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qBittorrent

Name: qBittorrent
Author: The qBittorrent Project

qBittorrent is a download manager, available on Windows and Linux.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

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Geographic availability: No geographic restriction found in our sources; availability is not checked country by country.

Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
License: GPL-3.0+ & OpenSSL — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub, Wikidata
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager), Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Wikidata, Winget
Publisher: The qBittorrent Project
Latest version: 5.3.0 (19 October 2026)
Latest activity: 20 October 2026
Source code: github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent

Overview

qBittorrent is a download manager, available on Windows and Linux.

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

“An open-source Bittorrent client” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-3.0+ & OpenSSL) 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
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

About

The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows). qBittorrent is based on the Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar library. Polished µTorrent-like User Interface Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine RSS feed support with advanced download filters (incl. regex) Many Bittorrent extensions supported Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX Sequential downloading (Download in order) Advanced control over torrents, trackers and peers Bandwidth scheduler Torrent creation tool IP Filtering (eMule & PeerGuardian format compatible) IPv6 compliant UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support Available on all platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2 Available in ~70 languages

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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