BiglyBT
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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.
- RSS to chat publisher for sharing content streams via chat
- Decentralized content replication for sharing arbitrary modifiable files
Plugins
What’s new in version 3.4.0.0
Updated on May 19 2023
- Added option to apply tag sort to library positions manually + auto [Parg]
- Added setTagSort Tag Constraint function and Library column [Parg]
- Add "full_copy_seen" Tag constraint keyword [Parg]
- Added support for reverse setTagSort [Parg]
- Added "timeToElapsed" Tag constraint function [Parg]
- Added +,-,/,* Tag constraint operations; Added toMiB and toGiB [Parg]
- Added "remaining" and toMB/toGB Tag Constraint variables/functions [Parg]
- Added getTagWeight constraint function to get download's weight [Parg]
- Added Tag weight parameter [Parg]
- Add "random" option to setTagSort [Parg]
- Added session_age constraint variable [Parg]
- Added Tag constraint keywords up_speed and down_speed [Parg]
- Added ifThenElse Tag constraint function [Parg]
- Added Tag a?b:c operator, rem, min and max functions [Parg]
- Add Tag constraint variable "my_rating" to get personal rating value [Parg]
- Added speed limit handler option to not pause force-start downloads [Parg]
- Added minimum storage controls to speed limit scheduler [Parg]
- Added remote-port option to proxy factory [Parg]
- Support explicit ports in web plugin white-lists [Parg]
- Extended alternative-contacts to include Tor [Parg]
- Extend PEX support [Parg]
- Added a logger view for the torrent importer [Parg]
- Added isExternal to plugin interface tracker torrent [Parg]
- Tor Proxy DHT prototype [Parg]
- Added peers count to all-trackers view (session only) [Parg]
- Add incomplete/complete text to rank item tool tip where relevant [Parg]
- Separate progress bar colour for light seeding [Parg]
- Added max-seeds and min-peers to subscription filters [Parg]
- Menu option to remove all routers [Parg]
- Added is-external column to my tracker [Parg]
- Ctrl+f selects filter box in chat view [Parg]
- Added log messages and save messages chat overview columns [Parg]
- Added "active requests" to All Trackers view [Parg]
- Added dl history add/complete/remove columns to Subscriptions [Parg]
- Added option to specify which side-bar tab is shown on startup [Parg]
- Reduce start up logging; Log file removal during consistency checks [Parg]
- Try harder to rename/remove already imported torrent files [Parg]
- Obey order of IPv4/6 addresses returned [Parg]
- Cache file system roots as can block UI when shares offline [Parg]
- Decouple SecurityManager more as terminally deprecated [Parg]
- Ignore cached peers when maintaining all-trackers peer count [Parg]
- Remove tracker announce message logging [ferdnyc]
- IpFilter: Tweak logging [ferdnyc]
- Added debug for broken URLs [Parg]
- Fix up some missing tag/category RSS item entries [Parg]
- Change network selection defaults to be more permissive [Parg]
- Check network of incoming peer exchanges [Parg]
- Added .wmv to playable extensions [Parg]
- Recreate aereg with minimal changes in Visual Studio 2022 [soroosh-chabi]
- Slight tidy up of stateChange aggregation [Parg]
- Linux users: Dorkbox system tray plugin has been deprecated [Parg]
- Bring back plugin bar support in classic UI if enabled in bigly UI [Parg]
- Switch "close-to-tray" default to FALSE for Linux [Parg]
- Change "active" to "running" in library header text [Parg]
- Add right-click copy-to-clipboard for some Link widgets [Parg]
- Make "show download" in Tag Overview Files tab switch to Torrents tab [Parg]
- Allow the progress column in the seeding section [Parg]
- Pack the subscription filters a little better [Parg]
- Added small space above tool bar in windows dark mode [Parg]
- Update local peer IP display [Parg]
- Disable unwanted sub-tabs in open-torrent-options availability view [Parg]
- Tidy up advanced configuration network interface list [Parg]
- Use general date column for my-tracker date added [Parg]
- Qualify peer connection state with SOCKS/plugin proxy info [Parg]
- Click on intermediate check-box in FilesView -> check kids [Parg]
- Fixed up Tag explains string a bit [Parg]
- Changed subscription overview columns public/enabled/auto-download to check-boxes [Parg]
- fi_FI: Finnish translation update [olavinto]
- ja_JP: Japanese translation update [tetoria;ayano.midori]
- ko_KR: Korean translation update [VenusGirl]
- pt_BR: Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
- ru_RU: Russian translation update [adem4ik]
- tr_TR: Turkish translation update [BouRock]
- zh_CN: Simplified Chinese translation update [Keith.T.Maxwell]
- Revert change to tag network limits, it was working OK before [Parg]
- Fix title of Tags Overview pop-outs [Parg]
- Fix tag constraint handling of non-integer math [Parg]
- Fix IPv6 UDP announce [Parg]
- Use all resolved addresses for UDP announce/scrape [Parg]
- Handle multiple DNS records with binding better for URLs [Parg]
- Defer net-limit pause until downloads in state to be paused [Parg]
- Handle multiple net limits better to avoid pause/resume cycles [Parg]
- Fix metadata download tag propagation to actual download [Parg]
- Fix NPE when using web-remote over I2P/Tor [Parg]
- Fix NPE in magnet download [Parg]
- Fix URL construction [Parg]
- Fix download positions move respecting non-affected downloads [Parg]
- Improve support for non-public peer connections [Parg]
- Fix tracker to work with Tor [Parg]
- Set the correct networks for update torrents [Parg]
- Option to reduce debug on listen fails [Parg]
- Include more exception details in web-plugin logs [Parg]
- Skip possible tracker host actions for magnets [Parg]
- Prevent multiple active "you got message" checks [Parg]
- Added some extra timeout checks for peers stuck "connecting" [Parg]
- Fix up behaviour of DDB delete with put-and-forget [Parg]
- Fix units [Parg]
- Fix dark mode for Subscriptions info bar [Parg]
- Fix generic message box with windows dark mode [Parg]
- Modal donation pop-up can mess up torrent-options dialog layout [Parg]
- Reset piece-map header RHS on data source change [Parg]
- Fix open-torrents button height on Linux/win-dark [Parg]
- Fix up some dark-mode check-boxes [Parg]
- Make it obvious when persistent subs filters are empty [Parg]
- Fix selection back/forward not updating selected content correctly [Parg]
- Fix UI glitch when resolving My Peer fake "IP" for anon nets [Parg]
- Fix remembering last side-bar entry [Parg]
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- OS X 10.11 or later
- Version for Apple Silicon
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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 30 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 9 2017
Version: 1.0.0.0
What a terrible name. These guys must be Trump supporters.
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