TOTEMGet
macOS 14 and later · Universal

Downloads that finish.

TOTEMGet splits a file across up to sixteen connections, survives a dropped Wi-Fi or a closed laptop, and picks up exactly where it stopped. Native Swift, no Electron, no account, and nothing about your downloads ever leaves your Mac.

Free · Signed and notarized by Oceanic Consulting VOF · Intel and Apple silicon

The TOTEMGet app icon
TOTEMGet
All12
Video4
Documents3
Compressed2
Programs2
Other1
Ubuntu-24.04-desktop.iso48.6 MB/s
2.71 GB of 5.30 GB · 8 connections · 54 s left
annual-report-2026.pdfDone
14.2 MB · Documents · SHA-256 verified
archive.part1.rar12.1 MB/s
Part 1 of 5 · will unpack when the set is complete
What it does

Everything a download manager should have done years ago.

Built for the way files actually arrive on a Mac: big, slow, throttled, and from servers that drop the connection halfway.

Up to 16 connections

One file, many parallel ranges. On a server that throttles a single stream, that is the whole difference between minutes and hours.

Resume that resumes

Progress is written to disk as it happens, not held in memory. Quit the app, close the lid, lose power — it continues from the exact byte.

A finished connection helps the slowest

When one range completes early it takes over the back half of whichever range is lagging. No download waits on its unluckiest connection.

Catches your browser's downloads

An extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc hands the link over with its cookies, referrer and user agent, so pages behind a login still work.

Video pages, if you want them

Point it at a page and it can pull the media through yt-dlp, then check the result with ffprobe. Off by default, and it uses the tools you install yourself.

Sorted into folders as they land

Video, Audio, Images, Documents, Compressed, Programs. The type is decided from what the server actually sends, not from a guess at the URL.

Queue and night schedule

Cap how many run at once, reorder them, and give the queue a daily window so the heavy ones move at 02:00 and stop before you wake up.

Multi-part archives, handled

It recognises part1.rar, .r00, .z01 and .001 sets, waits until every piece is there, and unpacks with the tools already on your Mac.

Site logins in the Keychain

Save a username and password per host for the file lockers that need one. They live in macOS Keychain and are sent only to the host they belong to.

Speed limit

Cap the whole app so a big file does not eat the call you are on.

Proxy

HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5. A change never disturbs a transfer already running.

Grab links from a page

Fetch a page, filter by type, queue the ones you tick.

SHA-256

Hash a finished file and compare it against a published checksum.

What it does not do

It has nothing to report, because it collects nothing.

A tool that carries your cookies and your saved passwords has to be judged on what it sends elsewhere. TOTEMGet sends nothing.

16
Parallel connections per file
Universal
Apple silicon and Intel in one build
Notarized
Signed with a Developer ID and stapled
0
Trackers, accounts, or ads
Questions

Before you download.

Is it free?

Yes. No trial, no paid tier, no upsell inside the app.

Which macOS versions?

macOS 14 Sonoma and later. One universal build runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Will macOS warn me when I open it?

No. The app is signed with an Apple Developer ID, notarized by Apple and stapled, so it opens on a Mac that has never seen it before — even offline.

Does the browser extension work in Safari?

Not for catching downloads. Safari gives extensions no access to the download system, so this only works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc. You can always paste a link into the app itself.

Do I need yt-dlp or ffmpeg?

Only for video pages, and only if you turn that feature on — it ships switched off. TOTEMGet does not bundle those tools; it uses the copies you install yourself, with Homebrew for example. Everything else works without them.

Where do my files go?

Your Downloads folder by default, sorted into a folder per file type. You can change the folder, or turn the sorting off, in Settings.

What may I download with it?

TOTEMGet is a general-purpose transfer tool and does not choose, host or check any content. Holding the rights to what you download, and respecting the terms of the sites you use, is yours to judge. Note that downloading from YouTube conflicts with YouTube's terms whatever tool is used.

How do I report a security problem?

Write to [email protected]. For anything else, [email protected].

Get it now.

One universal build. macOS 14 and later.

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