TiVo Desktop Plus is described as 'Software gives you the ability to transfer shows, web videos, music, and photos between from your PC to your TiVo DVR. Additionally, the TiVoToGo feature lets you transfer recorded shows from your DVR to your' and is an app. There are four alternatives to TiVo Desktop Plus for Mac, Windows and Linux. The best TiVo Desktop Plus alternative is TiVo Desktop (free), which is free. Other great apps like TiVo Desktop Plus are cTiVo, iTiVo and KMTTG.
TiVo Desktop software works with your network-connected TiVo box, your Mac and your PC.
TiVo Desktop (free) is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.
TiVo Desktop (free) is the most popular free alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.
cTiVo is a free Mac application to download shows from your TiVo (Roamio, Premiere, HD, S3 or S2 devices) and convert them to many popular formats and devices. Its goal is to be extremely simple to set up and use, but very flexible.
cTiVo is the most popular Open Source alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.
iTiVo WAS a Mac front-end to your Series 2, Series 3, and TiVoHD device.
It will download shows to your Mac, and convert them to many popular formats / devices. Features include:
Formats include h.264, mpeg-2, mpeg-1, decrypt-only. Target devices include iPhone, iPod, AppleTV.
kmttg is a Java based program to facilitate TivoToGo (TTG) transfers that can download, create pyTivo metadata, decrypt, run comskip & comcut (commercial detection and removal), create closed captions files and re-encode multiple shows.
KMTTG is the most popular Linux alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.
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For people who are not computer/software programmers, it's the easiest to understand and use, especially now that the free version of TiVo Desktop has also been discontinued and may not work with newer builds of Windows. There is a lot of good online help/support available for KMTTG too.