What are the best Torrent clients for Windows?

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qBittorrent vs Tixati vs Deluge

vs Transmission vs aria2 vs Tribler vs BitTorrent vs Rtorrent vs WebTorrent Desktop vs BitComet vs BiglyBT vs μTorrent vs BiglyBT

Specs

License

GPL

Platform

OSX Linux BSD eComStation Windows iOS Android

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4-5

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

partial

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Yes

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

Yes

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Yes

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

Yes

µTP

Yes

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Yes

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

Proprietary

Platform

Windows Linux

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

Yes

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

Yes

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

Yes

µTP

Yes

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Yes

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

GPL

Platform

OSX Linux BSD Solaris Windows Mac

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4-5

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

Yes

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Yes

Broadcatching

plugin

Search

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

µTP

Yes

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

GPL/MIT

Platform

OSX Linux BSD Solaris OpenWrt Windows (unofficial)

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

Yes

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Yes

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

µTP

Yes

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Yes

Platforms

OSX Linux BSD Solaris OpenWrt Windows (unofficial)

Price

Streaming

License

GPL

Platform

OSX Linux Windows Android

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

CLI

Yes

NAT-PMP

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

UPnP

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

µTP

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

LGPL

Platform

OSX Linux BSD Windows

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

partial

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Yes

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Yes

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

UDP tracker

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

µTP

Yes

Web UI

partial

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Yes

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

Platform

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

GUI

CLI

NAT-PMP

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Web seeding

Sequential downloading

UPnP

DHT

Daemon

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

LPD

UDP tracker

PEX

Super-seeding

µTP

Web UI

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

GPL

Platform

OSX Linux BSD Solaris Windows (via Cygwin)

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

Yes

NAT-PMP

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Sequential downloading

UPnP

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

Yes

µTP

Web UI

3rd-party

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh and WebTorrent, LLC.

Platform

Windows, MacOS, Linux

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

Yes

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

Yes

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Yes

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

Yes

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Yes

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Magnet

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

LPD

UDP tracker

PEX

Super-seeding

µTP

Web UI

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Free

Streaming

Yes

License

Platform

Windows

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

partial

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Separate download

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

Yes

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Yes

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

Yes

µTP

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Yes

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

Platform

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

GUI

CLI

NAT-PMP

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Web seeding

Sequential downloading

UPnP

DHT

Daemon

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

LPD

UDP tracker

PEX

Super-seeding

µTP

Web UI

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

Proprietary

Platform

OSX Windows Android

IPv6

Yes

Proxy server

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4-5

Selective downloading

Yes

GUI

Yes

CLI

NAT-PMP

Yes

Embedded tracker

Yes

Prioritization

Yes

Web seeding

Yes

Sequential downloading

Yes

UPnP

Yes

DHT

Yes

Daemon

Broadcatching

Yes

Search

Yes

Magnet

Yes

NAT traversal

Yes

MSE/PE

Yes

LPD

Yes

UDP tracker

Yes

PEX

Yes

Super-seeding

Yes

µTP

Yes

Web UI

Yes

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Yes

Platforms

Price

Streaming

License

Platform

IPv6

Proxy server

Selective downloading

GUI

CLI

NAT-PMP

Embedded tracker

Prioritization

Web seeding

Sequential downloading

UPnP

DHT

Daemon

Broadcatching

Search

Magnet

NAT traversal

MSE/PE

LPD

UDP tracker

PEX

Super-seeding

µTP

Web UI

Tracker Exchange

Auto update

Platforms

Price

Streaming

Pros + Cons

Pro
Free, ad-less and open source

qBittorrent is available as free, ad-less software licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.

Comment

Pro
Full-featured

qBittorrent covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers Tracker Exchange, IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers.

Comment

Pro
Lightweight

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Comment

Pro
Enables streaming media while it's downloading

qBittorrent supports sequential downloading that allows users to download files in sequential order. That means that media such as video or audio can be streamed a the same way it can be with any other streaming service.

Comment

Pro
IP filtering

IP filtering blocks set IP addresses. It's usually used to block communications with certain companies that are against p2p activity, etc.

Comment

Pro
Auto torrent adding

Torrents can be automatically read from a folder.

Comment

Pro
Has a web server interface

The web interface allows you to add and manage your torrents from any web browser. The server also exposes an HTTP API so you can programmatically manage your torrents as well as hook up other programs, such as an android client, to communicate with it. There is headless version too (called qbittorrent-nox).

Comment

Pro
Preload Magnet metadata

Obtain lists of files in Magnet before prompting the user for a download location.

Comment

Pro
Super-seeding

Algorithm that helps downloaders to be able to become uploaders more quickly.

Comment

Pro
Can be used to create torrents (embedded tracker)

qBittorrent can be used to create a torrent to share large files/folders with other people.

