The popularity of legitimate video services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu has reduced consumer's demand for BitTorrent protocol based file-sharing services. Of course, the BitTorrent community finally fought back, and BitTorrent based streaming media apps like WebTorrent and Popcorn Time began to fight. Their main feature is that they allow users to play video files directly from BT seed file without having to download the entire video file first, for free.

When people need to synchronize, backup or frequently share files/data between a variety of devices (including computers and mobile phones), any traditional ways of file transfer are relatively inadequate. For example, a lot of cloud storage services like Dropbox have more and more and increasingly obvious limitations or restrictions. These include: files have to be uploaded to their servers for transfer, very limited disk space capacity, pretty high requirements on Internet connection speed and stability, limitation of transmission speed and bandwidth usage, very few acceptable file types, not high enough security, easy to be blocked by some countries, expensive cost, and so on. Thereupon, Resilio Sync (formerly called BTsync, full name BitTorrent Sync, now Sync for short) came out.

eMule used to be the largest and most trusted free P2P file sharing client developed by Hendrik Breitkreuz from Germany. It was started in 2002 as an alternative of eDonkey2000 (AKA: eD2k) based on eDonkey Network, retained all advantages of eDonkey, added new functions and more friendly UI.

BitTorrent (BT for short) is a content distribution agreement originally invented by Bram Cohen - the more people downloading one file, the faster the download speed becomes. It is the actual most popular way of file exchanging on the Internet.

The appearance of µTorrent (AKA: uTorrent) made all torrent file downloaders overshadow (especially the BitTorrent or BitComet which was popular for a long time), because it is much more lightweight, powerful, fast, clear and easy to use (written in C++). For now, it has been really worthy of the #1 and most popular torrent download client on desktop worldwide.