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YouTube

Open Video Downloader – cross-platform yt-dlp GUI

September 15, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia

Open Video Downloader is a cross-platform yt-dlp GUI for downloading videos, audio, subtitles and playlists with queues and quality controls.

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YouTube

GDownloader – GUI for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL

September 14, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Multimedia

GDownloader is a graphical frontend for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL with batch downloads, playlists, hardware transcoding, and automatic updates.

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Download Manager

14 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers

August 19, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet.

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QDM – download manager

August 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

QDM is a download manager offering multi-segment acceleration, media downloading and browser integration.

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Tur – graphical frontend for the tur-rs download engine

August 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Built with Tauri, React and TypeScript, it provides a responsive interface for managing highly concurrent downloads.

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Motrix Next – full-featured download manager

August 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Motrix Next is a full-featured download manager rebuilt from the ground up as a modern successor to Motrix.

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Gabut Download Manager – GTK4 download manager for Linux desktops

June 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Gabut supports normal URL downloads as well as torrents, magnet links, Metalink files, HLS/M3U8 streams, and YouTube downloads via a plugin.

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FlameGet – GTK4 download manager

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

FlameGet is a GTK4 download manager for the Linux desktop.

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aim – CLI download/upload tool with resume

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

aim is a command line download/upload tool with resume. It’s written in the Rust language.

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HTTP

Axel – lightweight command-line download accelerator

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Axel accelerates HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS downloads through parallel connections, server mirrors, rate limits and resumable sessions.

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Download Manager

gosh-dl-cli – command-line and terminal download manager

March 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

gosh-dl-cli manages accelerated HTTP and BitTorrent downloads with a terminal interface, persistent queues, mirroring and verification.

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Surge – terminal-based download manager

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Surge manages parallel downloads in a keyboard-driven terminal interface, with mirrors, pause and resume, progress graphs and a daemon.

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aria2tui – terminal interface for aria2 downloads

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

aria2tui manages aria2 downloads from a terminal interface with queue control, torrent support, custom options and RPC communication.

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Performance

wxDownload Fast – download manager

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

wxDownload Fast is a multithreaded download manager written using wxWidgets and Aria2. This is written in C++.

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HTTP

TerminusDM – terminal-based download manager

January 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

TerminusDM manages downloads from a terminal interface, with concurrent file segments, resumable transfers and download history.

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Performance

AB Download Manager – manage and organize downloading files

January 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

AB Download Manager is software which is designed to make it easier and quicker to download files from anywhere.

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HTTP

getparty – multipart HTTP download manager

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

getparty downloads HTTP files in multiple parts with configurable retries, sessions, bandwidth limits, redirects and mirror selection.

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Performance

uGet – lightweight download manager

October 8, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

uGet is a download manager that combines lightweight resource usage with a very powerful feature set.

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Brisk – fast, multithreaded, cross-platform download manager

June 13, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Brisk is billed as a fast, multithreaded, cross-platform download manager with support for browser integration.

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Flying robot

ArrowDL – cross-platform download manager

June 6, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

ArrowDL is a mass download manager. The software lets you download links, pictures, videos from YouTube and other sites

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