MagnetoClip User Manual

1. Getting Started

MagnetoClip is a Windows desktop download manager that captures files, videos, music, documents, and torrents from the web into smart, auto-sorted categories. It pairs an IDM-class multi-connection download core with a companion browser extension that detects downloadable content in real time as you browse.

System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-Bit editions).
• Network: An active internet connection for multi-chunk downloads and stream capture.
• License: A valid serial key (release builds only — development builds skip licensing); new machines also get a free 7-day trial.

Starting the App

Launch MagnetoClip from the Windows Start menu or desktop shortcut. A splash screen appears while the application initializes local SQLite databases and network engines, after which the main window opens on the Overview page.

2. Activating Your License

Each serial key binds cryptographically to one PC. License keys follow the Ed25519 standard format:

Step-by-Step Activation

1. When the Activate MagnetoClip dialog appears, paste or type your serial key. Extra spaces, hyphens, and lowercase characters are normalized automatically.
2. Click Activate.
3. On success, the application unlocks immediately. The PC's unique machine ID is recorded by the license server, binding this computer as the authorized hardware.
4. If the key is already bound to another PC, the dialog displays the specific hostname holding the activation. Deactivate it on that machine first (Settings → License → Deactivate this PC…) or contact support to request a reset.

License Activation Messages Reference

Moving Your License to Another PC

To migrate your license to a new PC: open Settings on the current machine, scroll down to License, and click Deactivate this PC…. This frees your slot immediately on the license server so your key can be used on the new computer.

3. Interface Tour

The top toolbar switches between pages, while the collapsible left sidebar filters the download workbench. Use the ☰ toggle button to collapse the sidebar for extra screen workspace.

Overview Page

A real-time command dashboard featuring four live stat cards (Active downloads, Completed, Total downloaded, Current speed) plus up to five recent transfer cards with dynamic progress bars, throughput speeds, and time estimates (ETAs).

Downloads Workbench

The central management hub. Each item row displays filename, file size, segmented color progress bar, percentage, speed, remaining time, and addition timestamp.

Context Menu Actions (Right-Click Row):

• Completed downloads: Open File, Open File Location (reveals in Windows Explorer), Restart Download.
• Failed downloads: Retry Download (re-engages multi-connection chunks).
• Active / Paused / Queued: Pause / Resume / Start immediately.
• Universal actions: Copy Source URL, Remove from List.

Double-clicking any download row opens the Download Details modal with full segment telemetry, connection status, and manual overrides.

Sidebar Filter Categories:

Filter by All Downloads, Finished, Unfinished, or any of the 8 smart categories: Image, Video, Audio, Document, Compressed, App/Software, Torrent, Other. Real-time counter badges show exact matching item counts.

Detected Page

Gathers all multimedia files and stream links detected by the browser extension: filename, size, MIME type, source URL, and timestamp. Select items and click Download, or double-click to start immediately.

Completed Page

A focused historical archive containing only finished, failed, or stopped downloads for rapid search and opening.

Torrents Page

Dedicated torrent manager — see section 7 for adding and managing magnet links and .torrent files.

Analytics Page

Six comprehensive telemetry cards (total files, completed, failed, data transferred, average speed, peak speed), two 14-day history bar charts (Downloads per day & Bandwidth per day), and a full per-category storage breakdown — all calculated 100% locally.

Pause Page

A single switch that pauses every running and waiting download instantly, plus an optional auto-resume countdown timer (see section 13).

Speed Page

A built-in network speed test measuring download, upload and latency with an animated gauge, history tracking and ISP throttling detection (see section 14).

Browser Page

Setup hub for the MagnetoClip Companion extension (see section 5).

Sites Page

A built-in, offline reference of third-party websites useful for finding content, grouped into three tabs — Torrents, Anime and Streaming — sitting just before Settings in the toolbar. Each tab is a table with four columns: Site, Description, URL, and Usage (always **Free**). Click any **URL** cell to open that site in your default browser. Everything else is read-only. The reference ships with the app, so the page works with no internet connection, and nothing on it is fetched or refreshed at runtime.

