Introducing Torrentory

The torrent client with nothing to upgrade.

Most free torrent clients are the front door to a paid one. There is a speed boost to buy, a Pro plan to consider, or an installer with something extra bundled in. Torrentory takes the opposite view: your bandwidth is not a product.

It is a free, open-source BitTorrent client for macOS and Windows. It moves files, and it does that and nothing else, so there is nothing to sell you.

A client, not an index

Torrentory began life as a searchable torrent index. It is now only a client. It does not host, list, or search for torrents, and it has no catalogue or submissions. You bring a magnet link or a `.torrent` file from wherever you got it, and Torrentory downloads it. It is content-neutral, built for files you are allowed to download and share, such as Linux installers, open datasets, public-domain media, and your own work.

Nothing to upgrade

There is no Pro tier and no ads. Speed is whatever your connection allows. The comparison is short, and you can open any row.

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Add a torrent and get on with your day

Paste a magnet link or drop in a `.torrent` file. Choose where it goes and which files you want before anything starts, then let it run. Double-clicking a `.torrent` file, or opening a magnet link in your browser, launches Torrentory and opens the review dialog straight away, even if it was not running.

The main view keeps progress, speed, and time remaining in front of you, and nothing else. This is a simulation of that view. Pause and resume work.

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If you want to know how long a download will take before you start, move the slider.

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Play it while it downloads

Audio and video play inside the app before the transfer finishes, with seeking, playback speed, volume, fullscreen video, and a waveform for audio. SRT and WebVTT subtitles next to a video are picked up automatically. Type a file name to see if the player handles it.

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Everything is included

Features are not tiered. Here is what the client does today, and what is still on the roadmap.

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You can also turn any file or folder into a `.torrent` with your own trackers, set global download and upload limits that apply the moment you save, and switch between light, dark, and system appearance. Every transfer comes back after a restart without a full recheck.

Built to be small and careful

Torrentory is built on librqbit, a BitTorrent engine written in Rust, inside a native Tauri shell. The macOS download is 11 MB. Tap a layer to see what it does.

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Torrent files and magnet links come from strangers, so the app treats them as untrusted. It accepts only well-formed magnet links and `.torrent` files up to 10 MB, refuses download paths that try to climb out of the folder you chose, and never executes anything it downloads. There is no account, no telemetry, and no remote-control API. Nothing leaves your machine except peer traffic and a check for new versions. The only web addresses the app can open are the Torrentory website and its source repository.

Updates you can trust

Since version 0.1.8, Torrentory checks for updates when it opens. When one is ready, one click downloads it, verifies its signature against a key built into the app, installs it, and restarts. A failed download or a bad signature never restarts the app. The project has shipped four releases so far.

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Read the code

Every line is public under the MIT license. Audit it, fork it, or build it yourself. There is no closed core and nothing to unlock. The code is on GitHub.

Get it

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Torrentory is free, and it is available now at torrentory.com. For the story of how the client came together, read [Introducing Torrentory Client](/news/introducing-torrentory-client).