Alternatives to Progressive Downloader
Free macOS download manager with multi-threaded downloads, mirror search, scheduling and browser integration. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Progressive Downloader
Free macOS download manager with multi-threaded downloads, mirror search, scheduling and browser integration.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Progressive Downloader.
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 and sorting of downloads.
Leech
A lightweight macOS download manager with accelerated downloads, bandwidth limits, scheduling and sorting rules.
Leech is a lightweight macOS manager with accelerated downloads, throttling, scheduling and sorting rules, but it is paid with a one-time price instead of free.
Free Download Manager
A download accelerator and organizer that splits files into segments and includes a BitTorrent client.
Free Download Manager runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android and adds a BitTorrent client, but lacks AppleScript and Shortcuts scripting.
Neat Download Manager
Free download manager for Windows and macOS with dynamic segmentation, resume and browser integration.
Neat Download Manager is a free Windows and macOS accelerator that merges HLS video segments, though the Mac build lags the Windows one.
AB Download Manager
Open source desktop download manager with multi-connection downloads, queues, a scheduler and browser extensions.
AB Download Manager is open source and cross-platform, with multi-connection downloads, a scheduler and browser extensions.
iGetter
A download manager that speeds up downloads with segmented transfers and resumes broken ones.
iGetter is a paid segmented downloader with scheduling and browser extensions, whose 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 an open-source Electron app with one queue for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and magnet links, including a macOS Universal build.
Persepolis
A download manager built on aria2 that splits a file across up to sixty-four connections and schedules queues.
Persepolis is a GPL-3.0 aria2-based manager with up to sixty-four connections and scheduled queues, with a plain Qt interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
aria2
A command line downloader that pulls one file from several sources at once, including a torrent and a mirror together.
Downie
A macOS app that downloads videos from YouTube, Vimeo and over a thousand other websites.
SiteSucker
A Mac app that downloads whole websites to disk for offline browsing.
NZBVortex
A Usenet client for Mac that downloads NZB files with par2 repair, extraction and RSS.
GNU Wget
A non-interactive command-line tool for retrieving files over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS.
