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Folx 5
Free Download Manager for Mac

Improve your download experience with Folx, a comprehensive download manager and torrent client for Mac. Fully compatible with the latest macOS Sonoma, it provides users with advanced features such as scheduling, download splitting, and speed adjustment. Folx is your perfect solution for managing downloads and torrents on your Mac.
Requires macOS 10.12 or later

Free IDM Replacement for Mac

Optimized for Retina displays, Folx possesses a true Mac-style interface. It offers a highly effective way of tagging and storing the downloaded content and allows previewing it thanks to integration with Quick Look.

Folx and its unique features

Folx splits the downloads into simultaneous threads (from two and up to 20) to boost the download speed, auto-resumes downloads in case the connection was broken and allows you to add new download tasks in several ways.

Handy tagging feature

With Folx tagging feature you get to store downloaded files in a smart and convenient way. Your downloads are saved into folders according to the tags you’ve assigned. You are free to assign as many tags to one file as you wish - you'll always find it quickly even if you can remember only one tag. Thanks to Spotlight integration you don’t have to start Folx to look for the needed file.

In-built torrent searchPRO

Folx is your go-to torrent app that makes it easy to download your favorite TV shows, movies, videos, music, and more. You can save your files in a variety of formats and select the resolution that suits your preferences.

Besides, with the PRO version you can benefit from an amazing feature – searching for torrents directly from Folx interface. You won’t need to browse through multiple torrent trackers to find exactly what you need.

Type your query

Just type the keyword into Folx search bar. The results will be aggregated from multiple trackers supported by our downloader.

Choose and download torrents

Choose the required file from the search results and click Download next to it. Child's play!

“Folx is absolutely my number one choice as a free download manager for Mac. What I love the most in its PRO version, is a powerful in-built torrent searcher. With the torrent search from the app I've really forgotten about scrolling down tons of torrent sites with annoying ads popping out of nowhere. I just search for the torrent in Folx and get suitable BitTorrent downloads in a minute. Surely it's the app one must have.” Michael Banne
Folx Search

Reliable Mac Torrent Client

Folx is a powerful Mac torrent client for downloading torrents to your Mac as well as creating new torrent files to share them with other people. Advanced management options like scheduling, prioritizing tasks and speed adjustment make the download process fast and comprehensive. Assigning one or several tags to the tasks lets you easily find the downloaded files.

Open magnet links

The vast majority of torrent sites nowadays host magnet links instead of the original torrent files, which means one doesn't need to download a torrent file before downloading the content. Magnet links ultimately save the bandwidth and the downloading time. However most of browsers fail recognizing magnet links. But it's not a problem with Folx.
The app fully supports magnet links. All you need to get started is simply click on the magnet link on a web page.

Folx Mac Downloader Features

Browser integration

Folx is fully compatible with Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome. You can enable Folx to automatically catch download links in browsers, configuring what file types Folx is allowed to intercept.
Additionally, installing a special Folx extension permits integration of Folx into your browser’s context menu, making “Download With Folx”, “Download All With Folx” and “Download Selected With Folx” items available in the context menu.

Direct downloads using Proxy

A proxy server is an intermediary between your Mac and the Internet. Using it provides a large number of advantages, like privacy and security, bandwidth saving for large networks or control of the Internet usage for corporate networks.
Whatever reason you choose to connect to the Internet via Proxy, you can still use Folx for regular downloads (HTTP). You may configure some Proxy settings like proxy type you use, the proxy server name, etc.

Multi-threadingPRO

Folx is a download manager with multi-threading support, which means each download can be split in up to 20 simultaneous threads. Since multiple connections are initiated to the same server, a download speed can improve significantly.

Adjusting the speedPRO

With smart speed control enabled, Folx will automatically adjust download or upload speed if there is Internet traffic from a browser or another app. So you can still have a satisfactory surfing speed while Folx is working on the downloads.

Tasks schedulingPRO

Folx PRO scheduler permits to take full control over your downloads by setting the time to start and finish them. Choose whether to shut down the computer, switch to sleeping mode or quit Folx once the downloads are completed. Moreover, Folx can start automatically when your computer is on, and will perform all the appointed tasks without your direct participation.