Settings Page

Every tunable option, grouped into General, Downloads, Duplicate Detection, Network Speed Test, File Preview, Webpage Archiver, Browser & Capture, Torrent, Proxy, Updates, Remote Control and License (see section 10).

4. Adding Downloads

Click the Add button on the Downloads page (or paste directly from clipboard).

New Download Dialog Fields

Understanding blob: URLs

Multi-Segment Resilience & Sidecars

Transfers are split into byte ranges fetched simultaneously. State is recorded continuously in a .mclip JSON sidecar file. If your machine restarts or experiences connection loss, downloads resume from the exact byte offset without wasting bandwidth.

Download Status Flow: Queued → Scheduled → Connecting → Downloading → Paused → Retrying → Verifying → Completed (or Failed / Verification Failed / Stopped).

5. Browser Integration

The Manifest V3 companion extension bridges MagnetoClip with your web browsers via Chrome Native Messaging to detect media, intercept links, and capture chunked streams.

Supported Browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, and Chromium.

Setup Instructions

1. Open the Browser page in MagnetoClip and tick Enable browser integration.
2. Under Installed browsers, locate your browser and click Install host (registers the native messaging registry key).
3. Under Browser extension, click Prepare extension and load it:
   • Chrome / Edge / Brave / Vivaldi / Chromium: Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the extension folder shown on the screen.
   • Firefox: Open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click Load Temporary Add-on, and select the extension manifest file.
4. The status indicator at the bottom turns Green when connected.
5. Use Re-detect browsers after installing a new browser. The Auto-install button (when shown) pushes the published extension via browser policy.

Capture Modes & Settings

When a file is intercepted, the Downloadable File Detected popup offers four quick actions: Download now, Download later (queues to list), Skip (reject just this file), or Skip all (moves all currently detected files to the Detected page; future files still ask for confirmation).

6. Capturing Files and Streaming Media

MagnetoClip recognizes over 100 extensions across 10 media categories and automatically sorts them into dedicated folders when Auto-categorize by file type is enabled.

Embedded yt-dlp & FFmpeg Bridge

Streaming services are processed through a dedicated engine supporting dozens of video and music platforms, alongside direct HTTP Live Streaming (.m3u8) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (.mpd) manifests. The app can also sniff audio/video manifests directly from the pages you visit, and fall back to browser-assisted capture for challenge-protected streams.

Separate audio and video DASH streams are multiplexed automatically by the bundled FFmpeg binary into a single synchronized container with metadata intact.

Playlists

Paste a playlist URL into the Add dialog and MagnetoClip lists every video with name and duration. Tick the ones you want (or Select all), cap the number of items if you like, and download them in one shot. Already-downloaded videos are tracked in an archive so you are not asked about them again. Streamed video and audio tracks are merged automatically (via bundled FFmpeg tooling) into a single playable file, and titles/metadata are inferred where possible.

7. Torrents (libtorrent Client)

The dedicated Torrents page provides complete BitTorrent capability without requiring third-party clients.

Finding Torrent Sites

Open the Sites page for an offline reference of third-party sites that host torrents, anime and streaming content — each entry has a description and a clickable URL. See Sites Page in the interface tour.

Adding Torrents

• Add Magnet: Paste a magnet URI (magnet:?xt=urn:btih:...) or .torrent URL.
• Upload File: Select a local .torrent file from disk.
• Metadata Preview: After loading you get a preview: name, total size, tracker, info hash and the full file list, then options for save folder, category, sequential download and seed after download.

System Protocol Registration

Register MagnetoClip as your default handler in Settings → Torrent:

• Register to open .torrent files: Double-clicking .torrent files in Windows opens MagnetoClip.
• Register magnet: links: Clicking magnet links on web pages launches the download dialogue.

Torrent Engine Configuration (Settings → Torrent)

The table shows progress, speed, peers/seeds counts and ETA. Right-click a completed torrent and choose Start Seeding to share it manually.

8. Remote Dashboard (Port 8477)

Control and monitor your downloads from a smartphone, tablet, or secondary PC on the same local network.

