Deluge

After all the "traditional" clients like BitTorrent, µTorrent, and Vuze/Azureus have become so bloated and pretty much unusable, with horribly bad UX, over the past couple of years, it was finally time to get rid of my laziness and find a replacement. I have tried a few options, and quickly settled on Deluge and qBittorrent. There really isn't a bad word I can say about either.

Deluge is a very light-weight client with a well thought-out client and server separation. Which, however, you don't have to worry about if you're a regular user on a regular desktop computer. Just install and run, the daemon will be started in the background and the user interface will show up. Unless you switch to "thin client mode" and configure the server separately, it handles like any other, monolithic BitTorrent client.

And this principle works all throughout Deluge. Everything is really simple, easily understandable, in a clean and tidy user interface. If you need more powerful features, they're just a hop to the settings screen away. What's also nice is that many useful features which, however, not everybody will want to use, such as notifications or torrent labels/categories, are implemented as plug-ins that can be switched on and off at will.

I had Deluge set up on my Windows machine in no time, configured it to my liking within two minutes, and everything works as it's supposed to. It gives me a generally good impression, it seems like the people working on it know what they're doing, write quality code, and care about user needs. From the documentation and forums, they and the community also seem like a generally friendly bunch, and not an elitist club, which is always something that puts me off of some other open-source projects.

Important detail: Deluge is also a widely accepted client on private trackers, I haven't found any site that would disallow its use.

Deluge has quickly become my main BitTorrent client, and I can recommend it to anyone. Why Deluge over qBittorrent? Coincidence, really. I traditionally split my torrenting between two clients for different use cases. Deluge got assigned the task of main work horse, and I haven't regretted the decision. But you really can't go wrong with either of those two clients.

One of the oldest clients and completely free, no annoying ads or anything. Works fast, easy to set up.

Deluge is great but missing some important pros to make it a good contender in 2019. I suggest someone fork this great Python project because the developer(s) have let it fall behind in important updates.

CONS
-Using the search function for torrents in your library list hardly works
-Cannot open to .torrent file or export them
-Few if any bulk management operations (besides move, remove)
-Can choke randomly under extreme conditions (not that big of a deal, just reduce the workload)

The best alternative for features is BiglyBT (Vuze, Azureus) although it is connection banned by many trackers and peers due to some bad apples modding the program to the detriment of seeders. The best alternative for compatibility and simplicity is qBittorrent, although it is also missing some great features in BiglyBT (Vuze, Azureus) and I have to keep both installed to fulfill my needs.

[Edited by willupowers, September 16]

it is 1 million times more customizeable than others; it has its limits and is sometimes a bit bogged-down, but for what you can do w/ it, it's the best.

I dont like deluge in windows. Yet in raspberry 3 (linux based) is this best. The most important thing is, stable ! So my rewiew goes for linux based systems.

Malwarebytes blocks it because of Trojan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Malwarebytes/comments/bbzk7j/malwarebytes_is_blocking_deluge_due_to_trojan/

I'm by no means an expert in torrenting stuff, but I do torrent a few things every so often. Deluge has a nice GUI on Linux (I haven't tried it on Windows). The information it displays is clear and easy to understand. I think the only issue that I have is that I wish it would tell me, when I am moving the location of some files downloaded through a torrent, that it is currently in progress. Is there one? I certainly didn't see a progress bar or anything indicating that the operation was running.