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Bitrocket: New OSX BitTorrent Client

Earlier this week we reviewed BitTorrent clients for Mac OSX. This probably inspired the developer af Bitrocket, to launch this new BitTorrent client’ Based on the feature list it looks like Bitrocket could give the existing BitTorrent clients some tough competition. Bitrocket supports essential features like: DHT: Support for “trackerless” torrents. DHT keeps the torrent [...]

Earlier this week we reviewed BitTorrent clients for Mac OSX. This probably inspired the developer af Bitrocket, to launch this new BitTorrent client’

bitrocketBased on the feature list it looks like Bitrocket could give the existing BitTorrent clients some tough competition.

Bitrocket supports essential features like:

DHT: Support for “trackerless” torrents. DHT keeps the torrent alive if the tracker goes offline.
Torrent Creator: Create and share torrents.
RSS: Bitrocket has RSS support. With RSS you can automatically download your favorite torrents.
UPnP Port Mapping: If your router supports UPnP, you don’t need to forward any ports.

Other features like selective downloading, http-seeding, and multi tracker support are supported by the library Bitrocket uses might be implemented in the near future.

Stay tuned for a Bitrocket review.

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  • Bizmo

    I don’t think the GUI actually supports selective downloading yet: but the underlying torrent library that it is built on does. It seems to be making very fast progress (probably thanks to the mature library underneath it) and I think the developer has mentioned that the next release will have selective downloading (among other things).

    Given the transmission author’s stubbornnes (and belief that he is above mere standards) on certain problems with his software, Bitrocket definitely seems to be the best candidate to watch in torrent clients right now.

  • Bungle

    Totally agree with Bizmo, and before anyone jumps on the bandwagon about BR using Transmission’s code, check the latest version, its old news…

    Finally an OS X client that looks like it might have a future :)

  • http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

    Thanks Bizmo, the info on the Bitrocket site was misleading. Corrected the story

  • sam

    although the home page claims it’s open sourced, there are missing components from the source so you can’t build your own app. for instance the upnp/nat-pmp component is the commericial framework PortMapper which costs the developer $200. that indicates to me that he’ll eventually charge for the app.

  • Julian

    BitRocket will always be free. You can easily build the source, just get the PortMapper framework, it is freely available for non commercial use. You also need to build boost and libtorrent.

  • Tim

    It is a very, very, very good BT client but it crashes alot, once they fix that it will be perfect, im already using it now.

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