File Sharing

Few pieces of software have had a journey quite like uTorrent. Created in 2005 by Swedish developer Ludvig Strigeus as a tiny, ridiculously efficient BitTorrent […]

BitTorrent is the original peer-to-peer client built on the protocol of the same name, and that shared name is the first thing worth untangling. The […]

Most torrent clients treat a half-finished video as a locked box. You wait, you watch the percentage crawl, and only at 100% do you find […]

Moving a few gigabytes of video from a phone to a computer over a cable is slow, over email impossible, and through a cloud account […]

Every torrent user knows the graveyard, those files stuck at 97% that will never finish because the last seeder vanished months ago. BitComet built its […]

The torrent client space settled into something of a holding pattern years ago. uTorrent dominated the casual user market with its lightweight design, before changes […]

Cloud storage that encrypts files on the server is protecting you from strangers. Cloud storage that encrypts them before they leave your machine is protecting […]

Ares is a peer-to-peer file sharing client with its own network. Type a search term, choose a category, and results arrive from other people running […]

Transfer clients for this protocol divide into two camps. The lean ones do the transferring and nothing else, and the heavy ones try to be […]

iMesh is a community-based P2P application that enables members to share their favorite content and search or download what others have previously published. Therefore, the […]

FrostWire is a BitTorrent client with a search box in it. Type a phrase, and the results arrive from several torrent search engines and from […]

You can process and view .torrent and .magnet files with Tixati, an intuitive BitTorrent client that lets you download these files quickly using your maximum […]

Before file sharing became anonymous swarms of strangers, it was neighborhoods. DC++ is the open-source client for the Direct Connect network, a world built around […]

Most torrent clients are one program with a window. Deluge is built differently, splitting the work in two so that the part doing the transferring […]

RatioMaster.NET reports upload and download figures to a BitTorrent tracker without moving a single byte of data. Load a torrent file, choose which client it […]