Tribler/tribler
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
89/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 45.0
- age_days: 4937
- days_rel: 76
- days_push: 47
- n_releases_24m: 11
Adoption not part of the score
5303 stars · 473 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Tribler is a privacy-enhanced BitTorrent client with built-in decentralized search and content discovery, using a custom Tor-like onion routing network for anonymous downloading and seeding. It is a long-running open-source research project from TU Delft, fully backwards compatible with the BitTorrent protocol.
Use cases
- download torrents anonymously with onion routing
- search for content without any central website
- stream videos directly from magnet links
- seed torrents via hidden services with end-to-end encryption
- share files without censorship or a single point of failure
- download torrent files or magnet links with anonymization on by default
When to choose
- you need anonymous or censorship-resistant torrent downloading
- you want decentralized P2P search without relying on torrent websites
- you want a BitTorrent client with built-in streaming and privacy features
When to avoid
- you need maximum download speed since onion routing adds overhead
- you require protection against state-level adversaries - the project itself warns anonymity is not mature
- you just want a lightweight minimal torrent client
Facets
application · maturity active
security privacy search-engine p2p gui privacy censorship-circumvention networking files self-hosted windows python cross-platform bittorrent torrent-client onion-routing tor-like-network file-sharing decentralized anonymous-downloading streaming macos linux
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler · fetched 2026-08-28 · 514ba70804a1
- homepage: https://www.tribler.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 81cd5f98834d
- site_page: https://tribler.org/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · f10d90223331
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/tribler/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · af6ae9b4acab
- site_page: https://tribler.org/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · ff2039d50854
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Tribler/tribler | main | 89 |
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