BiglyBT

About

BiglyBT is a feature-filled, open-source bittorrent client originating from the United States, launched around 2017 as a successor and revival of the Azureus open source project (later Vuze). It aims to provide the best of Vuze Core, polished, cleaned, bug-fixed, and entirely open-sourced, notably without ads or bloatware. This comprehensive torrenting platform, available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, and BSD, is lauded as one of the most solid and feature-rich clients, catering to both beginners and experts with capabilities unmatched by many competitors. Its extensive product portfolio includes core torrenting functionalities, i2P integration, swarm merging, support for TOR, WebTorrent, DLNA, and UPnP, alongside RSS feed support, anonymous and integrated chat, and media streaming. Built on Java, it excels at managing thousands of torrents, offering advanced features like categorization, tagging, speed rules, swarm discoveries, file location management, and internal links for multi-torrent seeding. While generally praised for its stability and reliability, some users have noted it can be RAM-hungry with a complex interface, and there have been isolated reports of installation issues or, in one specific version, anti-virus detections of unwanted software, though its development team is known for being responsive and supportive via its built-in chat. As an open-source and ad-free solution, BiglyBT maintains a strong market position among advanced bittorrent clients.