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"BitTorrent client" redirects here. For the client created by Bram Cohen, see BitTorrent (software).

A BitTorrent client is a computer program that manages downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.

The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen, in October 2002.

Many subsequent clients have been at least partially based on it. Not all clients were originally built for BitTorrent, having added support for the protocol later on. There have been attempts to package malware as BitTorrent clients, probably due to the availability of many legitimate clients and users' willingness to try new ones.

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of applications supporting the BitTorrent protocol. They are neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.

Applications

Note: Clients in purple are no longer in development.

General

BitTorrent client First public release date Latest stable FOSS
 Software license Cost
(USD) 		Spyware, Adware, Malware-free [1] Usage[2]
ABC August 19, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-08-19)[3] Template:Latest stable software release/ABC Yes Python Software Foundation License Free Yes 0.075624%
Acquisition ? 2.2 (v223) (November 19, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-11-19)) [±] Partial Proprietary
Shareware 		$25 Yes ?
Arctic Torrent[4] ? 1.2.3
September 4, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-09-04) 		Yes MIT License Free Yes 0.000607%
Aria2 [5] ? 1.9.0
(March 12, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-03-12)[6]) 		Yes GPL Free Yes 0.000830%
BitComet August 6, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-08-06) 1.94 (September 11, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-11)) [±][7] No Proprietary Free Ad-supported: Optionally sets your browser homepage to google.atcomet.com[8] 4.311034%
Bitflu [9] ? 1.50 (July 11, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-07-11)) [±] Yes Artistic License Free Yes 0%
BitLet ? ? No Proprietary Free ? 0.006181%
BitLord ? Template:Latest stable software release/BitLord No Proprietary
Adware 		Free Adware: WhenU SaveNow ?
Bits on Wheels ? Template:Latest stable software release/Bits on Wheels No Proprietary
Freeware 		Free Yes 0.005982%
BitSpirit [10] 2003; 21 years ago (2003) Template:Latest stable software release/BitSpirit No Proprietary Free Yes 1.996105%
BitThief ? Template:Latest stable software release/BitThief No Proprietary
Freeware 		Free Spyware[11] ?
BitTornado ? Template:Latest stable software release/BitTornado Yes MIT License Free Yes 0.149426%
BitTorrent 5 2001; 23 years ago (2001) Template:Latest stable software release/BitTorrent (software) Yes BitTorrent Open Source License, GPL Free ? 0.270911%
BitTorrent 6 September 18, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-09-18) Template:Latest stable software release/BitTorrent (software) No Proprietary Free Adware [12] 4.545059%
BitTyrant January 2, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-02) Template:Latest stable software release/BitTyrant Yes GPL Free ? 0.222282%
Blog Torrent ? Template:Latest stable software release/Blog Torrent Yes GPL Free ? ?
BTG [13] ? 0.9.9 Yes GPL Free ? 0%
Deluge September 25, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-09-25) 2.1.1 (July 10, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-07-10)) [±] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.041722%
FlashGet ? Template:Latest stable software release/FlashGet No Proprietary Free Adware [14] 1.086652%
Flush January 1, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-01-01) 0.9.12 (January 24, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-01-24)) [±] Yes GPL Free Yes ?
Folx 2010; 14 years ago (2010) 1.0.591.456 No Proprietary Free ? ?
Free Download Manager 2004; 20 years ago (2004) 6.13.4.3616 (February 9, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-02-09)) [±][15] Yes GPL Free Yes ?
G3 Torrent [16] ? Template:Latest stable software release/G3 Torrent Yes MIT License Free Yes 0.001176%
Global Downloader[17] 2005; 19 years ago (2005) No Proprietary $24.95 Yes ?
Gnome BitTorrent ? ? Yes Python Software Foundation License Free ? ?
Halite ? Template:Latest stable software release/Halite Yes Boost Software License Free Yes 0.002574%
KGet ? 4.14.38 (November 7, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-11-07)) [±][18] Yes GPL Free Yes ?
KTorrent ? 5.2.0 (June 6, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-06-06)[19]) [±]


