JDownloader
JDownloader is a download manager, written in Java, which allows automatic download of groups of files from one-click hosting sites. JDownloader supports the use of premium accounts. Some parts, but not all, of JDownloader are open-source.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
EUAlerts
- Bundleware
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Java
The installer contains bundled adware. Be careful during the installation:
Features
- Image Downloader
- Video Download
- YouTube Downloader
- Continuous updating
- Clipboard monitoring
- Captcha Recognition
- Download YouTube Playlist
- MP3 Downloader
- Java based
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- DLC
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Music Library
Deezer integration- Support for MEGA
Tags
- Google Chrome Extension
- picture-grabber
- metalink
- muxing
- Usenet Download
- download-hd-videos
- nzb
- adware
- Online movies
- Verify and validate links and websites
JDownloader News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- apm-parham liked JDownloader
SH20RAJ added JDownloader as alternative to 30tools
DigitalWave added JDownloader as alternative to DW Free Video Downloader- F-Cloud-cod reviewed JDownloader
Despite downloading the setup file from the web twenty times in different ways and explicitly clicking 'No' every single time, it still forced Avast and Yandex onto my system. Who on earth wants these useless badware applications? I hope everyone involved in this malicious practice pays with their lives.
yazeedaloyoun added JDownloader as alternative to Video Downloader Pro by PlugMonkey- mikelmanson liked JDownloader
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What is JDownloader?
JDownloader is a free, open source download manager. It simplifies and improves the process of downloading files from Websites, Cloud-Storage Providers, Social Media Networks and File Hosting Sites.
JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, throttling, resuming, CAPTCHA recognition, and automatic file extraction. It supports Click'n'Load and container files like DLC, RSDF and CCF. A large developer community ensures that current individual page-specific download scripts are kept up to date and valuable time is saved on the basis of the expandable basic framework.
It can also be used as a service on a server or Network Attached Storage (NAS) and controlled via My.JDownloader.Org from a web browser or smartphone.
JDownloader information
Developed by
AppWork Gmbh Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3.9Alternatives
147 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
You know how those pesky filehosters like RapidShare always make you wait a minute or so before you can download a file, make you fill out tedious captchas (quite irritating for a 35-part file!), enforce quotas by IP, and overall act like irritating jerks? JDownloader fixes that problem, by serving as an interface between you and the hoster: You give it a bunch of links, it resolves them, checks if they are online, solves the captchas (yeah, the ones that are supposed to keep out automated programs =D), downloads with pause/resume support, packages everything in a nice folder, automatically extracts multi-part archives and so on. You can even give it a password if the archive will be passworded.
Another nifty feature is, if your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address (so that you can change it by power-cycling the modem) then JDownloader can do THAT for you as well, automatically, whenever it detects that your IP's quota is up!
Lastly, if you have premium accounts for some sites, you can give the login info to JDownloader and it will automatically use them as needed. In all, this program is an enormous improvement over just clicking the links and downloading things yourself. However...
It's in Java. Now normally, Java isn't necessarily slow. But for whatever reason, JDownloader tends to take ages to start.
Gets easily confused by HTTP (non-filehoster) downloads, especially if there is some php/redirection business going on. You'll need a separate download manager for that.
The captcha recognition doesn't really do much good, as everyone is switching to reCAPTCHA. The JDownloader devs refuse to even consider adding reCAPTCHA solvers (understandable as they think it will undermine spam protection and so on, but rather hypocritical of them to make an exception for reCAPTCHA), so most of the time you have to enter captchas yourself anyway. Unfortunately there's no way to just fill in captchas in advance either, so you get popups whenever a download is about to start, which can be annoying when it happens while you are playing a full-screen game.
The extraction plugin is not throttled and is very greedy about resources, you will get a mysterious, minutes-long (depending on archive size) slow down whenever JDownloader finishes a set and begins extracting. Very annoying when it messes up a movie you are watching by causing stuttering.
JDownloader is probably one of your best options if you need to download from file hosters despite the above. I recommend checking out Mipony, though: It is pretty much the same thing, except slightly uglier (not that JDownloader's Java UI is beautiful) and much faster (I believe it is in C++, and it shows).
No longer viable and far less safe than previous editions. Switched to web interface and or browser plugins requiring for direct tracking of online activity... first, second and or third party. Ditch this and try something else that's safer.
What is unsafe about it?
It installs Ransomware at the same time as the program. Thankfully it's easy to remove but still annoying.
Oh i just know this, thanks
it doesnt come with ransomware, though the installer tries to get you to download some questionable software along with it that could be bad, just be careful and disable all of it and you should be good
It certainly does not install ransomware... I've never had this happen, plus you can find installers that don't have the adware bundled in it
Despite downloading the setup file from the web twenty times in different ways and explicitly clicking 'No' every single time, it still forced Avast and Yandex onto my system. Who on earth wants these useless badware applications? I hope everyone involved in this malicious practice pays with their lives.
speeds downloads, automates downloads, and resumes downloads. Constantly maintained and updated.
My most favorite download manager tool
JDownloader is still one of the best downloaders out there. They have taken great strides to overcome the dark days of the virus in installer, etc. It will always have some rough parts, but it's still a daily driver for me today.
The program saves me enormous amounts time, no idea what I would do without it.
As for somebody previously complaining about memory usage, it's 340 mb on my end, when idle, Windows 11, with a lot of links in the linkgrabber and downloads. Not sure if that's a big deal; any web browser eats up a lot more than that, even on launch.