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qBittorrent

by The qBittorrent Project

An open-source Bittorrent client

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later and OpenSSL v5.2.3
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About

The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows). qBittorrent is based on the Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar library.

  • Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
  • Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
  • RSS feed support with advanced download filters (incl. regex)
  • Many Bittorrent extensions supported
  • Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX
  • Sequential downloading (Download in order)
  • Advanced control over torrents, trackers and peers
  • Bandwidth scheduler
  • Torrent creation tool
  • IP Filtering (eMule & PeerGuardian format compatible)
  • IPv6 compliant
  • UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
  • Available on all platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2
  • Available in ~70 languages

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • session management (logout, suspend)
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.login1
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
  • talks to org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
  • talks to org.ayatana.indicator.application
    --talk-name=org.ayatana.indicator.application
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • session inhibit
    --talk-name=org.gnome.SessionManager
  • battery status
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.UPower

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