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There are a bunch of great apps you can install on your Mac—no question there. Separating amazing apps from must-have apps is the hard part, and we don’t want you to spend hours analyzing the Mac App Store (or scouring the web) to find the very best and most useful apps. We’ve made a list of champions across four categories: productivity; Internet and communications; music, photos, and video; and utilities.

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Productivity

Alfred (free-ish)

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You can do a lot with Spotlight in macOS, but Alfred is still our favorite application launcher for yourMac. This easy-to-use tool can do so much more than pull up apps, files, and and keyword-driven automation. Plunk down £19 for the Powerpack, and you’ll get a clipboard history, access to workflows (that you can use to combine different actions, hotkeys, and keywords to do even more), hotkeys, 1Password integration, and even text expansion. In other words, paying for Alfred covers a number of activities that you’d have to download separate apps for—some featured in this very Lifehacker Pack. If you’re a new Alfred buyer and feeling little overwhelmed, be sure to check out our beginner’s guide to the app to get a handle on all the amazing things you can do with it.

If you don’t want to pay anything for an app launcher that has similar (but fewer) features under the hood, check out LaunchBar 6: free, if you don’t mind a little bother here and there. That, or consider tricking out Spotlight.

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Bear (free-ish)

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This cutely named app is one of the best note-taking apps you can get, with one small caveat—to synchronize notes between your devices or use custom themes, you’ll need to pony up $15/year for the app’s subscription. Otherwise, Bear is completely free to use (and looks great).

Within the app, you organize your notes by hashtags rather than unwieldy folders. You can also link notes to one another, which makes it a lot easier to chain together related thoughts instead of having to dump everything into one giant Super Note or remember that you had a few things to say, split into different notes, about a particular topic. Install Bear’s browser extension for Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, and you’ll be able to create new notes from whatever portion of a webpage you select. Also, Bear makes it easy to import notes from other services, including Apple Notes, so you really have no reason to not give it a spin.

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If you need to sync notes and don’t feel like paying for it, consider apps like OneNote, Google Keep, or Simplenote—all good choices, but none that can beat our Bear for usability and looks.

aText ($5)

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Who would have thought that text expansion, otherwise known as typing shortcuts, would be so expensive? While it’s true that you can create these kinds of shortcuts yourself directly within macOS, a full-fledged text expansion app is going to save you a lot of time and trouble. We like aText if for nothing else than its price—$5—given that much-loved alternatives like Textexpander ($3.33/mo on an annual plan; $45 for an older standalone) and TypeIt4Me 6 ($20) are anywhere from a bit to a lot more expensive.

As for aText, using it is simple. You set it up so that whenever you enter little words or phrases, the app drops in something else. So, you can finally correct that annoying “ducking” issue forevermore,

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Text expansion, also known as typing shortcuts, can save you hours of typing each day. You type a small word or combination of characters and it’ll expand into full, complex sentences that you often use. We love aText because it offers so many great features and only costs $5. If you haven’t yet jumped on the text expansion train, it’s time.

Todoist (free-ish)

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For simple note-taking and note-organizing, you can’t go wrong with Todoist. The app is completely free—unless you want to pay $39/yearly for more advanced features like automatic reminders, backups, themes, and an activity overview, to name a few features. Otherwise, the basics are great. It’s easy to create and synchronize tasks (and subtasks) across all of your Todoist-using devices, and browser extensions (including a Gmail addon) will help you make Todoist, and your growing task list, an ever-present part of your daily life. You won’t have that same kind of experience with plain ol’ Notes, especially if you’re trying to access your items on multiple platforms.

If you’re a big Google fan, we also love Google Tasks, which you’ll find directly integrated into the latest version of Gmail (and as a direct app for iOS and Android). You can also add to-do items into our note-taking app, Bear. The app Things 3 is a super-comprehensive task manager, but it costs quite a bit: $50 for Mac, $10 for iPhone, and $20 for your iPad. If the first item on your to-do list is “rob a bank,” however, it’s a gorgeous, fully featured app. And if you want to harass yourself about things you have to get done on your Mac, consider giving the quicky Effortless a try—which drops a countdown timer for your tasks directly into your Mac’s menu bar.

