I prefer IDM myself, jDownloader has had many issues over the past couple of years and I never download as a free user so that function is wasted on me. I think it also tries to do too much all at once "a jack of all trades but master of none" type thing yes it can extract downloaded files and all the other things but I only want my download manager to download the files for me and nothing else! I don't need/want all the bells and whistles, I used to use FDM (FreeDownloadManager) but as yet they struggle with HF support amongst other things so I went back to IDM and have not looked back yet.
JGM.
JGM.