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Explore the demo
The demo fills Managerr with fictional services and media so you can walk through every screen without connecting a real server or handing over an API key. This page covers how to open it, what it contains, where it stops, and how to leave.
Opening the demo
The demo lives at Settings → About → Explore the demo, subtitled Fictional services, no credentials needed. The row is offered only when you are not already in the demo, so it is never there twice. About covers the rest of that screen.
Tapping it closes Settings and reloads the app onto the demo’s services. A Demo services banner then sits above the content, with a Leave demo button in it, so it is never ambiguous which set of services you are looking at.
It is a reasonable first stop if you have not generated an API key yet, and a useful reference later: when one of your own screens is empty, the demo shows what that screen is meant to look like with something in it.
What is in it
Seven fictional services, covering all six kinds Managerr connects to, with two Radarr servers so the multi-server behaviour is exercised rather than described.
- Series · Home — Sonarr.
- Movies · Home and Movies · 4K — two Radarr servers, because a second Radarr for 4K films is an ordinary setup.
- Music · Home — Lidarr.
- Indexers · Home — Prowlarr.
- Requests · Home — Seerr.
- Playback · Home — Tautulli.
Each one carries invented media: made-up titles, summaries, queues, calendars and history. None of it corresponds to anything real, and none of the addresses resolve.
Actions work. Searches, approvals and grabs are simulated on the device, and they are accepted the same way the real services accept them, so the flow you learn in the demo is the flow you will use afterwards.
One screen behaves differently. In Settings → Services, tapping a service opens a read-only detail rather than the editor, and there is no Add a Service row and no enable switches — the demo’s services are fixed, so there is nothing there to change.
What the demo will not do
The boundaries are deliberate, and worth knowing before you judge the app by what happens here.
- It makes no network requests and needs no credentials. Nothing leaves the device, and nothing is contacted.
- Preferences are not persisted in demo mode at all. A setting you change while the demo runs is not written to your real configuration, and it does not survive leaving.
- It schedules no real reminders. A reminder you set in the demo is acknowledged and then does nothing.
- Its widget summaries are labelled as demo content, so a widget on your Home Screen does not quietly start reporting fiction.
- Backing up and restoring your own services is unavailable while the demo runs — see Backup and Reset.
Leaving and resetting
While the demo is running, Settings → About gains two rows, under the line These are fictional services and media. Changes affect only the demo on this device.
- Leave demo
- Go back to your own services. The same thing the banner’s button does.
- Reset demo services
- Start the demo over. The fictional services and media are rebuilt from scratch, without leaving the demo — useful once you have grabbed, approved and deleted your way through it.
Entering the demo sets your real configuration aside and restores it when you leave. Your saved services, API keys and cached data are untouched throughout, so there is nothing to undo afterwards.
When you are ready to connect something of your own, Add a service covers the editor field by field.