Free and open source since 2006
The BitTorrent client that doesn’t sell you anything.
qBittorrent moves files. That’s the whole product. No adverts, no bundled toolbars, no paid tier holding features back — just a fast, native client maintained in the open by volunteers.
About qBittorrent
qBittorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ on the Qt toolkit. Christophe Dumez started it in 2006 as a student project, with a deliberately narrow goal: a decent, native, advert-free alternative to the closed clients that were beginning to fill up with bundled software. It is now maintained by sledgehammer999 alongside contributors and translators scattered across the world.
It is released under the GNU General Public Licence, so anybody can read the source, build it, audit what it sends over the network, and fork it if the project ever stops serving them. For software that sits on your machine and talks to strangers on the internet, that auditability is the point — not a bonus feature.
- What it is
- A desktop BitTorrent client, native on each platform.
- Who makes it
- Volunteer maintainers and contributors, working in public.
- What it costs
- Nothing. There is no paid edition and no advertising.
- Licence
- GNU GPL — the source is yours to inspect and change.
What we do
Grouped by what you are actually trying to accomplish, rather than listed as a specification sheet.
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Find and add
A search plugin system queries multiple indexes from inside the app, and magnet links,
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Automate the boring part
RSS rules with include and exclude filters pick up new items on their own, then sort them into categories and folders you define once.
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Stay in control of the pipe
Global and per-torrent speed limits, a bandwidth scheduler for off-peak hours, queueing and priorities keep transfers from taking over the connection.
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Run it somewhere else
A built-in Web UI drives the same client from a browser, so it can live on a home server or a spare machine and still be managed from your laptop.
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Choose your exposure
Proxy support, IP filtering, connection encryption and per-network interface binding decide what the client talks to and how.
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Publish your own
A torrent creation tool builds and seeds files you want to distribute yourself — the protocol works just as well for your own releases.
Get qBittorrent
The current release, for each supported platform. Every download comes from the project itself.
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Windows
Installer for 64-bit Windows.
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macOS
Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel.
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Linux
Packaged in most distributions, plus official builds.
Download for Linux
Building from source, or after a FreeBSD port? The source repository has the instructions.
How to find us
qBittorrent has no office and no support desk. It has maintainers who read these — pick the one that matches what you need.
- Report a bug Issue tracker on GitHub Search first — most crashes are already filed.
- Ask a question Community forum Setup, seeding and configuration help from other users.
- Read the code qbittorrent/qBittorrent Source, build instructions and the wiki.
- Support the project Donate Covers hosting and the certificates the project depends on.