Undoubtedly the main competitor of the ubiquitous uTorrent client, qBittorrent can be considered not only its open-source counterpart but the torrent client that is making a significant number of uTorrent users stop and look for greener pastures. A comprehensive download manager for torrent files with a user-friendly interface, qBittorrent misses very few of its competitors’ features if any.
Its “uTorrent-like interface” – as described by its own developers – is certainly very similar in both its looks and its functionality. You can load not only .torrent files but also magnet links and manage all of your downloads with ease. You can download them all simultaneously, apply different levels of priority to them, or download your torrents in sequential order. You can view the files inside each torrent and decide which of them to download and which to leave out, either when loading the .torrent file or at any time during the download process.
The overall functionality doesn’t differ much from what you may find in the most popular torrent clients. Thus, you can define the ports to be used and how, the number of connections per torrent and the upload slots, the number of active torrents being downloaded and/or uploaded at a given time, manage your rate limits, etc. You can use the client to create your own torrent files and determine the size and number of pieces, the level of privacy, and the ratio limits. Besides, you can access your qBittorrent client and activity remotely using its Web UI.
When it comes to its search capabilities, though, qBittorrent is light-years ahead of many of its competitors thanks to its support for third-party plug-ins, search engine plug-ins, to be more specific. Thus, you can download and install the search engine for a number of well-known public and private sites, such as bt.etree.org, demonoid.pw, LimeTorrents, TNT Village, or RuTracker. A couple of other things that I haven’t seen anywhere else are its e-mail notification service for completed downloads and the strict super-seeding option.
That said, not everything is rosy in qBittorrent’s world. Problems with large numbers of torrents have been reported, as well as some stability issues that will make you reinstall the program every now and then. Besides, its “stall” function may keep your torrents inactive for an unlimited period of time for reasons beyond me. However, if you want to get rid of uTorrent’s annoying ads, and move to the open source realm without losing any of its functionality, qBittorrent is probably your best option.
v3.2.5 [Dec 1, 2013]
- FEATURE: Show actual protocol for listen success/failure in the log. Needs libtorrent v1.0.0 (Gelmir)
- FEATURE: Support per tracker re-announce. Needs libtorrent v1.0.0 (Gelmir)
- FEATURE: Support saving in network locations. (Gelmir)
- FEATURE: Support Qt5 (mostly Glassez)
- FEATURE: Code optimizations resulting in a more CPU efficient and snappier qBittorrent. (sorokin)
- FEATURE: WEBUI code rewritten, refactored and improved. (glassez, pmzqla, buinsky)
- FEATURE: Add option to hibernate computer in Auto-Shutdown menu (Bruno Barbieri)
- FEATURE: Cache preferences in memory. Minimize chance of settings corruption. Closes #1272, #1523, #1694. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Option to disable connections not supported by proxies. Closes #1894. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Haiku OS support (diger)
- FEATURE: Add a save resume data interval option(useful for SSD). (john-peterson)
- FEATURE: Add "Last Seen Complete" column (pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Add "Last Activity" column (pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Add "Total Size" column (pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Show current speed limits in the status bar (pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Episode filtering for RSS (Gelmir)
- FEATURE: Highlight files when opening containing folder on Windows and Linux(nautilus, dolphin, konqueror). (Gelmir, pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Setting to ignore RSS rule matches for X days (Gelmir)
- FEATURE: Add hotkeys and buttons for Top and Bottom priorities (alfrix)
- FEATURE: Implement peer relevance column. Closes #1630. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Show reason why a peer was blocked. Needs libtorrent 1.0.x. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Use the 'fastest_upload' setting as seed choking algorithm. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Allow to set text options for the toolbar icons (pmzqla)
- FEATURE: Add 'Resumed' torrent filter (john.s.peterson)
- FEATURE: 'Add New Torrent` dialog has a button for quickly choosing a location (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Copy selected peers as IP:Port format. (ngosang)
- FEATURE: Show info hash in the torrent details in 'Add New Torrent' dialog. (sledgehammer999, chrishirst)
- FEATURE: New feature: Remove empty labels (ngosang)
- FEATURE: Add "Copy name" option in right-click menu of torrent list. Closes #2452 (chrishirst)
- FEATURE: Implement tracker list in the side panel. Closes #170. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Implement a 'Completed' status. Closes #2326 #2483 #939. (sledgehammer999)
- FEATURE: Columns for session-based download and upload statistics (LazyBui)
- BUGFIX: Use completed time from libtorrent directly. Closes #1726.
