rtorrent VS aria2

Compare rtorrent vs aria2 and see what are their differences.

aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. (by aria2)
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rtorrent aria2
43 114
3,997 33,443
- 1.4%
0.0 7.7
about 1 month ago 14 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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rtorrent

Posts with mentions or reviews of rtorrent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-08.

aria2

Posts with mentions or reviews of aria2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rtorrent and aria2 you can also consider the following projects:

qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

ruTorrent - Yet another web front-end for rTorrent

axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator

Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition - [Unofficial] qBittorrent Enhanced, based on qBittorrent

reverse-proxy-confs - These confs are pulled into our SWAG image: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag

deluge-to-rtorrent - Scripts to send deluge to rtorrent

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

transgui - 🧲 A feature rich cross platform Transmission BitTorrent client. Faster and has more functionality than the built-in web GUI.