uTorrent is the "Most Used BitTorrent Client" In 2020- As reported by the TorrentFreak, uTorrent claims the "Most used BitTorrent client" in the world, with a massive 68.6% market share as of March 2020. The second place is caught by another well-known torrent client known as "BitTorrent".
Most Used BitTorrent Client
As reported by the TorrentFreak, uTorrent claims the "Most used BitTorrent client" in the world, with a massive 68.6% market share as of March 2020. The second place is caught by another well-known torrent client known as "BitTorrent".
This reveals that more than two-thirds (68.6%) of these were using uTorrent’s (desktop version).
Popular sites such as KickassTorrents. Torrentz.eu and ExtraTorrent are no more, and the original YTS and EZTV groups have been long disappeared as well.
Most interestingly, both the clients are now maintained by BitTorrent Inc. and are almost the same in terms of features, However, the most used Mac client for downloading torrents is Transmission, since uTorrent for Mac has been discontinued.
Here is the list of BitTorrent client market share:
| Ranking | Client | Market Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| According to, torrentfreak.com | |||
| #1 | uTorrent | 68.6% | |
| #2 | BitTorrent | 6.6% | |
| #3 | libtorrent (uTorrent Web e.a.) | 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 | 0.3% | |
| #11 | FDM | 0.2% | |
| #12 | BitSpirit | 0.2% | |
| #13 | BitLord | 0.1% | |
According to Torrent Freak,
To come up with the numbers, Torrent Freak partnered with IKnowWhatYouDownload and analyzed over "25 million BitTorrent connections logged in a single day".
- Aside from the sheer dominance of uTorrent, the appearance of Libtorrent also stands out. Although very popular, this is not a torrent client but a library that is used by a wide variety of torrent applications.
- The most-used Libtorrent version is 1.2.2.0. Some follow up research revealed that this is used by the latest version of uTorrent Web. Instead of its own ‘client ID,’ the latest web version of uTorrent, which is being pushed as the main option now, identifies as Libtorrent. This means that uTorrent’s market share is even higher than the reported 69%.
- Other surprising entries in the list of most-used clients are Zona and MediaGet. Both applications offer to download and streaming functionality with an easy-to-use interface. While they are available in English, their userbases are mainly from Russia.
- The list is further completed by qBitTorrent, Deluge, Free Download Manager (FDM), and BiglyBT. The latter is operated by former developers of Vuze, which was the second most-used torrent client ten years ago, but is no longer actively developed.
- Other clients that were found in our sample but didn’t make the 0.1% cut are Tribler, Frostwire, Tixati, tTorrent, aTorrent, and PicoTorrent. These may still have thousands of active users on any given day, but they use pales in comparison to the top clients.
- That is also true for Popcorn Time, which generated quite a bit of press attention over the years. None of the Popcorn Time forks, which identity as ‘webtorrent,’ were anywhere close to the top of the list.
- The Popcorn Time observation also highlights an important caveat. The data presented here represents clients from users who are actively sharing files. If a client, such as Popcorn Time, stops seeding after a movie is done, it will no longer be logged in the following days. As such, clients used by people who continue to seed files may be somewhat overrepresented.
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