Each browser has a download manager of its own, but its options are minimal. This cannot be very pleasant if your Internet service is not stable and your download speed is unusually slow. A good download manager will assist you if you want to boost the download process of your device. Download managers accelerate the download process, allow you to schedule download files and restart downloads that have failed or stopped. In this article, we have curated the best download managers to install on your Windows PC and to assist your downloading needs.
1. Internet Download Manager
Internet Download Manager, aka IDM, is arguably the best download manager among available options right now. The best feature of IDM is its’ ability to catch download links and media in major browsers. You can download Youtube videos very quickly with this feature. None of the other browsers come close to this feature of intercepting download links. Other features include the ability to pause and restart downloads, schedule downloads, support for proxy servers, and boost downloads up to 5 times.
Xtreme Download Manager is a powerful tool to increase download speed, restart/pause downloads, capture videos from any site, and schedule downloads. You can use Xtreme Download Manager to download entire playlists from YouTube without having to input links for individual videos. Xtreme Download Manager offers custom plugins to major web browsers to extends its’ capabilities. Xtreme Download Manager also supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols, firewalls, proxy servers, file redirects, cookies, authorization etc.
Free Download Manager is a powerful alternative to Internet Download Manager. It is a free to use software. One of the best features of FDM is, it supports torrent downloads. In addition Free Download Manager allows you to adjust traffic usage, organize downloads, control file priorities, efficiently download large files and resume broken downloads.
JDownloader is one of the most powerful download managers available right now. It is a free and open source software with a lot of advanced features. Make sure to find a clean link to download this software, because many users have claimed JDownloader contains bundleware. And comparing with other download managers, JDownloader uses a lot of RAM on your computer.
