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About FrostWire
FrostWire combines a BitTorrent client, a video downloader and a media player. It searches many torrent search engines and cloud sources from inside the app, lets you pick single files from a torrent, and starts playing media before a transfer finishes.
Downloads land in a built-in media library with playlists, and the Android version adds a gesture-based audio player. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, with builds for x86 and ARM, and needs no subscription.
Strengths
- Torrent search inside the app
- Preview and play while downloading
- Built-in media library and player
- Builds for x86 and ARM
Limitations
- More of an all-in-one media app than a lean torrent client
- Fewer advanced torrent controls are described than in dedicated clients
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree download with no subscription required.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- FrostWire
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Users who want to search, download and play media in one app
- Categories
- Video editing, Torrent clients
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to FrostWire
Compare allSoftware that can replace FrostWire for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
WebTorrent Desktop
A desktop torrent app that streams video and audio while the files are still downloading.
WebTorrent Desktop also plays media while downloading and casts to AirPlay, Chromecast and DLNA, but lacks in-app search and an Android version and is still in beta.
qBittorrent
A full-featured BitTorrent client with no ads, built as an open source replacement for µTorrent.
qBittorrent is a dedicated torrent client with integrated search and regex RSS filters, dropping FrostWire's media player and library and having no Android build.
µTorrent
A BitTorrent client offered as a small desktop app and as a browser-based player.
µTorrent is closed source and freemium, pairing a small desktop client with a browser version that plays media while it downloads, on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
BitTorrent
The official BitTorrent client, available as a desktop app and a streaming web version.
BitTorrent is closed source, with a desktop app for downloads and a web app for streaming, but has no Linux build listed.
BitComet
A long-running BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP download client with long-term seeding and disk caching.
BitComet is closed source, offers video preview while downloading and adds HTTP and FTP downloads, on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Tribler
An open-source BitTorrent client with built-in search and Tor-inspired onion routing for more private downloading.
Tribler keeps built-in search but makes it decentralised and adds onion routing for privacy, without FrostWire's media player or an Android version.
BiglyBT
An open-source, ad-free BitTorrent client built on the former Azureus and Vuze codebase.
BiglyBT is an open-source desktop client with meta-search, swarm merging and I2P support, offering more torrent controls but no media player or Android build.
LibreTorrent
A free and open-source BitTorrent client for Android with no ads.
LibreTorrent is an open-source Android-only client with no ads, focused on downloading and seeding rather than search and media playback.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
TorrServer
A self-hosted server that streams media from torrents over HTTP without waiting for downloads.
Free Download Manager
A download accelerator and organizer that splits files into segments and includes a BitTorrent client.
