I’m not in a habit of downloading many of my TV shows using bit-torrent because it’s general not as fast and a lot more pain to search for the right episode. I used Xtorrent throughout the beta period because it simplified the searching and downloading process for me. iTunes is a bit more expensive, but the downloads are super fast and it’s easy to find what I want.

Along comes TVShows. This app is in the very early stages of development (0.2 release). However, it’s open source, which is to be applauded, and does something very unique. Instead of spending your time searching for the right torrent for the latest TV show of your choice, TVShows lets you subscribe to any show you want.

Basically, you launch the application, search for a TV Show of your choice and click the “Subscribe” button beside that. From there, you can choose to start downloading all episodes from a previous date (like 2 episodes past) or just click the “Next Aired Show” and when the next show is available, it downloads that one and subsequent ones.

TVShows Interface

TVShows is not a bit-torrent client. It only listens for new episodes and then launches your default bit-torrent client for you. I recommend either Transmission or Tomato Torrent, both of which are free.

Download TVShows.

Download Transmission.

Download Tomato Torrent.

Found via Torrent Freak