What is the best client to use in 2026?

[vaylon]

Just curious, because most of the post I have read are from before 2019.

[Kevin4fm]

@vaylon I'm sure you'll get advocates for all of the major clients, and likely a few few for the less well known ones, but for me, it's qBittorrent. I love the "tag" facility, which is clear, simple to use, and helps me keep things organised.

I used uTorrent for a long time, but wouldn't willingly go back.

[ianfontinell]

@vaylon I like qbittorrent because it's the most straightforward/no bullshit client available, and is completely open source. My only complaint is that I don't get the best speeds, I feel like there's something about it that is capping me.

I have tried another client called BiglyBT and if I'm being honest, I almost had an aneurysm, that thing is made for highly functional autistic people, see if you make the cut.

[frostycab]

I started on Azureus, and have stuck with it throught the years as it changed to Vuze and finally to BiglyBT, the latest incarnation. Does what it says on the tin, but has a lot more options than many of the other clients I've tried. Like @ianfontinell I love having the ability to set categories and tags for my downloads, and automate a lot of them based on where they came from.

[raphjd]

Most staff use uTorrent v2.2.1.

It's ancient, but it still works well. It's the last uTorrent before it was loaded with bloatware and other crap. I won't touch any uTorrent after that.

[projectneon]

@raphjd I wouldn't recommend using that old a version of uTorrent. It's full of security holes, and has exploits available for RCE and DNS binding attacks.......

That was released around 15 years ago.

Other trackers also specifically block that version of uTorrent - for the above reasons.