anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager
misterdownloadmanager: The ultimate open-source, clean-room download manager written from scratch in pure Rust for Windows, Mac, and Linux
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Downloads faster than IDM. Free, forever. 🧩 Browser extension: The Chrome Web Store's is for Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi too (how). ⭐ Like it? Give it a star. MDM has no ads and no marketing budget: stars are how people find it. Windows 10 and 11 · Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch and more) · macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel, experimental) 86 languages · no ads, no trial, no sign-up Same window you know. Your downloads finish sooner. And it costs nothing. Nothing new to learn: the toolbar, the categories, the list of downloads, the progress window and the browser button are where you expect them. Measured on the same computer, same files, both programs at their default settings (how we measured). On the download page, pick one: MDM runs on Linux too, tested on Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12 and Fedora with GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and…
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- Mister Download Manager
- Why switch from IDM?
- Download
- On Linux
- On a Mac? Be the first to try it
- 🌍 In your language
- Screenshots
- What it does
- The benchmark in detail
- Not a reverse-engineering project
- For developers
- Status and helping out
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What this repository does
misterdownloadmanager: The ultimate open-source, clean-room download manager written from scratch in pure Rust for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Repository facts
- Owner
- anefzaoui
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 2,909
- Forks
- 191
- Open issues + pull requests
- 62
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-29T01:25:19.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-09T12:22:50.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: bittorrent-client, debrid, download-accelerator, download-manager, downloadmanager, egui, file-downloader, gallery-dl, idm, idm-alternative, internet-download-manager, m3u8-downloader, magnet, playlist-downloader, real-debrid, rust, torrent-client, video-downloader, youtube-downloader, yt-dlp
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