µTorrent Alternatives

µTorrent is described as 'Desktop client for large-scale torrent downloads, offering simultaneous downloads, bandwidth optimization, and scheduling. Supports RSS downloads' and is a leading Torrent Client in the file sharing category. There are more than 50 alternatives to µTorrent for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best µTorrent alternative is qBittorrent, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like µTorrent are Transmission, Deluge, Tixati and Free Download Manager.

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µTorrent alternatives are mainly Torrent Clients, but if you're looking for Download Managers or Torrent Search Engines you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Android, Mac, Windows, Online, Free and Linux. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to µTorrent.
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  1. cove icon
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    cove is a self-hosted torrent browser that bundles a BitTorrent client, DHT indexer, and a web UI on your device. It provides additional functionality like automatic transcoding of resources for browsers and Chromecast. cove requires no external servers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. A minimal BitTorrent client. It wont have all the pretty features that other torrent apps have, but focuses on low memory and cpu usage. Because it was written in C++, you dont get the high memory requirements of Java or high CPU usage of Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3.  1 like

    Rapid bay is a self hosted video service/torrent client that makes playing videos from torrents dead simple.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Torrent2exe icon
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    Torrent2exe is a small BitTorrent client. Its basic idea is to let users download a custom-built EXE program with the torrent file integrated into it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  5. A BitTorrent client implementation in Go that supports downloading files using the BitTorrent protocol. This project implements the core functionality of a BitTorrent client, including torrent file parsing, peer discovery, and file downloading.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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