Features:

  • Lightweight, fast torrent app
  • Beautiful user experience
  • Free, non-commercial, ad-free, and open source
  • Instantly stream video and audio
    • WebTorrent fetches file pieces from the network on demand for instant playback.
    • Even when the file isn't fully downloaded, seeking still works.
  • (Seeking just reprioritizes which pieces are fetched from the network.)
  • Stream videos to AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA
  • Based on the most popular and comprehensive torrent package in Node.js, webtorrent
    • Full-featured, but bloat free
    • Opens magnet links and .torrent files
    • Drag-and-drop makes adding or creating torrents easy
    • Discovers peers via tracker servers, DHT (Distributed Hash Table), and peer exchange
    • Supports the WebTorrent protocol for connecting to WebRTC peers (i.e. web browsers)

What's New:

Added

  • Add YouTube style hotkeys #1579 (dsernst)
  • Toggle sound notifications on/off #1536 (adriantombu)
  • Ability to play MPEG-4 Audio Book (.m4b) #1450 (Borewit)
  • Add support for subtitles on Chromecast #1165 (janza)

Changed

  • Update to Electron 4 #1590 (Borewit)
  • Remove '(BETA)' from app window title #1562 (dsernst)
  • Update React (v16) and Material-UI (v0.20) #1483 (mathiasvr)
  • Show audio track and disk number #1454 (Borewit)
  • Asynchronous music metadata updates while streaming #1449 (Borewit)
  • If torrent is not private, leave private flag unset #1411 (feross)
  • Improve audio poster selection: #1368 (Borewit)
  • Save preferences immediately when changed #1042 (Flet)

Fixed

  • Ensure that the minutes field in playback indicator is zero-padded. #1506 (bnjmnt4n)
  • Bug Fix: Empty Array Reduce #1494 (clujin)
  • Fix startup problems #1419 (Borewit)
  • Add back loading spinner for player page. #1311 (bnjmnt4n)
  • Fix Linux desktop file #1309 (bilelmoussaoui)