Open Source ChromeOS BitTorrent Clients

An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.

trackerslist is a repository that provides continuously updated lists of public BitTorrent trackers, designed to improve torrent download performance and peer discovery. The project is maintained by an automated system that regularly checks tracker availability, removes duplicates, and ranks them based on reliability and latency. It offers multiple formats of tracker lists, including HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, and IP-based versions, making it compatible with a wide range of BitTorrent clients. The lists can be integrated into torrent files or magnet links to enhance connectivity and download speeds. Additionally, the project includes specialized lists for alternative networks such as I2P and Yggdrasil, expanding its usability in privacy-focused environments. By maintaining clean, validated, and optimized tracker collections, trackerslist acts as a foundational resource for improving BitTorrent efficiency.

peerflix is a Node.js-based streaming torrent client that lets you stream video or audio files directly from a torrent (magnet link or .torrent file), without needing to wait for the entire download to finish. It spins up a small HTTP server that serves the torrent’s content as it’s downloaded; for example, if you point a media player (like VLC or MPV) to the provided URL, it will start playing almost immediately. Peerflix automatically selects the largest file in a multi-file torrent by default (or can list all files for manual selection), and supports passing arbitrary flags to the media player — letting you stream with subtitles, full-screen mode, or other player-specific options. Because it's built on the torrent peer network, it downloads pieces on demand as playback proceeds, which can be more efficient if you only want to watch a single file. Peerflix also exposes programmatic API usage using underlying low-level torrent-streaming logic.

TrackersListCollection is a daily-updated collection of BitTorrent tracker server lists, curated and filtered from across the internet to build a “best of” list and a full list for usage in torrent clients, automation, or performance tuning. The project scans public trackers, tests their responsiveness or status, categorises them (e.g., all trackers vs best trackers), and makes plain-text files available (like best.txt, all.txt) that can be included in download clients or scripts. Because trackers can go offline or degrade over time, the daily refresh schedule is crucial for maintaining a high-quality list. The repo also includes metadata and mirrors to handle international usage and multiple download sources. For people who use torrent infrastructure, ensure peers connect reliably, or want to automate external tracker lists for aria2 or other clients, this is a practical and well-maintained source.

Quazaa is a cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client inspired by Shareaza which will support Gnutella2, Ares, eDonkey2000 (eMule), HTTP, FTP, and BitTorrent. Using the Qt software development kit

iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes.

A torrent search engine plugin for the Azureus/Vuze bittorrent platform.

Plugin for Irssi which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

Rufus - A powerful, easy to use, efficient Python based BitTorrent client. http://rufus.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Plugin for ChatZilla which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

BtiTracker is a complete php tracker system for BitTorrent, easy to setup and configure. Full remote admin management.

phpMyBitTorrent: BitTorrent Tracker written in PHP. Features include: hosting torrents from remote trackers, DHT, Compact Announce, alternate links (eD2K, Magnet), HTTP-Basic Authentication, Passkey Authentication, embedded HTML Editor, Mass-upload of to

RivetTracker is a modified version of PHPBTTracker. Written in PHP, this BitTorrent tracker uses MySQL as the database backend. It provides an RSS feed, optional support for HTTP seeding, detailed connection statistics, easy installation, and much more.

Complete Bittorrent tracker system or frontend only for xbtt.

This project has been moved to https://launchpad.net/baretorrent. There will be no more new releases on sourceforge. The web page is at http://baretorrent.org. Old description: This is a portable BitTorrent client with basic features along with support for extensions. The most recent release (18-jan-2013) is 0.4 for Windows, Debian 6.0.6, Ubuntu 12.04 and OSX 10.6.8. Only one extension is available so far: a simple server that is compatible with how the uTorrent WebUI adds torrents. Therefore, Firefox extensions such as BitTorrent WebUI++ work fine for adding torrents. See http://baretorrent.org/ext.html.

XBNBT is a modifed BNBT BitTorrent tracker written in C++. XBNBT offers many additional features beyond the original BNBT tracker and has been designed with the Linux user in mind in an attempt to make it as easy as it is for Windows.

Azureus Speed Control plugin can automatically reduce the upload speed limit on the basis of the current download rate. This can avoid connection choking for users with small upload bandwidth, which suffer from implicit additional upload.

Helps you find popular, cheap (bandwidth-wise) and new torrents on various sites. See http://freshtorrents.sourceforge.net/ for more information. Please download from the repository if you can (see website). Tested for Linux only at the moment.

This is a console based peer to peer Bit Torrent file sharing project.

ADAPTorrent is a torrent-derivative protocol. It's purpose is to facilitate anonymous downloads. Anonymity is achieved by shielding each peer behind a screen of the peers friends. Please see the master thesis site for the full specification.

An PHP + MySQL script that attempts to recreate features similar to the likes of Mininova, SeedPeer, and TPB frontend. Features a new design, crawling ability, cURL for single torrent scrapes + mass scrapes, and much much more! Based on T-Xore 0.4, Ibitz

AbTrack is an addon for phpBB forums. This is a private BitTorrent tracker fully integrated with the forum system. Currently only fully functional with MySQL. (not including 5.0+)

Generates a bookmarklet which can remotely start torrents downloading to your home BitTorrent client, even from your iPhone.

Aria2Web is a PHP- and Javascript-based application that allows you to control the excellent and lightweight "aria2" over the web. That way you can use it as a download manager.

A plugin/remote system for Azureus that provides both a massively detailed remote control as well as multi-user support on one running Azureus instance.