Alternatives to Tixati
A free, ad-free BitTorrent client with detailed bandwidth charts and peer controls. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Tixati
A free, ad-free BitTorrent client with detailed bandwidth charts and peer controls.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Tixati.
qBittorrent
A full-featured BitTorrent client with no ads, built as an open source replacement for µTorrent.
qBittorrent is also ad-free but open source, adds macOS support, integrated search and regex RSS filters, and has no Android version like Tixati's.
BiglyBT
An open-source, ad-free BitTorrent client built on the former Azureus and Vuze codebase.
BiglyBT is open source and ad-free with macOS support, adding I2P integration, a VPN kill switch and swarm merging, but has no Android version.
Transmission
A light BitTorrent client that behaves like a native app on each platform, with a headless daemon for servers.
Transmission is open source and lighter, with native macOS builds and a headless daemon, but offers fewer controls and its Windows build is least mature.
Deluge
Plugin-driven BitTorrent client that can run headless with several front ends.
Deluge is open source with plugins for labels and scheduling and a daemon mode, runs on macOS too, but its interface looks dated.
µTorrent
A BitTorrent client offered as a small desktop app and as a browser-based player.
µTorrent is also closed source, with scheduling and automatic bandwidth tuning, but it is freemium and some features and a distraction-free interface need a paid plan.
BitComet
A long-running BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP download client with long-term seeding and disk caching.
BitComet is also closed source, adds HTTP and FTP downloads and BitTorrent v2 support, and runs on macOS as well as Windows, Linux and Android.
KTorrent
KDE's BitTorrent client for Linux, with queuing, speed limits, file selection and plugins.
KTorrent is open source with per-torrent speed limits and file prioritisation, but it runs only on Linux within the KDE Plasma desktop.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Tixati as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Fragments
A simple BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop, built on the Transmission backend.
Tixati adds detailed bandwidth charts, IP filtering and a scheduler on Windows, Linux and Android, but it is closed source rather than open source.
LibreTorrent
A free and open-source BitTorrent client for Android with no ads.
Tixati has an Android version with no ads and detailed peer controls, but it is closed source rather than copyleft open source.
qBittorrent Enhanced Edition
An unofficial qBittorrent fork that adds automatic blocking of leeching clients and other extras.
Tixati offers detailed peer controls and IP filtering with no ads, but it is closed source and has no macOS version.
Tribler
An open-source BitTorrent client with built-in search and Tor-inspired onion routing for more private downloading.
Tixati is closed source with no macOS version and no anonymity layer, but offers detailed bandwidth charts, peer controls, RSS and IP filtering.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Electorrent
A desktop remote control client for qBittorrent, Transmission, Deluge, rTorrent, uTorrent and Synology.
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.
Flood
A self-hosted web interface for managing rTorrent, qBittorrent, Transmission and Deluge from a browser.
Transdroid
An Android app for managing remote torrent clients such as Transmission, qBittorrent and Deluge.
