AN.ONYMOUS  I have already reviewed iG (under the name "Anonymous", strangely taken meanwhile by another user) and I could say how much I like it.

To me the only important thing still missing in iG is the possibility to change the default cookie source. Until now, Safari is the only default "option" and does not address well the cookies for iG.

So, I have to modify each download to replace the cooky source from Safari to Camino.

I guess that it should not be very difficult to allow choosing another default browser. PLEASE RECTIFY !  
(Version 2.7.5)

MEEGO  With Snow Leopard, iGetter fails to capture downloads on Safari. It works fine on Firefox though.

And Presenta's website has been down for 2 days already... weird and a little upsetting for a customer  
(Version 2.7.5)

DOOBIEXX  Anybody find igetter popping up in your browser contextual menu, specifically Safari? I can't get it to work. [with Snow Leopard.] The app runs but when I try to have it in my contextual items so I can select links, control (right) click them to "download selection." No more prompt. I want to know if these is just me or others experiencing the same?  
(Version 2.7.5)

ANONYMOUS  There is a way to have Rapidshare's PW and ID automatically entered in iGetter. Just use the download manager and enter the following links

http://*.rapidshare.com/

http://.rapidshare.com/

http://.rapidshare.com/files/

I found the support team very efficient and friendly albeit (understandably) a bit slow.

iGetter Forum is also FULL of interesting tricks that make this app the perfect download manager (except its documentation which is useful for starting but soon limited vis-a-vis the power of this app.).  
(Version 2.7.5)

ANONYMOUS  Nice app. Does a great job at batch downloading. Also enables restricting its share of the bandwith so that it works in the background without impeeding parallel browsing. Also enables loading lists of urls to download. Excellent also at resuming interrupted downloads.

There are four isues, though :

- Poor documentation (eg for importing download lists). Some nice features are certainly missed by lack of a relevant documentation.

- When downloading several files from a server like Rapidshare, one has to type the site's password and ID for each file. This is because the the url changes at each file before the site's address is mentionned (eg. "http://123456789/rapdishare.com/... "), the everchanging 123456789 code preventing iGetter to recognize that the same site is concerned. It would be EASY to let users fix a default Pw and ID without having to retype them for each one of a series of files downloaded from the same site. When this is offered, I buy iGetter.

- The demo version launches iGetter at Startup. Making the downloads in standby seable by anybody present et start up. Dos anybody know how to de-activate this nuisance (Apparently the usual system tools cannot).

- iGetter still fails with some servers which are allergic to download managers. This is so even though only one file and only one segment are downloaded at the same time. iGetter should improve its capacity to remain undetected as a download manager.  
(Version 2.7.5)

GUMM  Does anybody know if iGetter works with iCab?  
(Version 2.7.5)

CSCARNEY  Now that the Leopard-compatible version is out, iGetter does what it claims to do very well. It manages downloads, and accelerates download speeds by opening multiple connections.

For me, iGetter's killer feature is "mirror sharing." It will automatically share mirror information with other users, saving you the hassle of having to manually enter mirror information for every download.

Good job, Presenta!  
(Version 2.7)

BINARYPACKRAT  I have to say after what Speed download did to its costumers today, I will defiantly be coming back to igetter.  
(Version 2.6.1)

SCHMELDING  The contextual menu item made my install of the latest Safari beta 3 not able to right-click. I removed the "iGetterIMBundle" from the InputManagers folder and I got my right-click back. Tiger 10.4/Intel.  
(Version 2.6.1)

BINARYPACKRAT  Works Great with Rapid share.com. UNBELIVEABLE SPEEDS! Downloads automatically from all available servers!! I will be buying this!!!!  
(Version 2.6)

FOULGER  For me, on a Mac Pro 2.6 Quad with 4Gb RAM, this usually excellent piece of software quits when a download starts. Don't know why - I only know it does.  
(Version 2.6)

DEKULAR  This is a good peace of software. It downloads at full speed, doesn't need many ressources and is quite easy to use. I would give a rating of 5 if someone will tell me how to proceed "bulk downloading" - I do not know what how to start a queue of, for example, 40 links that I copy into iGetter at once.

