Built an Android app to run my whole homelab from one place — need 12 testers to get it on the Play Store
TL;DR: I need 10 more people to opt in as testers so Google will let me publish this.
Google makes new developer accounts run a closed test with 12 testers opted in for 14 straight days before you're allowed to publish publicly. I've got 2. I need 10 more.
How to help (takes about a minute):
- DM or chat me your Gmail address. Please don't post it publicly in the comments. If you can't DM me for whatever reason, just comment and I'll message you first.
- I add you to the tester list and send you back the opt-in link.
- Click it, tap "Become a tester," install from the Play Store.
- Leave it installed for 14 days. That's it. You don't have to do anything else, though I'd love feedback if you actually use it.
On price, being upfront about it: it's $1 right now during testing. I can't set it to free for testing because Google permanently locks an app as free once you do that, and I don't want that. When it goes public I'm planning $5.99 USD, one time, yours forever. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. So testers get it for a buck.
You don't need to actually run any of these services to count as a tester, but obviously it's more useful (and I'd really like the feedback) if you do.
So what is it?
I got sick of having a browser tab (or five) open for every service in my stack, so I built WalkerLab, one Android app that talks to all of them. It's been my daily driver for a while now.
- TV Shows (Sonarr). Browse your library, see what's missing and what's coming up, drill into seasons and episodes, kick off release searches, add new series with proper detail pages.
- Movies (Radarr). Same deal for movies, plus theatrical/digital/physical release tracking and a pile of sort options.
- Music (Lidarr). Artist and album library browsing.
- Downloads (SABnzbd + NZBGet). Live queue with progress and speeds, pause/resume/reorder, full history.
- Torrents (qBittorrent). Active, downloading and finished tabs, live progress, ratios, ETAs, pause/resume/delete.
- Requests (Overseerr). Approve, decline or delete requests from your phone instead of logging into the web UI.
- Discover. Search and browse trending, popular and upcoming movies and TV (TMDB powered), ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, cast and crew, "more like this," and add straight to Sonarr or Radarr. Badges show what's already in your library or previously deleted.
- Stats (Tautulli). Who's streaming right now, transcode info, watch history, top watched rankings, graphs.
- Containers (Portainer). Check status and start, stop, restart or recreate your Docker containers and compose stacks without opening a browser.
- Notifications. Local alerts when something finishes downloading. It polls your servers directly on a schedule you set. Nothing gets relayed through any server I run.
- Server Profiles. Multiple setups (home, a mate's server, whatever) with instant switching and encrypted backup and restore.
- Proper tablet and foldable layouts (multi column grids, not stretched phone UI), light and dark themes, custom section names, reorderable nav.
No cloud account, no subscription, no telemetry. It connects directly to servers you already run.
Happy to answer questions, and if something's broken or missing for your setup, tell me and I'll try my best to fix it. Cheers!