Green Download
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 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
v5.0.0 changelog:
FEATURE: Support creating .torrent with larger piece size (Chocobo1)
FEATURE: Improve tracker entries handling (glassez)
FEATURE: Add separate filter item for tracker errors (glassez)
FEATURE: Allow to remove tracker from tracker filter widget menu (glassez)
FEATURE: Implement Reannounce In column (Hanabishi)
FEATURE: Expose DHT bootstrap nodes setting (Chocobo1)
FEATURE: Add support for Mark-of-the-Web (Chocobo1)
FEATURE: Allow to keep unwanted files in separate folder (glassez)
FEATURE: Add Copy Comment to the torrent list’s context menu (thalieht)
FEATURE: Allow relative profile paths (Victor Chernyakin)
FEATURE: Enable Ctrl+F hotkey for more inputs (thalieht)
FEATURE: Add seeding limits to RSS and Watched folders options UI (glassez)
FEATURE: Subcategories implicitly follow the parent category options (glassez)
FEATURE: Add option to name each qbittorrent instance (Chocobo1)
FEATURE: Add button for sending test email (Thomas Piccirello)
FEATURE: Allow torrents to override default share limit action (glassez)
FEATURE: Use Start/Stop instead of Resume/Pause (thalieht)
FEATURE: Add the Popularity metric (Aliaksei Urbanski)
FEATURE: Focus on Download button if torrent link retrieved from the clipboard (glassez)
FEATURE: Add ability to pause/resume entire BitTorrent session (glassez)
FEATURE: Add an option to set BitTorrent session shutdown timeout (glassez)
FEATURE: Apply “Excluded file names” to folder names as well (glassez)
FEATURE: Allow to use regular expression to filter torrent content (glassez)
FEATURE: Allow to move content files to Trash instead of deleting them (glassez)
FEATURE: Add ability to display torrent “privateness” in UI (ManiMatter)
FEATURE: Add a flag in Peers tab denoting a connection using NAT hole punching (stalkerok)
BUGFIX: Display error message when unrecoverable error occurred (glassez)
BUGFIX: Update size of selected files when selection is changed (glassez)
BUGFIX: Normalize tags by trimming leading/trailing whitespace (glassez)
BUGFIX: Correctly handle share limits in torrent options dialog (glassez)
BUGFIX: Adjust tracker tier when adding additional trackers (Chocobo1)
BUGFIX: Fix inconsistent naming between Done/Progress column (luzpaz)
BUGFIX: Sanitize peer client names (Hanabishi)
BUGFIX: Apply share limits immediately when torrent downloading is finished (glassez)
BUGFIX: Show download progress for folders with zero byte size as 100 instead of 0 (vikas_c)
BUGFIX: Fix highlighted piece color (Prince Gupta)
BUGFIX: Apply “merge trackers” logic regardless of way the torrent is added (glassez)
WEBUI: Improve WebUI responsiveness (Chocobo1)
WEBUI: Do not exit the app when WebUI has failed to start (Hanabishi)
WEBUI: Add Moving filter to side panel (xavier2k6)
WEBUI: Add dark theme (d47081)
WEBUI: Allow to remember torrent content files deletion (David)
WEBUI: Leave the fields empty when value is invalid (Chocobo1)
WEBUI: Use natural sorting (Chocobo1)
WEBUI: Improve WebUI login behavior (JayRet)
WEBUI: Conditionally show filters sidebar (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Add support for running concurrent searches (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Improve accuracy of trackers list (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Fix error when category doesn’t exist (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Improve table scrolling and selection on mobile (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Restore search tabs on load (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Restore previously used tab on load (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Increase default height of Share ratio limit dialog (thalieht)
WEBUI: Use enabled search plugins by default (Thomas Piccirello)
WEBUI: Add columns Incomplete Save Path, Info Hash v1, Info Hash v2 (thalieht)
WEBUI: Always create generic filter items (skomerko)
WEBUI: Provide Use Category paths in Manual Mode option (skomerko)
WEBUI: Provide Merge trackers to existing torrent option (skomerko)
WEBAPI: Fix wrong timestamp values (Chocobo1)
WEBAPI: Send binary data with filename and mime type specified (glassez)
WEBAPI: Expose API for the torrent creator (glassez, Radu Carpa)
WEBAPI: Add support for SSL torrents (Chocobo1, Radu Carpa)
WEBAPI: Provide endpoint for listing directory content (Paweł Kotiuk)
WEBAPI: Provide “private” flag via “torrents/info” endpoint (ManiMatter)
WEBAPI: Add a way to download .torrent file using search plugin (glassez)
WEBAPI: Add “private” filter for “torrents/info” endpoint (ManiMatter)
WEBAPI: Add root_path to “torrents/info” result (David Newhall)
RSS: Show RSS feed title in HTML browser (Jay)
RSS: Allow to set delay between requests to the same host (jNullj)
SEARCH: Allow users to specify Python executable path (Chocobo1)
SEARCH: Lazy load search plugins (milahu)
SEARCH: Add date column to the built-in search engine (ducalex)
SEARCH: Allow to rearrange search tabs (glassez)
WINDOWS: Use Fusion style on Windows 10+. It has better compatibility with dark mode (glassez)
WINDOWS: Allow to set qBittorrent as default program (glassez)
WINDOWS: Don’t access “Favorites” folder unexpectedly (glassez)
LINUX: Add support for systemd power management (Chocobo1)
LINUX: Add support for localized man pages (Victor Chernyakin)
LINUX: Specify a locale if none is set (Chocobo1)
MACOS: Display download/upload speed in dock icon (Nick Korotysh)
MACOS: Add support for quarantine on macOS (Chocobo1)
OTHER: Drop support for Qt5, qmake, autotools, Windows < 10, Windows 32-bit
OTHER: Minimum supported versions: Qt: 6.5, Boost: 1.76, OpenSSL: 3.0.2
OTHER: Switch to C++20