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Sometimes it's enough to download a video or song by itself, but other times we find ourselves with multiple downloads going, which can get confusing and hard to manage. InstantGet is a download manager that helps organize downloads and claims to make them faster. Although we're not sure that the program's claims are accurate, overall, it seems to work well enough.
The program's interface is fairly basic, not differing significantly from that of other download managers we've encountered. It's not the most intuitive program we've ever seen, but with a bit of poking around it's easy enough to figure out its major features. There are several ways to start downloads with the program, including cutting and pasting the file's URL or just dragging and dropping it onto the interface. InstantGet seems to have a particular affinity for Internet Explorer--it automatically opened a page touting other programs by the same developer in IE even though it's not our default browser--and it can scan IE pages for downloadable files. As for InstantGet's claims that it downloads files up to five times faster than average, we're not so sure. The downloads certainly weren't slow, but they didn't necessarily seem blazingly fast, either. The program's built-in Help file is brief but adequate. Overall, we didn't encounter any serious problems with InstantGet, but nothing about it particularly impressed us, either.
InstantGet has a 60-day trial period. It installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users.
Publisher's Description
From InstantGet:
InstantGet is a powerful and efficient download manager and accelerator, InstantGet splits downloading files into multiple sections, downloading each section simultaneously to increase downloading speed up to five times faster. InstantGet provides rich management features, that make it easier to organize your downloads and manage proxies and sites. InstantGet has many convenient features especially for downloaded files. Downloaded files could be searched by URL, filename, or comment. It also works as an FLV grabber and online video downloader for the most popular websites like YouTube, Metacafe, Break, Liveleak, Youku, Tudou, and Ku6. InstantGet integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer to automatically handle your downloads and can monitor clipboard. You can also drag and drop download URLs or use InstantGet from command line. InstantGet is capable of creating unlimited numbers of categories for your files. Download jobs can be placed in specifically-named categories for quick and easy access.
What's new in this version: Version 2.12 has fixed the bug that some video files can't be downloaded and improved download interface.
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"My only and prefered download manager"
Version: InstantGet 2.02
Pros
Its simple interface lets you understand what it does, just click Inset to put a new donwload on it, select how many fragments do you want to split your donwnload by (5 as maximum) you may limit your donwload speed if you need it for another aplication with just presing Ctrl+L and finally it gets a long with many proxy programs and individual proxies..
I even have try multiple of the most glorified download managers as ReGet, GetRight and IDM when i tought that these ones would speed up my downloads or just offerme some thing better, but allways came back to may loyal download manager >.< guess its made for me, maybe not famus but it does it work, an does it well... its worth to try (an to use daily for me xD)
Cons
-I haven`t notice any change on the interface in its upgrades but the quality keeps getting better
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"Gets all files correctly."
Version: InstantGet 2.0
Pros
Gets all files correctly.
Dima_R which gives all download managers 1 is absolutelly uncompetent and seems never tries them at all.
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"Gets not all files correctly. Some links does not process."
Version: InstantGet 2.0
Pros
Not professional work, but an idea is good.
Cons
Gets not all files correctly.
Some links does not process.
Interface not clear and from the help it is impossible to obtain additional information.
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"simple and effective"
Version: InstantGet 1.95
Summary
This is one of the very few good download programs around with a browser integration that works !
Is it worth $25 ? I am not so sure when you compare it to star downloder which is free.
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