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24 alternatives to Hadouken – a cross-platform, extensible BitTorrent daemon

A cross-platform, headless BitTorrent client with low memory footprint. - hadouken/hadouken

Hadouken is a headless BitTorrent client designed to run across multiple platforms with minimal memory usage. It functions as a daemon, making it suitable for users who need a lightweight, command-line BitTorrent… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hadouken – a cross-platform, extensible BitTorrent daemon launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    🧲 Easy to Use Torrent Client. Can be hosted in Cloud. Files can be streamed in Browser/Media Player. - varbhat/exatorrent

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try). I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimal distributed configuration management in bash - frameable/aviary.sh

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here. - publiusfederalist/federalist

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BitTorrent library and client with DHT, magnet links, encryption and more - bt/README.md at master · atomashpolskiy/bt

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek. - ottomatica/slim

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple, auditable & elegant VPN, built with TLS mutual authentication and TUN. - twitchyliquid64/subnet

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Synapse BitTorrent Daemon. Contribute to Luminarys/synapse development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hey guys. the other day i was migrating hosting providers and i just needed something not too heavy and convenient to spin up my backups for awhile and realised there is almost nothing out there. kimchi hasn't been updated for years and cockpit is heavy. so here's something i came up with in a couple hours because of a sudden urge, nothing fancy just basic creation with cloud init, lifecycle management and image/storage, but it's modern-ish and it compiles to a 8.4mb binary inclusive of the embedded web UI, CLI and API, and only dep is libvirt.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows. - sergiotapia/torrentinim

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    bitwarden▲168

    A free, open source, and cross platform password manager.

    2016 · bitwarden.com · its alternatives →

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    SSH-based "VPN for poors". Contribute to ivanilves/xiringuito development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal. Contribute to smmr-software/mabel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, For the past few months, I've been exploring tools that integrate with the Linux networking stack. This led me to build SafeHaven, a lightweight and configurable VPN implementation written in Go. The goal was to better understand how virtual private networks work at a fundamental level. Would love feedback from the community! Repo link: https://github.com/kwakubiney/safehaven

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Streamlined Web + BitTorrent player from a VLC developer

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    BitTorrent library and client with DHT, magnet links, encryption and more - atomashpolskiy/bt

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    reep.io▲84

    Secure peer-to-peer file transfers between browsers

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    A bittorrent client in Rust. Contribute to ikatson/rqbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Having been regularly annoyed by Proton and even Gmail search on emails, especially after working every day with coding agents in the past year or so, I wanted to catch up the experience of searching emails to the rest of the world. Not a big innovation, but a real itch scratcher as far as I'm concerned.

    Jun 2026 · margaine.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I just released hTorrent, a gateway that allows for retrieving torrents through a plain HTTP interface. It supports seeking, which means that it can be used to stream media directly using e.g. MPV without having to wait for the download to complete. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Descent▲74

    Cross-device cloudless file transfer app

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    VVTerm▲80

    Ghostty-powered SSH client for iOS, iPad, MacOS.

    Feb 2026 · vvterm.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · karelbilek.com · its alternatives →

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    🌧 BitTorrent client and library in Go. Contribute to cenkalti/rain development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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