BiglyBT for Mac
Bittorrent client forked from Azureus.
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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.
Plugins
- RSS to chat publisher for sharing content streams via chat
- Decentralized content replication for sharing arbitrary modifiable files
What’s new in version 3.6.0.0
- FEATURE: Tag | Added tag constraint variable "file_count_selected" and "count" function [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Added "trackers" variable to Tag Constraints [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Added Tag Overview "tag sort auto" column [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Added "trackerPeers" and "trackerSeeds" Tag constraint functions [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Added tag constraint function "pluginOption" [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Allow comments in tag constraints [Parg]
- FEATURE: Tag | Support empty constraint expression [Parg]
- FEATURE: Plug | Added method to add torrents to SimpleAPI plugin [Parg]
- FEATURE: Plug | Added progress indicators for SimpleAPI torrent download [Parg]
- FEATURE: Plug | Added SimpleAPI plugin method to set download plugin options [Parg]
- FEATURE: Core | Added option to automatically create a sub-folder for simple torrents [Parg]
- FEATURE: Core | Option to set files to high priority when
pieces remaining [Parg] - FEATURE: Core | Added global setting for file priority pieces remaining [Parg]
- FEATURE: Core | Add "completed" to generated feed [Parg]
- FEATURE: Core | Make banning of HTTP seeds download specific [Parg]
- FEATURE: Core | Added "test mode" to "search for existing data files" [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added an "Archive" toolbar item [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Support tag/category filter matching in subscription results [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added country chat sub-tab in Peer views [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added option to remember response to "add separate download" prompt [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | CTRL+a -> select all in progress report window [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added "Close View" file menu item in sidebar view [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Support additional launch helper for "show file" operation [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added option to control side bar double-click pop-out type [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added option to disable UI updates when minimised [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added blocked icons for up/down speed when disabled [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Separate seeds/peers columns for subs/search results [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Option to reset all table views [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added option to set table column defaults for new views [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Added "grabbed" column to subscription results [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Show entry limit in title [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Add "select all" to column header menu [Parg]
- FEATURE: UI | Show byte size in tooltip [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Dual architecture .biglybt plugin files getting larger [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Merge tracker URLs when auto importing and existing download found [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Consider compact files for removal even if complete [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Propagate tags from magnet auto import [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Try to revert to magnet download when link fails [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Don't rename download display name from magnet 'dn' if disabled [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Better support for extracting RSS fields from the description [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | "leechers" overrides "peers" in RSS feeds if both present [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Ignore enclose size for RSS feeds that are probably torrent file sizes [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Lowered DHT request timeout [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Support /a for tracker URL scrape replacement [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Don't lower-case regular expressions in subs filters [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Remove non-matching subscription results [Parg]
- CHANGE: Core | Serialise file skip operations [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Add start timestamp to progress reporter details [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Added chat key to status text [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Stack progress dialogs more sensibly [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Change scale values to show most recent rather than average [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Try a different tray icon on Linux [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Make the new-torrent wizard remember selected files etc across panels [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | Remove logging config view network diagnostics generation as broken [Parg]
- CHANGE: UI | pt_BR: Brazilian Portuguese translation update [Havokdan]
- CHANGE: UI | bg_BG: Bulgarian translation update [andreshko]
- CHANGE: UI | et_EE: Estonian translation update [priit.uring]
- CHANGE: UI | de_DE: German translation update [Georg Engelmann]
- CHANGE: UI | hu_HU: Hungarian translation update [Phoenix]
- CHANGE: UI | ja_JP: Japanese translation update [tetoria]
- CHANGE: UI | ru_RU: Russian translation update [adem4ik,antonsoroko]
- CHANGE: UI | es_VE: Spanish (Venezuela) translation update [javier.nv]
- CHANGE: UI | tr_TR: Turkish translation update [BouRock]
- BUGFIX: Tag | Remove tag from group when deleted [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Tag | Need to apply tag filter to groups [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Reduce locking in magnet downloader [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Don't request public IP when we don't need it [TuxPaper]
- BUGFIX: Core | Delete imported torrent file if required [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Fix subscription extraction from array of subs [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Don't force-start completed update torrents [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Need one more loop on errors [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Handle already completed and queued download [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Ensure DHT contact liveness set correctly on create [Parg]
- BUGFIX: Core | Skip IPv6 UDP tracker addresses when IPv6 disabled [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix selected tag not being shown in tag selection menu [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix wrapping of comment line [TuxPaper]
- BUGFIX: UI | Auto restart prompt is SWT Only [TuxPaper]
- BYGFIX: UI | Update category tag group name on locale change [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fixed category tag-type internationalisation [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fixed some locale switching [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fixed localisation of dashboard views [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Prevent changing value via scrolling over a Combo [TuxPaper]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fixed no scroll in Tag Constraints field [TuxPaper]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix sort order of some hash columns [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix scale not updating until subsequent refresh [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix no draw if only trimmable source [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Don't attempt to wrap cells that aren't deep enough [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Some minor Windows dark mode fixes [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix search box background in subs view + windows dark [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix google search command line [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix some default column setup issues; "reset" -> use explicit default [Parg]
- BUGFIX: UI | Fix valid URL foreground in Windows dark mode [Parg]
BiglyBT for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.6.0.0
What users say about BiglyBT
Value: 1.0
BiglyBT was good at the start with no ads, no third party crap. But now with the latest version B3.1.0.0/4 az3 it now appears to have my two anti-viruses finding a Trojan.Win32.Downloader.sa and 4 items: Adware.Win64.Downloader.sa These were found with my Gridinsoft Anti-Malware which I have been using for 6 years now and also found by Malwarebytes Premium. I was always pleased with Vuze even though there were ads and stuff but did not have the really bad SH$T attached with it. This has now become just another sh*ty app filled with Trojans, Malware and Adware. : ( I am now going to go with a better torrent app in-place of BiglyBT.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 4.0
Reliability | 1.0
Customer support | 1.0
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User Ratings
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.
