BiglyBT – BitTorrent client

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

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