Downloads,
elevated.
Aether replaces Chrome's download shelf with a calm side panel — then quietly accelerates your downloads, captures torrents and video, and files everything exactly where it belongs.
Free · No account · Nothing leaves your device
Works with the services you already use
One extension for the whole download workflow
From a single side panel, Aether handles ordinary files, torrents, Usenet and video — then keeps it all organised and private.
A side panel, not a shelf
Aether replaces Chrome's cramped download bar with a calm, always-there side panel. Active transfers, history, and insights live one click away — never blocking the page you're reading.
Accelerated, multi-connection downloads
Large files are split across parallel connections and reassembled on the fly, saturating your bandwidth instead of trickling through a single stream. Tunable profiles keep things smooth.
Debrid & magnet capture, everywhere
Aether spots magnets and info-hashes on any page and hands them to your debrid service. Instant-cache badges tell you what streams now — no client, no seeding, no waiting.
Send NZBs straight to SABnzbd
Found an NZB? Push it to your SABnzbd server in a click, with the right category already applied. Your downloader does the heavy lifting; Aether keeps you in the browser.
Capture any video, on your device
Aether sniffs HLS and DASH streams as they play, lets you pick the quality, and muxes the result locally with on-device ffmpeg. Nothing is uploaded — the file is built right in your browser.
Harvest every media file on a page
The page media harvester scans the current tab for images, audio, and video, then lets you filter and grab them in bulk — perfect for galleries and asset-heavy pages.
Smart rules that file themselves
Define rules once and every download lands in the right folder with the right name. Aether rewrites filenames at the moment Chrome decides them, so your downloads folder stays immaculate.
Insights that never leave your device
See what you download, how fast, and from where — rendered from data that is stored only on your machine. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your history is yours alone.
Three clicks from cluttered to effortless
Add Aether to Chrome
Install in a click. Aether quietly takes over the download experience — no setup required to start.
Browse like you always do
Aether watches for downloads, magnets, NZBs and playing video, surfacing the right action exactly when you need it.
Let Aether handle it
Accelerate, route to debrid, capture the stream, or file it by your rules — all from the side panel.
Your downloads are nobody's business but yours
Most download tools treat your activity as data to harvest. Aether takes the opposite stance — everything it knows about you stays on your machine.
Stored on your device
Preferences, history and insights live in your browser's local storage — not on a server we control.
No accounts, no telemetry
There's nothing to sign up for and nothing phoning home. Aether doesn't track how you use it.
Only the calls you ask for
Network requests happen when you send a magnet to your debrid provider or an NZB to your own server — never otherwise.
Questions, answered
Aether is a premium download manager for Google Chrome. It replaces Chrome's default download shelf with a side panel and adds accelerated downloads, debrid and torrent magnet capture, Usenet (NZB) hand-off, on-device video capture, a page media harvester, smart filing rules, and private local-only insights.
Give your downloads
the manager they deserve
Install Aether and take back control of every file — accelerated, organised and private.
Free to install · Works on every Chromium browser