A screenshot of qBittorrent v4.1.5 running on Lubuntu | |
| Original author(s) | Christophe Dumez[1] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Sledgehammer999, Chocobo1, glassez, pmzqla and others[2] |
| Initial release | May 16, 2006; 14 years ago[3] |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ (Qt),[5]Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows |
| Platform | ARM, x86, x64 |
| Available in | ≈70 languages[6] |
Default UI: English ≥ 99% translated: Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Galician, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian ≥ 50% translated: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian (Latvia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish ≥ 10% translated: Croatian, Esperanto, Arabic, Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Georgian, Hindi (India), Icelandic, Latgalian, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese | |
| Type | |
| License | GPLv2+[7] |
| Website | www.qbittorrent.org |
FrostWire is a free and open-source torrent Mac client with a simple and straightforward interface. At first it didn't feature a BitTorrent protocol support, but is now an app dedicated entirely to it. This client supports a wide range of links and files, which includes private torrent links, PEX, magnet links and more. Control over torrents, trackers and peers (Torrents queueing and prioritizing and Torrent content selection and prioritizing; DHT, PeX, encrypted connections, LSD, UPnP, NAT-PMP port forwarding support, µTP, magnet links, private torrents; IP filtering: file types eMule dat, or PeerGuardian.
qBittorrent is a cross-platformfree and open-sourceBitTorrent client.
qBittorrent is a native application written in C++. It uses Boost, Qt 5 toolkit, and libtorrent-rasterbar library (for the torrent back-end). Its optional search engine is written in Python.
History[edit]
qBittorrent was originally developed in March 2006 by Christophe Dumez,[1] from the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard) in France.
It is currently developed by contributors worldwide and is funded through donations,[8] led by Sledgehammer999 from Greece, who became project maintainer in June 2013.[9]
Along with the 4.0.0 release a new logo for the project was unveiled.[10][11]
Features[edit]
Some of the features present in qBittorrent include:
- Bandwidth scheduler
- Bind all traffic to a specific interface
- Control over torrents, trackers and peers (Torrents queueing and prioritizing and Torrent content selection and prioritizing
- DHT, PeX, encrypted connections, LSD, UPnP, NAT-PMP port forwarding support, µTP, magnet links, private torrents
- IP filtering: file types eMule dat, or PeerGuardian
- Supports IPv6, but as of December 2015 cannot use IPv4 and IPv6 at once[12]
- Integrated RSS feed reader (with advanced download filters) and downloader
- Integrated torrent search engine (Simultaneous search in many Torrent search sites and Category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Software))
- Remote control through Secure Web User Interface
- Sequential downloading (Download in order)
- Super-seeding option
- Torrent creation tool
- Torrent queuing, filtering, and prioritizing
- Unicode support, available in ≈70 languages[6]
Versions[edit]
qBittorrent is cross-platform, available on many operating systems, including: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2 (including ArcaOS and eComStation),[13]Windows.
As of July 2017, SourceForge statistics indicate that the most popular qBittorrent version of all supported platforms, 81% of downloads were for Windows computers.[14]
Torrent Magnet Machine
As of May 2020, FossHub statistics indicate qBittorrent as the second most downloaded software with over 75 million downloads.[15]
Torrent Magnet Mac
Packages for different Linux distributions are available, though most are provided through official channels via various distributions.[16]
Reception[edit]
In 2012, Ghacks suggested qBittorrent as a great alternative to μTorrent, for anybody put off by recent controversial ad and bundleware changes made to μTorrent.[17]
Torrent Magnet Mac
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Authors file'. qBittorrent.org.
- ^https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/graphs/contributors
- ^Oldest available changelog
- ^https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/releases/tag/release-4.3.4.
- ^'qBittorrent', Analysis Summary, Ohloh, retrieved 2012-08-23
- ^ ab'Localization of qBittorrent'. qBittorrent.org. Archived from the original on 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
- ^'Copying file', qBittorrent.org
- ^'Team members', qBittorrent.org
- ^'qBittorrent is under a new maintainer'. qBittorrent official forums.
- ^'Change qbittorrent logo. Issue #6467. by sledgehammer999 · Pull Request #6484 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent'. GitHub. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^'New Icon/Logo Proposal · Issue #6467 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent'. GitHub. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^'GitHub Pull Request to enable dual-stack for qBittorrent'. qBittorrent on GitHub.
- ^'Network / Networking / Internet applications'. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- ^'Download Statistics: All Files'. SourceForge.
- ^'FossHub Download Statistics: All Files'. FossHub.
- ^'News Releases', qBittorrent.org
- ^Brinkmann, Martin (21 February 2012). 'Looking For A uTorrent Alternative? Try qBittorrent'. Ghacks. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
External links[edit]
Blood Machines Torrent Magnet
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- Official website
- qBittorrent on GitHub
- qBittorrent on FossHub