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Add to SafariWhen comparing Tixati vs Folx, the Slant community recommends Tixati for most people. In the question“What are the best Torrent clients?” Tixati is ranked 4th while Folx is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Tixati is:
Tixati is a completely free, ad-less torrent client.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and ad-less
Tixati is a completely free, ad-less torrent client.
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.
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.
Pro Lightweight
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.
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.
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Runs efficient and offers a lot of information
Pro Streaming channels
Pro Easy To Use
Easy to customize and work with.
Pro Channels, chat and forum functions
Can chat, request something, stream.
Pro Remember login and password for websites
Pro Speed control
You can set up speed control in different ways.
Pro Allows torrent search
PRO version of Folx enables torrent search directly from the application.
Pro Splitting of downloads in up to 20 threads
Download can be split into up to 20 separate simultaneous downloads - threads. When the server supports multiple connections this can greatly improve download speed.
Pro Scheduling of downloads
You can choose the time for starting the download.
Cons
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.
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.
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.
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.
Con No command line interface
Con Ugly interface
Con Crashes very frequently
Con Customer support is terrible, do not send them money
Customer support refuses to be helpful. DRM must phone home and support blames you when their website goes down.
Con Does not quickly close after download completes
It takes 24 seconds before folx will close when a download has completed, and this window pops up and grabs focus interupting whatever it is you're doing. Very intrusive.
Con Sometimes it doesn't complete the schedule
Con Sometimes downloads start automatically
Con Difficult to uninstall browser addons
You will need to uninstall the addon and then clear the browser's cache. With Safari you will need to enable the developer menu before you can do this.
Con Useless
Can't download anything without upgrading to Pro paid version.
