Torrent client rankings

Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.

For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)

It's simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it's unfortunate some of the supported features aren't accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface

Transmission is awesome because it's simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the "normie" alternative.

I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient...

This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.

Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.

rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.

Transmission as a server is very good and lightweight, specially if you pair it with something like Flood and the *arr apps

I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.

This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.

It was rewritten and 2.0 came out in 2022 to address the slowdown issues when seeding a thousand plus torrents

qbittorrent all the way :)

I love the built in http server for remote control. It's literally a clone of the desktop window with all the same controls/options.

BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?

This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.

Transmission is probably one of the best clients to use in a headless setup. I think it usually ranks lower because it doesn't do a lot of things for you. What it does it does well, but nothing beyond that. Technically there is network binding, but by IP address and not interface. That means you have to script it which I know most people aren't going to want to do. As far as searching, again you have to rely on other services that probably do it better anyway. Still I rank it alongside qbittorrent. It just takes a less user or beginner friendly route.

Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.

Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job

I think quite a few of us use torrents on a remote server, so the thin app / remote client combo mode that deluge/transmission support puts them ahead of any other for consideration.

Transmission does have network binding. At least, i'm pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a "full" client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It's not a great cli interface but it works.

rankings from /g/

everyone who is seriously replying to this: LOL

I like Transmission, it's minimal and downloads torrents.

May I also mention aria2? I don't think it counts as a torrent client but it supports torrenting.

I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.

I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.

I'd like to give PicoTorrent a shout-out on Windows. Small, lightweight, and open source.

https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

Used qBittorrent for a long time now. No complaints. Ever since I've set up a home server, I almost exclusively use qBittorrent-nox now. Its qBittorrent, but headless! Runs all the time. Just use a web ui to access it. I can even run a reverse proxy and access it from afar!

A properly setup rTorrent is S tier.

I'll never understand the FOSS mentality of "There's already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I'll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one".

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

has anyone ever heard of mottix?

I find it great, has a nice UI and it gets the job done.

also transmission is an S tier

Does anybody know why Tixati is banned on private trackers? I switched from it quite a while ago but they didn't really say why.

I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can't zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up

Welp, the lesson I have learned from this thread is that I should feel fine with transmission in my container set lol

I use rtorrent+rutorrent for a web UI, and it’s starting to show its age…

Is there anything else out there that can handle 10,000+ torrents? I seed a lot of ebooks 🤓

ruTorrent makes rtorrent a lot more usable if you dont like the CLI.

Ranked by what?

I guess Porla isn't in any of those tiers because it's in completely different league. It's still in early development, just give it some time.

https://porla.org/

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Honestly surprised uTorrent still exists. Used to be nice way back when. qB is pretty much the successor in every way.

Transmission that low though is a crime.

Transmission can run as a daemon, that alones makes it S tier.

You forgot to include Tribler. Since it has some tor-like privacy features, it beats all of the mentioned ones.

I forget what I use. I set Radarr/Sonarr and now it just happens.

I love and use qbittorrent exclusively but it gets bogged down when it has lots of torrents going. A-tier at best.

Any of them also supports WebTorrent?

Not a great ranking imo, but the S tier is good

I am still using the last (ancient) version of Azureus (Vuze) because it has great plugins. I have the plugin to allow it to use the Mainline DHT, and I use the i2p plugin too (because the default i2p torrent UI is bad). Azureus is (was) the only client that can download/seed a torrent on clearnet and i2p at the same time.

Having said that, I didn't know that BiglyBT has i2p support, so I need to check that out.

Good list. Honestly, if it doesn't have network interface binding it's not a even an option for me. It's so important to keep your IP from leaking, it should be a priority feature.

I switched an old delapidated version of QBit a few years ago for Deluge, they're both cool I guess.

Why is Tixati banned?

I'm still liking DS Get. I choose torrent files on my phone then hand off the download to the NAS.

Is there a docker container for BiglyBT that handles java and has a webUI, similar to qBittorrent? And can it integrate with the *arrs in the same way?

I want to use qbittorrent, but my Mac won't let me install it - says it's too old for the operating system and/or that it can't be verified.

