SkipScreen Alternatives
SkipScreen is described as 'free Firefox add-on that skips the clicking and waiting on sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more! We click so you don't have to' and is an app in the File Sharing category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SkipScreen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Google Chrome. The best alternative is JDownloader. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Free Download Manager or uGet. Other great apps like SkipScreen are Internet Download Manager (Paid), aria2 (Free, Open Source), pyLoad (Free, Open Source) and FreeRapid Downloader (Free, Open Source).
- JDownloader simplifies and improves the process of downloading files from sites like YouTube or Mega. JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, CAPTCHA recognition, and automatic file extraction. It support CCF, RSDF and DLC files.
Bundleware
The installer contains bundled adware. Be careful during the installation: Forum
- FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- PortableApps.com
- Android, BSD, Linux, and Windows open source multimedia download manager.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Xfce
- aria2
- Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads.
- aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE), and Metalink.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Xfce
- pyLoad is a fast, lightweight and full featured download manager for many One-Click-Hoster, container formats like DLC, video sites or just plain http or ftp links. It aims for low hardware requirements and platform independence to be runnable on all kind of systems.
- FreeRapid Downloader is a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services.
Discontinued
the latest version was published in 18th May 2014. See http://wordrider.net/download/changes.txt
- Mipony, is a free software specially designed to download easily files from free hosting pages like Rapidshare, Fileserve, Hotfiles and many others.
- The aim for webui-aria2 is to create the worlds best interface to interact with aria2. Very simple to use, just download and open index.html in any web browser.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- aria2
- GetRight® is a download manager that simply improves and optimizes how you download files from the Internet through faster download speeds, download recovery and resuming, and better management of your downloads.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
Discontinued
The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 6.5, released in January 2011, can be still bought from the official website.