With these 5 free and open-source BitTorrent clients, you will be able to download torrent files safely and quickly. These environments, being open-source, can be inspected by the user to find out if there is any malicious code or software.
If you are a user who cares about the security and privacy of your computer, these 5 open-source BitTorrent clients will be of great help.
qBitTorrent
We will start with qBitTorrent, a BitTorrent client and one of the best open-source alternatives to uTorrent. You can add torrents to its interface via links or files. And from its interface, which is very similar to uTorrent, you can control the speed and bandwidth of the download.
qBitTorrent is a free BitTorrent client available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Transmission-qt
We continue with Transmission-qt, a BitTorrent client. Although its features are the same as any other powerful torrent client, its interface is very basic. From its options you can control the download, being able to limit the download speed between 5KBps and 750 kbps. You can also limit the upload and download speed, among many other options.
Transmission-qt is a free BitTorrent client available for the Windows operating system.
Halite
Halite is an open-source C++ source for BitTorrent that has all the features of powerful torrent clients. With the platform you will be able to control the download and upload speed, control all torrents at the same time, and adjust the position queue, among many other options.
Halite is a free BitTorrent client that is available for the Windows operating system.
Deluge
Deluge is an open-source BitTorrent client and its main feature is its simplicity. If you want to expand the environment, you can do so by inserting plugins such as AutoAdd, Blocklist, Execute, Extractor, Label, Notifications, Scheduler, etc.
Deluge is a free BitTorrent client that is available for the Windows operating system.
FrostWire
FrostWire is a free BitTorrent client that has a very polished and intuitive interface, making it a tool for any type of user. The platform has all the features of a torrent client, but highlights include the activation of Distributed Hash Table (DHT) tables and it is entirely in Spanish.
FrostWire is a free BitTorrent client available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
In our tests Avast has not detected any threat. Neither have we detected any real threat on VirusTotal. We have only detected on VirusTotal 4 non-malicious threats (ClamAV, DrWeb, GData and Invincea) out of 55 in FrostWire and 2 threats (Bkav and ClamAV) out of 55 in qBittorrent. But the developers assure that they are false detections and that they are due to the development code.
We hope that with the 5 open-source clients for BitTorrent, you can download files quickly and safely.
