100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of Things

These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose.

Audio Books
ibrivo!" #ne of the most popular audio libraries on the web. The ibri$o! volunteers record books that are in the public domain and release them for free. %odiobooks" Similar to podcast, %odiobooks are seriali&ed audiobooks that are distributed through 'SS feeds. (ou can receive book episodes or download directly from the site. #culture )*udio + %odcast," #ffers a rich array of educational and cultural media. The site editor scours through the web to find the best cultural and educational media available. earn #ut oud" * one-stop destination for video and audio learning resources. (ou can browse through over 1.,000 educational audio books /%0 downloads, podcasts, and videos. The site also contains various free resources.

BitTorrent
The %irate Bay" The web1s largest collection of bit torrent trackers. The %irate Bay banks on its member file sharers to cull the web1s torrent files and make these available to users. /ininova.org " 2hat started as an alternative to the now defunct Supernova that went offline in 3004, /ininova has become the biggest torrent search engine and directory on the web. The site provides easy-to-use directory and search for all types of torrent files. Torrent %ortal " This %3% and file sharing site works like 5oogle by linking only to .torrent metafiles and captures the caches of those files. 6t does not store files nor transfer data which are content linked to by .torrent files. 7ow Torrents" The site scans torrent websites on the internet to provide the best results to users. 7ow Torrents provides an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents while at the same detecting and removing fake or dead torrent sites. Torrent&" This Sweden-based torrent meta-search engine also inde!es various ma8or torrents sites including /ininova, The %irate Bay and 9emonoid. 6t provides various trackers per torrent that would work when another tracker is not working.

Books and Documents

Scribd" * virtual place where you can publish, discover, discuss, and share original writings and document. 2ith .0 million uni:ue page views per month, Scribd is a great place to learn new things. Sheet /usic *rchive" The web1s most popular music web site. The site contains more than 33,000 classical music pieces and more than 100,000 sheet of music. 6t offers hundreds of free music downloads and more for subscriptions. Computer Books.us" The site offers high :uality computer related books for free download. These computer books are all legally distributed and their authors have granted permissions for the site to distribute their works. 9ocstoc" This is your ultimate resource for free legal and business documents. 9ocstoc does not only allow you to download documents for free but it also lets you upload and share your own documents.

Tech Books for ;ree 9ownload" 6f you1re looking for free books on <ava, %erl=%hyton or other computer programming related books, this site might be of help. 6t offers books covering technology sub8ects for free download. %ro8ect 5utenberg" The most comprehensive repository of ebooks on the web. %ro8ect 5utenberg was built by volunteers and now houses more than 3>,000 titles of ebooks in its catalog. Free eMagazine Download covers a comprehensive collection of free emagazines for free download.

eBooks
?now;ree" The site offers a virtual place to e!change ebooks freely., video training, and other educational materials . ?now ;ree features a very nice search engine which enables users to search for a particular materias fast. Spotbit" %roviding a paperless solution to publishing and for selling e-books, Spotbit makes e-book available in a different digital format than what is available on the web lately. Spotbit offers a simple 9igital 'ights /anagement )9'/, technology for @-books format. @bookshare" %rovides link to either an e-books torrent files or direct download to the file itself. @-books are categori&ed into broader sub8ect and the site has a nice search engine to aid you in finding the e-book you want. @bookee" * free book search engine. @bookee helps you in finding e-book titles that you are particularly looking for. The @-books listed on the site are organi&ed in general sub8ect categories. 2owio" The site lets you access legally available high-:uality e-books. 2owio lets you read complete books online for free. 6f you want to download the %9; versions, 2owio charges a minimal fee. Internet Archive With the aim of building an Internet Librar ! this site features te"ts! audio! moving images! and software as well as archived web pages in its collections.

Clipart
#pen Clip *rt ibrary" The site is an ongoing pro8ect to create an archive of user contributed database of clip art that can used freely. #pen Clip *rt ibrary upholds the Creative Commons and encourages users to participate in generating contents. 2% Clipart" #ffers more than 3A000 public domain clip art images which were designed specifically for use with 2ord %rocessors. 2% Clipart provides thousands of color graphic clips, illustrations, photographs and black and white line art in lossless, %75 format. Clker" The site offers royalty free clip art in S$5, #95 and %75 format which are in public domain. 6t lets you easily embed these images in openoffice documents. Clipart.com" The web1s largest collection of royalty-free clipart, vinyl-ready images, photos, web graphics, fonts, illustrations, and sounds. Clipart offers paid subscription to its database containing 10 millionB professional-:uality images in various formats including .@%S, .<%5, .%75, and .2/;.

