Alternatives to KTorrent
KDE's BitTorrent client for Linux, with queuing, speed limits, file selection and plugins. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
KTorrent
KDE's BitTorrent client for Linux, with queuing, speed limits, file selection and plugins.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as KTorrent.
qBittorrent
A full-featured BitTorrent client with no ads, built as an open source replacement for µTorrent.
qBittorrent is a full-featured open-source client for Linux, Windows and macOS, with integrated search and regex RSS filters, and does not follow KDE conventions.
Transmission
A light BitTorrent client that behaves like a native app on each platform, with a headless daemon for servers.
Transmission is lighter and simpler, with native builds on several platforms and a headless daemon, but has fewer built-in extras and no integrated search.
Deluge
Plugin-driven BitTorrent client that can run headless with several front ends.
Deluge also relies on plugins and adds a daemon with desktop, browser and console front ends, on Windows, macOS and Linux, though releases are infrequent.
Fragments
A simple BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop, built on the Transmission backend.
Fragments is a simpler Linux client built on Transmission that fits the GNOME desktop instead of KDE Plasma, with fewer advanced options.
BiglyBT
An open-source, ad-free BitTorrent client built on the former Azureus and Vuze codebase.
BiglyBT is open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, with I2P integration, swarm merging and meta-search, but it is heavier and has many options.
Tixati
A free, ad-free BitTorrent client with detailed bandwidth charts and peer controls.
Tixati is ad-free with detailed bandwidth charts and peer controls on Linux, Windows and Android, but it is closed source.
Tribler
An open-source BitTorrent client with built-in search and Tor-inspired onion routing for more private downloading.
Tribler adds onion routing and decentralised search for privacy on Linux, Windows and macOS, though onion routing can slow downloads.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
transmission-remote-gtk
A GTK desktop client for remotely managing a Transmission BitTorrent daemon over its RPC protocol.
WebTorrent Desktop
A desktop torrent app that streams video and audio while the files are still downloading.
Electorrent
A desktop remote control client for qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, rTorrent, uTorrent and Synology.
BTFS
A FUSE filesystem that mounts a torrent file or magnet link as a read-only directory.
Flood
A self-hosted web interface for managing rTorrent, qBittorrent, Transmission and Deluge from a browser.
