A BitTorrent client is a computer program that manages downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.
The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen, in October 2002.
Many subsequent clients have been at least partially based on it. Not all clients were originally built for BitTorrent, having added support for the protocol later on. There have been attempts to package malware as BitTorrent clients, probably due to the avai...
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A BitTorrent client is a computer program that manages downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.
The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen, in October 2002.
Many subsequent clients have been at least partially based on it. Not all clients were originally built for BitTorrent, having added support for the protocol later on. There have been attempts to package malware as BitTorrent clients, probably due to the availability of many legitimate clients and users' willingness to try new ones.
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of applications supporting the BitTorrent protocol. They are not all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.
Note: Clients in purple are no longer in development.
Applications run with Wine under Linux and other operating systems are marked as No. Mostly these are noted, but there may be other applications running under emulation which are not marked.
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