Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Magnetar, a high-perf BitTorrent parsing and manipulation library

It provides zero-dependency, memory-safe operations for working with torrent files, bencode data, and magnet links.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search▲57

   2012 · moviemagnet.net · its alternatives →

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   Magnet Link Generator▲5

   A simple utility to convert Torrent Hash to Magnet Link.

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir▲394

   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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   BitCannon▲69

   A torrent index archiving, browsing, and backup tool

   2015 · anlatted.in.net · its alternatives →

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   Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir▲403

   Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database. - sergiotapia/magnetissimo

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Magnetico – self-hosted BitTorrent DHT search engine suite▲95

   Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite. - boramalper/magnetico

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Zif, peer-to-peer torrent indexing in Go▲9

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Btapp.js▲56

   BitTorrent's Torque powered javascript library

   2014 · btappjs.com · its alternatives →

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   Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine▲117

   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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    Magnetar ▲2

    Grab torrents, send them anywhere!

    May 2026 · arrcee.com · its alternatives →

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    TorrentNet – Peer-To-Peer Sites Using BitTorrent and SQLite▲5

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    bitbeaker - a bitbucket client for Android▲9

    2012 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Seazm▲6

    Instant Torrent Player that works with any magnet link.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Data Torrent▲62

    Real-time data streaming (1B events/second)

    2015 · datatorrent.com · its alternatives →

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    Aether, bittorrent for text▲8

    2013 · getaether.net · its alternatives →

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    Bt is approaching 1.0 – The next step in Java torrents▲8

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

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Super fast BitTorrent DHT index – ralyodio/dht_indexer▲26

    Contribute to ralyodio/dht_indexer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bt – 0-hassle BitTorrent for Java 8▲8

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

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Magnet Downloader - Torrents Search App▲2

    Best tool on Android to search torrents.

    2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20FM
    Filelove – minimal P2P file transfer right in the browser▲9

    2022 · file.love · its alternatives →

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    BitTorrent Shoot▲20

    Sync easily moves anything, anywhere.

    2015 · resilio.com · its alternatives →

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    Rust Based Per-Token Late Interaction Dense Search▲8

    Happy to release FastPlaid, which aim to ease and accelerate ColBERT and ColPali retrieval

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Openemacs – a tiny emacs clone, ≤ 1024 LOC (C), based on kilo (BSD)▲8

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cortris – A Simple Url Shortener written in Go▲6

    2020 · adalricus.nand.sh · its alternatives →

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