Sonarr AlternativesEpisode Downloaders & Torrent Search Engines like Sonarr

Sonarr is described as 'Internet PVR for Usenet and Torrents' and is a very popular episode downloader in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sonarr for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Sonarr alternative is Medusa - TV Library Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sonarr are SickChill, DuckieTV, Jackett and Sick Beard.

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  1. Medusa - TV Library Manager icon

    Medusa - TV Library Manager

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    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...

    17 Medusa - TV Library Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Comments about Medusa - TV Library Manager as an Alternative to Sonarr
    Mickael
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    .Support more indexer TVDB IMDB TMDB TVMAZE .Support all languages indexers .Have a search template for show exceptions

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    Medusa - TV Library Manager icon

    • Medusa - TV Library Manager is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Sonarr.

    • Medusa - TV Library Manager is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sonarr.

    • Medusa - TV Library Manager is Free and Open SourceSonarr is also Free and Open Source
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    Jackett

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    Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps Sonarr Radarr SickChill CouchPotato .

    10 Jackett alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about Jackett as an Alternative to Sonarr
    Top Positive Comment
    munteanzeno
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    When Sonarr gets the episode naming wrong, which is often, Jackett is there for a good manual search. Also private sites or english categories can be configured in Jackett and used in Sonarr. They complement eachother.

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    Guest
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    Jackett is a proxy for something like Sonarr ... not an alternative to Sonarr

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    pudsz TTIOT
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    because its as close to it as it gets

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. Jackett is a legitimate Sonarr alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Jackett is Free and Open SourceSonarr is also Free and Open Source
    • Jackett is LightweightSonarr is not according to our users
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    Sick Beard

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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.

    14 Sick Beard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    FlexGet

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    FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media Support for torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, TV, movies, RSS, HTML, CSV, and more.

    18 FlexGet alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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    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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Self-Hosted
    Custom sections used to group shows
     
  8. Hatt icon

    Hatt

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    This tool allows to search for files through multiple websites, with an intuitive user interface. Similarly to what Jackett does, but for DDL (direct download) and streaming.

    12 Hatt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Managarr

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    Managarr is a TUI and CLI to help you manage your HTPC (Home Theater PC). Built with 🤎 in Rust!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    TVShows

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    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...

    12 TVShows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    TED

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    OpenFLIXR

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    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.

    5 OpenFLIXR alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • CouchPotato
    • SickRage
    • SABnzbd
    • Plex
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