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Google Drive and Office Online (free)

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We don’t really have to introduce Google Drive, because Google’s offerings should be pretty well-known by everyone at this point. Docs and Sheets are great, free tools for creating and collaborating on documents and spreadsheets (of course), so much so, that a number of businesses solely rely on Google’s offerings instead of anything fancier or pricier.

If you’re a Microsoft convert, or you really love Word and Excel, you can access basic, online versions of both programs directly from Microsoft—no Office 365 subscription needed. If you’d rather work offline, Apple’s Pages and Numbers are the obvious, free choices, and LibreOffice is still the best open-source office app around.

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Airmail ($5)

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If you really don’t feel like fussing around with Mail, which is fine enough for most macOS users, consider giving Airmail a try. It’s been our favorite third-party mail app for some time given its low price and ample customization. It also hooks into a ton of other third-party apps and services, including Trello, Evernote, your favorite cloud storage service, and Apple’s mighty Workflow app (on iOS, that is).

If you don’t need power options and want easy, simple email, the free Spark is definitely worth checking out—especially since it can help you automatically sort your inbox to make it feel less like an ever-growing pile of things you’ll never read. Boxy 2 is great if you’re a Gmail user who wants the powers of its Inbox app on your desktop (and don’t mind paying $5 for it), and Mailplane 4 ($30) is a solid app if you prefer an interface that looks like the regular ol’ Gmail. Power users might want to investigate Wavebox ($20/year), which lets you access Gmail, Inbox, Outlook, and all sorts of other amazing web apps directly from one, easy-to-use interface.

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Internet and Communications

Google Chrome and Firefox Quantum (free)

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The browser you use is likely going to be dictated by the browser you’ve been using. In other words, if you’re a Google Chrome loyalist, it’ll probably take a lot to get you to switch over to Firefox Quantum (if you’re at all intrigued). And if you’ve been with Firefox from day one, you’re probably a lot less likely to want to move all of your bookmarks, extensions, and other settings over to Chrome.

So, which browser is best? It’s not so much that one excels over the other; it’s more important to say that both, finally, are pretty competitive. Depending on the benchmarks you look at—here are a bunch from ZDNet, for example—the browsers appear evenly matched for speed. I haven’t gone through and assessed the most-recent version of each, but I have used both Firefox Quantum and Google Chrome, and they both feel, well, fast. That said, Chrome still feels a bit like a hog when you’re trying to load a ton of tabs at once, but it’s pretty good about using less of your CPU and memory than other browsers.

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If you don’t like either, Opera is a viable alternative that’s actually pretty speedy in its own right—and we can’t complain about its built-in VPN, either, nor its awesome integration of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram directly into an easy-to-launch sidebar.

Goofy and Franz (free)

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Years ago, it felt like everyone used one chat client to cover a bunch of services (ICQ, AIM, IRC, Jabber, et cetera). Most people nowadays probably have their favorites locked in: Messages for texting, Facebook Messenger for everything else, WhatsApp for sending government secrets or expiring pictures of your booty, Discord for any and all things gaming, Slack for all things not-gaming, et cetera. So, rather than go into detail with all the more obvious apps, we’ll highlight two unique ones.

Facebook Messenger, as you know, requires you to be on Facebook to use it. If I’m correct, you used to be able to essentially connect Facebook’s service to Messages itself, so you could send and receive your Facebook chats without having to have your browser open all the time. And if I’m right (again), you can no longer do that. Instead, you’ll want an app like Goofy, which basically drops the Facebook Messenger interface into a simple application that you can access from your desktop.

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We’re also fans of Franz, which offers the same treatment for a variety of other services (as well as Facebook Messenger). If you don’t want to keep 20 programs open to chat with people, Franz lets you access apps like Slack, WeChat, WhatsApp, Skype, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Messenger all from one, single interface.

