FlexGet Alternatives
FlexGet is described as 'Flexget is a small program that will collect the torrents for TV shows and download new episodes for you automatically' and is a episode downloader in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to FlexGet for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions and Headphones. The best alternative is Sonarr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FlexGet are CouchPotato, Nefarious, OpenFLIXR and Medusa - TV Library Manager.
FlexGet alternatives are mainly Episode Downloaders but may also be Download Managers or Torrent Clients. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of FlexGet.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Mono
Sonarr (formerly NzbDrone) is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sorts and renames them.
Sonarr vs FlexGet opinions
sonarr does not download movies
Awesome PVR for usenet and torrents. Just fill in what you want to see and CouchPotato will add it to your "want to watch"-list. Every day it will search through multiple sources, looking for the best possible match.
Discontinued
no updates to the release in git since 2015
nefarious is a web application that automatically downloads Movies and TV Shows.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Headphones
- CouchPotato
- SickRage
- SABnzbd
- Plex
OpenFLIXR Media Server is an all-in-one media server for automated downloading and serving media. Tools like CouchPotato, SickRage, Headphones and SABnzbd to download and Plex Media Server to bring everything to your screens.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Medusa is a fork of Sick Beard (similar to other forks such as SickChill and SickGear ).
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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.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last commit was made in March 2016 and last version, build-507, was released in November 2014. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
Ombi is a front end user facing request system. It connects with your other media managers (CouchPotato, SickRage, SickGear, Sonarr, Lidarr, and Radarr, etc) to automate user requests and adding them into your media library managers.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
SickChill, previously SickRage, is a fork of Sick Beard to automatically download TV shows from usenet or torrents.
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.
Discontinued
The website www.ted.nu is no longer available, but last version of the app, 0.9.72, released on 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
MyTvShowsOrganizer is an open source app that downloads torrents of TV episodes.
