BiglyBT for Mac
Bittorrent client forked from Azureus.
Free
In English
Version 3.9.0.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
BiglyBT overview
BiglyBT is a feature-filled, open-source, ad-free bittorrent client. Forked from the Azureus open-source project created in 2003, BiglyBT continues its development, and keeps all the features you've loved. If you are already using Azureus or Vuze, you'll have the option to copy and migrate the config settings, downloads, and plugins.
Features
- Downloading
- Swarm Merging to complete torrents that do not have all the available bits, and to speed up downloading
- Rate limiting globally, by download, by tag, by peer-set (e.g. peers from a given country), by network (public/I2P) and even by peer. Overall capacity limits are also supported to work with ISP limits. Limits can also be scheduled by time of day etc.
- WebTorrent support - BiglyBT can download and seed to WebTorrent peers. There is also a built-in WebTorrent tracker.
- Control
- Robust settings. If you want to control it, there’s probably a setting for it!
- Remote controlling via Android app (any android app that supports the Transmission RPC will do, but we recommend ).
- Organization, Discovery, and Social
- Tags and Categories. Allows you also to set share ratios, file locations, speed limits, etc for a group of torrents.
- Meta-search, with the ability to add and create custom site templates
- Swarm Discoveries which lists torrents that other people have downloaded along with the torrents you download.
- Tag Discovery to discover what other users have tagged content with. This can be very helpful before deciding to download the content.
- Subscriptions to RSS feeds as well as search results. You can also create your own subscription feed to share with others
- Decentralized ratings and comments. You can view them before the torrent is added to BiglyBT.
- Decentralized public and anonymous chats with default channels for individual torrents, tags, subscriptions, and trackers
- Privacy/Security
- I2P support (using I2P DHT) for anonymous downloading
- Detection of VPNs for better integration
- Ability to proxy search results, subscriptions, and internal browser connections through Tor if site is inaccessible
- Content
- Media Playback
- Media Conversion (Transcoding)
- UPnP Media Server and DLNA support, allowing devices to connect and browse your content, and allowing BiglyBT to send content directly to devices.
Plugins
- RSS to chat publisher for sharing content streams via chat
- Decentralized content replication for sharing arbitrary modifiable files
What’s new in version 3.9.0.0
FEATURE
- Plug: Added setpeersources to Simple API plugin [Parg]
- Core: Support import/export of swarm discoveries [Parg]
- Core: Few additional command line options [Parg]
- Core: Add support for .alt TLD [Parg]
- Core: Added timer option to shutdown BiglyBT [Parg]
- Core: Support the disabling of Tor/I2P web plugin addresses [Parg]
- UI: Show existing detected "file systems" in file performance options [Parg]
- UI: Added expansion indicator when supported by font [Parg]
- UI: Right-click drag in tables to multi-select [Parg]
- UI: Show move-on-complete dir in expand bar text [Parg]
CHANGE
- Core: Don't create external torrent entries when only scraped [Parg]
- Core: Include zero upload as dead indicator [Parg]
- Core: Remove inactive external torrents [Parg]
- Core: Increase torrent create piece size limit [Parg]
- Core: More thorough detection of duplicate download locations [Parg]
- UI: Make authentication window non-modal [Parg]
- UI: Reworked open-torrent-options to not use native expand-bar [Parg]
- UI: Allow SWT update when existing in subdir of expected location [Parg]
- UI: Switch download basket icon [Parg]
- UI: Better blue for seeding downloads in Windows dark mode [Parg]
- UI: Switch default for table header gradient fill to false [Parg]
- UI: Explain "Do not use GB unit" better [ferdnyc]
- UI: Same windows dark mode colour fix as for seeding torrents in Library [Parg]
- UI: Order chats alphabetically in menu [Parg]
BUGFIX
- Tag: Improve performance of some tag columns [Parg]
- Core: Ensure the version server has enough information to manage updates [Parg]
- Core: Correctly categorise incoming uTP connections [Parg]
- Core: Fix buddy profile handling [Parg]
- Core: Seems that trailing space linux hack needs more spaces [Parg]
- Core: Fix sync issue [Parg]
- Core: Fix high refresh rate of transient buddy status [Parg]
- Core: Fix failure to rename subscription [Parg]
- Core: Tidy up scrape error messages when using bind hack [Parg]
- Core: Remove proliferation of useless config keys for devices [Parg]
- Core: Save a bit of CPU checking DHT addresses [Parg]
- Core: Update tracker torrent name if associated download renamed [Parg]
- Core: Fix subscription duplication [Parg]
- Core: Clone subscription properties on URL change [Parg]
- Core: Update tracker torrent name if associated download renamed [Parg]
- UI: Fix private chat being closed on pop-out [Parg]
- UI: Fix friend chat colours [Parg]
- UI: Don't use expandbar on linux as causing crashes [Parg]
- UI: Tidy up spinner widths [Parg]
- UI: Dark mode search icon [Parg]
- UI: Remember enable state of ok button across rebuilds [Parg]
- UI: Fix fancy indent redrawing [Parg]
- UI: Improve performance of view-title-info refresh [Parg]
- UI: Fix media server icons sometimes missing [Parg]
- UI: Don't sort hidden sub-rows [Parg]
- UI: Mini bars should always update when main UI minimised [Parg]
BiglyBT for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.9.0.0
What users say about BiglyBT
Value: 1.0
BiglyBT was good at the start with no ads, no third party crap. But now with the latest version B3.1.0.0/4 az3 it now appears to have my two anti-viruses finding a Trojan.Win32.Downloader.sa and 4 items: Adware.Win64.Downloader.sa These were found with my Gridinsoft Anti-Malware which I have been using for 6 years now and also found by Malwarebytes Premium. I was always pleased with Vuze even though there were ads and stuff but did not have the really bad SH$T attached with it. This has now become just another sh*ty app filled with Trojans, Malware and Adware. : ( I am now going to go with a better torrent app in-place of BiglyBT.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 4.0
Reliability | 1.0
Customer support | 1.0
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User Ratings
Feb 16 2019
Version: 1.8.0.0
Will you be releasing a "Dark" version for Mojave?
Jul 21 2018
Version: 1.0.2.0
It works just as well as Vuze without the annoying ads. Well...as it turns out kernel_task spikes in usage between 65-70% everytime I use it. And the process keeps running for up to 4 hours afterwards. Not fun. Slows down everything on my Mac.
Aug 31 2017
Version: 1.0.0.0
Thanks. Its a fork of Vuze without the adware injected on it. At least thus it seems to be of entrance. No problem with the anti-virus nor sees nothing extra installed (with my limited knowledge).
Aug 10 2017
Version: 1.0.0.0
What a terrible name. These guys must be Trump supporters.
