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KnightLoader

Remote control for the KnightLoader download manager you host yourself.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

KnightLoader is a download manager, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: self-hosting on your own server and web interface.

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
  • “A self-hosted, cross-platform download manager with debrid services, torrents, yt-dlp and a headless JDownloader behind one web interface.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “A self-hosted, cross-platform download manager with debrid services, torrents, yt-dlp and a headless JDownloader behind one web interface.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “A self-hosted, cross-platform download manager with debrid services, torrents, yt-dlp and a headless JDownloader behind one web interface.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Requests and answers between the app and your instances are end-to-end encrypted with a key that comes from your phrase, so the relay passes them on without being able to read them.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of KnightLoader is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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