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Chihaya – BitTorrent tracker

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Chihaya is built for developers looking to integrate BitTorrent into a preexisting production environment.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Console BitTorrent Clients

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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ExTracker – BitTorrent tracker

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ExTracker is an Elixir-powered BitTorrent Tracker.

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rqbit – BitTorrent client

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rqbit is a bittorrent client written in Rust. It has HTTP API and Web UI, and can be used as a library.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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PikaTorrent – pick a torrent, stream and download

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

PikaTorrent is billed as a next-generation torrent client offering a beautiful, lightweight, and cross-platform app

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BiglyBT – BitTorrent client

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

BiglyBT is billed as a feature filled bittorrent client. It’s cross-platform software as it’s written in Java.

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Superseedr – Rust BitTorrent client

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Superseedr is a modern Rust BitTorrent client featuring a high-performance terminal UI, real-time swarm observability

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Lidarr – music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks

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rTorrent – BitTorrent Client

December 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rTorrent is a BitTorrent client which provides a terminal-based user interface via the ncurses programming library.

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qBittorrent – P2p BitTorrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

qBittorrent is a BitTorrent client in Qt. It aims to be a good alternative to all other BitTorrent clients.

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Transmission – BitTorrent Client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client with an easy-to-use interface on top of a cross-platform backend.

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KTorrent – BitTorrent application by KDE

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

KTorrent is a BitTorrent application by KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol.

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Deluge – cross-platform ​BitTorrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. It uses libtorrent at its core to handle the BitTorrent protocol.

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Tribler – enhanced BitTorrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Tribler includes its own Tor-like onion routing network with hidden services based seeding and end-to-end encryption.

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Fragments – BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Fragments is an easy to use BitTorrent client. It can be used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol, such as videos, music or installation images for Linux distributions.

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Torrential – minimalist torrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Torrential is a fast, no-frills torrent client. It comes with a sane set of default options.

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gopeed – modern download manager

December 13, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Gopeed is billed as a modern download manager. It supports HTTP, BitTorrent and Magnet protocol download. It’s written in Dart and Go.

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Motrix – full-featured download manager

December 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews

Motrix is billed as a full-featured download manager. It’s written mostly in JavaScript and offers cross-platform support.

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