Comment

Pro
Search engine plugins

What i love most about qbit is the "SEARCH" option thru major torrent-websites.

Comment

Pro
Good web interface

The remote API and web interface works well. There is headless version too (called qbittorrent-nox).

Comment

Pro
Tagging

qBittorrent now allows tagging individual torrents. So, besides Categorising torrents (ISO, Video, Podcasts, etc) you can tag torrents too (Jul, Aug, Sep or whatever).

Comment

Pro
Sequential downloading

Allows to download the first file of a series prior to the following items.

Comment

Pro
In-Program torrent search via various search-engines

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Pro
Allows share ratio limiting

Can configure to what ratio (amount uploaded/amount uploaded) the torrent should be seeded. You can also configure on whether you want them to be paused or removed after this. May also set this directly in the ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf: [Preferences] Bittorrent\MaxRatio=2.5 Bittorrent\MaxRatioAction=0 # 0=Pause, 1=Remove

Comment

Pro
Looks a beautifull

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Comment

Con
Search engine requires installing Python

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Comment

Con
Old UI

Looks a bit ugly.

Comment

Con
Needs to be reinstalled from time to time

Sometimes it just stops downloading, the fix is uninstalling and installing again. It's a pain, but ends up working.

Comment

Con
Has issues with large torrent numbers

Various issues occur with large torrent numbers (anywhere between 300 and 1000 torrents) including timestamp and file corruptions.

Comment

Con
Torrent downloads can freeze

Multiple people have reported that torrents stop downloading and stay in a "stalled" state indefinitely.

Comment

Con
No tracker exchange

Tracker exchange functionality allows peers to exchange information about trackers of a given file. It is another way of ensuring that the file is downloaded from the optimal source. qBittorrent lacks this functionality.

Comment

Pro
Free and ad-less

Tixati is a completely free, ad-less torrent client.

Comment

Pro
Provides detailed statistics

Provides detailed information about peers, pieces, files, trackers, has advanced bandwidth charting on a per-transfer basis and provides individual event logging for all peers.

Comment

Pro
Full-featured

Tixati covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching and Sequential downloading. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers Tracker Exchange, IPv6, Super-seeding and proxy servers.

Comment

Pro
Highly customizable

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Pro
Sequential downloading feature

Downloads parts in order from begin to end of file, so you can play video or audio as soon as download is started.

Comment

Pro
Easy to use

Easy to customize and work with.

Comment

Pro
Channels, chat and forum functions

Can chat, request something, stream.

Comment

Pro
Encourages optimizing settings and teaches how to do it

Tixati suggests ways to improve the overall download speed through pop-up tips, helpful hints and a tutorial available on the site. It explains how to properly throttle outgoing bandwidth to not affect download speeds, how to make sure all incoming connections are received and that DHT receives all incoming UDP packets.

Comment

Con
Proprietary

No source code is available. As such there's no way to independently check what security and privacy features are implemented and how as well as whether there's any malicious code or not.

Comment

Con
Questionable interface aesthetic

Tixati has a 90s hacker-movies inspired high-contrast color interface that can be considered aggressive and unpleasant by some. Color scheme can be changed in the settings. Additionally, the amount of information Tixati presents that can be difficult to parse.

Comment

Con
No command line interface

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Comment

Con
No embedded tracker

An embedded tracker allows turning the client into a server offering an easy way of sharing files with others. Transmission lacks embedded tracker support so another method of sharing or different client has to be used to share files.

Comment

Con
No web seeding

Web seeding support allows downloading file parts from an HTTP source alongside the swarm. It's usually used for long-term seeding and easing some of the load on web hosts that supply direct downloads by offering a BitTorrent download as an alternative while still ensuring that the file is always available in its entirety regardless of the swarm. Tixati lacks this functionality.

Comment

Con
No search

Built-in search engines allow finding torrents to download right from withing the torrent client. Tixati lacks such functionality.

Comment

Con
Ugly interface

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Pro
Free, ad-less and open source

Deluge is free, ad-less and open source software licensed under GPL with source code available here. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.

Comment

Pro
Full-featured

Deluge covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6 and proxy servers.

Comment

Pro
Lightweight

Deluge weighs under 15MB.

Comment

Pro
Can encrypt traffic

MSE/PE or Message Stream Encryption/Protocol Encryption is BitTorrent traffic encryption method designed to improve privacy. It also attempts to make it harder to identify BitTorrent traffic by third parties such as ISPs that can choose to throttle it.

Comment

Pro
Portable

Deluge can be run without having to be installed. It can be put on an external storage device (such as a USB drive) and run directly from it. A portable version of Deluge can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Comment

Pro
Neat and clean look

The GTK elements aren't the best looking in the world, but they are very tidy, minimal and easy on the eyes.

Comment

Con
Does not preload magnet data

If a magnet URI is used there's no way to get information about contents or perform any kind of actions (such as selecting what to download) before the download has started.

