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PicoTorrent

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PicoTorrent is a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows with low memory usage, high performance and a native user interface. No ads, carefully selected features, and a native user interface integrating seamlessly with your desktop.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • SE flagSweden
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

The latest version (0.25) is from May 2021.

4.4 / 5 Avg rating (14)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Support for MAGNET links
  2.  Portable
  3.  Ad-free

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PicoTorrent information

  • Developed by

    SE flagViktor Elofsson
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (14 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    64 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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File Sharing

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  •  2,693 Stars
  •  190 Forks
  •  202 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 10, 2024 
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Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about PicoTorrent, and it has gotten 90 likes

PicoTorrent was added to AlternativeTo by diablow on Nov 13, 2015 and this page was last updated May 12, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
disfated
May 14, 2016
4

Despite it lacks many features we all used to, it's the most promising replacement for spoiled uTorrent and all the ugly/crapy/buggy/bloaty "alternatives" out there. Very lightweight, native looking, actively developed by right people.

Netkuszkusz
Mar 24, 2021

The "most promising replacement" is qBittorrent without lacking features. And of course without ads and crashes.

Cubium
Jul 29, 2022

^ This

retia
Jul 14, 2023

and crashes.

If you don't mind keep yourself in use cases of 'normal user', keep torrents number below thousands, shrink down trackerlist, limit your connections number, only bind to one network interface, keep temp IPv6 addresses from growing, only listening to few addresses, SOCKS5 proxy doesn't support IPv6, mem leaking libtorrent 2.0 rollbacked to 1.x, and other unknown reasons causing sluggish UI happened near version 4.4 etc etc...

though I won't deny its development is active and there's a good anti-leeching fork Enhanced Edition.

Sleeves Anon
Jun 14, 2023
0

No interruptions, no bloat. Haven't had any issues while using it exclusively for some weeks.

Guest
May 12, 2022
0

Simple and have a small resouces footprint.

Guest
Feb 1, 2021
0

Looks like Transmission, but without its bugs

mustafa Man
Aug 26, 2019
0

its just the software is amazing , portable , safe to use , lightweight and a good/simple looking software with a great community

ferfp
Nov 7, 2018
0

A good BT client:

  • Open source
  • Lightweight
  • Libtorrent based
  • Selective download
  • DHT
  • Multi-language
  • Tiny (8/mbs portable)
  • Info panel
  • 32/64 bits ...

[Edited by ferfp, November 10]

Papou008
Oct 10, 2017
0

Why PicoTorrent is great ?

  • Simple and functional
  • Open source
  • Portable
  • Quite lightweight
  • x64 compatible

Nice Windows software !

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What is PicoTorrent?

PicoTorrent is a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows with low memory usage, high performance and a native user interface. No ads, carefully selected features, and a native user interface integrating seamlessly with your desktop.

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