SickChill Alternatives
SickChill is described as 'previously SickRage, is a fork of Sick Beard to automatically download TV shows from usenet or torrents' and is a episode downloader in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SickChill for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Online / Web-based and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is Sonarr, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SickChill are Jackett, DuckieTV, FlexGet and Nefarious.
SickChill alternatives are mainly Episode Downloaders but may also be Download Managers or Video Streaming Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SickChill.- Free • Open Source
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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.
- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps Sonarr Radarr SickChill CouchPotato .
Flexget is a small program that will collect the torrents for TV shows and download new episodes for you automatically.
nefarious is a web application that automatically downloads Movies and TV Shows.
- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Medusa is a fork of Sick Beard (similar to other forks such as SickChill and SickGear ).
No screenshots yetSick 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.
NZBHydra2 is a meta search for NZB indexers. It provides easy access to a number of raw and newznab based indexers. You can search all your indexers from one place and use it as indexer source for tools like Sonarr or CouchPotato.
Dbox.to is a streaming service website with a huge database of movies and tv shows available for free. Also its available on mobile devices like Android or iOS.
- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
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- Self-Hosted
SickGear has proven the most reliable stable TV descendant of the great SickBeard to fully automate TV enjoyment with innovation.
Folx is a free application that combines two functionalities - of download manager and torrent client for Mac.