BiglyBT, Torrent Downloader

Bigly Software

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About this app

BiglyBT is an ad-free, fully featured open source torrent client and remote control app, optimized for phone, tablet, Chromebook, and Android TV.

★ Swarm Merging for faster torrent downloading and to repair torrents without seeds
★ v2 Torrent Support (BEP 52)
★ Tag and organize your torrents
★ Sort and grouping for large lists of torrents
★ Select which files are downloaded before starting the torrent
★ Sort and filter files in torrent
★ View progress, peers, and stats of torrents
★ Subscribe to RSS feeds
★ Use Swarm Discoveries to find related torrents
★ All the basic torrent features: Mainline DHT, Vuze DHT, UPnP, uTP, PEX, UDP Tracker, Encryption
★ Download to SD Card via SAF (Storage Access Framework)
★ Control other BiglyBT, and Transmission RPC compatible desktop torrent clients
★ Can access remotely via LAN
★ Dark or Light Theme
★ The only full torrent app for Android TV using the Leanback UI.

Our source code has been in development since 2003 (under Azureus) and is GPL licensed. If you would like to join our team, visit our GitHub Source Repository - https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT-Android

If you have ideas to make torrent downloading easier and better in BiglyBT, visit our Issue Voting site - https://vote.biglybt.com/android

Ratings and reviews

I love this program, but I'm about to have to stop using it because it just can't be trusted to keep my torrents. Three times now I've opened the app to find an empty torrent list. I've had close to 30 in the list each time. It did this in Oreo in my Samsung Note 8, and again in Pie after the update. There are never any files in the Files folder, so I can't re-add my torrents. I wish I could fix this.

The app works fine on my Google tv; the only problem is that added torrents appear relatively slowly, and without exception, I need to manually start them, since they are automatically added in a Stopped status. In other words, between clicking on a torrent and actually having the torrent starting to download, at least 2 minutes pass. Does anyone have a solution for this issue? Thanks!

I've been using BiglyBT on the phone and the PC for well over a year now. Haven't gone to another app yet. In fairness, I came in with the Vuze branching, this has had better support. I probably overuse both for the device. I have ran over 100 torrents (mostly complete) at a time with no stability issues. While there are features on the PC that I would like to see on the phone, the current stability and ease of use of the phone app more than make up for it.

What's new

★ 3.3.4: More Perms checking
★ Update to Android 13 (Tiramisu)
★ "Post Notifications" permission now needed on Android 13 to show torrent service icon in Android's status bar. Torrent service can still run without permission, if you prefer.
★ Fix setting file to Unwanted not always working when torrent is active
★ Verifies access to torrent data and prompts when authorization has been lost
★ Update BigyBT core to v3.4.0.0 (May, 2023 stable release)