TachyonDL

TachyonDL is an easy-to-use download manager for Windows, written in C# and WPF.

Features

• Download files from a URL
• Multi-threaded downloading for improved speed

Screenshots

• Main window

  

• Downloading a file

  

Dependencies

This project relies on the following NuGet packages:

• AdonisUI - https://github.com/benruehl/adonis-ui
• FontAwesome.WPF - https://github.com/charri/Font-Awesome-WPF
• Newtonsoft.Json - https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json

Building

To build this project, you will need the .NET SDK or Visual Studio 2022 installed.

To build the project with Visual Studio 2022,

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/theonlyasdk/TachyonDL.git
   

2. Open the solution with Visual Studio 2022
3. Open the project named TachyonDL.GUI
4. Build & run the project, and the app should open

To build the project with .NET CLI, run:

1. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd TachyonDL
   

2. Build the project with:

   dotnet build --configuration Release
   

Executable files can be found inside the bin/Release directory.

TODO

Some features and improvements I plan to add in the future:

• Download Speed Limiting
• Download Scheduling
• Proxy Support
• Theme Selection (Dark or light)
• Download Queue
• Post-Download Actions (Shutdown or sleep system, quit the app, etc)
• System Tray Integration
• Notifications
• File Integrity Check (i.e checksum verification like MD5 or SHA-256)
• Download multiple URLs from file (Allow user to specify a file containing newline-seperated list of files to download)
• Live updating logs window
• QOL: Clear download history button, delete download button and open in folder button at the bottom left of the window

License

(c) theonlyasdk 2025. Licensed under the MIT license.