Features

A small extension with a surprisingly tidy toolbox.

The homepage gives you the short version. This page opens the drawers: Sorting, Renaming, conflict-safe Rules, focused Sessions, safer Rescue, Log, and local-first handling without turning your download history into a cloud suitcase.

Sorting

Download Sorting

Choose where Chrome downloads should land by group, exact type, website/source, or your preferred order, with source detection kept separate from file type.

Renaming

Smart Renaming

Build readable filenames from Date, Website, and Name, then choose the order that makes sense for how you search later.

Source-aware

Source-Aware Folders

Group downloads by where they came from, even when Chrome gives incomplete metadata or the file type itself is not special.

Rules

Download Rules

Create rules for websites, file kinds, extensions, or filename patterns, with active-rule checks that keep contradictory rules from running together.

One-time

One-Time Downloads

Handle the next download differently without changing your normal Sorting, Renaming, or Rules setup.

Sessions

Download Sessions

Start a focused mode when you are collecting files for one task, then restore ordinary rules when the session ends.

Rescue

Rescue Your Downloads Folder

Clean up existing files that were already downloaded, with preview-first cleanup, subfolder control, project-folder caution, and no hard-delete behavior.

Log

Download Log

See recent download decisions, where files went, and why Downloads Butler handled them that way.

Local-first

Local-First Download Manager

Downloads Butler works locally in Chrome with no account, no cloud dashboard, no hosted download history, and exportable local settings.