Yes GPL Free Yes 0.002454%
LimeWire October 30, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-10-30)[20][21] 5.5.16 (September 30, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-09-30)) [±] Yes GPL Free-main
$35-Pro 		Adware 0.038241%
Localhost ? ? Yes GPL Free Yes ?
Miro 0.8.0-rc4
February 21, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-21)[22] 		6.0 (April 16, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-04-16)) [±][23] Yes GPL Free Adware: Optional Bing toolbar;
Sets Bing and/or MiroStart (a Miro start page
powered by Bing) as default web browser search. 		0.026502%
MP3 Rocket December 2005; 18 years ago (2005-12) Template:Latest stable software release/MP3 Rocket Yes GPL Free Adware[24] ?
MLDonkey December 2001; 22 years ago (2001-12) 3.1.7 (July 6, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-07-06)[25]) [±] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.004153%
OneSwarm 2008; 16 years ago (2008) Template:Latest stable software release/OneSwarm Yes GPL Free Yes ?
Opera June 20, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-06-20)[26] 100.0.4815.21 (June 20, 2023; 16 months ago (2023-06-20)[27][28][29])


No Proprietary Free Yes 0.155863%
QTorrent [30] ? 0.9.5 Yes MIT License Free Yes ?
qBittorrent March 22, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-03-22)[31] 4.4.5 (August 30, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-30)) [±][32] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.007561%
rTorrent July 15, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-07-15)[33] rTorrent 0.9.8 / libTorrent 0.13.8 (July 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-19)) [±][34] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.196612%
Rufus ? ? Yes MIT License Free Yes 0.002227%
Shareaza July 1, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-07-01)[citation needed] 2.7.10.2 (September 18, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-09-18)[35]) [±] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.125904%
SymTorrent ? 1.41
(November 26, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-11-26)[36]) 		Yes GPL Free Yes 0.006598%
Tixati [37] June 24, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-24) 1.37
(June 10, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-10)) 		No Proprietary Free Yes 0.000900%
Tomato Torrent ? Template:Latest stable software release/Tomato Torrent Yes BitTorrent open source License Free Yes ?
Tonido Torrent October 1, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-10-01) Template:Latest stable software release/Tonido Yes Proprietary Free Yes ?
Torium 2008; 16 years ago (2008) 0.4.2
(April 18, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-04-18)) 		Yes ISCL Free ? ?
Torrent Swapper July 27, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-07-27)[38] Template:Latest stable software release/Torrent Swapper Yes MIT License Free Yes ?
TorrentFlux November 12, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-11-12)[39] Template:Latest stable software release/TorrentFlux Yes GPL Free Yes ?
TorrentVolve ? 1.4
(January 5, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-05)) 		Yes GPL Free Yes ?
Transmission September 15, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-09-15)[40] 4.0.1 (February 23, 2023; 20 months ago (2023-02-23)) [±][41] Yes GPL/MIT License Free Yes 3.256942%
Tribler February 26, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-02-26)[citation needed] 7.12.1 (September 20, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-09-20)) [±][42] Yes LGPL Free Yes 0.002882%
µTorrent September 19, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-09-19)[43] Template:Latest stable software release/µTorrent No[44] Proprietary Freeware Free Adware; Optional Ask.com toolbar[45][46] 25.772625%
Vuze (formerly Azureus) June 24, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-06-24)[47] 5.7.6.0 (November 2, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-11-02)) [±][48] Partial Proprietary (platform)/
GPL (core engine) 		Free-main
$10-mobile
Vuze Plus-$24.99 for 1 year 		Adware; Optional Vuze Toolbar:
powered by Ask.com[49][50] 		24.084785%
Wyzo ? 3.5.6
(February 7, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-02-07)) 		No Proprietary Free ? ?
Xunlei ? Template:Latest stable software release/Xunlei No Proprietary Free Adware 29.307831%
ZipTorrent ? Template:Latest stable software release/ZipTorrent No ? ? Yes 0%
BitTorrent client First public release date Latest stable FOSS Software license Cost (USD) Spyware, Adware, Malware-free [1] Usage[2]

Operating system support

Applications run with Wine under Linux and other operating systems are marked as No. Mostly these are noted, but there may be other applications which are not marked.

