Torrent Player
Stream and download torrents directly on Android with external media players.
New in version 2.3.0
Targets Android 16 (API 36). The engine supports 16 KB memory pages for newer phones. On Android 15 and newer, background transfers stop cleanly after Android's 6-hour daily limit, with a notice; opening the app continues them. Privacy policy added.
Torrent Player is a lightweight, high-performance torrent downloader and streaming engine designed specifically for Android.
Download torrents directly to your local storage or stream growing video files on-the-fly using your favorite external media players.
Core Features:
Privacy & Freedom:
Network connections:
Download torrents directly to your local storage or stream growing video files on-the-fly using your favorite external media players.
Core Features:
- Direct Local Storage: Single-contract download directly to local public storage (Downloads/Webtor) for straightforward file management.
- In-Progress Video Streaming: Stream growing video files directly to external players such as VLC, Nova Video Player, MPV, or Just Player without waiting for downloads to finish.
- Selective File Downloading: Choose specific files to prioritize or download in multi-file swarms.
- Bitfield Piece Visualizer: Interactive real-time visualizer showing piece distribution and swarm availability.
- Optimized Resource & Battery Usage: Adaptive polling back-off and a native Go engine with bounded preparation storage.
- Modern Material 3 Interface: Intuitive UI with dynamic colors, dark theme support, and animated video preview cards.
- Direct Play: Stream a video from RAM without saving the whole file. Only each video's start and end are kept (up to 1 GB) so episodes reopen fast.
- Continue Watching and Play Next: Resume where you left off and move on to the next episode, with its start fetched in advance.
- Fast Seeking: A small model learned on your phone predicts when each peer will deliver a block, so the data at the play position is requested from the peers likely to send it first. It runs and is stored only on the device.
- Peer Map: Shows peer countries using an offline database bundled with the app (DB-IP Lite, CC BY 4.0). No lookup requests are made.
Privacy & Freedom:
- 100% Free and Open Source Software (MIT License).
- No advertising trackers, analytics, or telemetry.
- Zero advertisements.
- Direct peer-to-peer swarm connectivity (DHT, UDP trackers, TCP, uTP, WebSockets, and WebRTC).
Network connections:
- When the app starts, the engine automatically refreshes a cached public tracker list from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/master/trackers_best.txt. Successful refreshes are scheduled once per day; failed requests may be retried. This request downloads a shared list and does not send torrent hashes or user-supplied tracker URLs.
- Up to 24 additional public BitTorrent trackers are automatically added to each non-private torrent to help discover peers. Cached and built-in fallback trackers are used when the list is unavailable. Private torrents are excluded. Torrent announces share your IP address and torrent info hash with the trackers contacted.
- WebRTC peer connections use STUN servers operated by Google, Twilio, and Cloudflare to discover a public network address for connectivity. These providers can see the source IP address of STUN requests.
- Seeding is on by default: after a download completes, its verified pieces are uploaded to other peers until a share ratio of 1.0 or 60 minutes of seeding, at up to 256 KiB/s and only on Wi-Fi. Seeding pauses during playback. Turn it off or change the limits in Settings, Seeding.
- The app does not provide settings to disable public tracker-list refresh, extra public trackers, or WebRTC. This build supports arm64-v8a devices.
- Author: karmugilen
- License: MIT License
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arm64-v8aThis version requires Android 8.0 or newer.
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New in version 2.0.0
Faster video opening and seeking with improved download write-back. Restore pending magnets after restart. Show per-torrent speeds, live progress and a pieces heat map. Share or copy magnet links from torrent details. Keep background saved-data verification and responsive pause/resume/remove from 1.4.5.