When comparing Tribler vs BitLord, the Slant community recommends BitLord for most people. In the question“What are the best Torrent clients?” BitLord is ranked 14th while Tribler is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose BitLord is:
You don't have to wait till the complete video is downloaded, but can start streaming and watching directly.
Specs
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Pros
Pro No website needed to find torrents
Tribler has a built-in, extendable search.
Pro Uses P2P onion routing to provide anonymity
Pro Has a p2p search engine that can never be taken down
Pro Free and ad-less
Tribler is free and completely ad-less.
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.
Pro Video-on-demand
Watch your videos while you download them.
Pro Direct streaming
You don't have to wait till the complete video is downloaded, but can start streaming and watching directly.
Pro Easy and friendly interface
It has an easy and friendly interface, so it is easy to learn how to use it.
Pro Search torrents inside the application
It has an embedded browser to search for torrents and download or stream directly from it.
Pro Lightweight
Cons
Con Highly questionable developer competence
On December 2014, Yawning Angel did a casual code analysis and found a plethora of Tor protocol flaws and implementation issues calling in question their general quality assurance practices and code quality.
Con Lacks IPv6 support
Con No super-seeding
Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Tribler lacks support for this functionality.
Con No local peer discovery
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.
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. Tribler lacks this functionality.
Con Lacks NAT traversal support
Con No UDP tracker transfer protocol support
Con Can feature malware
Con No Linux support
Only Windows and Mac are supported.
Con Not open-source/libre
Although free, BitLord do not publish the entire source code for their software.
Con Does not have many available options
It does not have many options for configurations on Torrent downloads, although it has the most used ones.