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.
- Paid • Proprietary
6 TiVo Desktop (free) alternativesTiVo Desktop software works with your network-connected TiVo box, your Mac and your PC.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
DiscontinuedAs 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 to take advantage of the full set of Desktop features.TiVo Desktop (free) Features
TiVo Desktop (free) VS TiVo Desktop Plus
5 pyTivo alternativespyTivo 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
pyTivo Features
pyTivo VS TiVo Desktop Plus
Comments about pyTivo as an Alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus
4 cTiVo alternativescTiVo 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
cTiVo Features
cTiVo VS TiVo Desktop Plus
5 iTiVo alternativesiTiVo 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
DiscontinuedNo longer maintained. On the website
cTiVo, which is maintained and works on newer OS releases, is suggested to replace iTiVoiTiVo Features
iTiVo VS TiVo Desktop Plus
- 3 KMTTG alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
KMTTG Features
KMTTG VS TiVo Desktop Plus
Comments about KMTTG as an Alternative to TiVo Desktop Plus
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.
4 pyTivoX alternativespyTivoX 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).
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
pyTivoX Features
pyTivoX VS TiVo Desktop Plus
I like py Tivo because i needed an alternate to TiVo Desktop Plus.