New in version 1.2.0
- New: RSS support - browse feeds, read articles, and manage auto-download rules, with notifications for new articles
- New: drag-and-drop reordering for the server list
- Fixed: a background battery drain from polling after opening the RSS screen
- Fixed: the torrent details screen could spin forever after tapping a notification
- Torrent and RSS article search now match words in any order, not just exact substrings
Captain qBit is a modern Android app for managing a qBittorrent instance remotely over its Web API. It's a client for your self-hosted qBittorrent server — not a standalone downloader.
Features:
* Live torrent list with global and per-torrent speeds, progress, and ETA
* Sort, search, and filter by status, category, tracker, or tags from a drawer sidebar
* Category and tags shown as chips, with a colour you can pick per category
* Manage multiple servers and switch between them
* Add torrents via magnet links or .torrent files, with category, save path, start-paused, and Automatic Torrent Management options
* Choose which files to download when adding, and set per-file priorities from the Files tab
* Create categories on the fly, manage tags, recheck, reannounce, rename, and change save paths
* Detailed view with Info, Files, Trackers, and Peers tabs, including a browsable file tree
* Light, Dark, or System theme, with optional Material You dynamic colours
* Optional status notification, plus opt-in alerts when a download or force-recheck finishes,
with configurable refresh intervals to trade freshness for battery life
* Browse RSS feeds and articles, with auto-download rules and notifications for new matches
* Encrypted backup and restore of your servers and settings
* Clear failure reasons when a torrent errors, instead of a bare "error"
* Optional HTTP Basic Auth for servers behind a reverse proxy, plus self-signed certificate support
* Works with qBittorrent 4.x and 5.x
Captain qBit began as a fork of qBittorrent Manager by Yash Garg and builds on that foundation. It is free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license.
Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/Acamol/Captain-qBit
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Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
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This version requires Android 9.0 or newer.
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Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
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run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
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have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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run at startup
Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
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prevent phone from sleeping
Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
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dev.acamol.qbit.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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New in version 1.1.1
- Fixed: opening a torrent/magnet link while the app was already on the torrent list could flash the Add Torrent dialog and immediately close it, silently dropping the torrent
- Hardened encrypted-backup restore to always honor the backup's own encryption settings
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arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
x86
x86_64
This version requires Android 9.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
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run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
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have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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run at startup
Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
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prevent phone from sleeping
Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
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dev.acamol.qbit.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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New in version 1.1.0
- Fixed a background battery drain from polling after the app was closed
- New: configurable notification/list refresh rates in Settings to save battery
- Tapping a "download complete" notification now opens that torrent directly
- Fixed: opening a torrent file from another app could silently do nothing on the first try
- On-device crash reports, with an optional pre-filled GitHub issue link
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arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
x86
x86_64
This version requires Android 9.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
-
run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
-
run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
-
run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
-
have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
-
show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
-
run at startup
Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
-
prevent phone from sleeping
Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
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dev.acamol.qbit.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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