Redirecting sources stop paying for the redirect on every segment, and the Windows Settings panel fits on a small screen

• Fixed: on any source that redirects — which is most CDNs — every segment re-walked the whole redirect from the original address, so the DNS lookup, the TCP connection and the TLS handshake were paid again per segment and the connection could never be reused. Segments now request the address the redirect resolved to, and fall back to the original if that address stops working, which is what an expiring signed URL looks like.
• Fixed: on a small screen the Windows Settings panel was taller than the desktop, putting Save and Cancel below the bottom edge with no way to reach them. The panel is now capped to the monitor's work area and scrolls, the same way the Linux one already did.
• Fixed: a download's connection count could be measured during connection setup and mistaken for its steady speed, so the ramp stopped early. The first window is no longer used as the baseline.
• On the site: the overview page now shows real screenshots of five clients — Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android — all downloading the same 720 MB file over 8 threads, and the Linux install commands have a copy button.

The browser extension has a home, and downloads stop settling for half the connections they were given

• Settings now lists each browser separately — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari on macOS — and says whether that browser's extension has actually reached the app, rather than merely whether the browser is installed. A browser you do not have is greyed out.
• Fixed: a download could switch off its own connection ramp within the first three seconds and stay there for the whole file, having never been rate-limited. The first measurement window spans connection setup, and on a source that opens fast and then settles it reads about double the real speed; that number was then treated as the bar to beat. Measured on one such link, a download held 10 of its 16 connections before, and reaches all 16 now.
• The extension packages are published with the release, and there is a page explaining how to install them today — including the parts browsers make awkward, since neither store listing is live yet.
• Fixed: the Windows toolbar's Pause button read “Show main window”, Delete read “Technical Preview”, and Settings showed the product blurb. The string table had drifted out of order against the enum that indexes it; a check now runs over both Windows and Linux.

The Android app is a third of its old size, and the progress bar stops hiding connections

• The Android download is now 655 KB, down from 2.07 MB. Its interface was rebuilt without Jetpack Compose, and without the other four frameworks it dragged in; nothing about the app changed except its weight.
• The segmented progress bar used to show only the first compartment during the first seconds of a download, even with eight connections running. Every connection with real progress is now visible immediately, on all four platforms.
• The download speed reads to one decimal again, with the number moving continuously rather than stepping ten times a second.
• On the site: the macOS window shown on the features page is now drawn from an actual screenshot — including the status bar it had been missing entirely — and the time-remaining text there follows the same units as the app, in both languages.

A new icon, real file names, a right-click menu, and a Windows installer

• Downloads now take their real name from the server instead of whatever the link ended in, so an address like download.php?id=… no longer saves a file called "download.php".
• Right-click any finished download for Open, Show in Folder and Copy Link. On Android, long-press.
• New download no longer starts with a sample address pre-filled; if the clipboard holds a link, that is offered instead — the same thing Internet Download Manager and Neat Download Manager do.
• Windows now ships a proper installer, and the program is named in full rather than as an abbreviation.
• Settings was rebuilt: launch at login, a proxy that is off unless you turn it on, download threads defaulting to 8, and the diagnostic prompt moved out of Settings — the app now offers it only when it has actually detected a crash, which it reads from the system's own crash report rather than guessing.
• A new app icon across every platform, finished downloads show when they finished, and a very long time-remaining now reads in days, months or years instead of tens of thousands of hours.
• Known issue: on the command line, re-running an interrupted download of a file whose name the server supplies starts it over instead of resuming. Pause and resume inside the app are unaffected. A fix is in progress.

Time remaining is now readable at any length

• A very long download used to report its time remaining in hours and nothing larger, so a slow transfer could read "1727696 hours". It now steps up through days, months and years — "5d 4h", "2mo 12d", "3y 5mo" — on every platform and in both languages.
• Both competitors were checked first: neither escalates past hours. Neat Download Manager displays a genuine "343325 hour 25 min 39 sec" for a multi-year estimate, and Internet Download Manager reports seven days as "168 hour(s) 0 min" and blanks the cell entirely past 10000 hours.
• The six places that format a duration — the three desktop apps, iOS, the command line and the engine's built-in web page — had drifted apart in units, spacing and dash characters, and two of them could overflow on very large values. They now produce byte-identical output for every input.

The progress bar now shows every connection, and the thread count shows what is actually running

• The segmented progress bar now draws a divider at every real connection boundary, on all four platforms. A segment used to become visible only once it had downloaded enough to render, so a 32-connection download looked like a handful of scattered blocks: on Windows and Linux a compartment needed roughly 21 MB before it appeared at all, and on Android the segments merged into one solid bar so the split was never visible.
• The connection count now reads live / maximum instead of the number set in Settings. A source that does not support resuming runs on a single connection, and a rate-limited host makes the engine settle on fewer — the row now says so rather than always showing the configured maximum.
• A stalled transfer no longer shows an absurd time remaining next to a zero speed; it shows a dash. The percentage is consistent across platforms and no longer rounds up to 100% before the file is finished.
• The status bar no longer counts queued downloads as active ones, so it agrees with the list above it.