Download Hubs
Softpedia" The site contains more than .00,000 sofware programs 2indows, Cni!= inu!, /ac, /obile %hones, 5ames and 9rivers. Some of software programs in Softpedia are freeware while some are shareware. 9ownload.com" Cnet1s most comprehensive library of freeware offers free download. 9ownload.com contains tons of 2indows software ranging from security software, digital photo software, educational software and more. #pen Source /ac" * handy reference and useful tools that encourages users to utili&e free and open-source software.. #pen Source /ac offers a simple list of the best and free software for the /ac #S D. ;ree 9ownloads Center" Eosts a collection of free software, games and other desktop goodies which you can download for free. ;ree 9ownloads Center also offers a 5ive *way of the 9ay licensed software which you can download during the day only.

Tucows" The web1s original software download site. Tucows contains more than 40,000 software titles which are freeware or shareware. %ha&eddl" Eosts download ware&, games, torrents, movies, software, apps, scripts, T$ shows, ebooks, templates as well as key-gen of crack softwares.

reeware
*B;reeware" The site offers choice applications or F*B;reewareG which become useful only when combined with a valid operating system. *B;reeware lets you get copies of software for free. Best ;reeware 9ownload" * free wares site which allows you to register and save links on the site1s member account areas. Best ;reeware 9ownload is categori&ed into communication desktop and games. 5amers would definitely want to check this site from time to time to check on new freewares to be added. ;ree 2are Bo!" The site offers categori&ed summary of freeware software. ;reeware Bo! contains open source software, public domain and other types of free software, all available for free download. ;reeware Hoom" This site offers freeware for free download. ;reeware Hoom is updated daily and it contains no adware or spyware. ;ile Eippo" The site has considerable number of freeware, demo and shareware programs which are of high :uality. ;ile Eippo puts a premium on :uality software rather than :uantity. Eence the site offers only the best software. 2indows 9ownloads" 9ownload.com1s 2indows-only software download site offers softwre which were tested to be 100I free of malware. /a8or 5eeks" #ffers only the serious software meant for the serious geeks. 6t hosts the most comprehensive collection of computer utilities available on the web. Brothersoft" The site offers more than 100,000 software for free download. Brothersoft does not only offer free software download but also thoroughly evaluate all the software submitted to them.

lash iles
;files" The web1s richest repository of free ;lash ;iles. ;files contains ;lash files which you can download freely. 6t also allows you to upload your own ;lash files that you want to share with other users. ;lash ?it" 6f you1re a flash developer, ;lash ?it is the site for you. 6t1s the ultimate online resource for /acromedia ;lash development. ;lash 9en" This site contains everything that you need for your *dobe lash pro8ect. (ou can buy preloaders, templates and other things you need to finish your pro8ect. *nd most of these ;lash components sell for as low as J1.

onts
9afont" 6f you1re looking for some cool fonts to use for whatever purposes, you could probably pick up one or two font style at this site. 9afont offers freely downloadable fonts. (ou can browse fonts by author, by style or by popularity. 1001 ;ree ;onts" This site has a big collection of TrueType fonts which are either freeware or shareware. 1001 ;ree ;onts offers free fonts for both 2indows and /ac platforms. 9ownload ;ree ;onts" * simply designed online resource for thousands of free fonts. 9ownload ;ree ;onts contains free fonts for 2indows and /ac. (ou can use the site1s search bo! to find the font you are specifically looking for or browse through the font categories. Show ;ont" The site lets you download fonts for free. Show ;ont contains TrueType fonts for both %C and /*C. 6t also provides font editor and font management tools. ;ontStruct" *side from offering freely downloadable fonts, ;onstruct also has a font editor and font management applications available online. ;ontStruct lets you build fonts, share it with others and download fonts made by other people as well.

!ames
iberated 5ames" This is a simple listing site offering free downloads of legally available games. 6t1s a straight-out listing of these different games including their download links. 79S-'#/S" This is a heaven sent site for 79S gamers. 79S-'#/s offer free downloads of publicly available '#/s. 6win" The 6nternet1s largest selection of free game downloads. (ou can choose to play games in the popular categories. 9onwload ;ull $ersion %C 5ames" This is a blog site containing 100 best legal, free, and full version of games. The site covers free action games, free action games and 0rd person games. *bandonia" 6f you1re up for some good old 9#S-based gaming e!perience, *bandonia may have those games. *bandonia offers 9#S games which have been abandoned for so long. Best of 5ames" The site offers various old games and certainly has many of them on the site. Best of all, Best of games offers these games for free download. Free #ames A search engine for free games that can be pla ed online or downloaded to our machine. It also covers cheat codes.

