clean start, so a workspace that was connected in March is still connected in September.
2.What connects itself
These are made for you the moment both apps exist in your workspace:
| Install both… | …and this is already done |
|---|---|
| Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr + qBittorrent, Deluge, Transmission or SABnzbd | New episodes, films and albums are handed over to fetch, then filed away once they arrive. |
| Prowlarr + any of those clients | Anything you pick straight out of Prowlarr's own search goes to your client. |
| Prowlarr + Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr | Prowlarr keeps their list of search sites up to date, so you only manage it in one place. |
| Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr + Jackett or NZBHydra2 | They search the sites you have set up there, without being pointed at them. |
| Prowlarr or Jackett + FlareSolverr | Sites that put a check in front of every visitor are answered for you. |
| Bazarr + Sonarr or Radarr | Bazarr watches what they have and fetches subtitles for it. |
| Recyclarr + Sonarr or Radarr | Quality settings are kept in step with the community guides. |
| Unpackerr + Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr | Anything arriving packed up is opened, so they can file it away. |
| cross-seed + qBittorrent, Deluge or Transmission | Matches are added straight to your client, without fetching any of it a second time. |
| cross-seed + Jackett | It looks for those matches on the sites you have set up there. |
3.What stays yours to do
The rest of the list needs something no panel can hold on your behalf: an account, a sign-in, or a key that only exists after you have made it. We would rather name those plainly than let you find them on a Sunday evening.
| Connection | Why it's yours |
|---|---|
| Sonarr, Radarr or Lidarr telling Plex, Jellyfin or Emby that something landed | Plex signs in with your own account. Jellyfin and Emby need a key made inside them, after you have created your account there on first open — so there is none to hand over beforehand. |
| Overseerr and Jellyseerr | Their opening setup is the sign-in to your media server, and that sign-in is yours. Everything after it, including where Sonarr and Radarr are, follows on inside their own wizard. |
| Tautulli | It asks for your Plex account before it will watch anything. |
| autobrr | Its filters live in its own store, and the key that opens that store is made inside autobrr after you create an account there — so there is none to use in advance. |
| Your tracker and usenet accounts | They're your accounts with those sites. Cresdock keeps the app ready for them and stays out of the rest. |
| Subtitle and cloud-storage sign-ins | Same reason: they're yours, and only you can agree to them. |
4.The two apps we don't connect
Two apps in the catalogue are genuinely not connected for you today, and it would be easy to leave that off a marketing page:
- ruTorrent — Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr and cross-seed are all connected to the other download clients and not to this one. Adding it is yours to do, inside each of those apps. If you'd rather none of that was hand-work, pick qBittorrent, Deluge or Transmission.
- Mylar — its download client and search sites are set up inside Mylar itself, the way they would be on any install. The comics side simply hasn't caught up with the film and television side yet.
5.Apps that meet in your folders
A good number of apps need no introduction at all, because they already share the same folders. One app fills a folder, another reads it — that is the connection, and there is nothing to set up on either side.
- Albums Lidarr files away turn up in Navidrome, because it plays that same music folder.
- Audiobookshelf, Kavita, Komga and Calibre-Web read the books, comics and audiobooks already sitting in your media folders. Add a library pointing at the folder and your collection is there — no pairing step, and no second copy.
- File Browser, the web shell, FTPS and code-server open the very same folders your other apps use, so a file you move in one is moved for all of them.
- Syncthing keeps folders on your own devices in step with folders here, and can drop new files where Paperless-ngx will find them.
- Duplicati takes copies of what your apps keep for themselves, on a schedule. Your downloads and media are far too large for that, and stay where they are.
6.Apps that stand on their own
Some apps have nobody to be introduced to, and saying so is more useful than implying otherwise. WireGuard and OpenVPN, AdGuard Home, DuckDNS, SmokePing, Speedtest, LibreSpeed, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Solidtime, Tududi and The Lounge each do their own job and share nothing with your other apps.
Where two of them overlap — WireGuard and OpenVPN, FreshRSS and Miniflux, File Browser and File Browser Quantum — each app's own page says so, so you keep one rather than discovering the duplication later.
7.Seeing it for yourself
Every app tile in your panel has a Connection details view. It lists every app in your workspace that one belongs with, what each pairing is for in a sentence, and whether the panel has already made it:
- Already made — no instructions, because there is nothing for you to do.
- Yours to make — which app to open, what it will ask for, and the details to copy.
- Can't be made — said plainly, with the reason, and no address offered that wouldn't work.
That view is generated from the same list the panel works from, so it can't drift into telling you an app is connected when it isn't. If a connection ever fails to take — an app still waking up is the usual cause — the panel says which pair, and tries again on its own.
The tile carries more than connection details — every app also shows a plain working-or-trouble verdict, with alerts and a live log behind it. That side of the panel has a page of its own.
8.What it costs
Nothing extra, on any plan. Every app in the catalogue is included, and so is every connection on this page. Cresdock is priced on how many people use it and how many machines you run it on — never on which apps you install, and never per connection.
The free tier is a real tier rather than a trial: one user, permanent, no card, and the same catalogue and the same wiring as everything else.