Internet Download Manager (IDM) Review | Best FREE Video Downloader Reviews

Internet Download Manager (download link), aka IDM, is an all-purpose download accelerator and manager. It speeds up downloads by 5 times. With IDM, it’s super easy to resume and schedule downloads, grab sites, download files in batch and sort downloaded files. In this review, we’ll mainly focus on its powerful and convenient video downloader functionality.

Limitations of free Internet Download Manager (IDM) as a video downloader:

Free to use all the features of the video downloader without limitations within 30 days.

How to install the free video downloader Internet Download Manager (IDM):

1. Download the free online video downloader Internet Download Manager (IDM) with the link.
2. Double-click the downloaded setup .exe file and follow the wizard to install the software on your PC.
3. The browser extension IDM Integration Module will be automatically installed during the IDM installation. When it’s installed in the browser, you need to enable the extension.
4. (Optional) If you need to use IDM Integration Module extension in incognito mode, check switch on the Allow in incognito option.

Steps to download online videos for free with IDM:

1. Visit the video page;
2. Click the Download this video button and select the resolution as you wish.

Cons:

1. In Chrome, the formats of downloaded videos cannot be changed. Besides .mp4, you may also download videos as .mkv or even .ts. It’s necessary to have a media player or a video converter if you need to play the downloaded videos on your computer or other devices.
2. Rip mp3 from videos is not supported, thus, you cannot download videos as .mp3 files directly.
3. The videos cannot be downloaded directly to your phones, tablets or media players as there is no corresponding app available.
4. Only Windows PC is supported so that you cannot run it on a Mac computer.
5. Some copyright protected videos may not be allowed to download.
6. The browser plugin isn’t stand-alone and the Windows program must be installed to make it work.

Pros:

1. Use IDM for free for up to 30 days.
2. Download videos in the easiest way:
3. All the resolutions are available for download, even 4320p 8k.
4. Download multiple videos at the same time.
5. Download videos on any site.
6. Resume the video downloads from failure or pause.



7. Download videos at 5X speed.
8. Besides videos, you can also download music and audios from a page as long as you can play them on that page, even if no download links are given.



9. It’s not only a video downloader, but also a powerful download accelerator for download other files at high speed.
10. The Lifetime license only costs $24.95 USD, and One-year license USD $11.95, very cost-effective prices.
11. All the popular browsers are in the support list.
12. Downloaded videos will be automatically saved to the same folder.

Prices of the pro versions of the free video downloader:

One-year license for 1 PC: USD $11.95 Lifetime license for 1 PC: USD $24.95 One-year license for 2 and more PCs: USD $9.95 for each PC Lifetime license for 2 and more PCs: USD 19.95 for each PC

Key features of Internet Download Manager (IDM):

1. As a download accelerator, it increases download speeds by up to 5 times.
2. Download various type of files such as pictures, audios, photos, programs (e.g. games, shareware and freeware) compressed, images files (of CD and DVD), documents, webpages, and even whole sites much faster.
3. Accelerate downloads with multiple state-of-the-art technology: intelligent dynamic file segmentation, safe multipart downloading, and available connections reuse without additional connect and login stages.
4. Resume unfinished, broken or interrupted downloads from the point at which they were left off caused by lost or dropped connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages.
5. The download process can be fully automatic: connect to the Internet at a set time, download the desired files, then disconnect, hang up or shut down the computer when the download finishes.
6. Take over downloads in browsers and applications with Advanced Browser Integration technology and simultaneously accelerate the download processes.
7. Create and schedule several download queues for downloading or periodic synchronization.



8. Built in with website spider and grabber to download all required files (e.g. all pictures of a website, or subsets of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing) that are specified with filters from websites.



9. Schedule multiple grabber projects to run and stop at a specified time, or run periodically to synchronize changes.
10. Categorize downloads by file types automatically according to your needs.
11. Freely and accurately control downloads with quotas, especially apply to fair access policy (or FAP) like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.
12. Download all the files on one page with ease.
13. Operating the software with either professional command line or easy drag and drop are supported.
14. Drag and drop links to add new downloads, and drag and drop to move downloaded files from IDM to your hard drive.
15. Preview zip files when they are downloaded.
16. Protect your computer from harmful files, viruses and trojans by automatically scanning the downloads with antivirus software like AdAware, Avast, Spybot, AVG Anti-Virus, McAfee, Norton Internet Security, Norton 360, SpywareBlaster, CCleaner and more when the downloads complete.
17. Compatible with all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2 and all other popular browsers.
18. Add support for proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, audio and video content processing.
19. IDM supports HTTP, FTP, HTTPS and MMS protocols.
20. IDM lets you access many Internet and proxy servers using login name and password. The supported authentication protocols include Basic, Negotiate, NTLM, and Kerberos, etc.
21. Customize window interface, toolbar skins and sounds of different events.
22. IDM supports many types of proxy servers such as Microsoft ISA and FTP.
23. 33 languages UI are available for choosing from.
24. Update to the latest version is made rather convenient.
25. Provide html help and tutorial.