"o#ies
H/ " #ne of the 6nternet1s most useful download service. H/ offers update subscriptions and lets you find out about current movies by subscribing to H/ . ;ree 9ocumentaries" offer free Streaming 6ndependent Documentar ;ilms, @nvironment Documentar , 6srael, %alestine, 2ar, 5eorge Bush, *fghanistan, 6ra:, A=11, 5lobali&ation, /edia, and more$ /oving 6mage *rchive" * comprehensive library of free movies, films, and videos uploaded by the site users. /oving images include full-length films, news broadcasts, cartoons and concerts. 7ot all of the videos are free to download though.

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e/usic" The world1s biggest online retailer of independent music and audio books. e/usic holds more than 40,000 independent labels and almost .,000 titles of audio books from top publishers. <a&& on ine" The web1s most comprehensive online resources of digitali&ed <a&& music. <a&& on ine hosts only songs which are in public domain. <immyr" * search engine for mp0 music and other digital files. <immyr crawls through the various mp0 resources available on the web using 5oogle Custom Search @ngine. /usic 9ownload" The ultimate source for legally available and freely downloadable digital music on the 6nternet. 6t1s from Cnet.com, so you are pretty sure that most of the files are safe to download. bee/%0" * music search engine useful for finding mp0-audio files available on the web. Bee/%0 currently inde!es around K00,000 mp0 files. 9ownload *ny Stuff" * digital file search engine that provides download links to free stuff over the 6nternet. 9ownload *ny Stuff lets you search for /%0 files, softwares, drivers, games, movies, ebooks, even Torrents and more. Skreemr" *nother music search engine that you can use to locate audio files available on the web. Skreemr currently inde!es and crawls more than L million mp0 files from 100,000 web sites. i ike" * social music discover site that allows you not only to discover music playlists available on the web but also to share your own playlists to the world. i ike also links to iTunes and *ma&on music stores. e/%0 2orld" * free mp0 download site. e/%0 2orld currently holds around K.,000 mp0 download links on its database. <amendo=" *n online community of free, legal and unlimited digital music content. <amendo offers only those music which have been licensed under Creative Commons. The site lets you share your own music and create your own widget playlists which you can embed to your site or social networking profiles.

'nline (ideo
$i!y"*n online video converter that you can use to convert a ;lash video = ; $ file or (ouTube videos to /%@54 format. $i!y uses a compressed domain transcoder technology. (ou can enter a (ouTube link to have it converted into /%@54 online. ?eepvid" The site lets you download streaming videos from (ouTube, %utfile, /etacafe and other video streaming sites. *fter downloading you need to convert it into another format depending on what media player you are using. #r you can use ; $1s own media player instead. <avimoya" *nother good video downloader site. <avimoya supports many video streaming sites including (ouTube, /etacafe, /ySpace /usic, and more. $ideo9ownload!" The site allows you to download videos from (ouTube and save these videos to your %C. (ou also need to download an ; $ player to view the videos from your local hard drive or convert the file into other formats that can be read by your media player software. 9ownload (ouTube $ideos as mp4 ;iles" This blog post gives a detailed instruction on how to download videos directly from (ouTube in mp4 format. 7o need to use a third-party site to scrape the video off from (ouTube. ?iss (ouTube" #ffers an easy and simple way of downloading and saving (ouTube video directly to your computer. (ou can enter the C' of the video on the ?iss (ou Tube site, or add the word FkissG on the C' of the (ouTube video to download the file. @ither way, you will still download the file from the ?iss (ou Tube site itself. 9ownload (ouTube $ideos" This site lets you download (ouTube videos faster and easier. (ou 8ust nee to enter the (ouTube C' of the videos that you want to download $eep%D & lets ou download %D videos off 'outube. It also lets download the mobile (#) version for our mobile devices plus the standard M)* and FL+ format.

