Alternatives to Leech
A lightweight macOS download manager with accelerated downloads, bandwidth limits, scheduling and sorting rules. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Leech
A lightweight macOS download manager with accelerated downloads, bandwidth limits, scheduling and sorting rules.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Leech.
Folx
A macOS download manager that splits downloads into threads, organizes them and handles torrents.
Folx is a freemium, closed-source macOS download manager that adds built-in torrent support alongside multi-threaded downloads and sorting.
Progressive Downloader
Free macOS download manager with multi-threaded downloads, mirror search, scheduling and browser integration.
Progressive Downloader is free for macOS, adds mirror search, an FTP, SFTP and WebDAV browser and Shortcuts scripting, and requires macOS 13 or newer.
Free Download Manager
A download accelerator and organizer that splits files into segments and includes a BitTorrent client.
Free Download Manager is free, runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and Android, and adds a BitTorrent client and browser integration.
Neat Download Manager
Free download manager for Windows and macOS with dynamic segmentation, resume and browser integration.
Neat Download Manager is free and runs on macOS and Windows with HLS video merging, though the Mac build lags the Windows version.
AB Download Manager
Open source desktop download manager with multi-connection downloads, queues, a scheduler and browser extensions.
AB Download Manager is free and open source across macOS, Windows and Linux, with queues, a scheduler and browser extensions.
iGetter
A download manager that speeds up downloads with segmented transfers and resumes broken ones.
iGetter is paid, runs on macOS and Windows with extensions for Chromium browsers and Firefox, but its macOS version runs through bundled Wine.
Motrix
A clean desktop download manager that speaks HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and magnet links from one queue.
Motrix is free and open source under MIT, handles BitTorrent and magnet links too, but it is an Electron app and version 1 has stalled.
Persepolis
A download manager built on aria2 that splits a file across up to sixty-four connections and schedules queues.
Persepolis is free and open source under GPL-3.0, built on aria2 with up to sixty-four connections and scheduled queues, but its Qt interface is dated.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Downie
A macOS app that downloads videos from YouTube, Vimeo and over a thousand other websites.
NZBVortex
A Usenet client for Mac that downloads NZB files with par2 repair, extraction and RSS.
SiteSucker
A Mac app that downloads whole websites to disk for offline browsing.
aria2
A command line downloader that pulls one file from several sources at once, including a torrent and a mirror together.
GNU Wget
A non-interactive command-line tool for retrieving files over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.
