Top Linux Download Managers

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uGet
uGet is an open source download manager application. It supported multiple platforms like inux, BSD, Android & Windows. It is very Light weighted and feature enriched download manager. It is hosted on SourceForge.net you can get source code from there. Its graphical user interface is looking like torrent interface. uGet has addons for Chromium and Firefox browsers.

Features

Use download queues for simultaneous downloads.
Resume download features supported when your connection drop due to any reason.
Download to a specific category automatically.
Provide the option of shutdown the computer after downloading all files .
Provide optional features of downloading the file through command line.
Automatically create the folder when folder doesn't exist.
Supported 20 different languages.

KGet
KGet is a free and open source download manager. In start it was created for the KDE desktop environment. It enables you to independently download the files from your web browsers. It has very user friendly graphical user interface. This download manager by default used ...
... for Konqueror and can be used in Mozilla Firefox. It can download files from FTP, HTTP(S) and BitTorrent sources.

Features

It support metalinks which contain different URLs for downloads.
It support the features of pausing and resuming downloading files.
It has features to restart the downloading.
It can download the files from FTP and HTTPS sources.
It can be embaded into system tray.
It can be integrated with the Konqueror web browser.
It provide the information of current and pending downloads.

Steadyflow
Steadyflow is comprehensive download manger available for Linux. It is light weighted, simple and easy to use download manager. For downloading small files it is very excellent choice. It reads the clipboard for URLs and use GNOME’s preset proxies. You can integrate it with Chromium and FireFox.

Features
It is a light weighted and simple software for managing your downloads.
It has very clean and simple graphical user interface.
It allow you to add downloads, remove downloads and pause downloads.
It will continue downloads in system tray.
It alert you by given notification when download is completed.
It can be integrated in chrome browser.