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Tribler/tribler

Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Tribler/tribler · homepage · Python · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) 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

Full methodology

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

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Member repositories

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