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Sick Beard VS Jackett

Compare Sick Beard VS Jackett and see what are their differences

Sick Beard logo Sick Beard

Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support).

Jackett logo Jackett

API Support for your favorite torrent trackers.
  • Sick Beard Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-12-10
  • Jackett Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-13

Sick Beard videos

Sick Beard Review | In Depth Look

Jackett videos

Setup and Configure Sonarr Radarr Lidarr and Jackett with Torrents or Usenet

More videos:

  • Review - Tutorial: Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Plex
  • Review - Installing Jackett Indexer in Openmediavault

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Sick Beard and Jackett)
Video & Movies
52 52%
48% 48
Movies
68 68%
32% 32
Download Manager
55 55%
45% 45
Video
100 100%
0% 0

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Reviews

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Sick Beard Reviews

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Jackett Reviews

The Ultimate Automated Media Setup for Movies & TV Shows
Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, etc) into tracker-site-specific http queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software. This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches. Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping &...
Source: brandonb.ca
Installing Radarr, Sonarr and Deluge on your Unraid Server
Jackett works as a proxy server: it translates queries from apps (Sonarr, Radarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Mylar, etc) into tracker-site-specific HTTP queries, parses the html response, then sends results back to the requesting software. This allows for getting recent uploads (like RSS) and performing searches. Jackett is a single repository of maintained indexer scraping &...
9 Best Home Server Apps to Automate Media Management
I install Jackett on each media server I own because the base for good searches and results are always the providers, and Jackett offers a wide collection even if the main download services are not.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sick Beard and Jackett, you can also consider the following products

Radarr - A fork of Sonarr designed to work with Movies.

FlexGet - FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media

Open Subtitles FlixTools - Download perfectly matched subtitles for your movies and TV series, edit meta-data and convert...

Medusa TV Library Manager - Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows.

SubiT - With SubiT, you can download subtitles to your favorite movies and serieses, with a simple click.

SickRage - SickRage is a fork of SickBeard to automatically download TV shows from usenet or torrents.