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Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol, made the first BitTorrent client, which he also called BitTorrent, and published it in July 2001. [2] Many BitTorrent programs are open-source software; others are freeware, adware or shareware. Some download managers, such as FlashGet and GetRight, are BitTorrent-ready.
qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client written in native C++. It relies on Boost, OpenSSL, zlib, Qt 6 toolkit and the libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end), with an optional search engine written in Python. [8] [9]
Bitflu has received good reviews, both in open-source software sites [3] and blogs, [4] [5] praising it for being lightweight and feature-complete.. Even so, Bitflu seems to be largely unknown, reportedly commanding only 0.000025% of the total BitTorrent traffic. [6]
Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python.Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software library written in C++ which provides the application's networking logic, is connected to one of various front ends including a text console, the web interface and a graphical desktop interface using GTK through the ...
Unix-like (source code only) Uses libowfat, [4] performs well even on embedded hardware. Only requirement is a POSIX compliant OS. Supports only a compact peer list. PeerTracker [5] PHP: GPL-3.0-or-later: Yes Web application: Extremely lightweight and efficient BitTorrent tracker. Supports SQLite3, and MySQL for storage. μTorrent [6] C++ ...
libtorrent is an open-source implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. It is written in and has its main library interface in C++.Its most notable features are support for Mainline DHT, IPv6, HTTP seeds and μTorrent's peer exchange. libtorrent uses Boost, specifically Boost.Asio to gain its platform independence.
Unlike most other torrent clients, Tribler is decentralized (as well as anonymous) and does not rely on any trackers or any other indexing service to discover content. [15] Also features a built-in video streamer. Vuze (formerly Azureus) BitTorrent and I2P No (except when using I2P) magnet Free GNU, macOS, Windows GPL Java No
In April 2020, TorrentFreak named BiglyBT the tenth popular BitTorrent client with 0.3% of the market share. [18]Reviewers noted the higher amount of computer resource consumption due to using Java and appreciated the amount of features, praising the swarm merging feature and amount of options.