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Free Download Manager

FDM is a powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux and Android

Overview

Free Download Manager is a download manager, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Features described on its official website: plugins and add-ons.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Free Download Manager accelerates all types of downloads (files, video, torrents).” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Add-on support” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Free Download Manager is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Weaknesses

  • Closed source

About

FDM is a powerful modern cross-platform download accelerator and organizer for Windows, Mac and Linux

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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