Macworld’s David Chartier reviews Leech 2, and gives it four out of five mice:

If you often find yourself downloading even a handful of files each day, or you switch browsers like you switch apps, a real download manager like Many Tricks’s Leech might be a better companion for your Internet travels.

We’ll try to address David’s minor gripes in future updates, and then maybe we can earn that elusive fifth mouse!

Today we released a minor update to Leech. The only new functionality (which we’re bringing to our other apps as we update them) is in-app product purchasing. This optional feature—you can always buy it through our web site, just as before—saves you a trip to our site to complete your purchase.

Because this in-store feature is brand new, we’d like your help in testing it. We’ve tested it internally, of course, but there’s nothing like a little real-world test to really prove it works. If you’ve been thinking about buying Leech, we’d love it if you’d download this latest version and then buy it using the in-app purchase module.

As our way of saying ‘thank you for the help,’ we’ll give the first 25 purchasers (via the in-app module, of course) a coupon good for 40% off their next Many Tricks’ purchase. That means, for instance, that you could buy Witch for around $11, Name Mangler for $6, and Butler for $12. If you shop using our web store, you can apply that 40% to everything you buy, too.

In addition to the in-app purchasing, we also further improved Leech’s interaction with Path Finder, and squished a couple minor bugs; one related to filenames, the other related to Sparkle. As always, you can visit the release notes page to see all the changes.

Launch Leech and it should inform you of the update, or it you can download it directly from our site.

We’ve pushed out Leech 2.0.2 today, to fix one important issue in Leech 2.0.1: Installing the browser plug-in would actually uninstall SIMBL, the mechanism through with the browser plug-in works! Please check for updates, or download the latest version directly. Thanks to Christian Bogen for reporting this problem.

We apologize for this quick fix update; going forward, to help catch these things in beta instead of in release, we’re going to be creating beta test groups for each app. With a larger pool of testers, we’ll hopefully catch more of these things before the updates go out. Watch this space for calls for testers for each of our apps.

Today we released Leech 2.0.1, the first minor update for Leech 2. If you have Leech set to check for updates automatically, you should see it as an available update. If you’re checking manually, now would be a good time to check! Alternatively, you can download it directly if you wish.

This release includes a revised and expanded help section (in English only as of now); a New Folder button on the ‘Download To’ dialog in the Rules pane; and fixes for a couple of issues: Firefox downloads will now route properly when affected by a rule, and deleting in-progress downloads now actually deletes them (and no longer triggers a Growl alert).

There are a couple of other minor changes as well; you can read about them on Leech’s Release Notes page.