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Shareaza

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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 Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows  Supports from Windows 98 to Windows 10
Discontinued

last updated: Sep 18th 2017, 19:11 GMThttps://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/Shareaza.shtml

4.2 / 5 Avg rating (5)
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Features

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  1.  Support for Multiple protocols
  2.  Gnutella
  3.  Integrated Chat
  4.  Support for eD2K/eDonkey protocol
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Peer-To-Peer
  8.  Built-in player
  9.  BitTorrent support

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Shareaza information

  • Developed by

    US flagShareaza Development Team
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2
  • Alternatives

    64 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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File Sharing

GitHub repository

  •  120 Stars
  •  43 Forks
  •  9 Open Issues
  •   Updated Dec 29, 2022 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Shareaza, and it has gotten 35 likes

Shareaza was added to AlternativeTo by Kahlil88 on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 30, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Mickael
Oct 17, 2022
1

v2.7.10.6 here https://github.com/ansani/Shareaza/releases/tag/v2.7.10.6

What's Changed Enable the resume button when selecting more downloads by @ansani in #130 Added dialog confirmation when a user asks to delete a not-yet-started download by @ansani in #135 Network window continuously clears and refreshes; unable to select and click on a neighbour by @ansani in #143 Fixes some deprecations in msbuild workflow by @ansani in #145 Replace the old and outdated crash handler bug trap with a modern one by @ansani in #149 Added - by default - the Shareaza folder in Downloads by @ansani in #151 Remove unused DLLs and Exes. by @ansani in #152 Full Changelog: v2.7.10.5...v2.7.10.6

Top Negative Comment
Korkman83
Jun 25, 2019
5

Two stars for the effort, but several aspects immediately scared me away from it.

  1. Panic. On first startup, immediately started working on my existing downloads directory, which may or may not contain sensitive information not meant to be shared publicly, while displaying a wizard. So I had to skip the wizard and search for how to stop it from sharing my downloads directory.

  2. Bloated. Protocol support is a good thing, but trying to play back and preview every kind of data is dangerous (security vulnerabilities in multimedia libraries are a common).

  3. HTTP download support does not include HTTPS, which is the default for most of the internet today.

  4. Custom skinned interface. Absolutely unnecessary and of course slow to move / resize, likely problematic on HiDPI displays.

  5. The original Shareaza domain was sold to an adware company. This is not the fault of current developers working on it, but the community should consider renaming the project to shake off that damaged brand. It is hard to recommend something that will point novice users to a website blocked for spyware reasons.

[Edited by Korkman83, June 25]

Mickael
Oct 9, 2024
andresgarcia0313
Jul 20, 2020
0

I like it because it replaces ares connecting to the gnutella networks completely, it is necessary to improve the list of emule networks so that it shows that it effectively does the search on all servers

Guest
Dec 13, 2018
0

It works with so many protocols. It's great for rare files. Lots of flexibility.

s0me0ne
Jul 15, 2010
0

This should be more popular than it is: it does torrents, regular downloads, emule, gnutella1 and gnutella2. This is the best P2P client there is

postcd
Jan 8, 2018

I ended up using Shareaza after emule, amule, ?donkey because it supports multiple protocols as s0me0ne mentioned. But it has bugs (stealing magnet association from other apps, rescaning library even i disabled it, non working media player) and development is very slow if any.

What is Shareaza?

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 Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2.

Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version". Just download and use. Simple.

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