For anyone looking for an alternative to μTorrent® (uTorrent) on PC that looks similar but lacks the bloat, rtorrent-Pro has a lot to offer.

rtorrent-Pro is a fast, easy to use torrent client with advanced features and simplified managment working quietly in a background, but utilizing maximum as can network bandwidth.

So if you’re looking for a well behaved torrent client that covers the essentials without getting overly complicated, rtorrent-Pro is great. Even if you've never used a torrent client before, you'll be happily downloading large files in a matter of minutes.







Some torrent apps offer every conceivable function. Others keep things as simple as possible. rtorrent-Pro offers any kind of user experience that user can expect starting with simple interface, through elegant & modern looking one and up to advanced for torrent-geeks.




That means that although it isn’t too frightening it still packs in a lot of features. It boasts an integrated torrent search engine, media player, encryption, prioritisation of torrents and the files within those torrents, torrent creation, and it’s the closest open source, adware-free equivalent to uTorrent.

Like all good clients, it supports both torrent files and magnet links, and the installer is pleasingly free from unwanted extra software. Despite its close resemblance to uTorrent, rtorrent-Pro doesn't feature any ads either, leaving you free to get on with managing torrents without distractions.






Transdroid is an application for Android devices that allows you to connect to and interact with your torrent clients, such as rTorrent. It allows you to monitor your downloads and uploads, as well as add new torrents and pause/resume existing ones. With a Data connection, you can control your downloads anywhere and at any time, since your Appbox is always on and is always accessible.

As for Transdroid itself, it's a very full-featured application, with a lot of a settings. As a result, it can be daunting to set up. This tutorial aims to walk users through the steps of installing the Transdroid app and connecting it to your rTorrent client to be able to get even more mileage out of your Appbox.

• Simultaneous download of multiple torrents
• Integrated torrent search engine
• Integrated RSS feed reader and downloader
• Good internationalization
• DHT, PeX, Encryption, UPnP, NAT-PMP
• Fast downloading
• Torrent prioritizing and speed limiting
• Control over files in a torrent (filtering, prioritizing)
• IP filtering and GeoIP based auto-updates
• Peer display with country and hostname resolution
• Advanced control over torrent trackers
• Torrent creation tool
• Remote control through Secure Web User Interface

(Users opionion on official QNAP forum thread: https://forum.qnap.com/)






rtorrent development for QNAP was started in 2008. Today after 10yrs from its 1st build, we provide you best Torrent app ever.

So what rtorrent is?
An advanced, high performance and extra featured bittorrent client with multiple Web-based user interfaces for remote control and managment.

How it works?
rtorrent differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it claims to be able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.