Open Download Manager

A native GTK download manager for Linux — one queue for HTTP/FTP, BitTorrent, video, and website mirrors, with privacy routing and crash-safe resume.

Open Download Manager (ODM) combines proven engines — aria2, yt-dlp, and HTTrack — with persistent history, queue controls, and recovery after restarts.

Features · How ODM compares · Installation · Building from source

Features

• Multi-connection HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP downloads
• BitTorrent, magnet, and Metalink support
• Video and media downloads through yt-dlp
• Website mirroring through HTTrack
• Pause, resume, cancel, reorder, and concurrent download limits
• Clipboard URL monitoring and torrent/Metalink folder monitoring
• Persistent download history and automatic resume
• Speed limits, mirrors, retries, scheduling, and batch imports
• Proxy, proxychains, and Tor routing, plus proxy rotation
• After-completion actions (notify, open file, verify, suspend, shutdown)
• Native GTK4 interface with search, filtering, detail views, and tray/background mode

How ODM compares

Generic HTTP/FTP, BitTorrent/magnet and yt-dlp media are table stakes. ODM combines them with a Linux-native, privacy and recovery stack in one queue.

Area	ODM	Varia	Motrix	Persepolis	AB DM	KGet	JDownloader	FileCentipede	IDM	uGet
Native Linux desktop	✅ GTK4/Libadwaita, fully open-source	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	❌	❌
Privacy routing	✅ Tor lifecycle + health + proxychains + proxy rotation on 403/429/5xx	❌	❌	◐	◐	❌	◐	◐	◐	❌
Recovery & persistence	✅ XDG settings + SQLite history + aria2 session + ordered events + auto-resume	❌	❌	❌	◐	◐	◐	❌	◐	❌
Unified multi-engine queue	✅ aria2 + yt-dlp + HTTrack + curl fallback in one queue	◐	◐	◐	❌	◐	◐	◐	◐	❌
Watch & clipboard automation	✅ .torrent + .metalink/.meta4 folder watch + clipboard polling	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	❌	◐	❌
Weekly scheduler	✅ weekday spans + presets with in/out-window policy	✅	❌	✅	✅	◐	◐	❌	✅	❌
Post-completion pipeline	✅ checksum + AV + subs + move + cmd + sound + suspend/shutdown with logs	❌	❌	❌	◐	◐	◐	◐	◐	❌
Site mirroring	✅ HTTrack as dedicated WEBSITE_SCRAPING type	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	◐	❌	◐	❌
Distribution packaging	✅ .deb / .rpm / .pkg.tar.zst with bundled jlink Java 25 runtime	◐	✅	◐	✅	◐	◐	◐	❌	❌

Legend: ✅ full support · ◐ partial support · ❌ missing / undocumented in reviewed first-party sources (2026-08-19, not a claim of absence).

Requirements

• GTK 4 (>= 4.10)
• aria2 (>= 1.34.0)
• yt-dlp (>= 2024.01.01)
• HTTrack (>= 3.49.0)
• curl (>= 7.80.0)

Optional but recommended: proxychains, Tor, and FFmpeg.

Installation

Packages are produced for Debian/Ubuntu (.deb), Fedora/RHEL (.rpm), and Arch (pkg.tar.zst). Each package bundles a trimmed Java 25 runtime; GTK4 and the download tools above are still required from the host system.

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install ./open-download-manager_*.deb OR sudo dpkg -i open-download-manager_*.deb

# Fedora/RHEL
sudo rpm -i open-download-manager-*.rpm

# Arch
sudo pacman -U open-download-manager-*.pkg.tar.zst

Building from source

Source builds require JDK 25, Maven, a Linux native toolchain, and GTK4 development libraries. The supported development environment is Docker-based:

make build     # build the odm-dev Docker image
make compile   # compile and package the project
make test      # run the full test suite (starts Xvfb)
make package   # build .deb, .rpm, and pkg.tar.zst artifacts
make dev       # open an interactive development container
make run       # launch the application with GUI forwarding
make debug     # launch with a suspended debugger on port 5005

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ODM builds on the work of these outstanding open-source projects:

• yt-dlp — video and media extraction with format discovery
• curl — process-based HTTP fallback and proxy-capable downloads
• aria2 — multi-protocol download engine (HTTP/FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink) over local JSON-RPC
• Jackett — API Support for your favorite torrent trackers
• proxychains-ng — SOCKS/HTTP proxy chaining
• Tor — optional privacy routing through the local SOCKS service
• HTTrack — website mirroring with depth and filter controls
• java-gi — native GTK4 desktop interface from Java