Questions & answers

Orlo is a fast, native download manager for macOS. It accelerates regular downloads by splitting them into up to 32 parallel connections, handles torrents and magnet links out of the box, and integrates with your browser so downloads are captured automatically.

Browsers download a file over a single connection. Orlo splits each file into segments — 8 by default, configurable from 1 to 32 — and downloads them in parallel, which typically saturates your bandwidth even when a server throttles individual connections.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. The app is notarized by Apple, so it installs without security warnings.

Yes. Orlo lives in your menu bar, keeps downloading in the background, shows live speed and time remaining, and can start at login so browser captures always work.

Automatically, in-app. Orlo checks for updates and installs them with one click — no manual downloads.

Seventeen: English, German, Spanish, Filipino, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Simplified Chinese.

Open New Download from the + in the toolbar (the link on your clipboard is filled in automatically), use Batch Add to paste a whole list of links at once, drag a link into Orlo, or let your browser hand downloads over automatically.

For files that sit behind a login, enable Send cookies in the browser extension's settings so the download is authenticated with that site's cookies.

Yes. Downloads survive app restarts and network drops, and resume from where they stopped whenever the server allows it. Expired links can be renewed without losing progress.

Yes — globally or per download, plus per-queue data limits like “no more than 5 GB every 24 hours.”

Yes. Orlo includes a built-in password manager, protected by Touch ID, that stores logins for servers and reuses them automatically.

Yes — press Space on any completed download for a Quick Look preview, just like in Finder.

Yes — paste the publisher's SHA-256 checksum and Orlo verifies the finished file against it.

In-progress files are kept in a working area and only moved into your downloads folder once complete, so you never see half-finished files next to real ones.

Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Arc, and Chromium; Firefox, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and Zen; plus a Safari extension. Orlo can take over downloads automatically or receive links via right-click → Send to Orlo.

No. The extension only forwards the downloads you trigger — with the cookies needed to authenticate them — to the app on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

Yes — takeover can be toggled per browser, and Orlo can ask for confirmation before accepting each capture.

Enable Send cookies in the browser extension's settings. When it's on, the capture includes that site's cookies so downloads that require you to be signed in are authenticated. When it's off, cookies are never read.

Yes — magnet links and .torrent files, with a built-in engine. You can pick individual files inside a torrent, watch peers and trackers live, and control seeding with your own limits.

Yes — disable it entirely, or leave it on and pause seeding per torrent whenever you like.

Yes — Tools → Feeds connects Torznab/Newznab indexers (like Jackett or Prowlarr) so you can browse and grab releases without leaving Orlo.

Yes. Create named queues, each with its own simultaneous-download limit, daily run window, data cap, and on-finish action (notify, quit, sleep, or shut down). Individual downloads can be scheduled for a specific time.

No — untick “Add to queue” when adding a download and it starts immediately, outside any queue's rules. You can move downloads in or out of queues at any time.

It jumps a queued download past the line immediately, ignoring the queue's limits — a one-time boost for the thing you need right now.

Everything stays on your Mac. There's no telemetry or usage tracking, sign-in cookies used for captures are deleted once a download completes, and secrets never leave your machine unencrypted.

For the full account, see the privacy policy.

Yes — Orlo marks finished files for Gatekeeper screening, exactly like Safari does, so macOS vets anything you open.

Yes. Settings → Maintenance saves your settings, queues, feeds, and saved passwords into a single backup file — encrypted whenever passwords are included. Backups restore safely even into newer versions of Orlo.

Yes — back up on the old Mac, install Orlo on the new one, and restore the file. Settings, queues, feeds, and passwords all come across.

Settings → Maintenance → Reset All Settings erases Orlo's settings and data and relaunches it as if newly installed. Your downloaded files stay where they are.

Settings → Maintenance → Uninstall Orlo (also in the Help menu). It removes the app's data, settings, saved credentials, and browser integration, then moves the app to the Trash. Your downloaded files are never touched.

Open Settings → Browser and check the integration status for your browser — reinstalling the integration from there fixes most cases. Make sure the extension is installed and enabled in the browser itself; for Safari, enable it in Safari Settings → Extensions.

The link's authorization ran out — right-click the download and choose Renew Link, then paste a fresh link from the site. The download continues from where it stopped.

Orlo detects stalls and restarts the affected connections automatically. If a download still won't move, the server may have dropped resume support — Download Again starts it cleanly.

If you're behind a proxy, set it in Settings → Connections (HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5) — Orlo uses its own connections and doesn't inherit every browser setting. Some sites also require the cookies from a browser capture rather than a pasted link.

Give it a moment to reach trackers and the DHT network, and check that your network allows peer-to-peer traffic — some VPNs and firewalls block it. The Peers and Trackers tabs show exactly what's happening.

Help → Diagnostics shows Orlo's live log, with one-click copy or save for a bug report.