bittorrent.com
BitTorrent
Who runs BitTorrent, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest BitTorrent client software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- utorrent.com
Measured from BitTorrent’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit BitTorrent01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs BitTorrent
BitTorrent bittorrent.com
Download BitTorrent — the world's most popular torrent client with over 2 billion installs. Free versions available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Stream while you download.
Wikidata: peer-to-peer program for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What BitTorrent tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
10 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to BitTorrent
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to BitTorrent, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to BitTorrent match.
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Transmission
A Fast, Easy and Free Bittorrent Client For Mac, Windows and Linux
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Making sure you're not a bot!
BitTorrent client
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qBittorrent Official Website
qBittorrent Official Website
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Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Very close - 05
Emby — Your Personal Media Server
Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams your own videos, music, photos, and live TV to your devices.
Very close - 06
Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com
The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.
Very close - 07
Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site
Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.
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F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid is the app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store, explore the world of free and open source (FOSS) apps and [learn](https://f-droid.org/about/) about our app distribution tools.
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streaming media service
Very close - 10
Vegamovies VIP — Secure Portal
Very close - 11
Java | Oracle
Get started with Java today
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Xumo | All you can stream
Xumo is leading the future of streaming for everyone, backed by industry veterans Comcast and Charter.
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Pay Friends | Payments App | Venmo
Welcome to Venmo! Manage your account balance, send/receive money, split bills, pay friends, and stay connected with your network all in one place.
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SmartFTP - FTP Client
Welcome to the home of SmartFTP, the most popular FTP client for Windows.
Close - 15
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
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Portal Home - Hosting AliDropship
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Mozilla - Internet for people, not profit (US)
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
Close - 18
MUBI: Watch and Discover Movies
Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. From iconic, award-winning directors to emerging auteurs. Transformative films from all over the world. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your free 7 day trial now.
Close - 19
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
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MAMP & MAMP PRO - your local web development solution for PHP and WordPress development
MAMP GmbH is the manufacturer of the award-winning MAMP software.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles BitTorrent’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones BitTorrent uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what BitTorrent adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 92 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to BitTorrent’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: Q7eF2iYu77LFsQF0gd4N7bHwaVeTUj4dgoduxXVC-NJDFS4WaZ26ng==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms61055612
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:208.72.192.0/21 include:_spf.google.com include:amazons…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=wnFKndiAsPBuplwZxaJ-3dJhasE4dsGa51hM1_u0OB0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on bittorrent.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on bittorrent.com 7/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- nginx · not on bittorrent.com 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on bittorrent.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Zendesk · not on bittorrent.com 4/20
- Fastly · not on bittorrent.com 4/20
- Amazon Web Services 3/20
- Google Tag Manager 3/20
- PHP · not on bittorrent.com 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on bittorrent.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on bittorrent.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on bittorrent.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront 2/20