BiglyBT is billed as a feature filled bittorrent client.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Standard Bittorrent client features:
- Downloading:
- Swarm Merging to complete torrents that do not have all the available bits, and to speed up downloading
- Rate limiting globally, by download, by tag, by peer-set (e.g. peers from a given country), by network (public/I2P) and even by peer. Overall capacity limits are also supported to work with ISP limits. Limits can also be scheduled by time of day etc.
- WebTorrent support – BiglyBT can download and seed to WebTorrent peers. There is also a built-in WebTorrent tracker.
- Control:
- Robust settings. If you want to control it, there’s probably a setting for it!
- Remote controlling via Android app (any android app that supports the Transmission RPC will do, but we recommend ).
- Organization, Discovery & Social:
- Tags and Categories. Allows you also to set share ratios, file locations, speed limits, etc for a group of torrents.
- Meta-search, with the ability to add and create custom site templates.
- Swarm Discoveries which lists torrents that other people have downloaded along with the torrents you download.
- Tag Discovery to discover what other users have tagged content with. This can be very helpful before deciding to download the content.
- Subscriptions to RSS feeds as well as search results. You can also create your own subscription feed to share with others.
- Decentralized ratings and comments. You can view them before the torrent is added to BiglyBT.
- Decentralized public and anonymous chats with default channels for individual torrents, tags, subscriptions, and trackers.
- Privacy/Security Features
- I2P support (using I2P DHT) for anonymous downloading.
- Detection of VPNs for better integration.
- Ability to proxy search results, subscriptions, and internal browser connections through Tor if site is inaccessible.
- Content Features:
- Media Playback.
- Media Conversion (Transcoding).
- UPnP Media Server and DLNA support, allowing devices to connect and browse your content, and allowing BiglyBT to send content directly to devices.
- Plugins:
- RSS to chat publisher for sharing content streams via chat.
- Decentralized content replication for sharing arbitrary modifiable files.
Website: github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT
Support:
Developer: Bigly Software
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
BiglyBT is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
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|---|---|
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| BiglyBT | Billed as a feature filled bittorrent client |
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| KTorrent | BitTorrent application by KDE |
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| Deluge | Lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client |
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