Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Free Download Manager

Product categories

BitTorrent Download Manager File Sharing Music Downloader OS & Utilities P2P Torrent Downloads Torrents Video Downloader iPhone

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Free Download Manager are qBittorrent, Deluge, and aria2. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

qBittorrent Landing Page
1

qBittorrent

Lightweight and open source torrent client that runs on all major platforms.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #Torrent Downloads #BitTorrent 18 social mentions
Deluge Landing Page
2

Deluge

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Unix and Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P 28 social mentions
aria2 Landing Page
3

aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #Download Manager #BitTorrent 43 social mentions
BiglyBT Landing Page
4

BiglyBT

BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, bittorrent client. Auto migrate from Vuze and Azureus. I2P integration, Swarm Merging, Advanced Tag System, WebTorrent support, built-in VPN kill switch, Meta-search, UPnP/DLNA access, and much more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P
Transmission Landing Page
5

Transmission

Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P 55 social mentions
PicoTorrent Landing Page
6

PicoTorrent

PicoTorrent is designed to be a tiny, easy-to-use BitTorrent client with low memory usage.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P 10 social mentions
Nicotine+ Landing Page
7

Nicotine+

Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#P2P #Torrents #BitTorrent 24 social mentions
Motrix Landing Page
8

Motrix

A full-featured download manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Download Manager #Music Downloader #Video Downloader 21 social mentions
pyLoad Landing Page
9

pyLoad

pyLoad was developed to run on NAS, next-gen routers and headless home servers, whatever device able to connect to internet and supporting the Python programming language, so it's available for all kind of operating systems and a wide range of hardw…
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Download Manager #Music Downloader #File Sharing 7 social mentions
Persepolis Download Manager Landing Page
10

Persepolis Download Manager

Persepolis Download Manager is a GUI for aria2.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Download Manager #Music Downloader #Video Downloader 8 social mentions
FrostWire Landing Page
11

FrostWire

Easy to use BitTorrent Client and YouTube Downloader in one, with built-in search and music library.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #P2P #BitTorrent
Rapidbay Landing Page
12

Rapidbay

self-hosted torrent videostreaming service. Contribute to hauxir/rapidbay development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #P2P #BitTorrent