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### About qBittorrent
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.
### Help qBittorrent
qBittorrent is developed by [volunteers](team) in their spare time.
If you like this piece of software, please make a donation and help it survive.
See our [donation page](donate) for more info.
If you want to help in translating qBittorrent, see these instructions.
### qBittorrent Features
* Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
* No Ads
* Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
* Simultaneous search in many Torrent search sites
* Category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Software)
* RSS feed support with advanced download filters (incl. regex)
* Many Bittorrent extensions supported:
* Magnet links
* Distributed hash table (DHT), peer exchange protocol (PEX), local peer discovery (LSD)
* Private torrents
* Encrypted connections
* and many more...
* Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX
* Nearly identical to the regular GUI
* Sequential downloading (Download in order)
* Advanced control over torrents, trackers and peers
* Torrents queueing and prioritizing
* Torrent content selection and prioritizing
* 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
**Go ahead and try qBittorrent, you won't regret it!**