Alternatives to Jackett
Connect media applications to multiple search indexers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Jackett
Connect media applications to multiple search indexers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Jackett.
Prowlarr
Manages your indexers and trackers once, then syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr and the rest so you never configure them twice.
Prowlarr manages indexers once and syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and others, adding health notifications, statistics and per-indexer proxy support, under GPL-3.0 rather than GPL-2.0.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sonarr
Watches for new episodes of the TV series you follow, downloads them through your client, then renames and files them.
Radarr
Sonarr for films: monitors indexers for the movies on your list, downloads them, then renames and files them.
Lidarr
Music collection manager that watches artists and fetches new albums automatically.
autobrr
A self-hosted tool that watches indexer IRC announce channels and sends matching torrent releases to your download client.
Mylar3
An automated comic book downloader and library manager for CBR and CBZ files via NZB and torrents.
LazyLibrarian
A self-hosted manager that tracks authors and fetches ebooks, audiobooks and magazines automatically.
