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Mar 23, 2020 Without a doubt, qBittorrent is our favorite torrent client on Windows 10. As a free and open-source client, we’ve found it to be reliable, fast, and complete without any sort of advertisements, malware, or any other unwanted software included during installation. Top 5 Torrent sites for software downloading in 2019 There’s been a lot of controversy over downloading cracked softwares, illegal ones from torrent sites. For years Torrent has served people with its abundant resources including movies, games, software.

Public Key for PGP Signing

Starting from v3.3.4 all source tarballs and binaries are signed.

Ubuntu packages. QBittorrent is now available in official Ubuntu repositories since v9.04 'Jaunty'. More up-to-date packages are published on our stable and unstable PPAs. The stable PPA supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (only the libtorrent-rasterbar package), 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. The unstable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. Jun 15, 2020 BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project, now Vuze. Features: Swarm merging across torrents that share the common files. BiglyBT detects similar files in multiple torrents automatically, and merges swarms to download files faster and, if possible, fix incomplete torrents. BitTorrent Classic is the best torrent software for the desktop if you’re looking for advanced configuration and the ability to download torrent files in bulk. What can I do with BitTorrent? In order to send or receive files over the BitTorrent protocol, you need a web or desktop-based torrent client, such as BitTorrent Classic.

The key currently used is: 4096R/5B7CC9A2
Fingerprint: D8F3DA77AAC6741053599C136E4A2D025B7CC9A2
You can also download it from here

Previously the following key was used to sign the v3.3.4 source tarballs and v3.3.4 Windows installer only: 4096R/520EC6F6
Fingerprint: F4A5FD201B117B1C2AB590E2A1ACCAE4520EC6F6


Windows 7 / 8 / 10

Current stable version: qBittorrent v4.3.0.1

Download link: 32-bit & 64-bit installers / PGP signature (FossHub)
Mirror link: 32-bit installer / PGP signature (SourceForge)
Mirror link: 64-bit installer / PGP signature (SourceForge)


ChecksumSHA2-256
32-bit installerae0c531cc8f868a7c11abd5e25c19a4f3e7562255ae0bbf79d72d6029e8bf3db
64-bit installerbb28f60f33d0ed0acb4c7f665077f8531e40649d2d0cf3c3d1043627cf99c480
LibraryVersion
libtorrent-rasterbar1.2.10+gitc2f001a63b
Qt 5.15.1
Boost1.74.0

High Sierra / Mojave / Catalina

Current stable version: qBittorrent v4.3.0
May work on older macOS versions. If not, recompile with older Qt version.

Download link: DMG / PGP signature (FossHub)
Mirror link: DMG / PGP signature (SourceForge)


ChecksumSHA2-256
DMG61f70ff9cff748a3f6c02a88d4680fcaceff5d5d1d4e0e2e89380c7f60d8f227
LibraryVersion
libtorrent-rasterbar1.2.10+git3d48e7d056
Qt5.15.1
Boost1.73.0

Source Tarball

Current version: qBittorrent v4.3.0.1

Open Source Torrent Client

Download link: TAR.GZ / PGP signature (SourceForge)
Download link: TAR.XZ / PGP signature (SourceForge)

Compile instructions over here.

ChecksumSHA2-256
TAR.GZfd9a2fbaa1491149a95cd79366e6728fb3fabafb768e51d1748730f2023cafe4
TAR.XZ30a4bf23e92accf93bb840c96518358a4da836427713f0cc13db4a3f9a612220
DependencyRecommended version
libtorrent-rasterbar1.2 branch latest release
QtLatest stable release
BoostLatest stable release
OpenSSL1.1 branch latest release
zlibLatest stable release
Python (optional, runtime only)Versions later than 3.3.0

Other Binary Packages

Select operating system:

Ubuntu packages

qBittorrent is now available in official Ubuntu repositories since v9.04 'Jaunty'.

More up-to-date packages are published on our stable and unstable PPAs.
The stable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (only the libtorrent-rasterbar package), 18.04 LTS, 18.10, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.
The unstable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 19.04, 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.

