qBittorrent is a well established open-source BitTorrent client. qBittorrent features a light footprint, whilst providing all the features you may need. It uses the high-tech libtorrent-rasterbar library, which means greater download and upload speed, as well as excellent support of the latest features in the BitTorrent protocol.

Why use qBittorrent instead of another client?

There are several BitTorrent clients that are functional, but this is why we like qBittorrent:

  • It has no ads
  • It is free and open-source, so you can review the code and see what qBittorrent is doing.
  • A built-in search engine that allows users to search for torrents directly from the client
  • Support for a wide variety of file formats and protocols including magnet links, DHT, PEX, and LSD
  • Customizable interface that includes a built-in torrent creation tool
  • Support for sequential downloading, which allows users to stream a video file as it is downloading
  • Remote control via a web user interface.
  • It features an anonymous mode for better privacy

Why are my torrents stuck on "Stalled"?

Usually due to no active seeders, blocked ports, or ISP restrictions. Check for seeders, randomize the listening port, or use a VPN with port forwarding.

Why is my download speed slow despite many seeders?

Possible causes include ISP throttling, no port forwarding, or slow disk writes. Use a VPN, enable port forwarding, and tweak disk cache settings.

Which operating systems are supported by qBittorrent?

qBittorrent is compatible with the vast majority of operating systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD, all the versions of macOS and Windows.

Is it legal to use qBittorrent?

qBittorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. Although the software is perfectly legal, it may be illegal to download or share some content, depending on local law.

Is qBittorrent's Anonymous mode private enough?

Anonymous mode doesn't provide strong privacy guarantees on its own. If you are concerned about copyright troubles, consider using a VPN instead. When the Anonymous mode is enabled, qBittorrent takes certain measures to try to mask your identity, preventing your BitTorrent traffic from being associated with you.

Features

  • Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
  • Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
    • Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
    • Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
  • All BitTorrent extensions
    • DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ...
  • Remote control through a Web user interface
    • Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
  • Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
    • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
    • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
  • UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
  • Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
  • Torrent creation tool
  • Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
  • IPv6 compliant
  • Sequential downloading (aka "Download in order")
  • Available on most platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD

qBittorrent is easy to use and all of its features are well documented. If you like this piece of software, please make a donation and help it survive.