Skype (free)

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Everyone also probably has a video chat app they love to use. And there are plenty to pick from: FaceTime, which comes baked into macOS by default; the aforementioned WhatsApp; Google Hangouts; Houseparty; and even good ol’ Facebook Messenger itself.

If you’re looking for a standalone messaging app that can do it all—for personal and business use, too—we still recommend Skype, which Microsoft recently overhauled. Its interface feels cleaner (and comes with a dark mode), it’s still as easy as ever to send text messages, video messages, and files to contacts, and you can even @ message your friends to get their attention.

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That said, we live in an time where most messaging apps have some kind of video or calling component—or so it feels. So if you need that human contact beyond simple texting and emoji, odds are good that you can already do it in the chat app you love.

Music, Photos, and Video

VLC (free)

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VLC is the best media player you can put on your Mac, period. It works perfectly with minimal fuss once you install it, and it can play almost any file you throw at it. If you’re a power user, it has a sea of options that would take the entire rest of this article to describe to you.

We enjoy all the improvements VideoLAN tosses VLC’s way, including its new support for 10-bit color depth and HDR, 360 videos, and improved decoding that allows less-powerful systems to play full 4K videos—even if that’s overkill for your Mac’s display resolution. You can drop a number of plug-ins and extensions into VLC to extend its functionality, and you can even use the app to stream videos to your Chromecast, if you’ve allowed Google to get a foothold into your Apple-only household.

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HandBrake (free)

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HandBrake is a free video conversion tool that, when coupled with an app like MakeMKV, will turn you into a ripping and converting powerhouse. HandBrake is pretty easy to use, but there are still plenty of settings that might give you a little anxiety when you first load the app. We have a guide to help out with that. Once you’ve mastered the basics, queuing up multiple videos and converting them to all kinds of different formats will feel second-nature. Also, don’t forget to grab VLC, mentioned above, so you can actually watch all of your creations.

Adobe Bridge CC, digiKam, and Google Backup and Sync (free)

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Apple’s standard Photos app does a pretty decent job organizing your sprawling photo, thanks to collections, tags, and the ability to view photos by when (and where) they were taken. You can even do a little light editing, too.

If you need a little more organizational oomph, consider Adobe Bridge CC—completely free to use, even though you might have assumed it was a paid app. You can’t do a lot of editing in Bridge (well, any retouching, really), but what it lacks in tools, it makes up for in data. You can easily see all sorts of compelling metadata about the images you’ve taken, and organizing them via ratings, keywords, and labels is easy. Well, setting it up is easy. Actually organizing your sprawling photo library might take a little time, but it’ll be worth it in the end, trust me.

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The open-source app digiKam has organizing, editing, and a UI that’s fairly similar to what you’d find in Adobe Bridge CC. If you’re not used apps like Adobe’s Lightroom, digiKam might feel a bit advanced—possibly even overkill for your needs—but it’s a powerful app for pro users that would rather spend their cash on camera hardware than more software.

Google Backup and Sync isn’t a photo organizing app itself, but it’s what you’ll want to use to get your photos uploaded into Google Photos—a great online tool and compelling alternative to iCloud as a result of the unlimited storage space you get for photos. It’s easy to create collections and share photos with others (Google will even make suggestions for you based around where and when you’ve taken your shots). And we also like that you can get pretty creative with your searches when sorting and organizing your sprawling photo library.

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Spotify ($10) and Amazon Music Unlimited ($8)

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Which music streaming service you pick is largely a matter of preference: one might carry your favorite band, one might have an app interface you greatly prefer, one might have all your friends on it. If you aren’t into Apple Music for these, or any other valid reasons, Spotify is the next obvious choice (sorry Tidal). It has a huge library, its social features are great, and we love the thought it puts into its playlists—human-curated and automatically generated.