BitTorrent client Linux Windows Mac OS X Other
ABC Obsolete Yes No No
Acquisition No No Yes No
Arctic Torrent No Yes No No
Aria2 Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Solaris
BitComet No Yes No No
Bitflu Yes No Yes FreeBSD
BitLet Yes Yes Yes No
BitLord No Yes No No
BitSpirit No Yes No No
BitThief Yes Yes Yes No
BitTornado Yes Yes Yes No
BitTorrent 5 / Mainline Terminated (5.3) Terminated (5.2.2) Obsolete (4.27.2) No
BitTorrent 6 No Yes No No
Bits on Wheels No No Yes No
BitTyrant Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
Blog Torrent No Yes Yes No
BTG Yes No Yes No
Deluge Yes Yes Source only[51] FreeBSD, Solaris
FlashGet No Yes No No
Flush Yes No No No
Folx No No Yes No
Free Download Manager No Yes No No
G3 Torrent No Yes No No
Global Downloader No Yes No No
Gnome BitTorrent Yes No No No
Halite No Yes No No
KGet Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
KTorrent Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
LimeWire Yes Yes Yes Any OS that supports Java
Localhost Yes Yes No No
Miro Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
MP3 Rocket No Yes No No
MLDonkey Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, MorphOS
OneSwarm Yes Yes Yes No
Opera Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Solaris
QTorrent Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
qBittorrent Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
rTorrent Yes No Yes FreeBSD, Solaris
Rufus Yes Yes No No
Shareaza No Yes No No
SymTorrent No No No Symbian OS
Tixati Yes Yes No No
Tomato Torrent No No Yes No
Tonido Torrent Yes Yes Yes Yes
Torium Yes Partial No No
Torrent Swapper Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
TorrentFlux Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
TorrentVolve Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
Transmission Yes No Yes FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
Tribler Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
µTorrent Partial With Wine Yes Yes[52] No
Vuze (formerly Azureus) Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD
Wyzo No Yes Yes No
ZipTorrent No Yes No No
BitTorrent client Linux/Unix Windows Mac OS X Other

Interface and programming

BitTorrent client GUI web CLI other Programming language Based on IPv6[53] µTP
ABC Yes Yes No No Python BitTornado buggy[54] No
Acquisition Yes No No No Objective-C and Cocoa Limewire ? No
Arctic Torrent Yes Yes No No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) No No
Aria2 No Yes Yes Daemon, XML over HTTP remote control API C++ - Partial No
BitComet Yes Yes Partial [55] No C++ - No No
Bitflu No Yes Yes Telnet Perl - Yes No
BitLet No Yes No No Java and JavaScript - ? No
BitLord Yes No No No C++ BitComet No No
BitSpirit Yes No No No C++ - Yes No
BitThief Yes No No No Java ? ? No
BitTornado Yes No Partial No Python BitTorrent Yes No
BitTorrent 5 / Mainline Yes No Partial No Python - No No
BitTorrent 6 Yes Yes Partial No C++ µTorrent Yes Yes
Bits on Wheels Yes No No No Objective-C and Cocoa - Yes No
BitTyrant Yes Yes Partial Telnet, XML over HTTP remote control API Java and SWT Azureus Yes No
Blog Torrent Yes No No No ? ? ? No
BTG Yes Yes Partial No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) Partial No
Deluge Yes Yes Yes Daemon Python and C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) Yes [56] No
FlashGet Yes No No No ? ? No No
Flush Yes No ? ? C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) ? No
Folx Yes No No No ? ? No No
Free Download Manager Yes Yes Partial No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) ? No
G3 Torrent Yes Yes No No Python BitTorrent ? No
Gnome BitTorrent Yes No No No Python ? ? No
Halite Yes No No No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) ? No
KGet Yes Yes Partial [57] Web Interface C++ - Yes No
KTorrent Yes Yes Partial Web Interface C++ - Yes Yes[58]
LimeWire Yes No No No Java libtorrent (Rasterbar) No No
Localhost No Yes No No Java and SWT Azureus ? No
Miro Yes No No No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) ? No
MP3 Rocket Yes No No No Java - No No
MLDonkey Network GUI Yes Partial Telnet Ocaml - No No
OneSwarm Yes Yes ? Classic Ui and Web Interface Java Azureus Yes No
Opera Yes No No No C++ - Yes No
QTorrent Qt (toolkit) No No No C++/PyQt BitTornado ? No
qBittorrent Qt (toolkit) Yes Partial No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) Yes No
rTorrent No Third Party Partial SCGI C++ libtorrent (Rakshasa) No[59] No
Rufus Yes Yes No No Python G3 Torrent No No
Shareaza Yes Yes Partial No C++ - No No
SymTorrent Yes No No No ? ? ? No
Tixati Yes No No No C++ - Yes No
Tomato Torrent Yes No No No Cocoa BitTorrent No No
Tonido Torrent No Yes No Web Interface available remotely without port forwarding C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) No No
Torium gtkmm No No directory monitoring (ssh,sftp) C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) Partial No
Torrent Swapper Yes Yes No No Python BitTorrent buggy[54] No
TorrentFlux No Yes No No C++ BitTornado No No
Tonido Torrent No Yes No No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) No No
TorrentVolve No Yes No No PHP Azureus Partial [60] No
Transmission Yes Yes Yes Daemon C and Cocoa - Yes No
Tribler Yes No Partial No Python ABC Yes No
µTorrent Yes Yes No[61] No C++[62] - Yes[63] Yes[64]
Vuze (formerly Azureus) Yes Yes Partial Telnet, XML over HTTP remote control API Java and SWT - Yes No
ZipTorrent Yes No No No C++ libtorrent (Rasterbar) No No
BitTorrent client GUI web CLI other Programming language Based on IPv6[53] µTP