What's New

  • Feature: Enable customizing the save statistics time interval (Burnerelu)
  • Feature: Add drag support to torrent content widget (Chocobo1)
  • Feature: Display External IP Address in status bar (Thomas Piccirello)
  • Feature: Use modern functions to get random numbers under Linux/Windows (security related) (Chocobo1)
  • Feature: Add eXact Length parameter when creating magnet URI (antanilol)
  • Feature: Support fetching tracker list from URL (Thomas Piccirello)
  • Feature: Add 'announce_port' support (Maxime Thiebaut)
  • Bugfix: Enable adaptive step size for upload and download limits (Harald Nordgren)
  • Bugfix: Add URL link for reverse proxy setup examples (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Allow drop action only on transfer list (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Fix the tab order in dialogs (thalieht)Bugfix: Fix filesize sorting in preview dialog (DoubleSpicy)
  • Bugfix: Improve the speed icons in the status bar (Mahdi Hosseinzadeh)
  • Bugfix: Update link to news (tinyboxvk)
  • Bugfix: Fix tab stop order in various dialogs and UI elements (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Make links accessible by keyboard (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Make tab key switch focus (Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Revise DHT bootstrap node list (stalkerok, Chocobo1)
  • Bugfix: Return first tracker as fallback for "current tracker" (glassez)
  • Bugfix: Prevent crash when exiting app with 'Add torrent' dialogs opened (glassez)
  • Bugfix: Fix torrent relocating files when switching to "manual" mode (glassez)
  • Bugfix: Prevent crash due to corrupted resume data (glassez)
  • WebUI: Improvements that should help with assistive technologies (Chocobo1)
  • WebUI: Internal refactoring to migrate away from MooTools and towards native browser APIs (Chocobo1, skomerko)
  • WebUI: Implement path autocompletion (Paweł Kotiuk)
  • WebUI: Implement double-click behavior controls (Hanabishi)
  • WebUI: Add ability to toggle alternating row colors in tables (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Improve visibility of unread RSS articles (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Remove deleted torrents even if they are currently filtered out (Carmelo Scandaliato)WebUI: Highlight torrent category in context menu (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Implement 'Auto hide zero status filters' (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Allow to filter torrent list by save path (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Handle regex syntax error for torrent filtering (HamletDuFromage)
  • WebUI: Add missing icons (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add link to 'List of alternative WebUI' wiki page in Options (Chocobo1)
  • WebUI: Improve properties panel, torrent deletion dialog, filter list, subcategories, torrent deletion, statistics window (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Allow to display only hostname in the Tracker column (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Show country/region name next to its flag (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Improve hash copy actions in context menu (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Support removing tracker from all torrents in WebUI/WebAPI (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Display DHT information in the Status bar only when DHT is enabled (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add 'Confirm torrent recheck' option (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Support managing web seeds (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Add colors to log table rows (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Prevent text selection within tabs, menu items (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Use correct text and background colors in RSS details view (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Reduce padding in torrents table (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add WebAPI/WebUI for managing cookies (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Support updating RSS feed URL (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Add 'Engine' column to Search table (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add confirm dialog for Auto TMM (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add context menu to search tabs (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Show file filter when Content tab selected on load (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: DHT, PeX and LSD rows are now always on top in Trackers table (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Clear properties panel when torrent no longer selected (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Support auto resizing table columns (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Fix displaying RSS panel on load (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Add tooltip to regex filter button (Patrik Elfström)
  • WebUI: Hide context menu when clicking on a table row (Patrik Elfström)
  • WebUI: Display torrent progress percentage in General tab (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Use thin scrollbars (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Show 'Rename...' context menu item only when one torrent is selected (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Display error when download fails (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WebUI: Add colors to 'Status' column in Trackers table (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Add missing icon to 'Queue' context menu item (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Change filter inputs to type search (Patrik Elfström)
  • WebUI: Allow to move state icon to name column in torrents table (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Fix bug where the 'Tracker editing' dialog displays incorrect data (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Maintain row highlight after rearranging table columns (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Fix preferences not applied in magnet handler (Chocobo1)
  • WebUI: Update sort icon after changing column order (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Show 'Edit tracker URL...' only when one tracker is selected (skomerko)
  • WebUI: Set status filter to 'All' if selected filter is no longer visible (skomerko
  • WEBAPI: Don't reannounce when removing tracker via WebAPI (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBAPI: Add WebAPI for managing torrent webseeds (Thomas Piccirello)
  • WEBAPI: Add 'forced' parameter to 'torrents/add' (Chris B)
  • WEBAPI: Optionally include trackers list in torrent info response (ze0s)
  • WEBAPI: Add new method 'setTags' to upsert tags on torrents (ze0s)
  • RSS: Resolve relative URLs within RSS article description (Zentino)
  • Search: Provide SSL context field (Chocobo1)
  • Search: Allow to refresh existing search (glassez)
  • Search: Allow multiple simultaneous searches (glassez)
  • Search: Store opened search tabs (glassez)
  • Search: Store search history (glassez)
  • Search: Migrate socks.py from SocksiPy to PySocks 1.7.1 (FredBill1)
  • Search: Bump Python version minimum requirement (Chocobo1)
  • Windows: Opt into Windows SegmentHeap (Andarwinux)
  • Windows: Allow to choose color scheme on Windows (glassez)
  • Windows: Verify hash of Python installer (Chocobo1)
  • Linux: Add support for Thunar file manager (algebnaly)
  • macOS: Fix shift-click selection on macOS (Luke Memet)