PicoTorrent

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#30 of 36

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Score

5.8

The facts below are what the maker publishes about PicoTorrent, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From PicoTorrent's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
PicoTorrent	Free	Windows BitTorrent client · MIT licensed · portable version requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Each one read from PicoTorrent's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Configuration storage: PicoTorrent stores configuration, session, and torrent state in an SQLite database.checked 11 Oct 2026
Downloads: The documentation says new releases are published on GitHub and FossHub and advises installing only from trusted sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
Filtering: Its embedded PicoTorrent Query Language can filter the torrent list by fields such as name, progress, size, status, and transfer speed.checked 11 Oct 2026
IP filtering: It supports eMule Security IP filters, which users enable by selecting an IP filter ZIP file in Preferences.checked 11 Oct 2026
License: The project is provided as-is under the MIT license.checked 11 Oct 2026
Native interface: The project describes its interface as having a native look and feel across Windows versions.checked 11 Oct 2026
Peer discovery: It supports DHT, PeX, LSD, and UPnP.checked 11 Oct 2026
Performance: It uses Rasterbar-libtorrent, which the project says provides high performance and low memory usage.checked 11 Oct 2026
Purpose: PicoTorrent is a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++.checked 11 Oct 2026
Support and community: The project points users to its Discord server for chatting with the community.checked 11 Oct 2026
Torrent creation: Users can create single-file or multi-file torrents in v1, v2, or hybrid mode.checked 11 Oct 2026
Torrent support: It supports BitTorrent 2.0, v1, v2, and v1+v2 hybrid torrents.checked 11 Oct 2026

Platform limit: The project describes PicoTorrent as a BitTorrent client for Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026