Bala7 reviewed v8.0 Build 25333 Beta on Jun 1, 2011

DL points to build ver 25306

anodin reviewed v8.0 Build 24990 Alpha on Mar 18, 2011

On December 7, 2006, µTorrent was purchased by BitTorrent, Inc., µTorrent is a trademark of BitTorrent, Inc.

Input Overload reviewed v7.1 Build 21846 on Sep 12, 2010

Another clone but OK.

Prospero424 reviewed v7.1 Build 21846 on Sep 11, 2010

Transmission's great, but there's no Windows version. This is for Windows.

I think they're rolling out apps for this mainline version (7.1) before they roll them into the stable uTorrent build in 2.2. Might be worth trying out.

Aegis69 reviewed v7.1 Build 21846 on Sep 11, 2010

Transmission guys, trust me.

shantanu reviewed v6.1.2 on Nov 13, 2008

"Feature creep" ... I agree.

The license says "Open Source" ... kinda misleading ... the source is available till version 5.

But we all know that this is basically uTorrent with a different default toolbar ?

bigmama reviewed v6.1.2 on Nov 12, 2008

whats the diff between this and ?torrent?

Wardev1 reviewed v6.1 on Sep 9, 2008

Regular bit-torrent.. it's standard stuff... KISS, keep it simple stupid. Don't add stuff where it's not needed. Feature creep is all well and good if it doesn't slow down the program, and actually enhances it's usability in some important way.

I really liked azureus before they got bought out (or sold out) and became "vuze", even if it was a bit bloated I liked Azureus's interface.

Papa Lazarou reviewed v6.0.3 on Mar 18, 2008

I rolled back to 6.02 . Vesion 6.03 puts something in the temp folder that previous versions didn't causing endless pop-ups from Online Armor asking if I wanted to continue , no matter how many times I said yes it was there again on program launch ,[ in the temp folder but with a different number] 6.02 doesn't do this.

LRN reviewed v6.0.3 on Mar 3, 2008

Guys, you don't get it. This IS uTorrent. Let me repeat it: Bittorrent v6.x = uTorrent. Different name, same application. Same source code.

As for software, it is decent. Though it may have a few problems in unusual environments. And featureset is not very large. If you need small%fast (fast overral work, not the downloading speed) - uTorrent/BitTorrent v6.x is your choice.

Azureus has more features, and is less error-prone (and even if it has errors, you usually can fix it by yourself). But Azureus is also a bit slow (again, i don't mean downloading speed) and consumes a fair chunk of memory.

asaenz reviewed v6.0.2 on Feb 16, 2008

I like the prog but I don't like it running a program [btdna.exe] and then not terminating it when I shutdown Bittorrent ... it continues to run in memory and I have to use the task manager to terminate it ... takes about 8420 K of memory which isn't much but I don't like they're not giving me the option to terminate it. I haven't compared it one on one with utorrent yet but it seems to work nearly as well on my system and has most of the basic features of utorrent so I had no learning curve switching over. -1 for DNA otherwise I'm comfortable with it. UPDATE: I was able to uninstall DNA in Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs.

mechandler34 reviewed v6.0.1 on Jan 21, 2008

I really like BitTorrent over uTorrent even though they have virtually the same interface.

jodas reviewed v6.0 Build 4747 on Dec 14, 2007

I can honestly say, that from experience, bittorrent is weird. I like it when it does the things that I want it to do and hate it when in the middle of a download it just drops to .1 kb/s. I might be the only one who experiences this, but I find it rather annoying. I think that the program sucks and if I could go into the negatives on ratings I would for this program.

Paul Skinner reviewed v6.0 Build 4747 on Sep 24, 2007

For me it installed a service called DNA.exe, which is recognised as a virus by AVG Free.
It caused CPU usage of around 10% on a P4 at 3.06GHz.
It was sending too much s*** over the RPC service (which is svchost.exe as a Network Service).

This is unacceptable.

Use Azureus or µTorrent instead.