IDM (Internet Download Manager) vs ?

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At these days, it is still quite difficult to find download managers which support Google Chrome natively. In addition, most of download managers are not incorporated with automatic download interceptor like IDM. I can mention few which does, they are Free Download Manager (FDM), Internet Download Accelerator (IDA) and GetGo Download Manager. I have never liked FDM. To me, it is bloated and somehow I never succeeded in capturing any YouTube videos with it. IDA is also bloated by ads. GetGo by far is the closest to IDM as to features. In fact, its one-click flash video grabber is better than IDM. Simply placing the normal URL of the video, and GetGo shall "sniff" the content for us. But to my dismay, it installs toolbar and does not support Chrome (May be because Chrome does not allow any third-party toolbars).

Try DAM (Download Accelerator Manager)

DAM is to IDM, as Haozip is to WinRAR

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Nah, tried that.
Albeit the interface is IDM-alike, but it lacks several features IDM has. Unless you are a paid user, you will not be provided with sufficient acceleration. Limited to only 4 segmentation, if I am not mistaken. No zip preview nor Scheduler (?) either. Neither does one-click YouTube download. The absent of one-click flash content is offset by the Media Grabber which I think is less practical. This Media Grabber has to be opened prior to download.

Thank all of you guys for the great feedback!!

BTW, I looked around the IDM website and it seems the license is lifetime (Support | licensing) but Purchase pate says you get all updates for free for 1 year. (Support | licenseing says you get all minor updates until next version #)

So... we'll see what happens in 4 days. Perhaps the license I have behaves differently since it was a promo license. I'll report back what I learn. Thanks again everyone!!!

In the mean time, try to keep the latest IDM 6.09 build 2 setup then.

If you've bought IDM, then it'll work for lifetime, but you won't be eligible for free updates/upgrades after 1 year. Without updates and upgrades you can continue to use it. On contrary, if it's a license which you won at a giveaway, then you can neither be entitled for free updates/upgrades nor you can use it after 1 year.

If that is proven the case, then I am afraid almost everyone of us here who have IDM will have to bid farewell to the program after the license expires because I am sure the majority of us got IDM from giveaways.

I think Sam is right But would love if someone contradict this fact

jelson can be our guinea pig. If he succeed to continue using IDM after, let's say, a week onwards after the expiry date then the case will be proven otherwise. You wouldn't mind, would you, jelson?