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Free BitTorrent Clients for Windows, Mac and Linux you will ever need

Torrents have become quiet popular over the past few years or so. There are millions of people out there who are using Torrents everyday to download their favorite Movies, Tv shows, Songs and other files . I’ve compiled a list of  BitTorrent Clients you will ever need for your operating system. (Windows, Mac and Linux) .

Azureus (Mac,Windows,Linux)

Azureus is a Powerful torrent meta-search with login support for private trackers. It allows you to download files quickly and efficiently with intelligent bandwidth, queue and speed management.

Key features include

• Multiple torrent downloads
• Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
• Advanced seeding rules
• Adjustable disk cache
• UPnP sets the forward on your router
• Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
• Fast resume
• Can set a default download dir and move completed files
• Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
• Highly customizable interface
• IRC plugin included for quick help
• Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)…
• Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is
• offline.

Transmission (Mac and Linux)

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client. It is designed from the ground up to balance power with simplicity. It offers advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocking, and the web interface which can be configured with just a few clicks.

The recent version of Transmission has been released with the following improvements.

• IPv6 support for peers, and for trackers with explicit IPv6 addresses
• Improved connectivity for encrypted peers
• Fix 1.42 error that made tracker announces slower over time
• Fix a Mac-centric peer connection bug from 1.41
• Use less CPU cycles when managing very fast peers
• Better handling of non-UTF-8 torrent files
• When removing local data, only remove data from the torrent
• Close potential DoS vulnerability in 1.41
• Many other bugfixes
• Torrents can now be added by URL in the web
  client
• Add the ability to “remove local data” from the web
  client

uTorrent (Windows, Mac)

uTorrent is my personal favorite p2p software. uTorrent implements many of the features introduced by much larger clients, but uTorrent retains a very small memory footprint.

It offers

• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Configurable bandwidth scheduler
• Global and per-torrent speed limiting
• Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
• RSS Downloader
• Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)

qBitTorrent (Linux)

qBitTorrent is a popular p2p software for Ubuntu Linux. It was developed by a university student from France. It’s powerful, intuitive and with a cool user interface.

Key features of qBittorrent

• A polished Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
• UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
• Encryption support (compatible with Azureus)
• Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
• Download from RSS streams
• An integrated search engine
• DHT (trackerless) support
• uTorrent Peer eXchange support (PeX)
• Directory scanning with automated download of torrents inside
• Good internationalization (~25 languages supported)

kTorrent (Linux)

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear. It offers Internet searching with torrent search engines using KHTML part. You can then easily upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling.

It offers

• Support for UDP trackers.
• IP address blacklist plugin
• Port forwarding with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
• Protocol encryption
• DHT (mainline version), and support for trackerless torrents
• µTorrent peer exchange (PEX) support (as of 2.1 RC1).
• File Prioritization
• Ability to import partially-downloaded files
• Directory scanner to automatically watch directories for new torrents
• Manual addition of trackers to torrents
• RSS feed support
• Web interface plugin with default port number 8080

rTorrent (Linux)

rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

It allows you to

• View download.
• Change view.
• Start download.
• Stop an active download, or remove a stopped download.
• Close a torrent and its files.
• Initiate hash check of torrent.
• Change the destination
  directory of the download. The torrent must be closed.
• Call commands or change settings.
• Change the priority of the download.
• backspace
• Add torrent using an URL or file path. Use tab to view
  directory content and do auto-complete.
• View log. Exit by pressing the space-bar.
• Delete the file the torrent is tied to, and clear the association.
• Toggle whether torrent ignores ratio settings.

BitTorrent (Windows, Linux, Mac)

BitTorrent is a free open source file sharing application that allows you to downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.  The new BitTorrent 6 for Windows brings together BitTorrent’s proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent’s efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client.

Key features include

• Lightweight client
• Local peer discovery
• Configurable bandwidth scheduler
• Global and per-torrent speed limiting
• RSS Downloader
• Always Spyware-Free

Tomato Torrent (Mac)

BitTorrent promotes the accessibility of data on the Internet by allowing anyone to share information with a large audience. It remembers your recent downloads and where you’ve saved them to, making resumes quick and easy.

Key features include

• Built on BitTorrent 4.2
• Remembers recent downloads and where you’ve saved them to, making resumes quick and easy
• Auto-stop torrents when they’ve seeded a set amount
• Set an upload rate for torrents that start seeding
• Universal Binary
• User interface for starting a torrent tracker on your Mac
• Most BitTorrent options are fully customizable
• Supports AppleScript

Deluge (Windows, Linux, Mac)

Deluge is another BitTorrent client that no only works with Linux but all the other major operating systems as well.

Deluge has a wide-array of features, including:

• Web UI
• BitTorrent Protocol Encryption
• Mainline DHT
• Local Peer Discovery (aka LSD)
• FAST protocol extension
• µTorrent Peer Exchange
• UPnP and NAT-PMP
• Proxy support
• Web seed
• Private Torrents
• Global and per-torrent speed limits
• Configurable bandwidth schedular
• Password protection
• RSS
• And much more!

