What Torrenting program do you use?

Hi, ive been pirating stuff for a bit and I currently use Picotorrent, but I wanted to know what everyone else uses to see if there is a better option.

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qBittorrent for me.
Since I discovered qbittorent, it has been the only thing I use for torrents
qBittorrent for over a decade now.
- The best client ever
  
  Yep. The day µTorrent did their adware/crypto/whatever the fuck it was shit happened more than once, I immediately grabbed qBittorrent and never wanted to look back. Only once did I have a problem with it and that was an issue between it and Sonarr which I resolved by just downgrading qBittorrent for awhile lol
- Same, qbittorrent on windows, rtorrent on seedbox.
- Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.
Qbittorrent. Before that, uTorrent. Prefer QBT interface. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.
- i2p is not a torrent client - but have no fear, you’re not missing much. i2p torrenting is slowwww (think gigs per day) and generally doesn’t have much.
I've been using Qbittorrent for as long as I can remember. It's been very reliable and I don't see a reason to change.
Deluged on my 24/7 running box and the gtk client to connect to it from my main PC.
qBittorrent through the webui mostly. I have it installed on my NAS along with Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, etc.
deluge on linux
libretorrent on android
qbittorrent. Tried i2p, but too tech-ignorant to make it work.
qBittorret I've been using that for what feels like 10 years.
If PicoTorrent meets your needs then you're fine, it's a great torrent client.
I tend to use qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent.
Below is the list of desktop/server torrent clients people have mentioned over on the old subreddit.
BiglyBT
BitTorrent Classic / uTorrent Classic (current versions are essentially the same client nowadays)
or uTorrent 2.2.1 (try here)
BitTorrent Web / uTorrent Web
Deluge
Exatorrent
FrostWire
JSTorrent
KTorrent
PicoTorrent
Porla
qBittorrent
rTorrent
Tixati
Transmission
Tribler
Vuze
WebTorrent Desktop
I'll just add that it's best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)
qBitorrent with Vuetorrent webui
I use transmission. M1 compatible, open source and free
I've been using Transmission on a headless Debian box running the web UI. Has worked well for me for over a decade.
qbittorrent with docker container.
qbittorrent because I love the search engine
- I guess the search engine works well? Does it find safe torrents (out there such a thing as safe torrents?)?
  
  You need to add your own "plugins" (sources) which sites you wanna search, and you'll still get result info to choose which torrent you want to download. You need to have python installed (don't worry, it's available on windows and mac as well) and you can find a list of plugins and more instructions here
Deluge in a docker container. I run a media server and use the arr apps to control things and deluge for the torrent app. I have it all behind a VPN. If the VPN goes down the entire network fails and is unable to connect any other way…. I do not trust a Killswitch and never would.
- How did you make sure that the internet can only be reached through the VPN?
I was using Transmission on macOS but since I pay for Real Debrid to use it with Stremio, all my torrenting goes through there now.
Transmission with OpenVPN, using the haugene/transmission-openvpn Docker image.
I mostly torrent via API using Sonarr and Radarr.
Deluge
Qbittorrent-nox. However I'm not completely sure if nox has support for a torrent creator tool like Qbittorrent does.
qbittorrent on windows and Flud on my phone.
qBittorrent on Desktop, Transmission on server.
Transmission since you can select files inside a torrent and prioritize them, or choose to not download some files.
- Are there any torrent clients that don't have that? qbittorrent has it, and even the ancient utorrent had it.
qBittorrent + Dracula Theme
- This is what ive decided to go with, i really like it.
Deluge for my seedbox
- Thanks for mentioning this!
Tixati for PC, Transmission for Mac is how I’ve had it for a while. No complaints!
- Also been using Tixati for years now. Does the job.
- Same here. Tixati is hard to beat in terms of functionality, plus it has this old-school feeling to it I find very nostalgic
Flud on mobile and qBittorrent on PC
- Flud is great! One of my most missed apps since moving to iOS.
- Flud isn't opensource like some of other options out there. Also they push ads
https://picotorrent.org/
qBittorrent but sometimes will use Seedr.cc
qBittorrent, for its search engine. It's fantastic. If it didn't have it though I'd use Transmission.
Déluge on my desktop, qbittorrent on my laptop and libretorrent on my android
aria2, a terminal client because I don’t want to clutter my screen area with apps that have limited U and little interaction with me.
- Sad i had to scroll this far to see this. Great client.
- I use aria for regular downloads, but couldn't get it to work with torrents. It's very picky what it downloads and what not. Maybe configuration thing, but gave up after few tries. I prefer dedicated solutions
  
  Ive never had any problems with it.
qbitorrent, sometimes transmission(like how simple is) and libretorrent for android, libretorrent is so good man.
Tribler.
Tribler is an open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching
- Love me some DHT! The dht has saved some of my trackerless quests on many occasions.
uTorrent 2.2.1
- why
  
  Old habit and it works 100 % of the time. Low on cpu and memory.

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