

SickGear
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SickGear has proven the most reliable and stable TV fork of the great Sick-Beard to fully automate TV enjoyment with innovation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Features
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Updates:
May 20th, 2022: Replaced Mylar with Mylar3. Removed Cardigan due to discontinuation of development.
May 17th, 2022: Removed CouchPotato since it has been officially discontinued and the github repo archived by the author. Added "Readarr" and "Requestrr" to media management and request management.
May 16th, 2022: Added additional apps to the Honorable Mentions section.
March 27, 2019: Added MediaElch for metadata editing, TagScanner for audio file metadata editing, and Emby as an alternative to Plex.
December 3, 2018: Added Soundiiz for online music service playlist synchronization.
July 30, 2018: Added Mylar and Ombi.
July 28, 2018: Added Honorable Mentions section with other noteworthy media apps.
July 11, 2018: Added cTiVo as a media downloader.
June 18, 2018: Added a section for Search and Indexer utilities, which may utilized by the various Media Managers also listed below.















Comments and Reviews
Its advanced 'Add show' finder sorts results A-Z, aired, or by relevancy. Has quick links to display your most recent added shows. It has built-in source providers for max. efficiency with hit graphs and failure stats. Keep all, or a number of most recent releases; e.g. keep the last 40 releases. Its automated search always works to save you time manually picking from lists.
There are better alternatives to this (ie Medusa is pretty new, Sonar has been around a while). SickGear does not have much control over file size downloading, little download error control, poor series numbering support (series ###), issues with network transfers, unexpected nuking of files, build updates suddenly not working, poor renaming functions (breaks with special character names), poor developer attitude (arrogant and assuming). No forums or adequate wiki/documentation for general assistance or issue resolution, just IRC chat which requires further hurdle registration.
So many false allegations in that review, each is addressed as follows...
It's good to answer misinformed allegations, 13 points seem pretty excessive for a normal user review, perhaps it is an assault to push new readers here to move on, medusa/sickrage people have brand squatted and worse so this wouldn't surprise me - even the last point about IRC is an oddly specific inaccuracy.
Aside from this, many people comment how they love the SickGear project compared to others. They appreciate the rock solid stability and highly rate the delivery reliability when looking at what the project serves to fulfill, fully hands-off automation with no downtime, no developer introduced bugs, and far fewer issues being raised than what plague other projects in this space.