I've just installed bigly bt, and I have three questions: 1) is it possible to set the seeding ratio 2) do we really need to confirm the deletion of every torrent via the pop up? (I have RSI, and the less popups or clicking the better) and 3) why does searching for a torrent via the internal search engine result in a captula.?

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Oh, so I wasn't going crazy after all, when my antivirus started getting hostile at uTorrent.

On android I'm currently using Libretorrent, how does biglybt's android app compare to it ?

Does anyone have recommendations on configuration for qbit? I'm a casual user and I have been using out of the box for years now, but I've been wondering how it could be improved.

It's completely overkill for pretty much everyone but I have been thinking about building a kubernetes native client for months now.

Like the torrent should be treated as a normal resource with a Torrent CRD. It should be scheduled onto whichever node has available capacity and rescheduled onto a different node if it goes down. If allowed by the tracker, multiple instances could be run. You could set resource limits programmatically, easily configure block storage, build dashboards, export logs/metrics.. It would be open ended enough that you could have interfaces built as browser extensions, web ui, mobile app, tui, cli and be unopinionated so much that the method for torrent ingestions could be left up to the used. HTTP request, watch directory, rss client, download manager.. You could even do stuff like throw magnet links into a queue.. etc, etc..

I keep thinking it would be a great project but I just do not have the spare time to dedicate to it.. I imagine it could be used for large scale deployments for something like the Internet archive or whatever.

Finally real content

Deluge has so much potential but it just crashes so often on windows.

damn.. imagine not knowing about autodl-irssi...

I really like biglybt, but why is it so... slow to add torrents or shut itself down? It seems as if the app does so many different things simultaneously that it doesn't do them seamlessly or instantaneously. I mean, why does it need 'up to twenty seconds' to close after you've downloaded something? Is it bloat? Is there a way to streamline its running?

Can someone help me with qbittorrent? After a couple of days of running the docker container all my torrents get stalled until I restart the container.

I am interested in some of the features of BiglyBT, but don't love the .sh installer for Linux - they should have rpms and debs IMO. I'm a little concerned they don't end up in EPEL or whatever like qbittorrent is.

Flud gang

How come tixati is banned, lol. I use qBittorrent.

I have some custom scripts which kinda do what the *arr apps do.

I download torrent files into a folder. My script picks it up, identifies whether it is movie, TV, music, Games, ebooks, or something else. Based on this it selects the right folder. Then calls Transmission API and adds the torrent with the relevant path.

In case of movies and TV shows, it then calls the transmission APIs to rename the files properly. This way I can have my folders well organised and continue seeding without the need of creating duplicates.

This setup works quite well. The only fear I have is the transmission remote GUI for Windows hasn't been updated in 4 years. It works quite well, but it's only a matter of time before it stops working.

Should I consider another client?

I should upgrade to a vpn that doesn't throttle dls

I'm not in any private trackers so it doesn't really matter, but why is tixati banned? I use it because it's the only client that worked on the crusty old computer I use to run my torrents. Is it evil or something?

there is Trimbler

You are bullying my client of choice here, Transmission.. :P

I don't think qbittorrent could choose what files to download from inside a torrent, and which to ignore, or which to prioritize?

So, no one talks about Ktorrent? It just works perfectly for me. Kudos to the developers!

I’m still on utorrent2, can get it oldversion.com or something like that. It’s too well made, never found a reason to switch.

Meh. uTorrent version 2.1.8 works fine, and has no adware.

I've tried most of these clients, but I keep going back to the old uTorrent 2.2.1 (the newer versions are indisputably awful). I find that it still has the best UX to date. On nix machines I use qB.

Edit: Warning: newer versions of uTorrent are malware. I recommend people pick a different client, as uTorrent actively tries to trick people into downloading the newer versions.

I don't understand why everyone shits on uTorrent. Maybe new versions are bloated with miners and ads, but for example on Rutracker a custom version of uTorrent 3.2.3 is the most popular one and i've been using it for like 3 years without any problems. The only downside of it is that it has no dark mode, but that's it.

When i tried using qBitTorrent i couldn't set it up to use 100% of my traffic, it was very abrupt. So i just stick to uTorrent. Am i missing out on something?

What are you talking about? uTorrent does not have any adware. Besides it's the best one to use. Not the worst one