Top 10 Download Managers for Linux in 2023

Boot managers in Windows are one of the most essential tools that every newcomer to the Linux world lacks. Programs such as Internet Download Manager Download Accelerator Plus and Free Download Manager are much needed, but these tools are not available on Linux or Unix-like systems.

No, don't worry, you will find several alternative Linux download managers to help you manage and speed up file downloads on your Linux desktop.

1. XDM - Xtreme Download Manager

As its developers say, "XDM can speed up download speeds up to 5 times thanks to intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology." Definitely one of the best download managers available on the Linux desktop, it comes with an accelerated download feature, resume capability, and browser integration.

XDM integrates flawlessly with the most popular web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi and Chromium. It also intercepts download links from the browser and automatically adds them to the download queue.

In addition, the program has a built-in video converter that allows you to convert downloaded videos to multiple formats so that you can watch them later on your mobile phone or TV (100+ devices supported).

XDM Features

Download any streaming video.
Supports pausing/resume downloaded files.
Supports 32 segments for each downloaded file, which makes the download process even faster.
Support to grab media files from famous websites like Youtube, MetaCafe, Vimeo and more in various formats like WebM, MP4, AVI...etc.
Support for many protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
Support for most Linux distributions, in addition to Windows support.
Support for quick URL extraction from clipboard.
There is an integration extension for most web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome/Chromium and Safari.
Very nice graphical interface similar to Internet Download Manager.
Lots of other features.

To install the latest stable version of Xtreme Download Manager on Ubuntu or other Linux distributions, download the XDM Linux installer tar file using the wget command, extract it, and run the installer script to install.

$ wget 
$ tar -xvf xdm-setup-7.2.11.tar.xz
$ sudo sh install.sh

2. FireDM [снят с производства]

FireDM is an open source Internet download manager that was developed using Python and based on the "LibCurl" and "youtube_dl" tools. It comes with multiple connections, high speed engine, and downloads files and videos from youtube and various other streaming sites.

FireDM Features

Multi-connector loading "Multithreading".
Automatic file segmentation and update for dead links.
Support Youtube and many streaming websites.
Download the entire video playlist or selected videos.
Watch videos with subtitles while downloading.

FireDM is available for installation with the Pip package installer on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives.

$ sudo apt install python3-pip
$ sudo apt install ffmpeg libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev python3-pip python3-pil python3-pil.imagetk python3-tk python3-dbus
$ sudo apt install fonts-symbola fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-inconsolata fonts-emojione
$ python3 -m pip install firedm --user --upgrade --no-cache

3. DownThemAll

Unlike other programs on this list, DownThemAll is not a program, it's actually a plugin for Firefox, but it's very good at downloading multiple files and is very efficient at selecting download links and keeps a record of your latest decisions so you can queue more downloads.

As I said, this is a browser plugin and can be installed on all available platforms such as Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X...etc.

DownThemAll Features

As the developers say: "DownThemAll can speed up your download speed by up to 400%."
Support to download all images and links on a web page.
Support for simultaneous download of multiple files with the ability to set the download speed for each of them.
Support for automatically capturing downloaded links from the Firefox browser.
Ability to configure many options for integration between Firefox and DownThemAll.
Ability to automatically check SHA1 and MD5 hashes after download.
And much more.

The DownThemAll plugin is also available as an extension for Chrome.

4. Download manager uGet

One of the most famous download managers, uGet is a really good download manager that was created using the GTK+ library and is available for both Windows and Linux.

uGet Features

Support for simultaneous download of many files with the ability to set the maximum download speed for all files together or for each of them.
Support for downloading torrent and Metalink files.
Support for uploading files from anonymous FTP or with username and password.
Support for grabbing a list of URLs from local files to download them all.
Support for uploading files via command line interface.
Support for 16 segments for each uploaded file.
Possibility to automatically capture the URL from the clipboard.
Ability to integrate with the FlashGot add-on for Firefox.
Many other possibilities.

uGet is available for download from the official repositories for most Linux distributions, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint and elementary OSes.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install uget

On RHEL based systems, you can easily install uGet from the official repositories using yum or dnf commands.

$ sudo dnf install uget
OR
$ sudo yum install uget

On Arch and Manjaro Linux, install uget with:

$ sudo pacman -S uget

On OpenSuse, install uget with:

$ sudo zypper install uget

5. Download FlareGet Manager

FlareGet - another download manager, there are 2 versions of it, one is free, the other is paid, but they are all closed source, but they work on both Windows and Linux.

Features of FlareGet

Multithreading support.
Support for up to 4 segments per file (in the free version, in the paid version - up to 32).
Support for most Linux distributions and support for integration with most web browsers.
Support for HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols.
Support for automatically capturing URLs from the clipboard.
Support automatic video capture from Youtube.
The GUI is available in 18 different languages.
Lots of other features.

To install FlareGet on Linux distributions, download the FlareGet binary packages for your Linux distribution's architecture and install it using the default package manager.

6. Persepolis Download Manager

Persepolis is a free, open source, cross-platform download manager and GUI for aria2 (command line download manager). It is written in Python and developed for GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows distributions.

Multi-segment loading
Download planning
Download Queue
Search and download videos from Youtube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.

To install the Persepolis download manager on Debian/Ubuntu and other Debian distributions, use the following commands.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:persepolis/ppa
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install persepolis

On Arch and other Arch-based Linux distributions.

$ sudo yaourt -S persepolis

On Fedora and other Fedora-based Linux distributions.

$ sudo dnf install persepolis

For openSUSE Tumbleweed, run the following as root:

# zypper addrepo 
# zypper refresh
# zypper install persepolis

7. MultiGet [снят с производства]

MultiGet is another free, open source and easy to use GUI file download manager (based on wxWidgets) for Linux written in the C++ programming language.

Supports HTTP and FTP protocols
Supports multitasking and multithreading
Supports resuming file downloads
Clipboard control - URL copy and download request.
Also supports SOCKS 4,4a,5 proxies, FTP proxies, HTTP proxies.

To install the MultiGet download manager on Debian/Ubuntu and other Debian distributions, use the following commands.

$ sudo apt-get install multiget

8. KGet download manager

KGet is a powerful and user-friendly file download manager for Linux with support for FTP and HTTP(S), file download pause and resume, Metalink support including multiple download URLs, and much more.

To install the KGet download manager on Debian/Ubuntu and other Debian distributions, use the following commands.

$ sudo apt-get install kget

On Fedora and Fedora-based distributions.

$ sudo dnf install kget

On Arch and other Arch-based Linux distributions.

$ sudo yaourt -S kget

9. PyLoad Download Manager

PyLoad is a free and open source file download manager for Linux, written in the Python programming language and designed to be very lightweight, highly extensible, and fully manageable over the web.

In order to install the PyLoad download manager, the Pip package manager must be installed on the system to install it as shown in the picture.

$ pip install pyload-ng

10. Motrix

Motrix is a full featured, clean and easy to use open source download manager that supports downloading files via HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. with the ability to run up to 10 download tasks simultaneously.

You can download AppImage Motrix and run it directly on all Linux distributions, or use Snap to install Motrix, see GitHub/release for other Linux installation package formats.

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