Top Linux Download Managers

  • Wed, 10/07/2015 - 01:57 by aatif

Top Linux Download Managers

uGet
NuGet is an open-source download manager application. It supported multiple platforms like Linux, BSD, Android & Windows. It is a very light weighted and feature enriched download manager. It is hosted on SourceForge.net you can get source code from there. Its graphical user interface is looking like a torrent interface. uGet has addons for Chromium and Firefox browsers.

Features

Use download queues for simultaneous downloads.
Resume download features supported when your connection drops due to any reason.
Download to a specific category automatically.
Provide the option of shutdown the computer after downloading all files.
Provide optional features of downloading the file through the command line.
Automatically create the folder when the folder doesn't exist.
Supported 20 different languages.

KGet
KGet is a free and open-source download manager. At the start, it was created for the KDE desktop environment. It enables you to independently download the files from your web browsers. It has a very user-friendly graphical user interface. This download manager by default used for Konqueror and can be used in Mozilla Firefox. It can download files from FTP, HTTP(S), and BitTorrent sources.

Features

It supports meta links that contain different URLs for downloads.
It supports the features of pausing and resuming downloading files.
It has features to restart the downloading.
It can download the files from FTP and HTTPS sources.
It can be embedded into the system tray.
It can be integrated with the Konqueror web browser.
It provides information on current and pending downloads.

Steadyflow
Steadyflow is a comprehensive download manager available for Linux. It is light weighted, simple, and easy to use a download manager. For downloading small files it is a very excellent choice. It reads the clipboard for URLs and use GNOME’s preset proxies. You can integrate it with Chromium and Firefox.

Features
It is a light weighted and simple software for managing your downloads.
It has a very clean and simple graphical user interface.
It allows you to add downloads, remove downloads and pause downloads.
It will continue downloads in the system tray.
It alert you by given notification when download is completed.
It can be integrated in the chrome browser.