If you’re already an Amazon Prime subscriber, you should also consider checking out the company’s Amazon Music Unlimited service. You’ll have to pay $8 on top of your Prime subscription, but that still makes it slightly cheaper than an Apple Music ($10) or Spotify Premium ($10).

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Pixelmator ($30) and Affinity Photo ($50)

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Pixelmator is one of the best image editors on the Mac, but it’s no longer the only game in town. Though its $30 asking price might seem high, it’s a bargain considering all the incredible editing tools you get to play with—rivaling more comprehensive apps like Adobe’s Photoshop CC for a fraction of the price. (And if you want features like Touch Bar support, automatic color adjustments, and advanced compression—as well as HEIF exporting—you’ll want to pick up the pricier Pixelmator Pro for $60)

Affinity Photo is a compelling, albeit costlier alternative to Pixelmator that’ll set you back $50 for a professional-grade suite of tools, including full RAW editing and a UI that looks a lot like the Photoshop you might prefer (but don’t want to pay a subscription to get). That includes support for “Personas,” which mimics Photoshop’s Workspaces feature by allowing you to set your screen’s many options and buttons based on whatever it is you’re working on—if you prefer one set of tools for a simple editing and another set of tools for something more complex, like pre-processing images for print.

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If you’re looking for basic image editing and your Mac’s built-in Photos app isn’t enough, you can always give the open-source app GIMP a try. What it lacks in polish, it makes up for in price.

Utilities

Dropbox, Google Drive, and Mega (free-ish)

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These cloud storage services should all be household names at this point. We’ve covered their costs, and their peers’ pricing models, pretty extensively. Which one you go with depends on your budget, preferences, and needs. Dropbox is a great, all-encompassing solution for cloud storage, but you’ll need to get creative to get more than 2GB of free space with the service. Google Drive is a no-brainer, since you get 15GB of space and can easily synchronize files to your laptop or desktop to work on them offline.

With Mega, you get 50GB of free cloud storage to play with and a handy app (MEGAsync) that you can use across your Windows and Mac computers. Mega does have an annoying transfer quota of around 1GB or so in a 24-hour time span, but that’s a small price to pay for a free 50 gigs. Take that, thumbdrives

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qBittorrent or Deluge (free)

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Ever since Transmission had all those malware issues some time ago, and uTorrent filled its installer full of crap and cryptocurrency miners, we’ve been on the hunt for a simple BitTorrent app, and we’ve settled on qBittorrent. It’s an open-source downloading tool that should look pretty familiar for anyone who has used an app like uTorrent or Transmission previously. No big surprises with qBittorrent’s UI or features. We like that the app is ad- and crap-free, is completely open source, and can automatically quit or shut down your PC when your download is done. Deluge is a good BitTorrent app alternative, but the app hasn’t been updated since May of 2017 (when we wrote this), and we prefer something with more active development.

Backblaze ($5/mo)

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If you want to keep your important files on the cloud, rather than a Time Machine backup, that’s fine—you might not have spare storage sitting around, after all. Backblaze is our new top pick for backup services, since it costs half the price of Crashplan (previously great) and does all the same things. Install the app, pick the files and folders you want to back up (encrypted, no less), and hope you never have to use the service’s restoration features.

The Unarchiver (free)

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If you have file archives that your Mac can’t open, give The Unarchiver a shot at them. It’s free, it’s quick, and it does a good job of opening that which your Mac cannot open itself. It also works directly out of Finder, so you won’t have to (annoyingly) open up a separate app before you take a crack at your archives.

A good alternative is Keka, which is also free, also opens a bunch of different archive formats, and can even be faster than The Unarchiver depending on the archive format and size. If you have issues with one app, try the other, and you might find that it does a better job extracting your files.

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(This story originally ran in July 2016, written by Alan Henry. It was updated in July 2018 by David Murphy.)