Features I

BitTorrent client Magnet URI Super-seeding Embedded tracker UPnP[65] NAT Port Mapping Protocol NAT traversal DHT[66] Peer exchange Encryption UDP tracker LPD Proxy
ABC No No Yes Yes No No No No No No No No
Acquisition No No No No Yes No No No No ? ?
Arctic Torrent No No No No No No No Yes No No No No
Aria2 Yes No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BitComet Yes Yes Separate download Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No HTTP 1.1,SOCKS4/4a/5
Bitflu Yes No No No No No Yes Yes No Yes No
BitLet No No No Yes No No No No No ? No
BitLord No No No Yes ? Yes No Yes No Yes No HTTP 1.1, SOCKS4/4a/5
BitSpirit [67] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
BitThief No No No No ? ? No ? No No No
BitTornado No Yes Yes[68] Yes ? No No No Yes No No
BitTorrent 5 / Mainline No No Yes[68] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
BitTorrent 6 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[69] Yes Yes Yes HTTP(S),SOCKS4/5
Bits on Wheels No No No No No No No No No ? No No
BitTyrant ? Yes[citation needed] Yes Yes Yes Yes[70] Yes[71] Yes Yes ? ?
Blog Torrent No ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No
BTG No ? No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Deluge Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FlashGet No No No ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ?
Flush Yes ? No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes
Folx No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes No
Free Download Manager No No No ? ? ? Yes Yes No ? No
G3 Torrent No No No No ? No No ? No ? No
Gnome BitTorrent No No No No ? ? No No No ? No
Halite No No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No[72] No
KTorrent Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial
LimeWire Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Localhost No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes [73] ? No ? No
MLDonkey No No Yes No No No No No No No No
OneSwarm Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Opera No No Yes[74] ? ? No No Yes[75] No ? No
QTorrent No No No No ? No No No No ? No
qBittorrent Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
rTorrent ? Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No[76]
Rufus No No No No No No No ? No No No No
Shareaza Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes[77] Yes No No No No
SymTorrent No No No — — — No No No No No
Tixati [78] Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial
Tomato Torrent No No Yes ? ? ? Yes ? No ? ?
Tonido Torrent No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No
Torium No No No Yes No ? Yes ? No ? No
Torrent Swapper No Yes Yes[68] Yes No No No Yes No No No
TorrentFlux No Yes No Yes ? No No No Yes ? No
TorrentVolve No Partial [60] No Partial [60] Partial [60] Partial [60] Partial [60] Partial [60] Partial [60] Partial [60] No Partial [60]
Transmission Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[79] Yes No Yes HTTP, SOCKS4/5
Tribler ? ? No Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ?
µTorrent Yes Yes[80] Yes[81] Yes[82] Yes Yes[83] Yes[84] Yes[69] Yes[85] Yes Yes[86] HTTP(S), SOCKS4/5
Vuze (formerly Azureus) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[87] Yes[71] Yes Yes Yes No HTTP(S)?, SOCKS4/4a/5
ZipTorrent No No No Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No
BitTorrent client Magnet URI Super-seeding Embedded tracker UPnP[65] NAT Port Mapping Protocol NAT traversal DHT[66] Peer exchange Encryption UDP tracker LPD Proxy

