filehippo.com

FileHippo

Who runs FileHippo, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software download portal alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Softpedia

Measured from FileHippo’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs FileHippo

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Looking to download safe free versions of the latest software for Windows, freeware, shareware and demo programs from a reputable download site? Visit FileHippo today.

Wikidata: software downloading website

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What FileHippo tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

11 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: Didomi
US company: 3 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to FileHippo

Fewer trackers than FileHippo No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to FileHippo match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what FileHippo adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 11 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,212
Vector: 384-d
Query: 50 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Microsoft Advertising UET page source: bat.bing.com/bat.js
Prebid.js page source: prebid-client.js
Cookie consent: Didomi page source: sdk.privacy-center.org
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx2.googlemail.com
DNS hosting: Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-d2.googledomains.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=1yXH4s6C8kR7yRNKNZJe8Q95_7vd6x9VOsBta…
Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=VwWOYBXkRBZQITMlw2Ht7z5GIeimepOx8ItUowHICJg

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.