picotorrent
A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client. (by picotorrent)
BiglyBT
Feature-filled Bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project (by BiglySoftware)
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| picotorrent | BiglyBT | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 74 | |
| 2,571 | 1,466 | |
| 1.2% | 3.0% | |
| 4.4 | 9.5 | |
| 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | Java | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
picotorrent
Posts with mentions or reviews of picotorrent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Is every shop just behind a paywall now?
While the torrent client included in the owntinfoil zip is open source, the two .exe's included are not, and he's actually violating the open source license for https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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Anyone have any experience with writing their own torrent client?
You can look the code of PicoTorrent, is a clean and small client (based on libtorrent too) : https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out
Love Transmission but went to picotorrent a few years ago, even smaller footprint https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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GGn removing μTorrent from the client whitelist in 6 months
I wish some of the other BT clients took off besides the big 3 (Qbt, Deluge, Transmission and I guess rtorrent+rutorrent as well). There are some other simple BT clients out there that mimic early uTorrent GUI, one of the most notable was Hadouken, which was headless. It had a web UI that's reminiscent of uTorrent 2.0.4. https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken Sadly the project seems dead, as the last official release was in 2015. There's another minimal torrent client named Picotorrent available for Windows https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent, but I am not sure how well this works on heavy libraries, and I doubt many private trackers allow it because it's so niche. Another client I used to use back in the day was Halite, but that also died in 2015.
- BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
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BitTorrent v2 (2020)
Not really true - v0.20 of PicoTorrent [1] was released the same day as libtorrent released support for v2 torrents. I think this predates BiglyBT 2.5 with v2 [2] support with about two weeks.
[1] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...
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Is there any other torrent client apart from BiglyBT, that supports I2P network, on clearnet?
Picotorrent which I have never personally used but which I have heard good things about: https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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/r/seedboxes state of the subreddit and moving forwards.
A new windows client built on C++, picotorrent
BiglyBT
Posts with mentions or reviews of BiglyBT.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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BiglyBT not removing 'do not download' or 'delete', even though the option is set.
Stick to https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/issues/3118
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Apparently can't connect to peers with BiglyBT
See https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/Downloading for various possibilities
- Tag Sorting?
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Changing Java Versions on Windows causes no GUI
I have been looking at https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/Java-Versions but I just can't figure it out, what am I doing wrong?
- i request " autotag " when i download the torrent file then the program create tag for me
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No underlying browser available, Kubuntu 22.04
Various windows in BiglyBT show me an error saying that there is "no underlying browser available". It is the same issue shown in this Github issue and also this one, but the suggestion solutions there (which are three years old) don't work for me. I am on Kubuntu 22.04 and it seems that maybe "libwebkitgtk-3.0-0" is no longer available from Ubuntu repos?
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Extremely poor upload speed
You probably know this but you can't force upload to peers - https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/Seeding
- Vuze ! Is the new one safe to use?
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Client with Granular Scheduler?
Or use a pro client, BiglyBT which has among a tons of other features an advanced scheduling engine https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/Speed-Limit-Scheduler
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AZCatDest stopped working
Check out https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/Tags
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picotorrent and BiglyBT you can also consider the following projects:
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client
libtorrent - an efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation
exatorrent - Easy to Use Torrent Client. Can be hosted in Cloud. Files can be streamed in Browser/Media Player.
Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository
Electorrent - A remote control client for µTorrent, qBittorrent, rTorrent, Transmission, Synology & Deluge
magnet-uri - Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values
element-rpm - Providing the Element messaging desktop client packaged for the Fedora, Red Hat(IBM), and OpenSUSE families of linux desktop operating systems.
btfs - A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.
idm-trial-reset - Use IDM forever without cracking
libretorrent - Free and Open Source, full-featured torrent client for Android. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent