Free · Open source · No ads · No telemetry

The BitTorrent client
with a face.

Add a torrent and its cover art shows up. You can start watching before the download finishes, with subtitles, and Ctrl+K gets you to any action or page in the app.

2,000+ downloads  ·  Windows · macOS · Linux  ·  native C++/Qt6, not Electron  ·  MIT

Cover art

Your downloads, with posters.

BATorrent reads the release name (movies, shows, games, even messy anime fansub names) and fetches the matching cover art on its own, so your download list looks like a streaming library.

Cover-art grid view
Built-in player

Press play before it finishes.

The player streams from the torrent as the pieces arrive and remembers where you stopped. It can also find subtitles for you: load your own .srt or search online sources from inside the player, then fix the sync with one key.

List view with semantic state colors
Command palette

Press Ctrl K

The palette does fuzzy search over your torrents and over every action in the app, so you can jump to a torrent by name, pause everything, toggle the speed limit or open any page from the keyboard.

Command palette
Themes

Six themes, or your own colors.

Pick Dark, Light, Midnight, Sakura, Dark Star or Matrix, or build a custom theme with your own colors and background image. The anime accent art is optional, and you choose the app icon separately.

Sakura theme

Nothing to sell you.

BATorrent sends no telemetry and no analytics. The only request it makes on its own is the update check against GitHub, and you can switch that off. I'm one developer building it in the open, under the MIT license.

✓ No ads ✓ No telemetry ✓ No accounts ✓ No bundleware ✓ MIT license

The rest of a full torrent client

The covers sit on top of a client that actually holds up.

Sequential download & streaming
Stalled torrents explain why
RSS auto-download with filters
Web UI with QR phone pairing
VPN kill switch & proxy
Per-torrent limits & queueing
Categories, tags & watch folder
Game library with launcher
Telegram & Discord presence
Trash-safe file removal
9 languages
IP filtering & encryption

Get BATorrent

The latest release, straight from GitHub.

Windows
Windows 10/11, 64-bit
macOS
Apple Silicon · first launch: right-click → Open
Linux
Any modern distro

If GitHub is slow or blocked for you, every file is also published as a web-seeded .torrent, so you can download the torrent client with a torrent.