Sometimes it gets the CPU up to 40%.  
(Version 2.5)

MEEGO  I have been using iGetter for the last two years. Worked very well - not perfectly - but very well. The only disappointment comes from a few occasions where it would not manage to connect and launch download but this only occurred with websites i know are problematic with most download managers. Ultimately very rare.  
(Version 2.5)

ARIC  I love this app! everytime I click on a download, I instantly get an up and running file at around 2.5 times faster than when I try and download the file with Safari. Very fast download speeds (IMO)  
(Version 2.5)

KIOSHI  I love this program. Suffers from odd behaviour with those stupid encrypted URL. But I've never had a problem with speed or the contextual menu in Safari (in normal links, of course, not the encoded ones).  
(Version 2.4)

MGMU  A major disappointment.

Downloads from many sites are painfully slow with this program.

It keeps going into 'waiting...connecting' mode when the same file downloads smoothly with Safari.

I wish the developer could remedy this.

After much testing I can only give it one star.  
(Version 2.4)

CRUD  Must be nice to just not have contextual menus. When I try to use them, Safari 2.0.1 crashes everytime. Disabled or not, this should not happen for $25.

Oh, and an uninstall of iGetter seems to fix the problem nicely : |  
(Version 2.4)

JEROMAC  Doesn't pick up quite a lot of files and suffers from clunky behavior.  
(Version 2.4)

JEFFCGD  For those using iGetter that are suffering from no contextual menus in Safari, the problem lies with the iGetter Input Manager and the iGetter contextual menu plugin. If you remove/disable both of these items, you can still use iGetter (without being able to add stuff via the contextual menu) and retain the full functionality of Safari's contextual menus.

Otherwise this is a great app. Hope this problem gets resolved soon.  
(Version 2.3)

MUDFLAP  I love iGetter, but ever since Tiger I can't get right-click contextual menus to work with Safari anymore at all. So unfortunately, I can't use it until this is fixed.  
(Version 2.3)

ANONYMOUS  "Optimized for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and Safari v2.0"

What a load of BS! I have Safari 2.0 (412) and every time I right-click on a link, I get "Safari[9390] *** -[BrowserWebView _safari_webView:contextMenuItemsForElement:defaultMenuItems:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x13acab0]" in the console and no menu. Uninstall iGetter, and guess what, the contextual menu works again.  
(Version 2.3)

ANONYMOUS  Crashes Safari 10.3.9 and I don't see a fix yet. I killed the program and Safari rocks again. Getting broadband satellite installed -- I don't need the product any more either.  
(Version 2.2)

ANONYMOUS  Disastrous software. Crashes repeatedly on Mac OS X 10.3.9. Renders Safari completely unusable, and is a nightmare to remove. Can't believe they let applications like this out. Do not install this program; definitely bad news.  
(Version 2.2)

ANONYMOUS  Excellent software, been using it since I first got my Mac. 5 stars all around. It's a vital utility when you need an alternative to the browser's download manager.   
(Version 2.2)

NICKY  iGetter deserves 5 stars! It changed my life and I'm so happy now! No, no!! This software sucks, it turned my teeth black, crashed my computer 100 times and caused my house to burn down!! Buy Speed Download, it is so WONDERFUL!!! It is 100x faster, prevented my wife from miscarriage, and even washes my dishes without spotting if you integrate it into your dishwasher's controls.

The reality here is that 90% of these 5 star and 1 star reviews are written by the developers and from people connected to the developers. The goal is simply to manipulate the overall ratings of these products so they sell, sell, sell and so users who might consider trying the competors product are scared off. Let the truth be known; lies, lies and damned lies all!

I recommend the author provide this program as an API and sell it to Maytag so our dishes will come out cleaner, faster, and spotless. If this technology had been available to Voyager's crew, Captain Janeway could have gotten the crew home in 6 months insyead of 7 years.  
(Version 2.2)

BERKAYDINCER  I found this programme very useful. Even if you have big files to download, it quickly does its work: Very fast! You can change the features in the preferences menu easily. Older version was only integrated with internet explorer but this new version is also going good with Safari. You can download all files in a page with one click. It is very good for downloading a lot of files in one time.

The most important new feature in iGetter is languages. Older version was in English but this new version also includes many different languages. It has even the Turkish! Great job!

But when you open the preferences menu and change something about browser integration, you cannot close it unless you quit all opened browsers.   
(Version 2.1)

ANONYMOUS  Jonathan,

iGetter changes the Internet Config settings only when you turn on the "Integrate with Internet browsers" Tools menu function (it's switched off by default). There is a lot of information about the subject in the iGetter Help, ReadMe and the iGetter FAQ's page. In short, iGetter sets the File Helper settings of Internet Config to configure integration with Internet Explorer browser. This change doesn't affect other browsers. All of the changes will be restored to their default state if you just turn off the "Integrate with Internet browsers" Tools menu function.

A little advise for users that run iGetter for the first time. Please, take 5 min. to read the "Getting started" and Managing downloads" pages of the iGetter Help. If some problem arises refer to Help, search for this problem in the iGetter Forums and at last don't hesitate to contact us.

Happy holidays,

iGetter Support  
(Version 2.1)

JONATHAN  Completely messed up my internet settings!!!!!!! What is this??!!!  
(Version 2.1)

IVAN  downloaded it added the url for the huge download i had and it started downloading at top speed. what else can i ask for. thanks!

btw. i downloaded SpeedDowload first, but didn't work for me. :(  
(Version 2.0.2)

MAGDY  I have been keeping an eye out on this software as it has come out with new versions. This program looks and feels like a windoze program and all these developers seem to be doing is running a copy of Speed Download on another machine and copying the features one by one and trying to make the look of the program look different. Very poor judgement, very poor application. I use both Speed Download and iGetter and in the end, I purchase Speed Download. Very easy choice. Speed Download much faster, much cleaner and new version on the way according to developers. Maybe iGetter should wait until Speed Download releases new version so that it can copy poorly again. People, don't waste your money or time.  
(Version 2.0.2)

EYECIRCUS  I've been using iGetter for a wee bit now, and as far as features go it's been far ahead of its competition products for a long time, albeit some instability, but with what it gave - it was worth it.

The new release is working well for me BUT - why has the option to PRIORITIZE downloads been removed!?

This was one of the most useful and unique features of iGetter, who decides on these changes in updates? It makes no sense!!

BRING IT BACK!!  
(Version 2.0)

ANONYMOUS  $15 is too much to pay for an upgrade...

especially when the program cost $25 to begin with.

The developers of igetter should learn to actually appreciate the people who support shareware, not keep sticking them a bill.  
(Version 2.0)

ANONYMOUS  Look beyond the colorful surface; it's simply a repackaging of the same old software which doesn't pick up half of what it's supposed to. Crashed twice on OS X 10.3.5 on both machines. After the crash, using the uninstaller only removed part of the files. Had to go in and manually spend 20 minutes removing the rest, running disk permissions, and so forth. Where these gloried reviews come from is really beyond me,  
(Version 2.0)

A MARTIN  The new version 2.0 of this download manager is superb!  
(Version 2.0)

ANONYMOUS  I find iGetter to be superb.. and all this whining about spyware.. if you dont want it to tell the fileavenue.com service what you download (so others can find mirrors) then uncheck the box in the prefs. It's clearly marked and explained. It's not at all sneaky, it's just trying to do the community (and you) a favor.  
(Version 2.0)

BANDAR RAFFA  Much better, Much faster...

GREAT!  
(Version 2.0)

DR. ZEUS  This is a lame attempt of 'borrowing' a feature set from the makers of Speed Download. Apart from the contextual menu and mirror searching (poor I might add), this software is a Microsoft like attempt to 'borrow' features from another product. Little Snitch also uncovered that this nifty utility calls home! another spyware-like tactic. Top that with being more expensive, no thank you. Sad.  
(Version 2.0)

MARK  iGetter is a good product, though it has problems sometimes to handle destination folders, and the downloads go right inside the app bundle.

I'm using it for a long time, but I want to warn people that iGetter sends a list of all your downloads and related infos to the Presenta website (12.96.164.92) to maintain their database.

In other words, iGetter fills all conditions to be called as a "Spyware".  
(Version 1.9.5)

ILGAZ ÖCAL  Its good and the only problem is it can't takeover .dmg links from Safari since the SAFARI doesn't allow it...

Minor, almost cosmetic problems on Panther, the most serious one is "keep igetter minimized" option doesn't work anymore. Its cosmetic at all, just focus problem.

Friendly developers, they keep a anonymous forum open and what I hear is, 2.0 version due out soon.

I say stability best since it has never crashed here, never ever...  
(Version 1.9.5)

SED BI ME  freekin' fantastic program! fast, very stable, easy to use. just drag and drop a link from safari into the igetter window and it adds the url of the file the link points to. has a 30sec banner unless you register it, but trust me, its worth waiting through everytime you use the program coz its just sooo good! well done  
(Version 1.9.5)

ANONYMOUS  This isn't free as the author entails... gotta 12 second wait on first launch.  
(Version 1.9.5)

[KHRYPTIC]  iGetter is by far the most stable and best designed download manager that I've found to date.

There were minor problems updating from v1.9 to v1.9.5 that were solved by removing the old preferences, and relocating the v1.9 prefs to the new location: ~/library/igetter/

Also, still does not process web page properly in Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74). I've quit both applications, started up iGetter, and chosen "Integrate with browsers" or whatnot from the "Tools" menu. Then I start Safari and attempt to process a page of links with no luck. iGetter works fine with IE on the same page.

Overall, great update; glad to see new sorting features. Still miss the option to CLOSE the main window; it's really irritating that I can't.

So I give 4 stars of 5 across the board because it's great but not perfect. Download and register it - you'll not regret it.   
(Version 1.9.5)

ANONYMOUS  Almost perfect!  
(Version 1.9)

ANONYMOUS  Super fast, really powerful  
(Version 1.9)

ANONYMOUS  Better than speed download by miles, it does not quit after 30 mins until you pay a hugh amont of money to pay for it.   
(Version 1.9)

ANONYMOUS  Best download manager, bar none. Really fast and full-featured. Not spyware. While it can send download info to be complied into stats for the iGetter website, if you don't want it to, just de-select "share mirror info" from Preferences>Advanced. To uninstall, use the uninstaller in the iGetter folder. Critics should shut up and RTFM.  
(Version 1.9)

MUDFLAP  I don't know why some reviewers are FREAKING out. This is a great, useful piece of software. It works. it's a godsend for us 56K'ers out there. You can copy and paste urls to igetter, or better yet, you can drag-n-drop links from Internet Exploder, Netscrape, Chimera (ROCKS!) and Safari right over to the igetter window, and they line up in the queue and start dl'ing automatically, all without even leaving your proggie. FANTASTIC!

Tell me that THAT's not cool.

Plus, it's never crashed. Ever. And I've never had a single problem with it, nor the files I DL'd with it.

The only thing I dont like about it is its interface... that EQ-looking thing's a waste of cpu power and it MUST go.

Otherwise, GREAT stuff.  
(Version 1.9)

MACVICK  the best manager of downloads  
(Version 1.9)

ANTONIO  Its still the same shit as before. It'll mess up your ENTIRE file associations..stay WAY clear of this!  
(Version 1.9)

JP  Excellent program, true shareware - will not expire. Many features, stable and useful. I do NOT recommend using the browser click intercept feature, instead cause it to watch the clipboard. Cheers!  
(Version 1.9)

MARC ANNERY  Very poor implementation of a nice idea.  
(Version 1.8)

JOEY MARTINEZ  Yeah ok! 5 stars for what!? This is the worst piece of shit software to ever come out. Just try uninstalling it if you dont like it. Even better try registering it, and check out the wonderful spyware features you get with it!  
(Version 1.8)

ANONYMOUS  Finally a download manager that actually works! And on OS X! I downloaded a 145 mb file over a 56k modem. I had to stop the download 3 times and it picked up right where it left off. This thing is a GOD SEND!  
(Version 1.7)

ANONYMOUS  GREAT!!! Makes DSL downloads faster  
(Version 1.4PR)