Usage share of BitTorrent clients

The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.

## 2020

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A study conducted in March 2020 by TorrentFreak[1] Rank  | Application  | Market Share

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1 | μTorrent | 68.6%
2 | BitTorrent | 6.6%
3 | Libtorrent (μTorrent's web interface reports this as its client ID) | 6.3%
4 | Transmission | 5.1%
5 | MediaGet | 3.7%
6 | qBittorrent | 3.4%
7 | Zona | 3.3%
8 | Deluge | 0.9%
9 | BitComet | 0.6%
10 | BiglyBT (operated by former developers of Vuze) | 0.3%
11 | Free Download Manager | 0.2%
12 | BitSpirit | 0.2%
13 | BitLord | 0.1%
14 | Tribler | <0.1%
14 | FrostWire | <0.1%
14 | Tixati | <0.1%
14 | tTorrent | <0.1%
14 | aTorrent | <0.1%
14 | PicoTorrent | <0.1%

## 2015

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Lifehacker, a software weblog, took a survey of 13,823 readers' preferred BitTorrent clients in May 2015. It showed that μTorrent still maintains a sizable lead over competitors, despite concerns over adware and bloatware. Runner-up Transmission was praised for being lightweight, while qBittorrent was praised for being cross-platform and open-source, Deluge for its plugin library, and Tixati for its simplicity.[2] Vuze, another notable client, failed to make an appearance in the top five for the first time.

Poll data from: Lifehacker[2] Rank  | Application  | Percentage of users' preferred clients  | Number of votes

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1 | μTorrent | 42.47% | 5,870
2 | Transmission | 21.23% | 2,935
3 | qBittorrent | 18.75% | 2,592
4 | Deluge | 10.7% | 1,479
5 | Tixati | 6.85% | 947

## 2009

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### Delft University of Technology

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A study by the Tribler P2P research team at the Delft University of Technology. To generate this data, samples were taken from a number of swarms of users which were then used to identify which BitTorrent client each user was using, this data was used by TorrentFreak in the table below:

Samples of Global BitTorrent Client Usage Share (Percent & Peers)  Source | Date & Age | μTorrent
| Vuze
| BitTorrent
(mainline) | BitComet
| Transmission
| FlashGet
| Unknown
| Tuotu
| libtorrent | Xunlei
| Other
| Sample
Size

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[3] | 16 September 2011;
13 years ago (2011-09-16) | 47.97%
267,466 | 22.49%
125,417 | 13.01%
72,536 | 1.01%
5,638 | 7%
39,011 | ? | 6.22%
34,703 | ? | 1.02%
5,703 | ? | 1.27%
7,062 | 100%
557,536
[4]
[5] | 4 December 2009;
15 years ago (2009-12-04) | 25.77%
92,086,035 | 24.08%
86,055,354 | 4.82%
17,207,544 | 4.31%
15,403,400 | 3.26%
11,637,110 | 1.09%
3,882,628 | 1%
3,590,584 | 0.71%
2,531,472 | 0.63%
2,251,736  | 29.31%
104,717,386 | 3.02%
10,806,362 | 100%
357,301,730
[6] | 18 October 2009;
15 years ago (2009-10-18) | 60.16%
10,361 | 14.22%
2,449 | 8.65%
1,489 | 4.43%
763 | 3.65%
628 | ? | 7.97%
1,373 | ? | 0.31%
53 | 0.02%
3 | 0.59%
102 | 100%
17,221
[7] | 14 August 2009;
15 years ago (2009-08-14) | 56.81% | 18.13% | 11.79% | 4.71% | 2.95% | ? | 4.21% | ? | ? | ? | 1.40% | 100%
165,000\+
[8] | 24 June 2009;
16 years ago (2009-06-24) | 55.84% | 16.85% | 12.01% | 6.50% | 1.60% | ? | 4.02% | ? | ? | ? | 3.17% | 100%
150,000\+

## 2007

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### Digital Music News

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Digital Music News collected the data from PC Pitstop, a company that gathers data from computers using their free online virus and malware scanners. The program scans Windows Registry to find which clients have been installed, more than a million Microsoft Windows computers were surveyed.

Global install rate[9] Rank  | Application  | Install % on Windows desktops

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1 | LimeWire | 18%
2 | μTorrent | 5.56%
3 | BitTorrent (mainline) | 2.28%
4 | Vuze | 2.11%
5 | BitComet | 1.89%
6 | Bitlord | 1.27%

## References

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1. ^ "uTorrent is the Most Used BitTorrent Client By Far". April 5, 2020.
2. ^ a b Henry, Alan (19 May 2015). "Most Popular BitTorrent Client: μTorrent". Lifehacker. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
3. ^ TorrentFreak
4. ^ TorrentFreak
5. ^ EZTV
6. ^ Tribler
7. ^ TorrentFreak
8. ^ TorrentFreak
9. ^ Van der Sar, Ernesto (2007-12-16), "uTorrent Gains Popularity, Azureus Loses Ground", TorrentFreak, retrieved 2024-08-02

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BitTorrent

Companies|

* Rainberry, Inc.
* Vuze, Inc.

People|

* Bram Cohen
* Ross Cohen
* Eric Klinker
* Ashwin Navin

Technology|

* Glossary
* Broadcatching
* Distributed hash tables
* DNA
* I2P
* index
* Local Peer Discovery
* Peer exchange
* Retracker
* Protocol encryption
* Super-seeding
* Tracker
* Torrent file
* TCP
* UDP
* µTP
* WebRTC
* WebTorrent

Clients
(comparison,
usage share)|

* BitTorrent (original client)
* BitComet
* BiglyBT
* BitLord
* Deluge
* Free Download Manager
* FlashGet
* FrostWire
* GetRight
* Go!Zilla
* KTorrent
* libtorrent (library)
* LimeWire
* µTorrent
* Miro
* MLDonkey
* qBittorrent
* rTorrent
* Shareaza
* Tixati
* Transmission
* Tribler
* Vuze (formerly Azureus)
* WebTorrent Desktop
* Xunlei

Tracker software
(comparison)|

* OpenBitTorrent
* opentracker
* PeerTracker

Search engines
(comparison)|

* 1337x
* BTDigg
* Demonoid
* etree
* Nyaa Torrents
* TamilRockers
* The Pirate Bay
* ruTracker.org
* YggTorrent
* YourBittorrent

Defunct sites
(comparison)|

* BTJunkie
* ExtraTorrent
* EZTV
* isoHunt
* KickassTorrents
* LokiTorrent
* Mininova
* Oink's Pink Palace
* RARBG
* Suprnova.org
* t411
* Torrent Project
* TorrentSpy
* Torrentz
* What.CD
* YIFY
* YouTorrent

Related topics|

* aXXo
* BitTorrent Open Source License
* Glossary of BitTorrent terms
* Popcorn Time
* Slyck.com
* TorrentFreak

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