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Deluge

Deluge is a download manager, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…), plugins and add-ons.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Deluge is a download manager, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: casting to other devices (Chromecast, DLNA…), plugins and add-ons.

Services and protocols mentioned: BitTorrent.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A fully-featured BitTorrent Client” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “UPnP” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Plugin System” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Deluge is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Deluge is a Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client on Python and Gtk3 with multiple user interfaces in client/server model. Deluge includes the following features: Protocol Encryption DHT Local Peer Discovery (LSD) Peer Exchange (PEX) UPnP NAT-PMP Proxy Support Web seeds Global and per-torrent speed limits Stream Torrent - sequential download GTK interface Changelog at deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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