The Best Free uTorrent Apps

uBrowse is a file search utility to more quickly and easily locate the files you have downloaded with your µTorrent client. Search for torrents or files, both downloading and complete, by torrent name or directory name.

This app is quite helpful/useful for the average uTorrent user, and it's ease of access is commendable. I cannot really see a downside to having this app installed.

 uBrowse is ideally used with other uTorrent apps.

WARNING: if you have more than a hundred torrents stored in utorrent, you should not install ubrowse as that will cause utorrent slow down and/or freeze, and you can't uninstall it easily. This app is useless for those who keep lots of torrents. If you really want to test uBrowse, use a portable utorrent verson with small number of torrents.

uMap is a map-based visualizations of where all the peers are that you are connected with around the world. Organize by client type, country of origin or swarm. This means that you can see the location of any of your peers.

The app is extremely easy to use, maybe too easy. Some of you may love this concept, however I dislike the idea that someone downloading the same thing as my can see my exact location (approximately accurate to the street, sometimes even house). However as a Mr X stated, using a VPN (masks your i.p) stops your actual location from appearing on the map. If you know of any good VPN's please comment. [If you're trying to find a VPN look here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anonymous-surfing-service.htm]

uTetris/Tetronimoes. Have you ever sat at your computer bored whilst waiting for your torrent to download? That will no longer happen with Tetronimoes (Was called uTetris). 

The developer said Tetronimoes is "Our version of the popular dropping blocks game - something random but fun to pass the time while you're waiting for your downloads to finish."

This is enough said, it's a good little app, however if your internet is good enough to browse whilst downloading then you could find better Tetris games elsewhere.

Virus Guard is a service provided by BitDefender to try and guard your computer against malicious items/software/torrents. The developer's says "Scan from within BitTorrent — avoid wasting resources on a full disk scan". However in reality most anti-virus or anti-spyware software allows to scan certain files or folders.

In theory this is a good idea. But it just didn't do it for me.... Firstly, it hogs resources (takes up around 200,000k of process, even when not scanning). Secondly, I just don't need it, I only download from safe sources and with most Anti-Virus it is very easy to scan it manually. And Finally the one time there was a virus in something I was downloading it did not detect anything.

As previously said Virus Guard just isnt neccesary. Urbane. Tiger pointed out that if you go to "Options->Advanced->Run Program", in "Run this program when torrent finishes" enter the command line to run your AV Scanner (Where the .exe of the scanner is)

Examples

"...\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe -scan %F"
"...\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbam.exe /scan -terminate %F"

VLC media player app automatically displays the torrents you’ve downloaded in a list and allows you to play each through the VLC media player with a single click.

The VLC media player plays everything. And it comes with nearly every codec built in so you don't have to continually run updates. It can even play files that have been damaged.

For me this is an amazing app, I know it doesnt take much time to manually start the video, but it is nice to just have it there ready. Unlike the Virus Guard the VLC app takes up barely any - none CPU Usage.

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