10 Free and Open-source Download Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
1- FileZilla
Open-source free FTP/SFPT/FTPS client for macOS
FileZilla is an open source FTP client, that works for Windows, macOS, & Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Fedora,...). It is our top pick in this recommendation list, as we have used it over the years while we are shifting from a platform or a distro to another.
FileZilla is fairly easy to use, as it also comes with powerful features, to meet the demands of experienced and inexperienced users, normal users or advanced users with ninja coding skills.
FileZilla supports FTP, SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), Stroj (Decentralized Cloud Storage). It also supports connection over proxy and Active/ Passive transfer modes.
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2- Qusly
Elegant FTP/FTPS/SFTP client.
Qusly is a new FTP client for Windows, macOS, & Linux Desktops, It's built with React/ NodeJS and uses Electron to built multi-platform packages. Qusly supports FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), & SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).
Qusly is using a powerful FTP NodeJS library built by the same developer Qusly-Core, An API wrapper around ssh2 and FTP library for building FTP/FTPS/SFTP clients.
Qusly has very clean, beautiful UI (User-Interface), packed with tabbed windows that support multiple projects at once. It uses nice icons and desktop-alike file-browser. It supports drag/ drop.
Qusly is still in active development, It still lakes several features to compete like advanced settings, import/ export settings, automation, queue management, and better security features. Hopefully, the developer will enrich it with more features in the incoming releases.
It is built on top of Electron and React. It aims to be beautiful and functional.
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3- Get It
A macOS GUI for youtube-dl
A macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.
Get It will download audio and/or movies from many websites such as YouTube, BBC, Instagram, ... It's a GUI round the popular YouTube-DL command-line program but with an easy to use interface. It will save your settings dynamically or you can restore the default settings. The default settings will download the audio from a video, convert it to an MP3 and save it to you downloads folder. This was, in my opinion, the mostly used setting.
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4- Motrix
A full-featured download manager for macOS
Motrix is a full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc.
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5- Persepolis
Internat Download Manager
Persepolis is a Download Manager & a GUI For aria2. It's written in Python. Persepolis is a Sample of Free and open source software. It's developed For GNU/Linux Distributions, BSDs, macOS and Microsoft Windows. You can join Persepolis contributers & Help us with developing it.
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6- Pillager
A macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Obj.-C
Pillager is a free open-source macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Obj.-C
Pillager uses youtube-dl and FFmpeg under the hood.
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7- qBittorrent
Bittorrent client
qBittorrent is An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.
qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg.
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8- NitroShare
CROSS-PLATFORM NETWORK FILE TRANSFER APPLICATION
NitroShare is a cross-platform network file transfer application designed to make transferring any file to any device as painless as possible.
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9- Deluge
Lightweight cross-platform BitTorrent client.
Deluge is a BitTorrent client that utilizes a daemon/client model. It has various user interfaces available such as the GTK-UI, Web-UI and Console-UI. It uses libtorrent at its core to handle the BitTorrent protocol.
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10- Transmission
A Fast, Easy and Free Bittorrent Client
Transmission is designed for easy, powerful use. We've set the defaults to just work and it only takes a few clicks to configure advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocklists, and the web interface. When Ubuntu chose Transmission as its default BitTorrent client, one of the most-cited reasons was its easy learning curve.
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