Usage share of BitTorrent clients
The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.
2020
2015
, 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.| 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:| Source | Date & Age | μTorrent | Vuze | BitTorrent | BitComet | Transmission | BitSpirit | FlashGet | Unknown | Tuotu | libtorrent | Xunlei | Other | Sample Size |
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 | 7,132,119 | 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.| Rank | Application | Install % on Windows desktops |
| 1 | LimeWire | 18% |
| 2 | μTorrent | 5.56% |
| 3 | BitTorrent | 2.28% |
| 4 | Vuze | 2.11% |
| 5 | BitComet | 1.89% |
| 6 | Bitlord | 1.27% |