Usage share of BitTorrent clients
Introduction The '''usage share of BitTorrent clients''' is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.
2020 + A study conducted on 2020 April 5 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     267,466  125,417  72,536  5,638  39,011    34,703    5,703    7,062  100%     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%     56.81%  18.13%  11.79%  4.71%  2.95%    4.21%        1.40%  100%+      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 data from:  Digital Music News 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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