PikaTorrent ⚡

A modern, simple, connected, and electric BitTorrent app ⚡

⚠️ Project status

PikaTorrent is currently being rewritten with Flutter. The codebase will greatly change and old implementation will be retired.

Flutter targets mobile & desktop. It allows me to focus on developing the app instead of continuously fight with the stack for each target (React Native/Electron/Node.js/Tamagui, and WebRTC implementations).

Remote control and CLI will no longer be available from next releases. Anyway, the UX was not great, it was not always working correctly, and it's a niche feature. It might come back later though, maybe.

PikaTorrent will now focus on providing a greater and consistent torrent experience on Mobile & Desktop, even for Apple devices 🤞.

Installation

Desktop & mobile

The recommended way to install PikaTorrent is from the app stores. You will receive automatic updates & the app will be associated with magnet: and pikatorrent: links, and .torrent files on desktop.

Windows	Linux	Android

CLI

A cli is available on npm.

npm i -g pikatorrent
pikatorrent node # Start a headless pikatorrent node

Scan the qrcode from the mobile app, or click on your secret link to control your node from app.pikatorrent.com. You will be prompted to accept the connection.

Usage

Start PikaTorrent, open magnet links, share direct links, add your favorite torrents search engine, link the mobile app with your desktop app...

Join the discord for support, & report any bugs or features on Github ❤️

Development

You will need the flutter SDK to be installed on your platform. Follow the guide at https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install. You will

You might need to install cmake, openssl, curl and other depencies in order to compile the project.

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:G-Ray/pikatorrent.git pikatorrent
cd pikatorrent/app
flutter run

Localization

We use weblate to localize the app.

License

GPL-3.0