Tribler is a powerful and censorship resistant peer-to-peer decentralized torrent client.
Tribler includes its own Tor-like onion routing network with hidden services based seeding and end-to-end encryption.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Anonymity – anonymous downloads with strong encryption, onion routing and hidden seeding.
- Uses a custom Tor-like network.
- Magnet links.
- Video-on-demand.
- Fast searches.
- Play your videos.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: www.tribler.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The Tribler Team at Delft University of Technology and VU University Amsterdam
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Tribler is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Tribler | Includes its own Tor-like onion routing network |
| Transmission | Easy-to-use interface on top of a cross-platform backend |
| KTorrent | BitTorrent application by KDE |
| Fragments | BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment |
| Deluge | Lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client |
| PikaTorrent | Pick a torrent, stream and download |
| Torrential | Minimalist torrent client designed for elementary OS |
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