#6958
If you frequently download large files directly from a host server, utilizing a torrent client can significantly enhance your experience. These clients break down large files into smaller parts, allowing for a much quicker download process as they are later reassembled.

#6218
There are already countless chatting software (such as WhatsApp, Skype, Discord, Facebook Messenger), but almost all of them are non-free software based on central servers, and their security and privacy are not guaranteed (any chat history of you will be sold to various companies). Many of them claim to encrypt communication content, even with end-to-end encryption, but when a platform is proprietary, there is simply no way for others to verify that it is as secure and private as it promises to be. Of course, there are some really safe and reliable ones, but they are frequently blocked by governments of various countries and cannot continue (such as Signal, Telegram).

#6164
With the development of network technology, our demand for file synchronization and backup is also becoming stronger. While various web disk services provide us with convenience, they also bring a lot of restrictions and risks in terms of speed, security and privacy. There are many cloud synchronization solutions, such as Seafile and Nextcloud, which are feature-rich but bulky and difficult to deploy cloud disk programs. But if we only need to synchronize files, then a better choice is Syncthing. In comparison, it is lighter, easier to deploy and use, more secure, and especially has faster file transfer.

#5744
FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client (formerly Gnutella client) for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android platforms, written in Java, started by the developers from LimeWire's open source community in 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. But starting with version 5, it entirely dropped the support for the Gnutella network, and became a pure BitTorrent client.

#5233
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.

#4521
The "play after downloading" and "direct play online" for streaming media have an immeasurably vast difference on experience. However, streaming media websites providing online music or video play service have been facing two development difficulties: copyright and server performance. For the former, if they chose to buy the original copyright, the investment will be huge, and comes with too few resources and very slow update; if it was pirated, then that's always possible to be under surveillance and even shut down at any time. In the latter case, the more people visit, the worse the server performance will be, which means either they have to increase the hardware investment, or it's difficult to get further development.

#3968
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.

#3565
It was originally written in C++ by Christophe Dumez (from France) in 2006 when he was a student. Now it's maintained by worldwide volunteers on their spare time. qBittorrent is a free, open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client (torrent file downloader) with nice UI based on Qt and built-in search engines.

#3515
As is known to all, there are many torrent file download clients based on BT protocol (BitTorrent) for desktop computer, but the situation is different on mobile platform. Among them, two most popular BT clients for Android are µTorrent Pro and BitTorrent Pro from BitTorrent company who invented the BitTorrent protocol and developed several BT clients.

#3462
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.