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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Sweden
EU
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
The latest version (0.25) is from May 2021.
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PicoTorrent information
Developed by
Viktor Elofsson Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
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- 2,693 Stars
- 190 Forks
- 202 Open Issues
- Updated Jul 10, 2024
Comments and Reviews
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.
The "most promising replacement" is qBittorrent without lacking features. And of course without ads and crashes.
^ This
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.
No interruptions, no bloat. Haven't had any issues while using it exclusively for some weeks.
Simple and have a small resouces footprint.
Looks like Transmission, but without its bugs
its just the software is amazing , portable , safe to use , lightweight and a good/simple looking software with a great community
A good BT client:
[Edited by ferfp, November 10]
Why PicoTorrent is great ?
Nice Windows software !