bittorrent-codex-docs/10 Notes/Comparison of BitTorrent clients.md
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#bittorrent

Recall that we focus on the following three:

Below a short summary.

Feature set

  • qBittorrent appears to be the most comprehensive. Has good support of BitTorrent version 2 features, supports magnet links (v1, v2, and hybrid) has good export capabilities, and provides access to an impressive set of options (both specific to qBittorrent and to libtorrent-rasterbar). It has the highest user base, looks reasonably good on Ubuntu.
  • Transmission has best support on macos and looks really good there. Also provides versions based on QT and GTK. User-base similar to that of qBittorrent. Exposes limited number of settings, besides the most important protocol extensions. On the other hand, less options makes it less overwhelming for a regular user.
  • Deluge - Python-based client which the lowest user base (300k, comparing to around 6M for the other two clients). Feature-wise can be placed somewhere between qBittorrent and Transmission. Because it is Phyton, it may feel easier to work with it cross-platform. Yet, feels more buggy than the other two.

Both Deluge and qBittorrent depend on libtorrent-rasterbar, while Transmission is using its own BitTorrent protocol implementation.