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📡 Free Download Managers and Network Tools
Download tools are where bundled installers, pop-ups and artificial speed limits are worst. Everything here is open source or genuinely free and ad-free: no throttling, no hijacking, no bundled extras — plus a few free tools for wiring your own devices together across networks.
11 tools
Angry IP Scanner
Enter an IP range, press Start, and get a table of everything on the network
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Trippy
Traceroute and ping in one, showing live which hop is dropping packets
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
gallery-dl
yt-dlp for images — an entire gallery in one command
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Motrix
A clean GUI for aria2 — the replacement for adware download managers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
Nmap
See what is actually on your network and which ports are open
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
qBittorrent
The default BitTorrent client — no ads, no speed tiers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Tailscale
Wires all your devices into one private network — no router config
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Cross-platform
- Self-hostable
Transmission
A quiet, lightweight client you can leave running for years
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
WireGuard
A modern encrypted tunnel protocol configured in a dozen lines
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Wireshark
Lays out every packet on the wire for you to read
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
yt-dlp
The de-facto standard for downloading video, in one command
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline