What Folx is really good at is advertising is software as being much better than it really is. I hope this review helps others make informed decisions about purchasing this piece of software. If you are willing to put in a lot of work you may get a refund, however I am not being paid to be their beta tester! So the refund policy is not an honest representation of fact. They will request personal information about logs, download history etc. While support is prompt to respond they do not want to offer refunds. While it states on the website that any download can be split into multiple downloads (up to 20 with pro) this feature is NOT offered for torrents. So if you are downloading a file you may find after leaving your computer for a while that the app is not running when you come back. There is no option to remotely control torrents through a cell phone or other devise (this is a feature many free torrent apps provide). The tagging feature might be useful for some however it is not smart enough to distinguish between a movie and a TV show. The search function is broken, slow and does not populate all the search results from the stated websites. The problem is that torrenting through the software is not a good experience. The promise it a downloader that also does torrents. Please, note that this version of Folx does not support downloading videos from YouTube. However, the Pro version brings such handy features as splitting the downloads in up to 20 threads which speeds up the download process scheduling the download tasks according to your convenience smart speed adjustment option (download speed will be adjusted automatically whenever you need to use Internet traffic to run other applications), iTunes integration, searching the web for torrents directly from Folx and password manager. There are many basic features included in the free trial. You can also assign a tag or a few to the downloaded content for accurate and easy search through the downloaded files. Its auto-resume option comes handy when the downloading gets interrupted. It makes downloading extremely easy: just open the page with the file to be downloaded, click the link in your browser, and Folx will start the download for you. It brings such handy features as splitting the downloads in up to 10 threads which speeds up the download process scheduling the download tasks up to your convenience smart speed adjustment option (download speed will be adjusted automatically whenever you need to use Internet traffic in some other applications) and searching the web for torrents directly from Folx.Folx combines two functionalities - of download manager and torrent client. You can also set the priority for each download task and control the download and upload speed with handy sliders. Folx will also make you forget about the mess in your download folder! You can assign a tag or several tags to each download task and easily find them whenever you need them even if they were downloaded long ago. Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X that is fast thanks to splitting downloads into threads it also features auto resuming in case the download was interrupted for some reason. Not only you can download any files from the web, but also you can download torrent content from various torrent trackers. All you need to do to download something is click the link in an Internet browser and Folx will start downloading for you. It is easy-to-use, not overloaded with unnecessary features and at the same time it has everything you may need for fast and convenient downloading. Folx is an essential 2 in 1 download tool.
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