The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.
2026 +Top BitTorrent Clients in Aug 2026 by TorrentAnalyticsRankClient FamilyShare1qBittorrent48.71%2μTorrent13.41%3BitComet5.35%4Libtorrent3.94%5Transmission3.19%6Zona2.66%7Deluge2.13%8BitTorrent1.97%9BiglyBT1.67%10Tixati1.49%
2020 + A study conducted in March 2020 by TorrentFreak 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%
2015 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. Vuze, another notable client, failed to make an appearance in the top five for the first time. + Poll data from: Lifehacker 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
2009
Delft University of Technology 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:
+ Samples of Global BitTorrent Client Usage Share (Percent & Peers)Source Date & Age μTorrent Vuze BitTorrent(mainline) BitComet Transmission FlashGet Unknown Tuotu libtorrent Xunlei Other SampleSize TorrentFreak 267,466 125,417 72,536 5,638 39,011 34,703 5,703 7,062 100% TorrentFreakEZTV 92,086,035 86,055,354 17,207,544 11,637,110 3,882,628 3,590,584 2,531,472 || 104,717,386 || || 100% 10,361 2,449 1,489 763 628 1,373 3 100% TorrentFreak 56.81% 18.13% 11.79% 4.71% 2.95% 4.21% 1.40% 100%+ TorrentFreak 55.84% 16.85% 12.01% 6.50% 1.60% 4.02% 3.17% 100%+
2007
Digital Music News 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. + Global install rate 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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