Alternatives to Medusa
A self-hosted manager that watches for new TV episodes and downloads them into your library. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Medusa
A self-hosted manager that watches for new TV episodes and downloads them into your library.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Medusa.
Sonarr
Watches for new episodes of the TV series you follow, downloads them through your client, then renames and files them.
Sonarr is GPL-3.0 and also fetches new TV episodes automatically, adding quality upgrades, failed-download retries and integration with SABnzbd, NZBGet, Kodi and Plex, with Windows, macOS and Linux builds.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Radarr
Sonarr for films: monitors indexers for the movies on your list, downloads them, then renames and files them.
Prowlarr
Manages your indexers and trackers once, then syncs them to Sonarr, Radarr and the rest so you never configure them twice.
Jackett
Connect media applications to multiple search indexers.
Bazarr
Companion to Sonarr and Radarr that downloads and manages subtitles.
Lidarr
Music collection manager that watches artists and fetches new albums automatically.
Unpackerr
A daemon that extracts completed downloads so Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and Readarr can import them.
