A free, open-source download manager
Zajil splits a file into parts and downloads them at the same time, and goes on from where it stopped if the connection drops. Its interface is Arabic first, right to left, with English too, on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Zajil is Arabic for the homing pigeon, which carried messages however far they had to go. That is the name's promise: your file gets to you whole and sound, even if the connection breaks on the way.
A pigeon diving down That is the download.
Wing feathers in parallel lines Those are the parallel connections.
Zajil splits a file into parts and opens a connection for each, up to 32. When a connection finishes its part, it takes half of what is left of the slowest part, so no connection sits idle.
A simulation, to show the idea only. Real speed depends on the server and your connection, and splitting works when the server allows it.
Zajil keeps what arrived as it goes. If the connection drops, or you close the program, the download goes on from where it stopped. If the link expires, give it a new link to the same file with “Refresh link”.
Before it goes on, Zajil makes sure the file on the server has not changed, so old and new content never mix.
From choosing a video's quality to scheduling downloads for the night, all in one clear window.
The “Video quality” window shows each quality there is with its size, and “Sound only”. YouTube is supported, with a whole playlist or the videos you pick from it, and sound and picture are merged when they come apart.
The video tools are open source (yt-dlp, FFmpeg and QuickJS-NG), downloaded once when you agree. Zajil never gets around content protection: if a video is protected by DRM, it tells you so plainly.
Put downloads in queues, and set how many run at once and how many times each is retried.
Choose when to start, when to stop, and on which days. Zajil can shut the computer down or put it to sleep when the queue ends.
Limit the whole program or each download on its own, so your other work keeps enough speed.
Zajil puts each file in its category: Programs, Video, Music, Documents and Archives. Each has its own folder, and rules you can change.
Zajil's interface was built right to left from the start, not translated afterwards. And it switches to English in one click, without restarting the program.
All downloads
Choose what is easy on your eyes, or let it follow your computer. And every button in the program has a keyboard shortcut.
These are from Zajil itself, in Arabic, with test file names.
Every download in one table, with a side tree of categories and queues. Shown in the site's current mode, light or dark.
The progress window shows each part of the file, what each connection downloaded, and this download's speed limit.
Before a download starts, you choose its category and where it goes. Start it now, or put it in a queue for later.
Choose a video's quality while you see each one's size, or keep the sound only.
“Site grabber” checks a site without downloading anything from it, and shows what it found for you to choose from. It always honours robots.txt.
“Batch download”: a link with an asterisk where it changes, a range of numbers or letters, and the links shown before they are added.
Add Zajil's extension to your browser, and downloads go to Zajil by themselves, with no links to copy.
By the file types you choose, and it leaves the sites you exclude to the browser.
“Download with Zajil” on any link, and “Download video with Zajil” on any video.
It shows at the top of a video and opens the “Video quality” window. On a YouTube playlist's page, a button downloads the whole list.
The extension calls no server, and sends with each download only what that download needs. The details.
Zajil connects only to the servers of the files you download, to GitHub to learn of a new version (you can turn that off), and to download the video tools once you agree.
This site too: no cookies, no trackers, and its fonts are its own. The full privacy policy.
Choose your system. The browser extension and the install steps are on the download page.
Windows 10 and 11 (x64)
Your system Download for Windows .exemacOS 11 or later, for Apple Silicon and Intel
Your system Download for macOS .dmgUbuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or later (x64)
Your systemYour system shows a warning on first run, as Zajil is not signed by Apple or Microsoft. How to open it is in the install steps. To make sure a file is ours, compare it with the SHA-256 checksums published with each release.
Zajil's only official sources are this site, zajil.by-wow.com, and its GitHub repository. Any copy from elsewhere, one that asks for money, or one bundled with other programs, is not ours.
All the code is on GitHub under GPL-3.0. You can read it, change it and contribute to it. Releases are built automatically from the published code, with a checksum for each file.
Yes, completely free. There is no paid version, no locked features and no ads.
Windows 10 and 11, macOS 11 or later, and Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or later). There is no phone app.
Because Zajil is not signed by Apple or Microsoft. How to open it is on the download page, with how to check the file's checksum.
Install Zajil and start it once, then add its extension to Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Downloads then go straight to Zajil, by the file types you choose. The steps.
No. No tracking, no analytics, no ads. The details are in the privacy policy.