%hotoshop and Design

9eviant *rt %hotoshop Brushes" * collection of artsy paintshop brushes used by 9eviant *rt members. (ou can download the paint brushes or share it to other people. *dobe /arket %lace and @!change" *dobe1s online resource containing tools, services, and innovations relating to *dobe1s various products. The site also let you discover *dobe *6' runtime applications. %i!el Chick" #ffers both free and paid %hotoshop brushes that are compatible with CS3 and CS0. $ectee&y" Serves as an inde! of free vector graphics that are available for download from the web. $ectee&y1s vector graphics were created by famous designers. Bushee&y" * huge collection of free %hotoshop brushes and patterns. Bushee&y is updated daily and also accepts submission of %hotoshop brushes from online users. $ector 4 ;ree" * free vector graphics site for *dobe 6llustrator *6, @%S, %9;, S$5, and Corel 9raw C9'. *ll the vector graphics are free for personal and commercial use. 5et Brushes" * directory of brushes personally handpicked by the site owners. 5et Brushes contains various brushes including over abstract and te!t, gothic, coffee pills and more. M $ectors" The site offers free high-:uality vector images and graphics. M $ector also accepts user submissions. *rchive 09" Eost more than 1>,000 09 graphics model. *rchive 09 models ranges from Beds,Shkaps, Chairs,Tables,Sofa, Sanitary 2are, 9ecoration, 7$*C, Tools, and more. +ectormi" ,his site has a good collection of vector graphics submitted b users and arre free to download.

Sound )ffects
Soundsnap" * library of more than 100, 000 high-:uality sound effect and music loops. Soundsnap offers . free downloads per month, after which you need to pay a %ro membership to download more files. ;indSounds" * useful sound and sound effects search engine. ;indSounds offers sound directory, keyword search and sonic similarity search functions. %artners in 'hyme" The site offers royalty free music featured in ;ilms, T$, $ideo and 2ebsites. %artners in 'hyme also offers free music loops, midi files and audio software. Stone 2ashed" *n online resource for free sound effects, loops, button sounds and other multimedia files. Stone 2ashed offers various categories including sound effects, animal sounds, buy out music and more.

Stock %hotos
Stock.Dchng" #ne of the web1s leading stock photography site. Stock.!chng offers a full gallery of high-:uality stock photos available for free download or for sharing on blogs, social networks and other sites. ;ree 9igital %hotos" Contains thousands of royalty free photos available for download and can be used for commercial or non-commercial purposes. ;ree 9igial %hotos does not re:uire registration to download stock photos from their site. /orgue ;ile" The site provides high-resolution stock photography images for free regardless of whether the photos will be used for corporate or private use. /orgue ;ile is the place to keep post production materials. -.(/F ,he site offers a dail dose of free high&0ualit images aside from the paid stoc$ images that it sells.

S*stem utilities
#pen 9rivers" * free driver download service. #pen 9rivers is categori&ed by device category and driver manufacturer. 6t also includes step-by-step process to install and uninstall the drivers. 9 ;iles" * very useful site for users who keeps on getting the missing 9 prompt from the machine. 9 ;iles contains a comprehensive databased of dllfiles that you could possibly need. 9ownload 0?" * huge archive of free and free-to-try software programs and games for 2indows. 9ownload 0? is categori&e into 1. main categories and the site is updated with around 000 software everyday. ;ree Codecs" The ultimate resource for all types of codecs available online. ;ree Codecs offers video codecs, audio codecs, codec packs, codec tools and more. #pen #ffice" Eome of the free open-source office software suite. #pen #ffice contains word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentations, graphics, and more.

+eb Design
#pen Source 2eb 9esign" * collection of web designs submitted by the community members. #pen Source 2eb 9esign offers free web design for download that can be used for personal blogs to a full-featured content management systems for businesses. ;ree CSS Templates"The site offers standards compliant CSS templates for free. Csers are free to use the templates for personal or business purposes. Template 2orld" #ffers top :uality, creative and uni:ue web site templates created by certified web professionals. 6conspedia" The site offers free icons download. 6conspedia are arranged in various categories including animals, food and phones.

;ree 6cons 2eb" The site contains 1.000 high :uality icons for free downloads. ;ree 6cons 2eb contains icons for 2indows D%, $ista, /acintosh, and inu!. 6cons are for personal use only. Commercial users have to pay a certain amount of royalty. 1000B Classic 6cons for ;ree 9ownload" %robably the best collection of free icons available online. 6cons are in png, icns, ico-formats as well as .@%S vector files. Spotbit" The site allows you to publish and sell e-books using a fast, easy and free method. Spotbit lets you create your e-books and published it on Spotbit. Smashing /aga&ine1s 40 %rofessional 6con Sets for ;ree 9ownload" * list of 40 high-:uality professional icons for desktops and web design which are all free for download. The icons can be used for private and commercial purposes.