Features II

BitTorrent client Cache[88] Web seeding[89] Broadcatching (RSS) Prioritization Selective downloads SOCKS Tracker exchange [90] Remote control via web Search Engine Auto updates Notes
ABC ? Yes No Yes No ? No Yes Separate download ?
Acquisition ? No No No No No ? No No ? 3 torrents max, infinity when registered
Arctic Torrent ? No No No No No No No No ?
Aria2 ? No No No Yes Yes ? Yes No ?
BitComet Yes Yes [91] Beta Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Built-in Web browser Yes Portable USB version available
Bitflu Partial No No No Yes No ? Yes No No No built-in Cache-Disk cache but a Delayed commit
BitLet No No No No No No No No No Yes
BitLord Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Built-in Web browser Yes
Bits on Wheels ? ? ? ? No ? No No ? ?
BitSpirit [92] Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes
BitThief ? No ? ? ? ? No ? No ? Designed to abuse the BitTorrent protocol. Never uploads real data, only downloads
BitTornado Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No via package management system
BitTorrent 5 / Mainline ? Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes
BitTorrent 6 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes
BitTyrant Yes Yes [93] Plugin Yes Yes Yes No Plugin[94] 3rd party plugins Yes Upload priority optimized according to a series of research papers.
Blog Torrent ? No No No No ? No No No ?
BTG Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Deluge Yes Yes Plugin[95] Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Notification,and update via package management system
FlashGet ? ? via other FireFox plugins ? ? No No No via the browser it's plugged into via FireFox plugin updater FlashGot is a FireFox plugin.
Flush ? ? No Yes Yes ? ? No No No
Folx ? Yes No Yes Yes No ? No Yes Yes
Free Download Manager ? ? No Yes Yes ? ? Yes No Optional
G3 Torrent ? No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No ?
Gnome BitTorrent ? No No ? No ? No No No ?
Halite No No No Yes Yes No ? No No No Have a stand-alone version
KTorrent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Built-in Web browser via package management system
LimeWire Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
Localhost Yes No Plugin Yes Yes Yes No Plugin[94] Yes ? DHT are required by Localhost
MLDonkey Yes No 3rd party bash script Yes No No[96] No Yes Built-into Web browser via package management system
OneSwarm Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No ? ? Yes Based on Azureus, has all BitTyrant features
Opera ? ? Yes[Note 1] No No No No No Built-into Web browser Yes, on Windows and Mac OS X only. (via package management system on Linux)
QTorrent ? ? ? ? ? ? No ? ? ?
qBittorrent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[97] via package management system
rTorrent Partial No 3rd party utility [98] Yes Yes No ? Yes No via package management system No built-in Cache-Disk cache but a Delayed sync
Rufus ? No Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes No Yes
Shareaza Yes Yes No Yes Yes[99] No being worked on[100] Yes Yes [101] [102]
SymTorrent No ? No ? ? ? No No No No BitTorrent client for cell phones.
Tixati [103] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes Portable USB version available
Tomato Torrent ? ? ? ? ? ? No ? ? ?
Tonido Torrent No No No Yes Yes No No Remote Access without port forwarding No Yes
Torium Yes ? ? Yes ? ? No ? Yes No
Torrent Swapper Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Built-in Web browser Yes
TorrentFlux Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes ?
TorrentVolve [60] No No Yes Yes No No Yes No [60]
Transmission Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes No Yes
Tribler ? ? Yes Yes ? No ? ? No No
µTorrent Yes Yes[104] Yes[105] Yes[106] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Versions are already portable
Vuze (formerly Azureus) Yes Yes [93] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Plugin[94] Yes Yes
ZipTorrent ? ? Yes ? ? ? No ? Yes ?
BitTorrent client Cache[88] Web seeding[89] Broadcatching (RSS) Prioritization Selective downloads SOCKS Tracker exchange [90] Remote control via web Search Engine Auto updates Notes
  1. ^ Opera has a feed aggregator that displays feeds like emails.

