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Transmission

Open Source by Transmission Project | Link to website

Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more. More info »

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µTorrent

Free* by BitTorrent Inc |
Mac, Windows, Android, Linux

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µTorrent (a.k.a uTorrent or MicroTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that includes standard features such as bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT....

File Sharing portable, wine It runs on Linux using Wine, peer-to-peer, bittorrent, bittorrent-client
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Deluge

Open Source by Deluge Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux, Online

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Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Unix and Windows. It is written in python, uses libtorrent (rasterbar) at its core and GTK for the main user interface along with web and console...

File Sharing portable, bittorrent-client, libtorrent
+1 more torrent-create
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Miro

Open Source by Participatory Culture Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is a free and open source internet TV application, media library, and video player. Through Miro, you can subscribe to any RSS feed, podcast, or video blog and explore...

Audio & Music, File Sharing, Video & Movies youtube-downloader, youtube, app-store
+14 more video-downloader, video-player, music-library, podcast, bittorrent, bittorrent-client, media-library, podcast-catcher, fullscreen, internet-tv, android-market, android-sync, libtorrent, amazon-mp3
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Vuze

Free* by Vuze Development Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a free BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. In addition to bittorrenting, Vuze allows users to...

File Sharing, Video & Movies video-conversion, video-player, bittorrent
+3 more bittorrent-client, search-torrent, dvd-burning
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qBittorrent

Open Source by Christophe Dumez |
Mac, Windows, Linux, Online

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qBittorrent is the closest open source equivalent to µTorrent. qBittorrent is based on Qt4 toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar. It offers an Ajax-webinterface, integrated search, supports DHT, Peer Exchange,...

File Sharing file-sharing, peer-to-peer, integrated-search
+5 more bittorrent, bittorrent-client, torrent-download, search-torrent, libtorrent
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KTorrent

Open Source |
Linux

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KTorrent is a bittorrent application for KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol. It enables you to run multiple torrents at the same time and comes with extended features to make...

File Sharing kde, bittorrent-client
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Tixati

Free* by Tixati Software inc. |
Windows, Linux

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Tixati is a peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol. This protocol allows many peers to form a cooperative swarm and download very large files with great efficiency. ...

File Sharing peer-to-peer, bittorrent-client, media-streaming
+1 more decentralized
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BitTorrent

Free* by BitTorrent, Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux

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BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol....

File Sharing, Network & Admin file-sharing, peer-to-peer, remote-access
+4 more built-in-player, bittorrent-client, built-in-media-converter, built-in-antivirus
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rTorrent

Open Source by Jari Sundell |
Mac, Linux

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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...

File Sharing bittorrent-client, libtorrent
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Shareaza

Open Source by Shareaza Development Team |
Windows, Linux

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Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and...

File Sharing wine, file-sharing, peer-to-peer, bittorrent
+5 more built-in-player, extendable, integrated-chat, edonkey, gnutella
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Tribler

Open Source by The Tribler Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Tribler is an application that enables its users to find, enjoy and share content. With content we mean video, audio, pictures, and much more. Tribler has three goals in helping you, the user: find, consume...

File Sharing file-sharing, peer-to-peer, integrated-search
+3 more bittorrent-client, torrent-download, torrents
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Retroshare

Open Source by DrBob |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to...

File Sharing, Social file-sharing, chat, file-transfer, peer-to-peer
+7 more messenger, decentralized, anonymous-file-sharing, secure-chat, private-file-sharing, serverless, encrypted-communication
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Oneswarm

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Supports both bittorrent protocol and a friend-to-friend version of the same protocol which in most situations makes you anonymous.

File Sharing peer-to-peer, bittorrent, anonymous, filesharing
+3 more anonymity, darknet, f2f
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Anomos

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Anomos is a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added...

File Sharing file-sharing, peer-to-peer, bittorrent, anonymity
+2 more anonymous-file-sharing, anonymous-p2p
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Calypso

Open Source |
Windows, Linux

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Calypso, formerly Kommute, is a cross platfrom file sharing client using the anonymous network MUTE. Developped using C++ and Qt. For windows and linux, portable to other environments. You can try it by...

File Sharing portable, file-sharing, multi-language, peer-to-peer
+4 more integrated-search, tabbed-interface, resume-downloads, anonymous-file-sharing
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Flush

Open Source by konishchev |
Linux

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GTK-based BitTorrent client.

File Sharing bittorrent, torrent-client
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Downpour

Free by Jeremy Jongsma |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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Downpour is a web-based BitTorrent client. It supports auto-downloading from RSS feeds and automatic importing and renaming of downloads into a media library, making it ideal for use on a home media server.

File Sharing web-based, bittorrent-client, torrent-download
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btpd

Open Source by Richard Nyberg |
Mac, Linux

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The BitTorrent Protocol Daemon Btpd is a utility for sharing files over the BitTorrent network protocol. It runs in daemon mode, thus needing no controlling terminal or gui. Instead, the daemon is...

File Sharing share-files, command-line, bittorrent-client, daemon
+2 more multitracker-support, ipv6-support
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BitTornado

Open Source by John Hoffman |
Windows, Linux

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BitTornado is a BitTorrent client by TheSHAD0W. It's based on original BitTorrent client by Bram Cohen. It is single torrent program, so you must open new window for every torrent. It does not have many ...

File Sharing bittorrent, bittorrent-client, torrents
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Cspace

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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CSpace provides a platform for secure, decentralized, user-to-user communication over the internet. The following applications are currently available with CSpace: - Messenger - File Transfer - Remote...

File Sharing, Social chat, peer-to-peer, messenger, filesharing
+2 more secure-connection, f2f

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