User:29dupe/Sandbox/Comparison of download managers

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This is what I planned to improve the Comparison of download managers article, please leave a comment in Talk:Comparison of download managers#Reformat. There's also little things to note:

  • I added the Adware/Spyware line back because, except original poster, nobody appears to agree to remove it in the discussion.
  • The reason I separate product versions into another row (e.g. Download Express, Download Express Advance) because the feature set of these two products must be different, merging it in one row led to confusions.
  • Actually I want to use rowspan for separate product version but it breaks the sortable, either fix sortable or separate rows. Colspan appears to break sortable too.

[edit] General informations

Name Creator Version Release License FOSS/Price (USD) Adware/Spyware Interface Programming language *NIX Windows Mac OS X
aria2 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa 0.11.0 02007-06-12 12 June 2007 GNU General Public License Open source No CLI C++ Yes Yes Yes
BlackWidow SoftByte Labs, Inc. 5.21 02007-06-14 14 June 2007 Proprietary $ 39.95 GUI No Yes No
ConnectFusion ConnectFusion 1.0 02004-04-29 29 April 2004 GNU General Public License Open source GUI C++ No Yes No
Download Accelerator Plus SpeedBit 8.5.1.6 Proprietary Free Ad-supported GUI No Yes No
Download Accelerator Plus Premium SpeedBit 8.5.1.6 Proprietary $ 34.95 GUI No Yes No
Downloader for X Maxim Koshelev 2.5.7.1 GNU General Public License Open source GUI Yes No No
Download Express Metaproducts 1.9 Proprietary Free GUI No Yes No
Download Express Advance mode Metaproducts 1.9 Proprietary $ 9.95 GUI No Yes No
DownThemAll! Federico Parodi and Stefano Verna 0.9.9.10 GNU General Public License Open source GUI Firefox extension Firefox extension Firefox extension
FlashGet AmazeSoft 1.8.8 02007-06-15 15 June 2007 Proprietary Free GUI No Yes No
Free Download Manager FreeDownloadManager 2.1 02006-08-10 10 August 2006 Proprietary Free GUI No Yes No
GetRight Standard Headlight Software, Inc. 6.3 02007-06-21 21 June 2007 Proprietary $ 29.95 GetRight ArcadeCast, GetRight ToolCast GUI No Yes No
GetRight Pro Headlight Software, Inc. 6.3 02007-06-21 21 June 2007 Proprietary $ 49.95 GetRight ArcadeCast, GetRight ToolCast GUI, Web No Yes No
Gigaget Download Manager Gigaget 1.0.0.23 Proprietary Free GUI No Yes No
iGetter Mac iGetter 2.5 Proprietary $ 25.00 GUI No No Yes
iGetter Windows iGetter 2.0.1 Proprietary $ 25.00 GUI No Yes No
Name Creator Version Release License FOSS/Price (USD) Adware/Spyware Interface Programming language *NIX Windows Mac OS X

[edit] Protocol supports

Things to add:

Maybe PodCast too?

[edit] Features

Things to add:

  • Web browser integration
  • Download resuming
  • Download acceleration
  • URLs per file
  • Mirror search
  • Metalink-support
  • Auto dial/hangup
  • Categorized downloads
  • Cookies import (Maybe merge with Authentication?)
  • Authentication
  • Speed limit
  • File browser
  • ZIP Preview
  • Checksum verification
  • Addon-support
  • Other features