As the name suggests, µTorrent (micro-torrent) is a small size torrent downloader. Although it occupies very little disk space and uses very little of your system's resources, it isn't limited in features. In fact, it has so many of them that you probably won't need all of them.

The application is so easy to use, almost no one will encounter any difficulties. After the program is installed, it requires no configuration, working perfectly out-of-the-box. However if you desire to customize it, the utility is very flexible allowing you to fine-tune almost anything you can think of. In fact, it lets you go in so deep, there is an advanced tab where you can modify some variables that the program uses internally.

The Auto Shutdown menu lets you choose if you want your computer to quit the application, reboot the operating system, or shutdown the PC, when downloads are complete. If you don't trust this system and want more control, you can easily setup the remote feature and then access your torrent downloader through a web browser on your phone or tablet.

Last few versions came with some features that make transferring files across devices a lot easier. After adding your device(s), you can drag and drop files and the application will automatically make any necessary format conversions before uploading those to your smartphone, tablet or gaming console. The bundle menu is also a nice addition. Here, you can find legal music or video downloads from different artists in the world.

Like many other free programs, this includes advertisements to generate revenue for the developers too. However, they are non-intrusive and usually relevant to the user. But if you don't want to see them anymore, you can buy µTorrent Plus which also includes antivirus protection and an HD video player.

Although this utility has all the nice extra-features, what is most attractive about it is still its effectiveness, speed and low-impact on system resources. It just works smoothly, downloads fast and intelligently leaves some bandwidth for your other apps if they need it.

Free Download Manager (FDM for short) is a free, efficient, and comprehensive solution for managing all your downloads. Its support for YouTube, the most popular online media site, as well as for the BitTorrent protocol will let you download all types of documents, e-books, video and audio files, etc., and manage all of them in one single interface.

You can copy and paste any number of YouTube URLs to the program’s main window and choose your preferred level of quality – among those available for that particular video – for each of them. This includes the possibility of downloading only the audio stream of the online video in any of the codecs provided. Videos can be previewed while the download is in progress, which will allow you to download only those videos you really like. The program will use your default media player to open and play back the selected file. Before starting the download process, you can define the times and the days of the week on which your downloads will be active. Unfinished downloads will resume automatically at those times, just as any broken download that was interrupted for some reason.

While downloading your favorite online videos, you can also open any torrent files and manage their download in parallel. The program’s attractive and well-designed interface comes with specific tabs for you to view your torrent downloads, your YouTube downloads, those that have finished downloading, those that are still active, etc. You decide the maximum number of simultaneous downloads, as well as the upload and download speeds. You can also select which files within the torrent file will be downloaded and where. You may define a specific port range and configure your proxy settings manually and control your overall traffic easily and effectively. FDM’s particular way of managing your downloads by breaking them down into smaller sections will make the most of your connection and of the download and upload speeds available.

Free Download Manager keeps improving its many features with every new release. This 100% free and reliable app only needs support for a wider range of popular video sites other than YouTube to become one of the best free, easy-to-use, and efficient download managers you can opt to.