Libraries

Note: Libraries in purple are no longer in development.

General
BitTorrent Library First public release date Latest stable FOSS
 Software license Cost (USD) Spyware, Adware, Malware -free Usage[2]
BTSharp 2004; 20 years ago (2004) Template:Latest stable software release/BTSharp (.NET Library) No Proprietary Non-free Yes ?
Libtorrent (Rakshasa) July 15, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-07-15)[33] rTorrent 0.9.8 / libTorrent 0.13.8 (July 19, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-19)) [±][107] Yes GPL Free Yes 0.196612%
Libtorrent (Rasterbar) September 8, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-09-08)[108] 2.0.7[109] (July 17, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-07-17)) [±] Yes BSD Free Yes 0.630206%
MonoTorrent September 2006; 18 years ago (2006-09) 2.0.7 (December 23, 2022; 22 months ago (2022-12-23)) [±] Yes MIT/X11 Free Yes 0.000434%
BitTorrent Library First public release date Latest stable FOSS Software license Cost (USD) Spyware, Adware, Malware -free Usage[2]
OS Support and Programming Language
BitTorrent Library Linux/Unix Windows Mac OS X API Programming language
BTSharp No Yes No Yes C#
Libtorrent (Rakshasa) Yes No Yes Yes C++
Libtorrent (Rasterbar) Yes Yes Yes Yes C++
MonoTorrent Yes Yes Yes Yes C#
BitTorrent Library Linux/Unix Windows Mac OS X API Programming language
Supported Features I
BitTorrent Library Super-seeding Tracker UPnP[65] NAT Port Mapping Protocol NAT traversal DHT[66] Peer exchange Encryption UDP tracker LPD Fast Extensions Magnet URI
BTSharp No Yes Yes No No No No No ? ? No No
Libtorrent (Rakshasa) Yes Yes No ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No No
Libtorrent (Rasterbar) Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[110] Yes Yes
MonoTorrent Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BitTorrent Library Super-seeding Tracker UPnP[65] NAT Port Mapping Protocol NAT traversal DHT[66] Peer exchange Encryption UDP tracker LPD Fast Extensions Magnet URI
Supported Features II
BitTorrent Library Cache[88] Web seeding[89] Broadcatching (RSS) Prioritization Selective downloads SOCKS Remote control via web Engine Notes
BTSharp Yes No No No No No No No
Libtorrent (Rakshasa) Partial No No Yes Yes No Yes No No built-in Cache-Disk cache but a Delayed sync
Libtorrent (Rasterbar) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
MonoTorrent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
BitTorrent Library Cache[88] Web seeding[89] Broadcatching (RSS) Prioritization Selective downloads SOCKS Remote control via web Engine Notes

