Alternatives to qBittorrent Enhanced Edition
An unofficial qBittorrent fork that adds automatic blocking of leeching clients and other extras. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
qBittorrent Enhanced Edition
An unofficial qBittorrent fork that adds automatic blocking of leeching clients and other extras.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as qBittorrent Enhanced Edition.
qBittorrent
A full-featured BitTorrent client with no ads, built as an open source replacement for µTorrent.
qBittorrent is the official upstream project with the same interface and license, receiving releases directly, but without automatic blocking of leeching clients.
Transmission
A light BitTorrent client that behaves like a native app on each platform, with a headless daemon for servers.
Transmission is a lighter open-source client with a headless daemon and web interface, but lacks integrated search and has no leecher blocking.
Deluge
Plugin-driven BitTorrent client that can run headless with several front ends.
Deluge is open source under GPL-3.0 with a plugin system and daemon mode, but its interface looks dated and releases are infrequent.
BiglyBT
An open-source, ad-free BitTorrent client built on the former Azureus and Vuze codebase.
BiglyBT is open source and ad-free with I2P integration, swarm merging and meta-search, but is heavier and has many options to learn.
Tixati
A free, ad-free BitTorrent client with detailed bandwidth charts and peer controls.
Tixati offers detailed peer controls and IP filtering with no ads, but it is closed source and has no macOS version.
µTorrent
A BitTorrent client offered as a small desktop app and as a browser-based player.
µTorrent is closed source and freemium, with the classic interface qBittorrent resembles, and some of its features require a paid plan.
Also worth comparing
These listings name qBittorrent Enhanced Edition as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Tribler
An open-source BitTorrent client with built-in search and Tor-inspired onion routing for more private downloading.
qBittorrent Enhanced Edition is a qBittorrent fork that adds automatic leecher blocking but has no onion routing or decentralised search.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
VueTorrent
An alternative web interface for qBittorrent built with Vue.js, usable on desktop and mobile.
qui
A self-hosted, single-binary web interface for managing several qBittorrent instances from one place.
qbit_manage
A tool that automates tagging, categorizing and cleaning up torrents in qBittorrent.
qBitController
A free open-source app for remotely controlling qBittorrent from a phone or another device.
cross-seed
A background daemon that finds your existing torrents on other trackers and seeds them there too.
autobrr
A self-hosted tool that watches indexer IRC announce channels and sends matching torrent releases to your download client.