Contents

  • We don’t encourage you to use the torrents to download the copyright material. However, if you decide to do so, Please use the VPN Software and Ad-blockers to avoid being caught by ISPs as well as the LEAs using IP, DNS Leaks, and Ad-trackers.
  • This ranking is entirely independent and I neither have any affiliations with any of the below-listed websites nor dictated by the Editorial to make any changes in the ranking.

Torrenting is fun. Isn’t it? but it is quite a grey space as well on the internet due to the distribution of copyrighted content and malpractice to earn money. Just Googling will not stumble you upon the best torrent site.

There is an abundant number of torrent websites available at your disposal but there only a handful that will deliver what you were searching for ranging from a wide degree of content such as movies, music, shows, games, sports, channels and a whole lot more (don’t forget the speed limit too).

Our list of the top torrent sites will detail out which site offers the best repository depending on a specific category of content, just to make your life a little less harsh and a little more simple and entertaining at the same time.

The ranking is a very tricky part of this whole review thing. We would like to make sure that ranking we produce must be authentic and help our readers to make informed decisions about the website they are going to use for torrent download. Here are the few factors that helped us in the ranking,

  • Age of Website: This doesn’t only include how long the website is being in business but also how resilient it is to Law Enforcement Agencies. The websites with malpractices won’t last much longer.
  • Niche: This is what kind of range is being offered on the menu of the website. Some torrent offers only a single niche such as movies. While others cover a wider range such as software etc.
  • Quality of Torrents: This was one of the difficult variables to measure so we took 10 samples from most downloaded torrents and tried to determine their quality. Is this really what is being offered.
  • Ads: These websites are too crazy about earning money. I don’t think that gives a second thought that either we should use this type of advertisement or not. People still gonna visit them. So, we considered it also
  • Malware: When the hunger of torrent websites is not fulfilled by the money. They move into using malware to infect their visitors and grab more money using crypto mining etc.
  • Instant Download: Well, yes mostly this appears as an ad on the torrenting websites but we really looked into it that how many different download options are being provided.
  • Mirrors: Internet Service Provides has the legal authority to check on the torrent traffics. So, mostly they pull down a specific network route to prevent. Mirroring allows the presence of alternative routes and servers.

Alongside this, we are going to provide some numbers related to the monthly million users (or daily visitors) that visit these torrenting websites so that you can be well informed of their popularity (once again, do take these figures with a grain of salt).

In addition, we are going to summarize which of these best torrent websites are suited for which category so that you don’t have to waste precious time and can immediately jump in when you want to start downloading the best possible content depending on your interests.

SiteDatabaseBest Known For
P2PGuru1 Million+Movies, TV Series, Games, eBooks
Bitport.io2.3 Million+Cloud based, best for Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, eBooks
The Pirate Bay4 Million+TV Shows, Movies, Music, Books
Torrentz270 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Application
Kickass Torrents, KATCr10 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, eBooks
1337X2.5 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Applications,
RARBG.9 Million+Movies, TV Shows, Applications, eBooks
LimeTorrents10 Million+Movies, Music, Games, Anime
TorrentDownloads16 Million+TV Shows, Movies, Music, Books
TorrentFunk3 Million+Movies, Music, Games, Software
YTS.AG7500+Movies
ExtraTorrent13 Million+Movies, Music, eBooks, Software
iDope19 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Games
TorrentProject8 Million+Movies, Music, Games, Books
Torlock4.5 Million+Movies, TV Series, Games, eBook, Anime
Zooqle3.3 Million+Movies, TV Shows, Music, Books
Sky Torrents17 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, eBooks, Games
YourBittorrent1.2 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Anime, eBooks
WorldwideTorrents5 Million+Movies, Music, eBooks, Software
Pirateiro1 Million+Movies, Adult Content
EZTV.AG.15 Million+Movies, TV Series
P2PDL16K+Movies, Music, Games
Monova2 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, eBooks
Torrents.me15 Million+Movies, TV Series, Music, Anime, eBooks
SeedpeerUnknownMovies, Music, eBooks, Software
ETTVTorrents.3 Million+Movies, TV Series
01Torrent2 Million+Movies, TV Series
CiniSearch4 Million+Movies, TV Series, Adult

Just in case, the listed sites don’t work, please try their mirror sites.