Faster on slow links, a speed readout matched to the millisecond, and fixes for two ways the app could get stuck

• Fixed a real problem on slow or rate-limited sources: the engine mistook "this server is simply slow" for "we are overloading it" and kept dropping connections until barely any were left, so speed sputtered and stalled. It now widens its measurement window on slow links instead of guessing, and climbs back to your full connection count.
• The speed readout was rebuilt against frame-by-frame measurements of a competitor rather than guesswork, so the number moves the way a download actually feels instead of sitting still between updates.
• Fixed a bug that could lock the whole window: opening New Download from the menu bar while the sheet was already open left a dead panel that only a force-quit could clear. Cancelling a sheet also used to disable the New button for the rest of the session.
• Minimizing or hiding the window now actually saves power (it was still redrawing at full frame rate behind your other windows), and quitting during a download now finishes writing progress to disk before exiting, so resume never loses the last few hundred KB.
• Android no longer leaves a permanent "engine running" notification after the first download.

Idle energy fix (from a real user's report) and opt-in diagnostics

• Fixed the idle battery drain a user reported against v0.1.139 (the app topping Activity Monitor's energy list while doing nothing): rendering and engine polling now wind down to one wakeup per second — and on macOS stop entirely — when nothing is transferring. Measured idle CPU fell from about 6% of a core to 0.5%, and macOS App Nap can finally engage. Download smoothness is unchanged: full vsync rendering resumes the moment a transfer runs.
• Memory was audited and measured at the same time: no leak — RAM stays flat at idle, plateaus during long transfers, and transfer peaks are promptly reclaimed. The v0.1.139 symptom was constant CPU wakeups, not growing memory.
• Android additionally suspends polling completely while the app is in the background (it used to keep polling at 10 Hz).
• New, macOS first: if the app's own resource usage ever looks abnormal, it asks once — in a small in-window banner, never a popup — whether to share a single anonymous diagnostic (numbers only: version, OS, uptime, RAM, CPU, task counts). Nothing is sent unless you click Share, and Settings has a switch to stop it asking at all.

Faster ramp-up, FTP & WebDAV, and smaller Windows & macOS packages

• Adaptive connections now ramp up exponentially: full 32-connection speed in about 6 seconds instead of 22 on a clean server, with the 429 back-off and convergence protections unchanged.
• New protocols: FTP downloads (multi-connection, resumable) and WebDAV, plus support for user:password credentials in URLs (kept strictly to the same origin).
• Windows portable download drops from 1.16 MB to 0.59 MB — the old zip shipped a second copy of the engine that the GUI already embeds; the command-line build now ships as its own zip.
• macOS disk image shrinks from 1.49 MB to 0.87 MB with LZMA compression, still one universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel.
• The in-app update check now knows its own version correctly on Windows and Linux — new builds no longer offer themselves as an "update".

Working pause & delete, auto-update, and real-user analytics

• Pause, resume and delete now work end-to-end on every platform (runtime-verified). Delete removes the row, a canceled download no longer lingers as a stuck entry, and the pause button relabels to Resume.
• Added a launch update check with a dismissable in-app banner, plus a Settings toggle to turn it off.
• New Windows installer (install / uninstall) alongside the portable build.
• Android gained pause / resume / delete controls for the active download.
• Fixed dialog layout issues: off-screen Settings/New windows and resize artifacts on Windows, and safe-area / scroll handling on Android.

Stability overhaul + a smaller build

• About 73 issues fixed across 11 rounds of cross-checked Codex + Claude security audits — cross-platform correctness, security hardening, Windows Unicode (Chinese) paths, and memory bounds.
• Fixed a regression where pausing a download could lose its progress.
• Fixed a crash when opening the file picker on macOS.
• Windows installer trimmed further — the portable .zip is down from 1.67 MB to 1.15 MB.

Unified design across platforms + Windows HTTPS fix

• New app icon and an identical, cleaned-up window layout across Windows, macOS and Linux — one toolbar, one task list, one status bar.
• Fixed a Windows-only bug that stopped secure (HTTPS / TLS 1.3) downloads from starting — HTTPS links now download on Windows just like on macOS.
• The New download window now lets you choose the save folder; connection count moved to global Settings (default 16).
• Website rebuilt; every platform's installer rebuilt and re-verified at this version.

Redesigned desktop interface

• A single clean window replaces the old two-pane manager: toolbar, task list with the live segmented progress bar, and a status bar — nothing else.
• New rounded-arrow app icon shared across every platform.

Steadier speed on real-world servers

• Adaptive connections: the engine adds connections when they help and backs off when a server rate-limits, ending the speed swinging between fast and slow on throttling servers.
• HTTP keep-alive connection reuse — far fewer reconnects, so the speed holds instead of dipping between segments.
• Byte-perfect resume: every segment is checkpointed to disk, so an interrupted download picks up exactly where it left off, verified byte-for-byte.

A smaller engine with adaptive connections

• The download engine was trimmed by about 40% — the arm64 build is 577 KB.
• Adaptive connection scaling can improve large-file throughput without forcing a fixed connection count.

First public technical preview

• One C++ engine across Windows, macOS, Linux and Android — arm64 and x86-64 — built and shipped together, with self-contained desktop apps under 2 MB.
• Multi-connection acceleration, browser video capture, and no ads, accounts or telemetry.