What, how and apps to download torrents on Android: Flud, uTorrent, Bittorrent

To download movies, music or any content on the Internet, you do not necessarily have to find its file .mp3, .mp4, etc. on Google or web pages. What you are looking for may be stored on the PC, cell phone or device of another user on the other side of the world. And the interesting thing is that you could download it thanks to the magic of P2P or «peer to peer». There are programs and applications for this. One of the most popular is eMule, where you look for the file on your network and download it. The other option, even faster (1), is to use a torrent client such as BitTorrent or Flud, which I detail below.

A torrent it is nothing more than a file with information about the destination of a file that interests you. Although the advantage of downloading a torrent (or rather what is inside the torrent) is that the speed should be faster than with eMule, its disadvantage is that in torrent clients no option to search for files, as with eMule, Kazaa or similar. Therefore, you should search for torrents or «magnet» files in Google or pages similar to The Pirate Bay that hosted these types of files. Once you find the torrent, you open it with your torrent client to download it.

Download torrents on Android

BitTorrent y uTorrent

There are several Android apps for downloading torrents. Just do a search with that keyword on Google Play to find several of them. Most applications are based on the protocolo bittorrent. If you want to go for the official thing, the creators of this protocol have their respective free official apps BitTorrent Y uTorrent. However, there are unofficial clients that are much more complete and where you do not have to pay for unlock functions or features, What Flud.

BitTorrent and uTorrent, which are practically the same app, being uTorrent the most downloaded with more than 100 million downloads, they barely allow configure bandwidth and downloads. The rest of its functions of auto power off O battery saving they are locked in the free version.

Flud, the best BitTorrent client for Android

Conversely, Flud it is a much more complete BitTorrent client. Besides the bandwidth management and downloads, you can limit the number of uploads and downloads, schedule the closing of the app, choose the network protocols used, manage the battery usage, etc., all completely free. All its functions are unlocked at no cost, although if you prefer you can buy the paid version to remove the ads, for $ 1.35, an even lower cost than the paid version of BitTorrent and uTorrent ($ 2.99).

Flud shows you in detail the status of the torrent download, being able to see, in addition to the speed and size downloaded, the unloaded parts on a map, the torrent availability, leechers, seeders, how are the pairs, etc. You can also add more trackers than those available by default.

Obviously, in Flud you can pause the download of a torrent to resume at another time and you can watch the video or file while downloading. Tapping on the torrent should jump to the corresponding player app or allow you to choose one.

Here is a list of some prominent features of Flud for Android:

• Support for enlaces magnet, which can be links, can be copied from the clipboard or by writing them manually.
• Control and limit bandwidth you use.
• Close the application when the download of the active torrents is finished.
• Move the downloaded torrent to another directory when done.
• Notification when you finish downloading a torrent.
• Configure to download torrents only with a Wi-Fi connection.
• Set the number of port you use. Activate some network extras like DHT, LSD, uPnP, and even enable or disable the connection encryption.

Conclution

Flud is definitely one of the best apps to download torrents on Android, even better than the official BitTorrent and uTorrent apps. Perhaps the only advantage of the latter and that Flud does not have is BitTorrent Connect, a feature that allows you to manage the download and view or play the torrents from your PC from your Android.

References: (1) Wikipedia

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