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Title Card Maker

Title Card Maker is a self-hosted title-card generator for Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin.

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Title Card Maker is a self-hosted title-card generator for Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin. It creates and updates TV show title cards from user-defined templates. It is useful for media-library owners who want automated, consistent artwork without manual design work.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

68/100 Good

Maintained
98last commit 51 days ago
Popular
59860 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 16 days ago

GitHub stars
860
Open issues
25
Last commit
2026-08-25
Latest release
v2.16.1
License
GPL-3.0
Activity
stale

Checked 8 days ago - source: GitHub (CollinHeist/TitleCardMaker)

Resources & Compatibility

Requirements not published yet.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

Alternatives

No alternatives collected yet.

Common questions

How do I update a Docker Compose installation of TitleCardMaker?

Go to the original install directory and run the Docker Compose command that pulls the latest image and restarts the container. The documentation shows using docker compose up --pull always -d.

Why might newly generated title cards not appear in Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin?

A common cause is that the series does not have a library assigned. If you added the series manually, assign the correct library manually.

Where does TitleCardMaker store episode data files, and can they be edited?

It stores YAML datafiles in the top-level source directory. They are created and updated automatically, but are human-readable and can be edited manually.

What should I do if I am migrating an existing version 1 installation to version 2?

Use the migration guide for the steps to take. The getting started page specifically points users migrating from version 1 to version 2 to that guide.

What should be configured in the basic Docker Compose example?

Map the host port 4242 to container port 4242. Set the TZ environment variable to your timezone identifier, such as America/Los_Angeles.

Answers sourced from github.com, titlecardmaker.com, titlecardmaker.com, titlecardmaker.com

Community

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