Bitport.io

  • Number of Torrents: 2.3 Million+
  • Availability: Browser-based and client for devices
  • Best suited for: Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, eBooks

Bitport.io happens to be a client, as well as a website in its own; you can download the torrents whenever you want. It is completely secure and encrypted. There is no obtrusion whatsoever thanks to the cloud-based nature. However, if you wish to, there are apps available on a number of platforms that you can use. You can sync it with your devices. You can even use to sync it with your PC and have everything stored on your cloud storage.

Another great thing about Bitport.io is that you can actually stream videos up to 4K and you can even use subtitles to make your experience a lot better and convenient for you. For those who want to run this software, you will have the option to run it on your PC through the web browser, or you can do it through the smartphone apps available. You do not even require a VPN to use this website, which again, is great.

One of the best features about Bitport.io is that all the torrent fetching is done using the IP addresses that Bitport.io is using. Which only means that your own IP address is completely safe and free of any intrusions.

Overall, Bitport.io is definitely making waves in the torrent space and will continue to do so for the coming years.

P2PGuru

  • Number of Torrents: 1 Million+
  • Best suited for: Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, eBooks

Whenever it comes to finding a good torrent site, most users normally want a site that offers them all the latest and some of the oldest torrents available in the market. This is to make sure that people can actually find something useful and make the most of the situation at hand. However, to find a single torrent site that hosts all the content that you need is often difficult, and even if you find one, it mostly suffers from ads and annoying popups.

If you are someone who has experienced that, then do not worry as we have just the right suggestion for you. Although it is relatively new, P2Pguru.com is slowly making waves in the community, not just because it is user-friendly but it is made with users in mind, as there is no single ad on the website and thus you don’t need to be afraid of how many pop-ups are lurking behind every other click.

However, the charm does not just end here. The website was created to battle the ever so growing dominion of government bodies on the internet that we know and love and promotes free sharing of all the content. True, the website is currently new and not as rich when it comes to content but it contains many attractive features – such as advanced browsing options, well-organized categorization with sophisticated information database including IMDB rankings or personally tailored ‘Watchlist’, ‘Quality Index‘, ‘Guru Ratings‘, ‘Notify-Me’ button just to name a few. Keeping in mind that the website is relatively recent, it puts lots of efforts to constantly develop and has all the potential to become one of the best torrent sites.

Needless to say, we are thoroughly impressed by how P2Pguru.com is working and we are definitely waiting to see how it turns out in the future. The world needs a torrent site that is made for the users.

ThePirateBay

  • Year Established: 2003
  • Number of Torrents: 4 Million
  • Tor Support: Yes
  • Best suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

The Pirate Bay has a long and most ugly history with the law enforcement agencies. The website was down for a couple of months after the crackdown by the LEAs to their office/facility and the owners were also caught.

The site came back with quite a similar interface and exact name. ThePirateBay still is the best site for torrents hunting users. This website is multi-niche and has torrents related to the Movies, Software, Apps, Books, and adult content.

Most of the users of this from the USA, as per statistics which is quite interesting. This website displays ads as well as mine the XMR cryptocurrency when you open this website in your browser. This can be easily prevented using the ad-blockers.

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KickAssTorrents (Mirrors)

This is the clone of the original KickAss torrent website which was taken down by the authorities a few years ago. The interface is completely the same and no one can guess that this is not the original one. But because there is no official statement from the original team of Kickass torrents, we tend to believe that this is a nice alternative to The Pirate Bay with a mask of KickAss Torrents. The best thing about this TPB alternate is the way to browse the website and also the availability to see the latest torrents added to their website.

iDope

  • Year Established: 2016
  • Number of Torrents: 19 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

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Started just 2 years ago, this website has archived the biggest database of the torrents so far. This website is more like a search engine of torrents which searches the torrent as per your query. The result page returns the most identical torrents as per search query.

