Download managers for Windows and Mac
Getting a file down intact: one big one in pieces, a whole list politely, a standing queue, or a link a teammate asked for.
4 programs, free while we’re in preview. One file each. No account, no installer, nothing to uninstall.
One big file, several connections, and a resume that won't corrupt it.
The Simple one of the 4: it keeps the settings to a minimum and picks sensible defaults for you, so there is almost nothing to learn before it is useful.
Work through a whole list of downloads at once, politely, without any site cutting you off.
The Vertical one of the 4: it is tuned for that work specifically, with presets and reports built around it rather than every setting under the sun.
A download queue that survives being killed. Resuming is just running it again.
The Pro one of the 4: it adds the deeper settings and finer control that people who use it every day ask for, without getting in the way on a quick job.
One download queue on one box, and everybody on the team can add to it.
The Team one of the 4: it adds what a team needs: command-line control for scripts, settings you can roll out across machines, and a record of everything that ran.
Reading on this job
- How to download a large file without it arriving corrupt A download that stops at 94 per cent and one that finishes and will not open are the same underlying problem, and one of them is much harder to notice.
What all 4 of them do the same way
- Nothing is deleted. Anything a program removes is moved somewhere you can get it back from, and anything that changes files shows you the whole plan before it touches one.
- Nothing is reported back to us. No program here signs you in, phones home or counts what you did. The ones that use the network at all use it because that is the job — fetching a file you asked for, reaching a machine you named — and nowhere else.
- One file. Download it and run it. There is no installer, no runtime to fetch and nothing left behind if you delete it.
- The window and the command line are the same program. Double-click it for the window; give it arguments and the same binary runs as a command-line tool.
- The source is published for every program here, next to the download.
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