- BUGFIX: Speedup and fix a bug in torrent moving. (sorokin)
- BUGFIX: Scan Folder dialog now remembers last location (Bryan Roscoe)
- BUGFIX: Show input box to filter torrent list only when the list is shown (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Add placeholder text to the input to filter the torrent list (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Put directories first when sorting torrent content by name (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Fix missing icon for open action in file list (Gelmir)
- BUGFIX: Set placeholder text to torrent content filter. (sorokin)
- BUGFIX: Fix torrent creation when data is too large (sorokin)
- BUGFIX: Load torrents that have big metadata file. Closes #1889. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Use correct separator for "OR" condition in RSS rules (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Don't waste UI space in 'Content' window. Closes #2159 (alfrix)
- BUGFIX: Fix the language selection in the combobox when the system locale only has a lang equivalent and not a lang_COUNTRY one. Closes #1786. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Don't overwrite the 'Add Paused' setting from the Add New Torrent Dialog (Gelmir)
- BUGFIX: Fix file preview when .!qB extension is used (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Ensure that the priority column has enough width when queueing is enabled. Closes #2263. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Don't put limits to the alternative speed limits (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Make space key change all selected files' checkboxes (sorokin)
- BUGFIX: Don't block peers that use privileged ports. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Accept multiple files at once. Closes #2253 (buinsky)
- BUGFIX: Don't touch torrents whose files are missing. Closes #342 #2308 #2469. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Save the new save path first in the history. Closes #2382. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Fix default tracker in 'Create Torrent' dialog. (ngosang)
- BUGFIX: Let the OS decide the default interface regardless of IPv4/IPv6. Closes #2156. (Chocobo1)
- BUGFIX: Delete the correct selected torrents when the list is filtered. Closes #2729. (sledgehammer999)
- BUGFIX: Don't use HTML in tray icon pop-up on OSX. Closes #2830. (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Fix crash when trying to open destination folder on a torrent with no metadata. Closes #2522. (pmzqla)
- BUGFIX: Change torrent name when metadata is retrieved. (ngosang)
- COSMETIC: Removes white bar in the labels list. Closes #1151. (ngosang)
- COSMETIC: Fix speed printing in the tray icon and in the title bar. Closes #2737. (sledgehammer999)
- COSMETIC: Change the color scheme used (sledgehammer999)
- RSS: Display remote images in the preview (Mladen Milinkovic)
- RSS: Format html descriptions in the preview (Mladen Milinkovic)
- RSS: Support overriding global "Add paused" option on per rule basis (Gelmir)
- WINDOWS: Fix automatic python download. Closes #2076. (sledgehammer999)
- WINDOWS: Fix crash when searching the registry for installed python (glassez)
- WINDOWS: Tell Windows to wait during shutdown. (sledgehammer999, paolo-sz)
- SEARCH: Update KickassTorrents plugin (pmzqla)
- SEARCH: Remove vertor engine. Closes #2260. (DoumanAsh)
- SEARCH: Small fix of import in legittorrents engine (DoumanAsh)
- SEARCH: Add combo box for fast search engine switch (DoumanAsh)
- SEARCH: Fix error in mininova search engine (ngosang)
- SEARCH: Fix piratebay. Closes #2270 (DoumanAsh)
- SEARCH: Updated URL in kickasstorrents search engine (ngosang)
- SEARCH: Torrentz search engine added (ngosang)
- OTHER: Drop libtorrent 0.15.x support
- OTHER: Drop Qt < 4.8.0 support
- OTHER: Migrate build system to autotools (sledgehammer999)
- OTHER: Remove deprecated feature of separate DHT port. (sledgehammer999)
- OTHER: Speedup compilation speed (sorokin)
- OTHER: Backtrace generation now works on MinGW. (Gelmir)
- OTHER: Added translation: Hindi(India).
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