Free Download Manager is a safe, user-friendly, and free download accelerator and manager for Windows 11/10 OS, distributed under GPL license. The application is developed in an effort to make the downloading process a lot easier. The free version of the downloading program is available as a lite version and desired features can be installed as a plug-in.
Free Download Manager (FDM) for Windows 11/10
It accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously, resulting in an increase in download speeds! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn’t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption.
Using Free Download Manager, you can download videos from many websites. The video can then be saved in native FLV format or converted to one of the more popular video formats. In addition, Free Download Manager allows you to: adjust traffic usage; organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole websites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more!
A built-in Upload Manager lets you upload your files easily to share them with other people. Upload manager can be easily integrated with your File Explorer.
A very notable feature of the freeware is that it never downloads the entire file at once but splits them into several sections first and then downloads them simultaneously. This helps to accelerate the software and increases its download speed up to 600%. Apart from this, there is no need to resume the download from the beginning after a casual interruption. FDM automatically initiates the unfinished download from the point where it was interrupted.
Free Download Manager features:
- HTTP/HTTPS/FTP support
- Flash video download – Downloads videos from popular video sites such as YouTube, Google video and save them in FLV format or converts them into other popular video formats
- Easy file sharing – Houses a built-in upload manager that lets you upload your files and share them with others
- Spyware protection through active communication among users – This allows you to read what other community members have to say about the file you are going to download. Thereby, warning you against any useless or malicious files.
- Remote Control – Views the list of active and completed downloads remotely, via the Internet
- Smart file management and powerful scheduler– Organizes the downloaded files by their type and saves them in predefined folders.
- HTML Spider – Downloads whole web pages/whole web sites, can be fine-tuned to download files with specified extensions only.
Free Download Manager can be utilized to organize downloads, set the connection, launch the programs, and can effectively function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer, and scheduler.
You can download Free Download Manager from here.
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What do download managers do?
It accelerates downloading speed and ensures downloads can resume from the same place where it gets interrupted. It helps save a lot of time and ensures parts of the file can be downloaded parallelly to speed up.
Can you schedule a download using FDM?
It is one of the best parts of any download manager that you can schedule the download for anytime you want. If you keep the PC on all night, you can set up the download to start after your work is complete.
Any program that is named “Free” devalues itself automatically. I won’t dl anything that is named Free.
i used this before but switched to IDM
its not free though but its worth it :D
yethz: Yes IDM is great, and we did have its giveaway here sometime back.
Kit: Try FDM, I’m sure you will like it; the word ‘Free’ notwithstanding :)
@Windows Club:
Ows really! I didnt saw it, maybe its a year already, coz i havent been online for almost 2yrs…
thats great but how about giving it away again :D
FDM has not been updated in ages. Orbit is a much better free alternative, with better performance and more features. In paid apps, there is no beating IDM.
^ FDM was updated to v3.0 build 852, 2 days back.
FDM is awesome…I am using it from last 3 years and it just works great!
este programa FDM esta muy bueno la velocidad de descarga es buena y no tiene ningun problema pruevenlo se los aconsejo y la vercion nueva es aun mejor
only IDM (Internet Download Manager)
If you want a download manager that is really easy to use, try Eagleget. I thought Orbit was good until I started using this one.