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The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.
| Rank | Application | Market Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | μTorrent | 68.6% |
| 2 | BitTorrent | 6.6% |
| 3 | Libtorrent (μTorrent's web interface reports this as its client ID) | 6.3% |
| 4 | Transmission | 5.1% |
| 5 | MediaGet | 3.7% |
| 6 | qBittorrent | 3.4% |
| 7 | Zona | 3.3% |
| 8 | Deluge | 0.9% |
| 9 | BitComet | 0.6% |
| 10 | BiglyBT (operated by former developers of Vuze) | 0.3% |
| 11 | Free Download Manager | 0.2% |
| 12 | BitSpirit | 0.2% |
| 13 | BitLord | 0.1% |
| 14 | Tribler | <0.1% |
| 14 | FrostWire | <0.1% |
| 14 | Tixati | <0.1% |
| 14 | tTorrent | <0.1% |
| 14 | aTorrent | <0.1% |
| 14 | PicoTorrent | <0.1% |
Lifehacker, a software weblog, took a survey of 13,823 readers' preferred BitTorrent clients in May 2015. It showed that μTorrent still maintains a sizable lead over competitors, despite concerns over adware and bloatware. Runner-up Transmission was praised for being lightweight, while qBittorrent was praised for being cross-platform and open-source, Deluge for its plugin library, and Tixati for its simplicity.[2] Vuze, another notable client, failed to make an appearance in the top five for the first time.
| Rank | Application | Percentage of users' preferred clients | Number of votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | μTorrent | 42.47% | 5,870 |
| 2 | Transmission | 21.23% | 2,935 |
| 3 | qBittorrent | 18.75% | 2,592 |
| 4 | Deluge | 10.7% | 1,479 |
| 5 | Tixati | 6.85% | 947 |
A study by the Tribler P2P research team at the Delft University of Technology. To generate this data, samples were taken from a number of swarms of users which were then used to identify which BitTorrent client each user was using, this data was used by TorrentFreak in the table below:
| Source | Date & Age | μTorrent |
Vuze |
BitTorrent (mainline) |
BitComet |
Transmission |
FlashGet |
Unknown |
Tuotu |
libtorrent | Xunlei |
Other |
Sample Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [3] | 16 September 2011; 12 years ago (2011-09-16) |
47.97% 267,466 |
22.49% 125,417 |
13.01% 72,536 |
1.01% 5,638 |
7% 39,011 |
? | 6.22% 34,703 |
? | 1.02% 5,703 |
? | 1.27% 7,062 |
100% 557,536 |
| [4] [5] |
4 December 2009; 14 years ago (2009-12-04) |
25.77% 92,086,035 |
24.08% 86,055,354 |
4.82% 17,207,544 |
4.31% 15,403,400 |
3.26% 11,637,110 |
1.09% 3,882,628 |
1% 3,590,584 |
0.71% 2,531,472 |
0.63% 2,251,736 |
29.31% 104,717,386 |
3.02% 10,806,362 |
100% 357,301,730 |
| [6] | 18 October 2009; 14 years ago (2009-10-18) |
60.16% 10,361 |
14.22% 2,449 |
8.65% 1,489 |
4.43% 763 |
3.65% 628 |
? | 7.97% 1,373 |
? | 0.31% 53 |
0.02% 3 |
0.59% 102 |
100% 17,221 |
| [7] | 14 August 2009; 14 years ago (2009-08-14) |
56.81% | 18.13% | 11.79% | 4.71% | 2.95% | ? | 4.21% | ? | ? | ? | 1.40% | 100% 165,000+ |
| [8] | 24 June 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-24) |
55.84% | 16.85% | 12.01% | 6.50% | 1.60% | ? | 4.02% | ? | ? | ? | 3.17% | 100% 150,000+ |
Digital Music News collected the data from PC Pitstop, a company that gathers data from computers using their free online virus and malware scanners. The program scans Windows Registry to find which clients have been installed, more than a million Microsoft Windows computers were surveyed.
| Rank | Application | Install % on Windows desktops |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LimeWire | 18% |
| 2 | μTorrent | 5.56% |
| 3 | BitTorrent (mainline) | 2.28% |
| 4 | Vuze | 2.11% |
| 5 | BitComet | 1.89% |
| 6 | Bitlord | 1.27% |
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