This website claims not to keep the record of the digital footprints of their visitors and their website don’t do what Google does. But let’s just take it as a myth. Every website tracks you to improve their services or earn from the data.

This website is lurking with annoying ads and can’t be blocked using ad-blockers. At least a few of them. So, be careful while clicking anywhere on the screen. Because this website is yet in its embryonic stage, we don’t have much about the user’s feedback on it.

1337x

  • Year Established: 2007
  • Number of Torrents: 2.5 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

1337x was started back in 2007 and in little time, it earned a good fame and become notorious as well in eyes of law enforcement agencies. This website serves more than 2 million torrents in different niche including movies, games, and software.

It is not supported by the Tor but deeper research found that there are some websites serving with its name in the deep dark web. We are not sure either they are the actual mirrors or some clones of the actual website.

The user interface of the website is very simple and conventional. It is quite easy to use. You can either search your favourite torrents or browse through the categories as well. If it’s not working on the ISP, you may use the VPN service to get access to this website.

Torrentz2.eu

  • Year Established: 2016
  • Number of Torrents: 5.5 Million
  • Tor Support: Yes
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

Torrentz2.eu is very similar in appearance, nature, and functionality to the defunct torrent site you knew and loved, Torrentz. Torrentz2 is not going to become the ultimate replacement search engine of Torrentz but believe us, it is definitely trying its level best to provide you with the best possible search results.

According to the latest statistics, Torrentz2 has indexed around 5.5 million torrents from 75 domains, meaning that this number is sure to increase in the foreseeable future. Just because Torrentz is sleeping with the fishes does not mean that everything you came to know and love has died too.

After all, indexing millions of torrents and providing you with a potentially endless supply of search results is going to be a very difficult task. Just imagine how long it took Google to start indexing all of those pages; then you will realize the struggle it went into making this.

YTS.AG

  • Year Established: 2011
  • Number of Torrents: 7500+
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies

If you browse around top torrenting websites looking for the latest and greatest content, you will know that there are name variations of such websites, and this can lead to a lot of confusion for the reader.

It did, however, increase in ranking, thus being able to obscure the aforementioned website’s popularity as a result, but that will definitely incite some violence from rival sites.

Another added benefit to downloading movies from YTS is that it is able to provide you with a decent quality of movies and in less space. If you’re constrained on hard drive space, then you will happy to know that YTS.ag is going to be your guardian angel for the foreseeable future.

RARBG

  • Year Established: 208
  • Number of Torrents: 8 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, Software

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RARBG initially started out as a Bulgarian tracker but has melted the hearts of those who are extreme movie buffs and want an endless content run of the latest flicks. Irrespective of what categories these movies belong to, RARBG will have everything suited for you.


According to some statistics, RARBG managed to obtain a top ranking of 5 last year in Alexa, though there are some that state that the only time it was on the top ten was in the year 2015.

There are also various resolution plus image quality movies and TV shows that you will find on this website so if you have adequate space on your hard drive, get downloading right away.

Limetorrents

  • Year Established: 2009
  • Number of Torrents: 10 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

Limetorrents.cc is slowly creeping towards the top of the best torrent websites chain of command and regained a spot in the top ten this year. The operator of this torrenting website has also managed to launch the torrent cache iTorrents, which took place a few months back.

As stacking up on torrents go, Limetorrents.cc houses everything from movies, to TV shows to software and whatnot. Unfortunately, it is still not up to the mark as alternatives like The Pirate Bay so if there is something that is not present on the website.

Then again, occasionally you will not find older torrents on The Pirate Bay, leading you to come back to Limetorrents.cc. You might have experienced this already, but there is no such thing as a perfect torrent site and there will always be small or big complaints that you will have to listen to from your torrent-downloading clan.