BitRocket (Mac)

BitRocket is a Native BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. At the heart of it’s core resides the powerful libtorrent BitTorrent library. BitRocket is aimed to be a good alternative to other Mac OS X BitTorrent clients.

xTorrent (Mac)

Xtorrent is all about search. Type keywords in and the results show up right in Xtorrent. One click later and you’re downloading your content. It’s ridiculously easy.

Xtorrent does a lot more… iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV support. Time and user-activity sensitive bandwidth limits. Custom download folders. Search suggestions. Watch-folder auto-download. Automatic port configuration (UPNP & Airport NAT-PMP). Seeding ratio controls. Innovative fragment status view. Growl support. The list goes on. You can  download Xtorrent and check out more features yourself.

BitTornado (Windows)

BitTornado is a BitTorrent client. Based on the original BitTorrent client, the interface is largely the same, with added features such as

• upload/download speed limitation;
• prioritised downloading when downloading batches (several files);
• detailed information about connections to other peers;
• UPnP Port Forwarding (Universal Plug and Play);
• IPv6 support (OS support required);
• PE/MSE support as of version 0.3.18.

Super seeding mode and web seeding were originally developed by the BitTornado group.

BitComet (Windows)

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features that can accelerate your downloading up to 5 – 10 times faster, or even more.

G3 Bittorrent Client (Windows, Mac)

To create the most visually appealing as well as feature rich bittorrent based application. G3 Bittorrent Client aims to provide a gross amount of statistical and network data in a visually empowered format.

Key features include

• Queuing and downloading of multiple torrents. (Starting, stopping, pausing, queue up, queue down etc)
• Real-time list of peer addresses and their statistics. Reverse DNS toggle-able.
• Advanced Progress bar graphically illustrates which pieces of the file have been downloaded.
• A graph to display upload and download rates over time. Each torrent being downloaded has it’s own graph record.
• Optional Web Interface for remote administration.
• Friends Priority System. Friends IP address can be set to get upload preference if they are downloading the same file.
• Temporary upload priority can be given to peers by right clicking them in the list.
• Peers can be banned by right clicking them in the list.

Yet ABC (Windows, Linux)

ABC is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution. Like other Bittorrents if allows multiple downloads in a single window. It has the ability to customize the information ABC displays. It supports pause, stop, resume, queue and remove operations.

Key features include

• Multiple downloads in a single window
• Queueing system with priority
• Ability to customize the information ABC displays
• Supporing pause, stop, resume, queue, remove operations
• Minimize to taskbar (and/or system tray)
• Displaying torrent details and advanced details
• Supporting global setting such as upload and download limiting
• Supporting local setting for each torrent as well
• Supporting advanced settings from BitTornado
• Supporting BitTornado’s super-seed mode
• Choosable upload options when download is done

BitLord (Windows)

BitLord is a p2p file-sharing program which is fully compatible with Bittorrent. BitLord supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, and IP-filter. Version 1.0 added integrated web browser.

Key features include

• No Spyware in the program.
• Built in Torrent search, find anything without having to visit bad websites.
• Ability to chat with other downloaders (disabled by default)
• Multiple simultaneous downloads & ability to add priority for a torrent.
• Ability to limit the upload speed as well as download speed.
• Completely new core written in C++, stable and fast, very low CPU usage.
• Intelligent Connection, Auto Optimization for different connections.
• Smart Rate Control, optimize the upload distribution to get the max download rate.
• Disk Allocating, no long-time disk allocation, decrease disk fragment to almost zero.
• Intelligent Hash Scan, no time-consuming scanning when seeding / resume.

BitSpirit (Windows)

BitSpirit is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client which provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalized features.It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, UPNP port-mapping and NAT traversal.

Key features include

• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Disk cache mechanism
• Fast job resume
• File selecting support
• UPnP port-mapping
• Instant Messaging support
• Gzip Data compression
• Speed control
• Scheduled downloading
• Torrent Market
• HTTP/SOCKS4/5 proxy support
• Very low CPU & Mem usage
• Integrated with IE

BitTyrant (Windows, Mac, Linux)

BitTyrant is a new, modified version of the popular Azureus BitTorrent client that is optimized for faster download performance by up to 70% over regular versions.

It’s

• Fast – During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.
• Fair – BitTorrent was designed with incentives in mind: if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced. BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair and only allocating excess capacity to other users.
• Familiar – BitTyrant is based on modifications to Azureus 2.5 , currently the most popular BitTorrent client . All of our changes are under the hood. You’ll find the GUI identical to Azureus, with optional additions to display statistics relevant to BitTyrant’s operation.

iSwipe (Mac)

iSwipe includes compatability with more networks and protocols than ever before, including FastTrack , eDonkey, OpenNap, Gnutella, Hotline, FTP, Web, BitTorrent and now Ares.

Key features include

• Compatible with multiple networks like BT, Ares and Fasttrack.
• Specify different types of files
• Includes a download manager, featuring retries and resumable downloads
• Supports “swarming” downloads from several users and across multiple networks at the same time.
• Features AutoSearch, which keeps trying those elusive and hard to get files
• Allows automatic adding of all tracks from an album of music
• No spyware, trojan horses, viruses, adware or any hidden or bundled software

I believe I’ve pretty much covered all the useful bittorrent clients here. If I’m missing any, do let me know and I’ll add them up in the list.

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