Best Internet Download Manger Alternative on Mac and Windows

Overview

Internet Download Manger, short for IDM, is a very popular video download manager which can manage and schedule downloads. Internet Download Manger can download online videos at very fast speed because it can divide downloads into multiple streams, can batch download online videos, and it supports almost all web browsers, like IE, Opera, Chrome, Safari, etc. However, this so good Internet Download Manger only works on Windows system, but not Mac system. So if users want to use IDM on Mac, they should search for an IDM alternative for Mac. And sometimes, Internet Download Manger for Windows does not work as it is expected and the following just lists some Internet Download Manger working failures:

• When I use Internet Download Manger to download YouTube video, Internet Download Manger helps to download a web page instead of the video. Why does this happen and how to correct it?
• Why Internet Download Manger only downloaded the audio, but no video. The original video plays fine on the web browser. What should I do to avoid this?
• Just now I tried to use IDM to download an online video, but instead of downloading the video, I got an error message saying "An error occurred while creating security connection". Did I operate IDM wrong?
• When I use IDM to download one online video, IDM only gets the commercial video to me, but not the actual main video. I have tried twice, but still failed. How can I use IDM to download the main video?

In view of the above, if you want to use an IDM Mac version and an IDM Windows alternative, you can try Allavsoft.

Best IDM Alternative - Allavsoft

• Allavsoft is a professional online video and music downloader which can work on both Windows and Mac.
• Allavsoft can download the selected video file to any video format, MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, etc so that you can work the downloaded video on or in any video device, player or editor.
• Allavsoft can batch download online videos, so you can download all favorite online videos at one time.
• Allavsoft supports to download online videos from total 1000 video websites.
• Allavsoft is designed with fast download accelerator which supports to download online video at 30X faster downloading speed.
• Any downloaded online video has no quality loss when comparing with the online version.

Guide on Downloading Online Video with Allavsoft

Follow the guide below to easily download any online video and the following guide will take downloading YouTube video as the example.

Make Preparation: Free download IDM Alternative

Free download the best Internet Download Manger Alternative for Mac or Windows - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import YouTube video URL

Go to YouTube, find any YouTube video that you want to download. Copy this YouTube video URL and paste it to Allavsoft. Allavsoft also supports users to drag and drop the online video URL to Allavsoft.

Step 2 Set final output format (Optional)

Allavsoft has set many video formats as the output format and if you want the online video original video format as the output format, you can skip this step and let Allavsoft default setting get you the video origianl video format as the output format and if you want other video formats as the output format you can click the "Automatically Convert to" button to get any video format as the output format.

Step 3 Start to download online video

Click the "Download" button to start and finish the online video downloading work.