Download Managers for MAC
8 free Mac apps in Download Managers, including yt-dlp, Progressive Downloader, and Transmission Remote GUI. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
8 apps
- yt-dlpyt-dlp is a free, open-source command-line program that downloads video and audio from YouTube and thousands of other websites. You give it a web address in Terminal and it saves the video, the audio only, or a whole playlist or channel, in the format and quality you choose. yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, is developed by a large group of volunteers, and is released into the public domain under the Unlicense.Internet Utilities
Progressive DownloaderProgressive Downloader is a download manager for Mac that splits a file across several connections to use the full width of your internet connection. You can pause and resume tasks, limit how many downloads run at once, and let the app sort files into groups by type or source. When a link fails, its mirror search looks for another source.Internet Utilities
Transmission Remote GUITransmission Remote GUI is a native SwiftUI app for controlling a Transmission BitTorrent daemon from your Mac over its RPC protocol. It does not run the BitTorrent engine itself: that stays on your server, so you need a running transmission-daemon with RPC enabled. The app is a modern, from-scratch reimagining of the classic transgui, written independently in Swift without code from other projects.Internet Utilities
Xtreme Download ManagerXtreme Download Manager, or XDM, is a free, open-source download manager for macOS. It speeds up downloads by splitting them across several connections, picks up broken downloads where they left off and saves videos from streaming sites. A companion browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and other popular browsers hands downloads and detected videos to the app, so you do not have to copy links by hand. The extension talks to the app over a local-only connection.Internet Utilities
TriblerTribler is a BitTorrent client focused on privacy. It hides who is downloading what with Tor-inspired onion routing, and lets you search for content by keyword and stream from magnet links, all without relying on any central server. Tribler stays fully compatible with BitTorrent, so it works with the torrents you already use. Version 8.4.3 makes things faster and smaller and adds a setting to choose whether torrent information is kept in memory or on disk.Internet Utilities
MotrixMotrix is a clean, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, magnet links and more. Add a link or a torrent and Motrix downloads it, with per-file selection for torrents, speed limits with several profiles, and sessions that restore your downloads after a restart. A customizable dashboard shows transfer statistics and live activity, and you get a notification when a download finishes. The Motrix Extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox hands browser downloads to Motrix in one click.Internet Utilities
qBittorrentqBittorrent is a free BitTorrent client that aims to be a clean, ad-free alternative to µTorrent. It downloads and shares files over the BitTorrent network, with everything you need in one window: a built-in torrent search engine, an RSS feed reader that can download new episodes automatically, sequential downloading, a bandwidth scheduler and a Web UI to control it from another device. It is built on the libtorrent library and the Qt toolkit, and developed by volunteers around the world.Internet Utilities
DownieDownie downloads videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and more than a thousand other websites, in up to 4K resolution. Paste a link or click the browser extension, and Downie saves the video, or converts it to MP4 for your iPhone or iPad, or extracts only the audio. For sites it does not support directly, its built-in browser lets you open the page and grab the video yourself. Downie is made by Charlie Monroe Software.Internet Utilities