- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: May 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,157,120
- Downloads last week: 11,443
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 769 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This download utility is surprisingly attractive and full-featured for a freeware product, and its operation couldn't be more straightforward. To download a file, just click a link in your browser or drag it onto the program's tiny, semitransparent window.
In our comparison tests, Free Download Manager beat out Opera's download manager 85Kbps to 53Kbps. Its automation features also are very good. Like other managers, it can automatically dial a modem, start a download, or shut down the PC. Unlike many of them, it also can change the number of connections depending on download speed, or disconnect and shut down the computer if a file is unavailable.
If you want to boost your download speed for free, this utility is certainly worth a try.
Publisher's description
From FreeDownloadManager :Download files and convert videos (including flash) faster with open-source Free Download Manager. Its features include integration with all browsers, support of downloads from RapidShare, BitTorrent support, adjusting traffic usage, resuming broken downloads. Free Download Manager is released under GPL license and adds BitTorent support, flash video download, upload manager, portable mode and remote control.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 769 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
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Version: Free Download Manager 3.0 build 848
Pros: Easy to use, manages the downloads very well indeed has helpful progress monitoring, just does the job excellently
Cons: Unfortunatley FDM also quietly installs a bunch of tracking cookies
Summary: A great piece of software, badly let down by sneekily putting spyware on the machine it is installed on. As trust in it plumetted I reluctantly uninstalled it; than having to give my PC a good scrub and dip in disinfectant. A real shame. Due to t... read more >>
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Version: Free Download Manager 3.0 build 848
Pros: With this download manager you can download almost everything in a few seconds!!
Cons: There is nothing I don't like!
Summary: Fascinatingly fast download manager, download almost everything in a few seconds!
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Version: Free Download Manager 3.0 build 848
"For a straight up download manager, works great"
Pros: Simple interface, no ads, lots of options and control over downloads, resumes broken downloads perfectly, and it's free. Progress tab gives nice view of actual file progres for each connection within a file.
Cons: None so far.
Summary: Boggling to me that this functionality isn't bundled in with the browsers or operating systems, but this is a solid tool that gets the job done with no headache.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Free Download Manager 3.0 build 848
"NOTICE 2 EDITOR Adware lunches mult invisible IE brwsrs"
Pros: This app would be nice to have if it didn't launch 2 to 25 invisible IE browser windows. One day I saw 25 IE listings in my task manager and I didn't have a single IE browser open !!!!! I dd a little digging and found THIS PROGRAM was the culprit.
Cons: If using Win7, open Task Manager to see the multiple IE windows that this app launches, beginning a couple minutes after startup. I removed this app and the multiple invisible IE browser window problem went away.
Summary: AVOID Until the author of this app comes clean.
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Version: Free Download Manager 3.0 build 848
"If you want reliability & choice...This is it!!"
Pros: Reliability, Resumes broken downloads, Scheduling, Sorts, Avoids duplications, Speed, Readily integrates with popular browsers, No advertising, Heaps of Options, Good support and negligible system hiccups. What else could we expect for a free program
Cons: I have no concerns about this program... its a revelation!!! I've been using it for 8 years PLUS!!
Summary: Resumes.... downloads (eg. after power failure) does not duplicate downloads (receive notification if you try..default setting)
Schedule... downloads at any time and allows auto shut down if desired
Sorts.... and renames files automaticall... read more >> - See all 35 user reviews Write review
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