Orbit Downloader

Pros

• Runs standalone or as a browser add-on
• Supports most major web browsers

Cons

• No Windows 10 support

Orbit Downloader is a customizable download manager that you can run as a separate program or from within your favorite web browser.

If you download a lot of files online, Orbit Downloader is a versatile program that can makes that process a lot more convenient. Not only does it support files over the usual HTTP protocol but also HTTPS, FTP, RTSP and more. Orbit can download files one at a time, in batches and recursively from a website. It can also download videos from services like YouTube and music from Pandora. If you download from sites that expose archives over multiple files, like MediaFire and RapidShare, it can help with them too.

Orbit Downloader can run on its own as a standalone program. It has its own UI, which may be a bit outdated aesthetics-wise but works well enough. It features drag-and-drop and more. You can also run it as an add-on to your favorite web browser, and this is perhaps the most intuitive and convenient way to use it. It supports Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. As an add-on, you access via a tool button or a context menu and have access to the standalone window as well. Note that there’s no Windows 10 support—and there may never be—so Internet Edge is not supported. Despite no official support, the program does run on Windows 10 via compatibility mode.

What makes Orbit Downloader so convenient is that it combines all of your downloading tasks into a single place. With all of this in one place, you now have access to tools to organize and manipulate them, and you can use the Orbit download acceleration features across many different protocols. It enables you to pause, resume, repair corrupted files and download aspects of one file concurrently. It also has bandwidth management options so that you don’t saturate your connection.

While you can use Orbit to organize manually, automated organization is a powerful feature when dealing with many files. Tag downloads. Associate paths with tags, and then, Orbit will automatically assign those files to those folders. In addition to tags, you can automate organization base on file names, file types and other aspects.

Orbit Downloader provides many options that you can use to customize the program to your needs, and it even supports proxy servers. It doesn’t require a lot of resources or interfere with browser operation. One downside to Orbit is that it doesn’t deal well with captchas, manage account limits and so forth, so that makes Orbit a less-than-ideal option for many file sharing services.

Pros

• Runs standalone or as a browser add-on
• Supports most major web browsers

Cons

• No Windows 10 support