Quick instructions

To use these PPAs please use the following command and make sure your version is supported:

# qBittorrent Stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
# or qBittorrent Unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-unstable

Then install qBittorrent by doing this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

Debian packages

qBittorrent and libtorrent-rasterbar are now officially included in Debian. Packages are maintained by Cristian Greco. See this page for more information.

Mandriva Linux packages

qBittorrent is currently officially included in Mandriva Cooker. You can find more information here.

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Mageia packages

Programs

qBittorrent is currently packaged in the Mageia official repositories. It is packaged by Ahmad Samir. To install it, make sure the online repositories are configured correctly then install it either:

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  • As root from terminal: 'urpmi qbittorrent' OR
  • Using rpmdrake (aka 'Install & remove software')

Gentoo ebuilds

qBittorrent is officially available in portage. You can install it easily on your system using emerge command. These ebuilds are maintained by Mikle Kolyada. See this page for more information.

OpenSuse packages

qBittorrent has been in the OpenSuse official repository since v11.3.
One-click install here.

Fedora packages

Source

qBittorrent is officially packaged on Fedora. RPM packages are maintained by Leigh Scott.

See this page for more information.

Slackware scripts

qBittorrent is available for Slackware through slackbuilds.org. The slackbuild script is maintained by David Woodfall. See this page for more information.

Eric Hameleers is also maintaining binary packages for slackware. Those are available there.

ArchLinux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on ArchLinux. To install, simply type the following commands: Package information here.
For development, you can get PKGBUILD from Arch User Repository (AUR) and build it yourself:
AUR (non-official) information here.

Alt Linux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on Alt Linux. These packages are maintained by Alexey Morsov. Packages are available here. To install, simply type the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

AgiliaLinux packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged on AgiliaLinux. Packages are available here. To install, simply type the following command:

blackPanther OS packages

qBittorrent is officially shipped on blackPanther OS CD as the default Bittorrent client. RPM packages are available here.

These packages are maintained by Charles Barcza.

FreeBSD packages

qBittorrent is officially packaged for FreeBSD.
More information about the port can he found here.
To install qBittorrent, you should issue the following commands:

export PACKAGESITE='ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.0-release/Latest/'
pkg_add -r qbittorrent

Haiku port

qBittorrent is available in HaikuDepot.

You can download it from here.

Pardus packages

Open Source Torrent Software qBittorrent is officially available on Pardus via the contrib repository. These packages are maintained by H. İbrahim Güngör. Packages are available here.
To install, simply type the following command:
#Ensure the contrib repo is present on your system:
sudo pisi ar contrib http://packages.pardus.org.tr/contrib-2009/pisi-index.xml.bz2
#Enable the contrib repo if present but disabled:
sudo pisi er contrib
#Install qBittorrent:
sudo pisi it qbittorrent

qBittorrent is available on eComStation (OS/2) via this download page.

This package is maintained by Silvan Scherrer.


Old Release Archive


About qBittorrent

The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent.

Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows).

qBittorrent is based on the Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar library.

Help qBittorrent

qBittorrent is developed by volunteers in their spare time.

If you like this piece of software, please make a donation and help it survive.

Donation info here.

If you want to help in translating qBittorrent, see these instructions.

qBittorrent Features

  • Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
  • No Ads
  • Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
    • Simultaneous search in many Torrent search sites
    • Category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Software)
  • RSS feed support with advanced download filters (incl. regex)
  • Many Bittorrent extensions supported:
    • Magnet links
    • Distributed hash table (DHT), peer exchange protocol (PEX), local peer discovery (LSD)
    • Private torrents
    • Encrypted connections
    • and many more...
  • Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX
    • Nearly identical to the regular GUI
  • Sequential downloading (Download in order)
  • Advanced control over torrents, trackers and peers
    • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
    • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • Torrent creation tool
  • IP Filtering (eMule & PeerGuardian format compatible)
  • IPv6 compliant
  • UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
  • Available on all platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2
  • Available in ~70 languages

Go ahead and try qBittorrent, you won't regret it!