Hoides Downloader — multi-connection download manager for Windows

Features

Everything a download needs

From a single large file to a whole playlist, a torrent or a scheduled overnight queue.

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Multi-connection, kept busy

Files are fetched as parallel byte ranges. When a connection finishes early it takes over half of the slowest remaining range, so none sits idle.

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Pause, resume, retry

Progress is saved per segment and survives app restarts. Dropped connections retry with backoff; servers without range support fall back to one connection.

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Video grabber

The extension spots video and audio on a page and offers a download button. HLS streams download natively, with quality choice, AES-128 and live recording.

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Video sites, merged to MP4

A quality list for YouTube and other sites supported by yt-dlp. Video and sound download in parallel and are joined into an MP4 that plays everywhere.

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Torrents built in

Magnet links and .torrent files, with trackers, DHT, peer exchange and router port opening. A finished torrent stops; it does not keep seeding.

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Queues and scheduler

Any number of queues, each with its own limits, start and stop times, days, and an action when done: exit, sleep, hibernate or shut down.

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Refresh an expired link

Give a download a new address, by clicking it again in the browser or pasting it, and it continues from where it stopped.

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Batch and site grabber

Numbered or lettered ranges like img*.jpg, pasted lists, crawling a site for files, or every link on a page at once.

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Careful by default

Saved site logins are encrypted for your Windows account, downloads can be virus-scanned with Microsoft Defender, and you choose what happens when a file exists.

Browser integration

Click download as usual. The app takes it from there.

The Hoides Downloader extension hands downloads from Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium and Firefox to the app, together with the cookies and referrer, so downloads that need a login still work.

“Download with Hoides Downloader” in the right-click menu, plus “Download all links”
Skip small files or file types, or pause capturing, from the toolbar popup
Copying a link to a file offers to download it; links can also be dropped on the window
If the app isn’t running, the browser simply downloads the file itself

Install

Run the installer. It installs for your account without an administrator prompt, or for everyone if you choose.

Add the extension

Load the extension folder the installer adds to the Start Menu into your browser, once.

Download

Downloads, videos and magnet links now go to Hoides Downloader, with a progress window and a segment map.

Requirements

What you need

OS: Windows 10 / 11 (x64) Runtime: included Browsers: Chromium-based, Firefox 128+ Bundled: yt-dlp and FFmpeg

Good to know

Limits

DRM-protected video (Netflix, Prime Video and similar) cannot be downloaded.
POST-only downloads and blob: links stay in the browser.
Video-site support follows yt-dlp, which the app updates daily; if a site changes, use Settings › Video › Update now.
DASH downloads restart from the beginning after a pause; HLS resumes part by part.

FAQ

Questions

Is it a separate install from my browser?

Yes. Hoides Downloader is a Windows app; the browser extension only hands it the downloads. The extension ships inside the install folder.

Where are my settings and download list?

In %AppData%\Hoides Downloader. Unfinished files sit next to their destination as name.hdpart until they complete.

I used it when it was called Fast Download Manager.

Install the new version over it. On first start your settings, download list, saved logins and paused downloads move across automatically. Reload the browser extension once afterwards.

Windows shows an “unknown publisher” warning.

SmartScreen flags new installers it hasn’t seen often. Choose More info → Run anyway.

Faster downloads. Fewer failed ones.