Notes

  1. ^ a b Unless otherwise noted, programs marked "Yes" without other inline citations have been tested 100% Free or 100% Clean by Softpedia
  2. ^ a b c d https://ezrss.it/stats/all/index.html (December 4, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-12-04)) Unique peer_id statistics from Combined (Pure Unique) over a 1 week period. Retrieved January 18, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-18).
  3. ^ "ABC (Yet Another Bittorrent Client) at SourceForge.net". ABC.SourceForge.net. 2003-08-19. Retrieved 2010-01-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ http://int64.org/projects/arctic-torrent
  5. ^ "Aria2 project". SourceForge. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  6. ^ "Aria2 - CLI Metalink/BitTorrent client at SourceForge.net". Aria2.SourceForge.net. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "BitComet Changelog". www.bitcomet.com. 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  8. ^ "BitComet Latest Beta / Latest Final". softpedia. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  9. ^ "Bitflu". Bitflu.workaround.ch. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  10. ^ http://www.bitspirit.cc/en/
  11. ^ Ernesto (2007-01-16). "BitThief Spies on their Users". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  12. ^ "BitTorrent Latest". Softpedia. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  13. ^ "BTG". Btg.berlios.de. 2009-11-08. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  14. ^ "FlashGet Latest Beta / Latest Stable". Softpedia. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  15. ^ "Free Download Manager 6 Forums". FreeDownloadManager.org. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  16. ^ "G3 Torrent". SourceForge.
  17. ^ [actysoft.com http://www.actysoft.com]
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  53. ^ a b Clients that have been seen in the real world to actually work with IPv6, see IPv6 BitTorrent Clients
  54. ^ a b Announcements to the tracker are made via IPv6 if possible, but the client doesn't listen on the respective port.
  55. ^ BitComet command line interface see [http://wiki.bitcomet.com/BitComet_Command_Line BitComet Command Line - BitComet Wiki
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  57. ^ Qdbus interface
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  65. ^ a b c d Automatically configure port forwarding (requires Router with UPnP support)
  66. ^ a b c d DHT permits use of trackerless torrents (with supporting clients) to resume normal torrents when their tracker is down. However, some trackers that register their users for keeping tabs on fair usage (such as a ratio of bytes downloaded to uploaded) may not reliably measure and update usage for users employing DHT.
  67. ^ http://www.bitspirit.cc/en/
  68. ^ a b c Tracker included with Linux binaries and with source, but not with Windows binary
  69. ^ a b Exchanging with BT 6 and µTorrent clients (and now MooPolice)
  70. ^ It's UDP based, an experimental feature and only supported by other Azureus based clients
  71. ^ a b Has its own DHT, a mainline-DHT compatible implementation is available as plugin
  72. ^ [1], list of features not yet added.
  73. ^ Localhost uses a DHT protocol called Kademlia to connect to peers that are running Localhost. Each peer has an index of directories and files that it shares with peers that it is connected to. No one peer is responsible for storing the entire directory structure, it is distributed among everyone. It is collaboratively maintained, edited and built upon by all users in a popularity based system.
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  77. ^ It's not a DHT network, but Shareaza uses Gnutella2 to find other Shareaza clients.
  78. ^ http://www.tixati.com/
  79. ^ Exchanges with µTorrent and Azureus peers.
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  83. ^ [2] µTorrent 2.0 beta
  84. ^ µTorrent's [3] DHT implementation is the same as Mainline and BitComet's, but unfortunately this is incompatible with Azureus's implementation.
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  87. ^ Since version 2.5.0.2. It's UDP based, an experimental feature and only supported by other Azureus clients
  88. ^ a b c d Reduces disk usage, file fragmentation (in case it is not preallocated) and latencies due to larger written blocks and cached data for hash checking finished pieces.
  89. ^ a b c d Recently implemented (unofficial) web seeding feature, see HTTP-Based Seeding Specification
  90. ^ a b http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0028.html
  91. ^ Supports the Getright Webseeding spec since v1.14, see BitComet Wiki
  92. ^ http://www.bitspirit.cc/en/
  93. ^ a b Supports the Getright Webseeding spec in addition to the Bittornado spec[4]
  94. ^ a b c Provides a Java-based and a simple HTML/JS based WebUI
  95. ^ FlexRSS plugin not supported in current 1.2 release: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Plugins/FlexRSS
  96. ^ See task #4401 Socks Proxy; however, http proxy is supported.
  97. ^ Integrated
  98. ^ 3rd party utility RSSDler
  99. ^ Since Shareaza v2.4.0.2 r7924
  100. ^ Shareaza uses G2 to transmit download metadata, such as BitTorrent trackers to other Shareaza clients.
  101. ^ Currently disabled by default because of past security problems with the website.
  102. ^ Max active torrents number depends on respective user settings and is limited to 31.
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See also

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