1. Open Settings -> Remote Control
2. Tick "Enable remote dashboard" (Default port: 8477; leave it unless it conflicts)
3. Click "Show QR..." and scan the code with your phone, or type the displayed URL into its browser

Access is protected by a pairing token; clicking Regenerate Token invalidates all previously paired devices at once. The dashboard can pause, resume and watch downloads — it never exposes your filesystem. The remote web application runs on a lightweight Python aiohttp server and never exposes local files or credentials outside the network.

9. Proxy Profiles

Manage multiple proxy servers under Settings → Proxy → Manage proxy profiles…:

• Protocol Support: HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5.
• Credentials: Usernames and passwords are encrypted in the Windows Credential Manager keyring — never stored in plaintext SQLite databases.
• Routing: Set a global default proxy or choose a specific profile per individual download in the Add dialog.

10. Settings Reference

Downloads Configuration

Browser

See the capture-modes table in section 5, plus Streaming quality (Best / 1080p / 720p / Audio only / Ask each time) and Video quality (the default resolution/format behavior, including Ask each time for the per-video resolution picker). FFmpeg folder lets you point the app at your own FFmpeg installation instead of the bundled one.

Duplicate Detection

Filenames are matched first (fast); a hash comparison (xxHash-based) confirms a true duplicate. When a duplicate is found you can Open the existing file, Download anyway, or Skip. Use Scan Downloads Folder to build the index from files you already have.

Updates Engine

Automatic checking is on by default; press Check Now to look manually. When an update is found: Download fetches it (progress shown, integrity verified), then Install closes MagnetoClip, applies the update and restarts the app automatically.

Network Speed Test

File Preview

Enable built-in file preview is the master switch for the in-app viewer (see section 11).

Webpage Archive

11. File Preview

Finished downloads can be previewed inside the app — images, text, video, audio and torrent metadata — without opening an external program. Preview only touches downloads you already have: nothing extra is downloaded and no new files are created.

Where to Find It

• Downloads page — right-click a completed download and choose Preview.
• Download Details — the Preview button on any finished download.

What the In-App Viewer Can Show

12. Webpage Archive

Save any webpage as a self-contained offline copy: one .html file with its images and stylesheets embedded, ready to open with no internet connection and nothing extra saved.

Archiving From the Browser

With browser integration enabled (see section 5), right-click any http:// or https:// page and choose Archive this page with MagnetoClip. The app fetches the page server-side — only the URL (and cookie/referrer data) crosses the native-messaging bridge, never the page's bytes — and saves it as <title>.html in your download folder as a Webpage download.

Archiving From the App

On the Downloads page click Add, paste the page's address, and tick Save as a self-contained webpage archive (offline HTML).

Tuning

Embedding options live under Settings → Webpage Archive. Images and CSS are inlined by default for a faithful offline copy; JavaScript embedding is off by default because it can change how pages render. Max resource size skips page resources larger than the limit.

13. Pause Control

The Pause page provides one unambiguous control: a single switch that pauses everything at once, with an optional countdown that resumes downloads automatically.

Pausing

• Open Pause and tick Pause all downloads — every running and waiting download stops immediately.
• Downloads added while paused stay in the paused list instead of starting.
• The status label confirms the current state; the pause state is saved with your settings and survives restarts.
• Untick the switch to resume, or wait for the auto-resume timer.

Auto-Resume Countdown

14. Speed Test

The Speed page measures your connection with a built-in test — no third-party tools or websites required.

• Run Test — full test: download → upload → latency. Progress shows the current phase (Download… / Upload…) with a percentage, and the animated gauge centres on the upload speed while uploading.
• Upload Test — measures upload speed and latency only.
• Export CSV — saves your test history to a CSV file.

Results

15. System Tray

MagnetoClip minimizes to the Windows taskbar notification area (System Tray). Hovering over the icon displays active download counts and aggregate throughput speed.

Tray Context Menu:

• Open MagnetoClip: Restores main window.
• Pause All / Resume All: Global transfer state override.
• Open Remote…: Displays mobile pairing QR code.
• License…: Displays masked key and validation status.
• Exit: Terminates engines and saves all .mclip sidecars.

Clicking a finished download notification reveals the file in Explorer; clicking a detected-file notification jumps to the Detected page.

16. Where MagnetoClip Stores Your Data

17. Troubleshooting

Quick solutions to common configuration and networking questions: