plowshare Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to plowshare for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is JDownloader, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to plowshare and 15 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to plowshare are Free Download Manager, Persepolis Download Manager, ArrowDL and pyLoad.

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  1. Boosts download speeds by splitting files, manages torrents with priority control, processes media formats, supports dark mode, and runs without ads. Requires no registration, can be used portably, and efficiently handles large file downloads, supporting Windows and Mac.

    141 Free Download Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Google Chrome
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. pyLoad icon
     167 likes

    Free and Open Source download manager written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Varia icon
     9 likes

    Varia is a download manager based on aria2 that utilizes GTK4 and Libadwaita to provide a easy to use interface that integrates well with the GNOME desktop.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
     
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  5. Turbo Download Manager is a multi-threading download manager for Chrome and Opera as a browser extension and for Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS as an stand-alone application. It can be used to boost your downloading speed as well as to protect your download on a non-stable...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  6. Tucan Manager icon
     50 likes

    Tucan Manager is a free file sharing application designed for 1-Click Hosters. Fast and lightweight, Tucan is fully open-source and compatible with Windows, GNU/Linux, and MacOSX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. KGet icon
     13 likes

    KGet is a versatile and user-friendly download manager for KDE. By default it is the download manager used for Konqueror, but can also be used with Mozilla Firefox. KGet is part of the KDE Network package and can download files from FTP, HTTP(S) and BitTorrent sources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. FatRat icon
     14 likes

    FatRat is an open source download manager for Linux written in C++ and built on top of the Trolltech Qt 4 library. It is rich in features and is continuously extended.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Rexloader icon
     4 likes

    This project is an advanced Qt/C++ download manager over http(s) with configurable multithreaded downloading, proxy support, logging and hash calculating (md5, sha1). We also plan to implement support for ftp and p2p (torrent, dc++ etc).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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