Automatic AlternativesEpisode Downloaders & Download Managers like Automatic

Automatic is described as 'Allows you to setup subscriptions for your favorite content provided through RSS feeds. After setup, it works in the background to download the latest files with absolutely no user interaction required!' and is a episode downloader in the file sharing category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Automatic for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Docker apps. The best Automatic alternative is Sonarr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Automatic are Medusa - TV Library Manager, TED, FlexGet and Mydia.

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  1. Sonarr icon
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    Sonarr is an internet PVR for Usenet and Torrents.

    20 Sonarr alternatives

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    • Sonarr is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Automatic.

    • Sonarr is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Automatic.

    • Sonarr is Free and Open SourceAutomatic is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Medusa is a fork of Sick Beard (similar to other forks such as SickChill and SickGear ). It allows for automatic television series monitoring of episode information off the...

    17 Medusa - TV Library Manager alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Medusa - TV Library Manager is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Automatic.

    • Medusa - TV Library Manager is Free and Open SourceAutomatic is Paid and Proprietary
  3. TED icon
     43 likes

    The internet is great to provide us with our favorite TV shows free, early and watchable on demand. We always had to spend lots of time to keep up to date with the newest episodes. Until we created ted, our torrent episode downloader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. FlexGet icon
     30 likes

    FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media Support for torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, TV, movies, RSS, HTML, CSV, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Mydia icon
     2 likes

    A modern, self-hosted media management platform for tracking, organizing, and monitoring your media library.

    33 Mydia alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Sick Beard icon
     41 likes

    Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.

    14 Sick Beard alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. TVShows icon
     18 likes

    TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads your favourite shows. You dont need anymore to manually download torrent files, TVShows does it for you. Manage your subscriptions and preferences from within the TVShows application, and TVShows takes care of the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
     
  8. A Complete Set of tools to Organize, Get info and Automatically Download Torrents of Tv-Series Episodes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  9. Catch icon
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    Catch is the easiest way to use ShowRSS on OS X. It'll take care of everything. New shows will be downloaded as they are released.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
     
  10. DSeries icon
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    DSeries is a TV Series/Shows Downloader (almost) for all operating systems. It should run on any system that has java installed :)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  11. Series icon
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    Series is a software for people who like watching TV shows. It download automatically episodes you don't have already downloaded.

    14 Series alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
     
  12.  1 like

    Why waste time downloading TV NZB files when it can be done for you?

    Leechr will check your myepisodes.com page for the shows you need to acquire and will automatically download the relevant NZB files from your favourite NZB sites.

    Works great with a news-reader that can auto-i.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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