BitComet

Description

BitComet is a free BitTorrent client and also a download manager for HTTP/FTP having the ability to support multiple simultaneous downloads.

It is a complex multi-threaded and multi-protocol file-sharing software with plenty of features (some of them being unique) such as (1 - BitTorrent related) long-term seeding, torrent share, support for magnet URI and cross protocol download, align file to piece boundary, intelligent optimization for your Internet Connection, intelligent disk cache and allocation (reduces the read/write frequency of your HDD and also disk fragmentation), download preview, support for DHT network, auto config for ICF and UPNP, multi-tracker support, UTF-8 extension, UDP tracker Protocol etc. (2 - HTTP/FTP download) support for P2P download, intelligent file rename, download preview, quick resume, multi-mirror and multi-section downloads, upload and download speed limit, support for tags, bandwidth scheduler, automatic shutdown, etc. This application runs on Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit), macOS, Linux and Android.

The Installer/Setup version is available from the official BitComet archive download page.

BitComet Review

BitComet is stable and mature enough. The first version was released back in 2003, so it has more than two decades of development. It has features such as Long-Term Seeding, Intelligent Disk Cache (at least for Solid-state drives this function must be very useful) and an eMule Plugin (useful if you want to find seeds in the ED2K network if there is no seed available in the BitTorrent network).

Conclusion: Probably the biggest advantage of using BitComet is that you have several programs (BitTorrent client plus P2P - HTTP/FTP) inside one. Add a large amount of features and support for them (a Wiki section) and there you go: you have an excellent, (I would dare to say) underrated, free file-sharing software.