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FileBot

 109 likes

FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your movies, tv shows or anime, and music well as downloading subtitles and artwork. It's smart and just works.

Rename episodes

License model

Platforms

  • Mac  $19.99 on the Mac App Store
  • Windows  Only available from the Windows Store at $19.99
  • Linux
3.2 / 5 Avg rating (9)
109 likes
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Features

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  1.  File Renaming
  2.  Batch Rename Files
  3.  Command line interface
  4.  Automatic file renaming
  5.  Support for scripting
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Computation and verification of hashes
  9.  Metadata Viewer
  10.  Checksums verification
  11.  Metadata Editor
  12.  Bulk Hashing
  13.  SHA256

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  • Ralf_678 liked FileBot
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  • Kezxo updated FileBot
    8 months ago
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    8 months ago
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    sachinsenal0x64 added FileBot as alternative to fixarr
    8 months ago
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FileBot information

  • Developed by

    Reinhard Pointner
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase ranging between $40 and $60, and / or subscription that costs $6 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.2
  • Alternatives

    28 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about FileBot, and it has gotten 109 likes

FileBot was added to AlternativeTo by rednoah on Apr 10, 2010 and this page was last updated Aug 13, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: FileBot receives praise for its cross-platform capabilities and efficiency, especially for renaming files and downloading subtitles. Users highlight its initial appeal, citing helpful YouTube tutorials despite its lack of in-software help. However, more recent comments reflect disappointment over its transition from free to paid software, criticizing unclear communication about this shift. Criticisms also target the behavior of the developer and misleading upgrade prompts.
rs123
  
Top positive commentJan 27, 2012

Just started learning about XBMC, then Plex. Love Plex, but was dreading renaming all the tv and movies. Filebot (on sourceforge) worked great. A few little glitches, but way better than other alternatives. filebot.sourceforge.net.

You'll notice the help seems to be totally lacking, which almost killed it for me. But there are several videos on YouTube which saved the day. And quickly.

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sebnico
  
Top negative commentJun 3, 2018

The website is confusing, it is not clear at all that now, it's a paid software, which as it, is not an issue at all, but when I see how scorful the software developper is, especially on how he reply on his forum to those simply asking is now, it's a commercial program, when reading is answers, showing pity to what now are is "clients" is for me enough to not use any longer that software.

Paying for it would not have been an issue at all, but at least, is website shall be clear, and also, using a link supposed to redirect to the ArchLinux AUR page, redirecting to a page for paying him, well, that is totally inappropriate.

Was a good software, but can do it other ways, and don't want to contribute generating incomes to someone seeming to play a game that I would define, as selfish and highly pretentious.

For those interested in a really powerful open source project where everything is clear to have a look at Kodi and all available extensions, you can add to it, to in fact obtain the same result with extensions to get subtitles, rename files and so on.

Will go for MediaElch, don't like to lose my time with those kinds of people.

1 reply
rednoah

The new license model allows for simple and clear pricing & licensing that is now the same on all platforms, including ArchLinux via the generic portable Linux package: https://www.filebot.net/#purchase

Reply written Nov 25, 2018

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simonbrowne64
  
Negative commentNov 16, 2019

Seems to con people to upgrade. If you are on an old version you get a popup and it asks you to upgrade. It shows list of improvement but NOWHERE does it say it is now a paid for service. BIT OF A CON going on I thinks. I wont upgarde if I have to pay (especially for a subscrition service) as I dont need anything more than it does on the old version.

Old version that was free 5 stars but the new version and the way it tries to trick you into upgrading 1 star.

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shnbwmn
  
ReviewMar 9, 2018

Sad to see that Filebot is now payware... Requires Java too...

Edit: Forget about downloading an older freeware version; they won't work...

Good news: As the dev points out in the link above, new free builds can be created from the source code ;)

1 reply
tylerszabo

Source code is no longer available.

Reply written May 8, 2020

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quart-temps
CommentSep 12, 2017

Great App. So sad it became too expensive.

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Duszolap
CommentDec 8, 2012

Great app! - one missing feature for me is ability to download URL's with link to movie page on IMDB etc - it would be great if this feature could be added

1 reply
rednoah

You can generate .nfo files and FileBot will already include the IMDb/TMDb links in there. Just grabbing that info and writing it into another file is easy from there.

Reply written Dec 8, 2012

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samkelly
  
Positive commentOct 14, 2012

An additional feature to remove junk files e.g. .jpg,.txt,.db,.nfo through a full tree structure would be very useful.

1 reply
rednoah

Reply written Oct 14, 2012

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What is FileBot?

FileBot makes organizing your movies and TV shows a breeze! We'll automatically match your files with information from various online databases. How you want your media files to be named and organized is completely up to you. Our groovy format engine supports pretty much anything!

  1. Drag movie or episode files into the "Original Files" list area
  2. Right-click "New Names" list area and select your preferred datasource
  3. Hit "Rename"!

Fetching subtitles is just as easy, just drop it in! Besides automatic lookup you'll also be able to manually search and download subtitles, preview subtitles and fix encoding problems (e.g. force UTF-8).

  1. Drag your movie or episode files onto the top-right drop area
  2. Hit "Download"!

Use FileBot from the command-line! There is a simple CLI for core tasks like renaming media files and fetching subtitles as well as checking or creating SFV files. On top of that you can use our scripting engine to define more complex automated processing. There's already shared scripts for various tasks that you can just run right away or further customize to your needs.

  • Watch media folders and organize new files automatically
  • Extract files from multi-volume rar archives
  • Fetch artwork and create nfo files for TV shows or movies
  • Export your media files including media info as CSV text file
  • Transfer files from and to any server via FTP/SCP/SFTP and run commands via SSH
  • Update your Kodi or Plex library ... and more!

Setting up a fully automated media center – extract archives, organize tv shows and movies, download subtitles, fetch artwork and metadata, update Kodi – with FileBot it's that easy!

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