RSS Pig Alternatives
RSS Pig is described as 'An easy to use RSS tracker for downloading torrent files (to be picked up by your torrent downloader). Has a full web interface written in Ruby & Sinatra. Uses bootstrap for a clean interface. Integrates seamlessly with Sickrage' and is an app in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to RSS Pig for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best RSS Pig alternative is Sonarr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RSS Pig are FlexGet, Medusa - TV Library Manager, Nefarious and Sick Beard.
RSS Pig 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 RSS Pig.
Sonarr
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Download Manager
- Media Manager
18 Sonarr alternatives- 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. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a...
- - Sonarr is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to RSS Pig.
- - Sonarr is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to RSS Pig.
Sonarr Features
FlexGet
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
19 FlexGet alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media Support for torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, TV, movies, RSS, HTML, CSV, and more.
Medusa - TV Library Manager
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Download Manager
- Media Manager
18 Medusa - TV Library Manager alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
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...
- - Medusa - TV Library Manager is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to RSS Pig.
Medusa - TV Library Manager Features
Nefarious
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Download Manager
17 Nefarious alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
nefarious is a web application that automatically downloads Movies and TV Shows.
- - Nefarious is the most popular Web-based alternative to RSS Pig.
Sick Beard
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo15 Sick Beard alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Windows
- Linux
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.
DiscontinuedThe 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.
TED
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Proprietary
- Episode Downloader
- Download Manager
12 TED alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
DiscontinuedThe 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
Folx
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo99 Folx alternatives- Freemium • Proprietary
- Download Manager
- Torrent Client
- Mac
Folx is a free application that combines two functionalities - of download manager and torrent client for Mac.
Folx Features
MyTvShowOrganizer
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo14 MyTvShowOrganizer alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Windows
A Complete Set of tools to Organize, Get info and Automatically Download Torrents of Tv-Series Episodes.
TVShows
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo13 TVShows alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Mac
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...
DiscontinuedThe project seems to be no longer maintained. Last version, 2.1r2 (631), released on November 18, 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website and the source code is available on Github.
Automatic
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo15 Automatic alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Episode Downloader
- Download Manager
- Mac
Automatic 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!
- - Automatic is the most popular commercial alternative to RSS Pig.
DiscontinuedThis software was discontinued and replaced by
Otomatic . Last version, Automatic 2, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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.
Catch
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo15 Catch alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Episode Downloader
- Mac
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.
Catch Features