Creating Apple Music playlistsPRO

With Music integration enabled for a specific tag, all media marked with this tag will automatically appear in your Music (former iTunes) library. Music integration works only for the files supported by Apple Music.

Login and password autofillPRO

Folx built-in password manager can safely store your passwords for different websites and FTP servers, as well as for the sites with web authentication, so you don't need to enter login and password each time you are adding a download from this website.
Folx PRO version lets you keep as many passwords as you want, while you can store only two passwords in free version.

FREE and PRO Versions Comparison

# Features Free PRO
1 Multi-threading (up to 20 threads)
2 Downloads scheduling
3 Music (former iTunes) integration
4 Smart speed adjustment
5 In-built torrents search
6 In-built unlimited password saver
7 High download speed
8 Splitting downloads in two threads
9 Resuming downloads automatically
10 Simultaneous multiple downloads

FAQ about Mac download managers

A downloader is a stand-alone tool that manages the downloading of files from the Internet to your Mac. A download manager doesn't just transfer files from a remote server or device to your computer, but also lets you manage the whole process, offering for example the ability to resume download on Mac after connection failure. A download manager also makes downloads faster since it can initiate multiple connections to the same server.
Having a software tool that replaces the native download function in a web browser is a good idea when you need to download a large number of files simultaneously, especially if they are large.

One more reason is a high download speed which essentially is not the basic purpose of a browser. Download managers work much faster than the default browser downloaders since they can split a single file into numerous parts to download them simultaneously. This helps increase the download speed.

Moreover, with a download manager you can always control traffic allocation by adjusting the bandwidth or by downloading large files at night to avoid traffic congestion.

Another great thing is that download managers let you organize your downloads. For example, Folx allows scheduling downloads and prioritizing tasks.
The basic difference between a direct download and torrenting is that a direct download is from a single source. It's a straight download from a server. When a lot of people are downloading from the same server at the same time, it slows down the download speed significantly.

With torrents, this isn't the case. Torrenting is peer to peer, which means that files are available from the server as well as from peers. This reduces the strain on the server and results in higher download speed. However, you will need a torrent client to download from torrent sites. Folx is not just a basic download manager, but a smart torrent client as well. Thus you can choose between a normal download or torrenting according to your current needs.

The download speed on your Mac depends on many factors. Some of them are external ones which we can hardly handle, like speed limitations set by a website or the type of wires your Internet Service Provider uses to transmit the Internet signal. The other factors are actually the system ones and can be successfully controlled by an accurate management of the download process in general.

The useful tips may be not to start multiple downloads at a time, to pause less important downloads to provide more traffic to the most urgent ones or to limit your upload rate. The fastest and the most comprehensive way to boost your download speed is to adjust the special features your download manager provides. Folx, for example, possesses a whole spectrum of useful features which help to increase download speed.

Surely you can use Folx as your reliable IDM alternative on Mac, since Folx is a fast and easy-to-use download manager which provides smart speed control, handy tagging system, lets you schedule your downloads and much more. Read the full list of special download features provided by Folx, including torrent downloading, making it also a solid uTorrent alternative for Mac.
No doubt Folx can be considered the best Mac downloader being a download manager and a torrent client at the same time. We've compared Folx with other top-ranked Mac downloaders and Mac torrent clients and can proudly say that it rightfully occupies the leading positions in both ratings.
Well, there are quite a few methods of searching for the required torrents in the Internet like using Google search, browsing methodically through numerous torrent sites, etc. Those methods are sometimes time consuming and can end up being misleading. The simplest way is surely to use a special torrent search app like Folx. Folx for Mac will look up the desired torrents on multiple popular torrent trackers and display the list of the most relevant results.
Choosing the best torrent client for macOS is not a trivial task as many factors should be taken into consideration. A torrent client should be powerful but lightweight, and provide advanced options which will let you totally control and adjust the whole process, like downloads scheduling and speed control.

We've compared the most popular best BitTorrent clients for Mac to help you with this sometimes tough task of finding a perfect app.
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    • 4.5
    I've been using Folx for a long time. Installed it on macOS Catalina and still have had no problems with each software update! Everything works perfectly and smoothly, definitely recommend this torrent client for Mac!
    John Fey

Overall rating 4.6
based on 796 reviews
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