Comment

Pro
Functionality can be extended with a variety of plugins

As is, Deluge is very stripped down, but its functionality can be increased via plugins. As such Deluge can have only the functionality that is needed and skip any other reducing resource usage.

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Con
No super-seeding support out of the box

Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Deluge lacks support for this functionality out of the box. However, the ltconfig plugin can enable this setting: http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=42887.

Comment

Con
No built-in search engine

Built-in search engines allow finding torrents to download right from withing the torrent client. Deluge lacks such functionality.

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Pro
Has a command line interface and a daemon

Deluge can be run in text-only mode via the deluge-console command. Requires first running the deluge daemon deluged. Utilizing the deluge daemon deluged allows remotely connecting to it, and using any front-end interface.

Comment

Pro
Good web UI

Deluge has a web interfaces that can be used to remotely control torrents.

Comment

Con
No tracker exchange

Comment

Con
Can't "force start" downloads

There's no way to manually override settings for download queuing that's available in other torrent clients. For example, if there are 2 files in the download list and the software is configured to queue just one at a time there's no way to force a download of both without changing the settings. A workaround plugin can be found here.

Comment

Con
Includes minor UI issues

Deluge has minor UI issues such as presenting "delete with data" as the most prominent button when removing a torrent from a list of downloads, or the way it resets its size when maximized from tray forcing a resize each time.

Comment

Con
No super-seeding support

Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Deluge lacks support for this functionality.

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Con
Files can't be downloaded sequentially

Sequential downloading can be used to stream media files such as video and audio while the download is still in progress. Deluge requires waiting until the complete file is downloaded before it's ready for use.

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Con
No built-in broadcatching support

Broadcatching is a method of automatically downloading content as soon as it's available. Broadcatching in BitTorrent clients is usually implemented via RSS. Deluge requires manually selecting each download by default. Fortunately, there are multiple plugins available that add this functionality with the possible caveat of plugins not having the same quality standard as the client itself.

Comment

Con
Lacks µTP transfer protocol support

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Con
No embedded tracker

An embedded tracker allows turning the client into a server offering an easy way of sharing files with others. Deluge lacks embedded tracker support so another method of sharing or different client has to be used to share files.

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Con
No web seeding suport

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Pro
Very minimalistic, straightforward design philosophy

Transmission is great for getting things done without looking too much under the hood. It still has advanced options, they're just tucked away from sight.

Comment

Pro
Very lightweight

Transmission-gtk uses only 17 mb of RAM in idle state and 24 mb in download state.

Comment

Pro
Free, ad-less and open source

Transmission is free, ad-less and open source software licensed under GPL with parts under MIT with source code available here. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.

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Con
No super-seeding support

Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Transmission lacks support for this functionality.

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Con
Crashes

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Pro
Full-featured

Transmission covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. It includes MSE/PE for security. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, Web seeding and Local Peer Discovery. And it auto-updates.

Comment

Con
No tracker exchange

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Con
No preload magnet metadata

Transmission is unable to preload magnet metadata.

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Con
No embedded tracker

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Con
No proxy server support

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Con
No built-in search engine

Built-in search engines allow finding torrents to download right from swithing the torrent client. Transmission lacks such functionality.

Comment

Con
The app is hiding too much information

While the app is clearly going for minimalism, some users might feel that the default window that consists of just torrents and their progress bars might provide a bit too little information or functionality. For example, even accessing file lists requires opening up a separate window and navigating to a specific tab.

Comment

Pro
Free and open source

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Pro
Remote control over simple standartized RPC

XML or JSON-based RPCs can be used to control aria2 remotely with both APIs completely documented. Simplest client that uploads torrent to be downloaded is 3 Python lines long (no 3rd-party libraries, only stdlib).

Comment

Pro
Supports multiple download protocols

Has support for lots of download protocols including BitTorrent, Metalink, HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

Comment

Pro
Clean web interface

The web interface consists of pure HTML+JS, no server-side needed (except aria2c of course). It uses the same RPC that can work even over WebSockets.

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Pro
Small memory footprint

Due to aria2 being a CLI only tool it uses very little memory.

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Con
No native graphical user interface

While there is a web-based GUI, there is no native interface.

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Con
Hosted on SourceForge

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Pro
Uses P2P onion routing to provide anonymity

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Pro
Free and ad-less

Tribler is free and completely ad-less.

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Pro
Has a p2p search engine that can never be taken down

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Pro
No website needed to find torrents

Tribler has a built-in, extendable search.

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Con
Files can't be downloaded sequentially

Sequential downloading can be used to stream media files such as video and audio while the download is still in progress. Transmission requires waiting until the complete file is downloaded before it's ready for use.

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Con
No local peer discovery

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Pro
Full-featured

Tribler covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers web seeding and embedded tracker. And it auto-updates.

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Pro
Video-on-demand

Watch your videos while you download them.

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Con
Lacks IPv6 support

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Con
No super-seeding

Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Tribler lacks support for this functionality.

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Con
No tracker exchange

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Con
Lacks NAT traversal support

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No UDP tracker transfer protocol support

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Pro
Full-featured

BitTorrent covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers. And it auto-updates.

Comment

Con
No tracker exchange

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Pro
If you plan on having several terabytes data sharing, it's stability and efficiency are top

For juggling 2k torrents and working the Hard drives like there's no tomorrow, It's pretty efficient in not using much processing nor ram actually.

Comment

Con
Data Leech

Uses way too much background data, while task manager and bittorrent up on the foreground and Bittorrent showing a combined 300kb/s up/download avg on the torrents & TaskManager showed it was actually using an avg of 1000kb/s. There is no way it should be using this amount, and makes one wonder what it's up to.

Comment

Con
Proprietary

No source code is publicly available. As such there's no way to independently check what security and privacy features are implemented and how as well as whether there's any malicious code or not.

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Pro
Clean and easy to navigate user interface

A clean, visually-appealing interface that’s incredibly simple to navigate and cuts down on clutter by allowing unwanted elements to be hidden.

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Pro
No extraneous functions

Torrent is a CLEAN client. Meaning there’s no search engine, tools, or other things to bloat the program.

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Pro
Supports thousands of torrents easily

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Pro
RUTorrent is a great web interface for RTorrent

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Pro
CLI interface

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Pro
Comprehensive test suite

Runs completely offline, so it's reliable and fast.

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Pro
Supports advanced torrent client features

Magnet uri support via ut_metadata Peer discovery via dht, tracker, and ut_pex Protocol extension api for adding new extensions

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Pro
Exposes files as streams

Fetches pieces from the network on-demand so seeking is supported (even before torrent is finished). Seamlessly switches between sequential and rarest-first piece selection strategy.

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Pro
Support webrtc peers

It supports webrtc peers which increases the swarm to allow for websites to stream.

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Pro
Beautiful interface

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Pro
Open Source

The developers have their files stored on GitHub.

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Pro
Streaming supported

Before the torrent is complete, you can stream the video and audio. It even supports seeking - it prioritizes the current location instead of always going in sequential order. You can also stream to Chromecast, DLNA, and AirPlay.

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Pro
Insanely fast

Download multiple torrents simultaneously, efficiently and fast.

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Con
Are known to bundle riskware

In additional to typical toolbar and ad bundles, µTorrent has previously bundled an automatic cryptocurrency-miner called EpicScale even if the user opted out of other bundled software.

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Con
Bundles bloat

Installation wizard starting with version 3 offers installing a variety of garbage features including toolbars and ads. And makes the process of opting out of such bundled software difficult. It's possible to find version 2.2.x online (1,2) - same lightweight, feature packed application without all the unneeded extras or ads.

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Con
Inappropriate ads (can be disabled)

Not only does μTorrent have ads in the free version, they tend to be inappropriate ads for scammy things like "meet russian women". Ads can be disabled in the options. It's important to note that disabling ads (as well as all bundled software and featured content) can be a difficult process as it requires manually editing multiple key/value pairs in advanced settings. The following keys have to all be turned to false by going to options > preferences > advanced: bt.enable_pulse distributed_share.enable gui.show_notorrents_node offers.left_rail_offer_enabled gui.show_plus_upsell offers.content_offer_autoexec offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled offers.featured_content.badge.enabled offers.featured_content_notifications_enabled offers.featured_content_rss_enabled

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Con
No tracker exchange

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Con
Proprietary

No source code is publicly available. As such there's no way to independently check what security and privacy features are implemented and how as well as whether there's any malicious code or not.

Comment

Pro
Lightweight

Weighs just barely over 1MB.

Comment

Pro
Built-in search

Built-in search engine allows finding torrents to download right from withing the torrent client.

Comment

Pro
Set rules to sort your files

Using tags, you can send files to different folder, for example: music - goes to "music" folder movie - goes to vids/movies tv - goes to vids/tv

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Pro
Supports RSS feeds

Can automatically download latest episodes / latest search results (from supporting sites) using RSS feeds.

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Pro
Full-featured

µTorrent covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers. And it auto-updates.

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Pro
Clean and easy to navigate user interface

A clean, visually-appealing interface that’s incredibly simple to navigate and cuts down on clutter by allowing any element of the UI not needed to be hidden.

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Doesn't slow down other Internet activities

The application automatically manages bandwidth it takes up to not get in the way of other Internet-dependent activities.

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Pro
Portable

µTorrent can be run without having to be installed as it stores all files and settings in the same folder. It can be put on an external storage device (such as a USB drive) and run directly from it.

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Pro
Cross-platform

µTorrent is available on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

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