TiVo Desktop Plus Alternatives

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 six 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 pyTivo, cTiVo, iTiVo and KMTTG.

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TiVo Desktop Plus alternatives page was last updated Jul 24, 2021
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    TiVo Desktop software works with your network-connected TiVo box, your Mac and your PC.

    6 TiVo Desktop (free) alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Discontinued

    As of June 5, 2013, the free version of TiVo Desktop is discontinued. If you already have an existing copy of the free version of TiVo Desktop, it will still function normally - nothing has changed. New TiVo Desktop customers can purchase TiVo Desktop Plus icon TiVo Desktop Plus to take advantage of the full set of Desktop features.

    TiVo Desktop (free) Features

    1.  DVR

    TiVo Desktop (free) VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
    • 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.

    • TiVo Desktop (free) is Free and ProprietaryTiVo Desktop Plus is Paid and Proprietary
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    pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop, pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 (or in some cases, h.264) video to the TiVo. However, pyTivo is able to load many more file types than TiVo Desktop.

    5 pyTivo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    pyTivo Features

    1.  DVR

    pyTivo VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
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    Positive Jul 24, 2021
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    I like py Tivo because i needed an alternate to TiVo Desktop Plus.

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    • Most users think pyTivo is a great TiVo Desktop Plus alternative.

    • pyTivo is the most popular Linux alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.

    • pyTivo is the most popular Open Source alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus.

    • pyTivo is Free and Open SourceTiVo Desktop Plus is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

    4 cTiVo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac

    cTiVo Features

    1.  DVR

    cTiVo VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
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    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.

    5 iTiVo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    No longer maintained. On the website cTiVo icon cTiVo, which is maintained and works on newer OS releases, is suggested to replace iTiVo

    iTiVo Features

    1.  DVR

    iTiVo VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
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    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.

    3 KMTTG alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    KMTTG Features

    1.  DVR

    KMTTG VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
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    Positive Mar 23, 2018
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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.

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    • KMTTG is Free and Open SourceTiVo Desktop Plus is Paid and Proprietary
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    pyTivoX lets you play movies from your mac to your tivo. It is a free replacement for the upload feature of Tivo Desktop Plus. (Look at iTiVo for the download features).

    4 pyTivoX alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac

    pyTivoX Features

    1.  DVR

    pyTivoX VS TiVo Desktop Plus

     
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