A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet. The best download managers help make the process easier and quicker.
Why use a download manager? If you often download multiple files particularly large files such as ISOs and backups, a download manager can help make streamline the process.
The types of features often provide by download managers include scheduling, batch downloading, file previewing, BitTorrent support, support for compressed file types, and a number of security features. Linux has a good range of options available.
This article focuses on graphical download managers. If you’re looking for console-based download managers, they are covered in this roundup.
Click the links to learn all about each download manager.
| Download Managers | |
|---|---|
| gopeed | Dart and Go-based download manager |
| ArrowDL | Qt-based download manager |
| AB Download Manager | Capable download manager written in Kotlin |
| pyLoad | Lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via the web |
| Motrix Next | Feature-rich client for HTTP, FTP, torrents and magnet links |
| Varia | GNOME-based download manager |
| Brisk | Written in Dart |
| XDM | Download accelerator and video downloader |
| wxDownloadFast | C++ frontend for aria2 |
| Persepolis | Python frontend for aria2 |
| KGet | Versatile and user-friendly download manager. |
| FlameGet | Fast GTK4 client with queues, scheduling and pause/resume |
| Gabut Download Manager | GTK4 utility for fast transfers with queue and task controls |
| Tur | Lightweight frontend for tur-rs with multi-engine transfer support |
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Jdownloader!
We can’t add it to this roundup as it’s partially closed source.
It’s best described as junkware.
Harsh but fair.
Free Download Manager
Not open source so cannot be included in this roundup.