Private recommendation rows for every Plex user

Yes, that is exactly what Shortlist does. It reads each person’s own Plex history, finds films and shows in your library they haven’t seen but are likely to want, and puts them in rows on that person’s Plex home screen: “Picked for You”, “Because you watched”, “Watch it again”, seasonal picks and more. Everyone gets different rows. Sharing filters hide them from other accounts, with exceptions for the server owner and Plex restriction profiles. It runs on a schedule you set, usually overnight.

Not directly, but you can get there. Plex has no per-user collections. What it does have is the ability to hide things by label. Give the collection a label, then set every other account to hide that label, and one person is left able to see it. You need Plex Media Server 1.43.2.10687 or newer, because older versions ignore that setting on the Home and Recommended shelves. Shortlist applies the sharing filters before promoting the row to Home. An unpromoted collection can still appear in Collections until those filters apply; the server owner and Plex restriction profiles have exceptions.

No. The AI only ever chooses from titles already confirmed to be in your library and not yet watched by that person. Anything else it suggests is thrown away and logged, so a made-up title can’t reach anyone’s row.

No, they are built to run side by side. Shortlist changes collection contents, names and artwork only for collections it made itself, which carry its own shortlist_* label. Everything else on your server, including every Kometa collection, keeps those properties. Row placement can move other shelves while preserving their relative order. It is the same story with your sharing settings: Shortlist reads what is there and adds only its own entries, leaving the rest alone.

Not everyone’s rows on your own Home screen — Shortlist puts each person’s row only on their side, so nobody else’s row lands on yours. Where you do see them all is the library’s Collections tab, and the Recommended shelf if you leave that on for a row, because Plex cannot hide anything from the account that owns the server. That is a Plex limitation rather than a Shortlist choice. If it bothers you, take the rows off the Recommended shelf, or watch on a Plex Home user and keep the admin account for admin.

Use Shortlist’s in-app uninstall flow before removing the container. It previews restoring saved sharing settings and deleting Shortlist collections, then reports any accounts it could not restore. Deleting the Docker container alone does not clean up Plex. You can also try the whole thing first without touching anything: set SHORTLIST_DRY_RUN=1 and it will show you every change it would make while writing nothing.

Plex Media Server 1.43.2.10687 or newer, Plex Pass on the admin account, a free TMDB key, and somewhere to run one Docker container. Tautulli, Radarr, Sonarr, Trakt, MDBList and an AI key are all optional. Images run on both Intel and ARM machines.