Torlock

  • Year Established: 2010
  • Number of Torrents: 4.5 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software, TV Series

Torlock has managed to find a place in our list because it has rightfully made its way into one of the most popular and best sites for torrent around. It is similar to 1337x in the sense that Torlock has a website interface that is very impressively designed in terms of functionality and appearance.

If you want to talk about facts, we will give you facts that will always be etched in your memory. For starters, the torrent site indexes more than 3 million torrents and it also has its own dedicated magnet links of varying categories of content so you will never waste time in firing up a torrent client and begin receiving necessary files for a movie, TV show, and more.

According to Torlock.com, all the torrents indexed on the website have been verified, and the content that has not been verified is going to be flagged and removed immediately.

ExtraTorrent.cd

  • Year Established: 2010
  • Number of Torrents: 13 Million
  • Tor Support: Yes
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

If you’re in a torrent-frenzy mode, then you’ve definitely heard of ExtraTorrent. Turns out that there is a mirror website of ExtraTorrent called ExtraTorrent.cd and it houses a wide range of content ranging from movies, TV shows, software and more.

There was one very unusual thing that we found about ExtraTorrent.cd. Whenever we opened the website, our CPU usage went up to 99 percent, which was a very puzzling thing to encounter.

Still, if you don’t mind the high CPU usage for a few minutes while you’re browsing the website then you will find nearly everything you wanted to complete your entertainment adrenaline surge.

EZTV.AG

  • Year Established: 2015
  • Number of Torrents: 15 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, TV Series

EZTV used to be an original TV-torrent distribution group but it got shut down thanks to a hostile takeover, which took place in 2015. However, with the new owners taking the operations after the takeover, EZTV currently functions as EZTV.ag and releases its own torrents for viewers wanting to get a taste of the latest and greatest lineup of movies and TV shows.

Strictly speaking, if you’re looking for a massive repository of movies and TV shows, then you have come to the right place. Its ranking is slowly growing to the top of the food chain and so is the monthly million users counter.

Unfortunately, EZTV.ag has not noted that it will start to focus on games, software, music and other categories otherwise it could take the fight to websites like The Pirate Bay. That is a battle which we will be looking forward to.

SkyTorrents

  • Year Established: 2017
  • Number of Torrents: 17 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

It’s been just a year to this website and it has already got a lot of fame and collected a huge number of torrents. This ranges from Movies, TV Series, Games, and Software. The user interface of this website is very simple and friendly.

This website supports the instant downloads which make the use of the website easier. The torrents on this website are downloaded from the torrents websites. Along with the torrent files, you can also load the torrent files using the magnet links.

This website also welcomes you with a note on hiding your identity using VPNs which must not be ignored. This website serves ads and most of them can be blocked using ad-blockers. Ads are in-click ones and open ups no matter where you click.

IsoHunt.to

  • Year Established: 2003
  • Number of Torrents: 13.7 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

Believe it or not, IsoHunt is nearly the same age as The Pirate Bay and was founded in 2003 by Gary Fung. There was no denying the fact IsoHunt welcome pirated content with great love and by 2012, this impressive website was sharing around 14 petabytes of content.

However, these replacements came back in the form of IsoHunt mirrors, which you now know as IsoHunt.to. When you browse around IsoHunt.to for the first time, you will notice that there is going to be a lot of content to browse from, but do not make this your daily driver for every single torrent out there.

Do a fair bit of digging and we are confident that you will be able to find your suitable torrents for entertainment or education purposes.

TorrentFunk

  • Year Established: 2010
  • Number of Torrents: 3 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

This website is primarily famous due to its quality movie torrents but you can other types of the torrent as well on this including Music, Games, Software etc. This website shows the latest and most downloaded torrents in form of word clouds which is really helpful if you are looking to explore and not sure what to download.

Torrent Funk welcomes you with a note showing your IP address and location which warns you about the leakage of the personally identifying information that you have to hide using the VPNs and ad-blockers.

This also explains the primary income source of this website is reselling of the VPN services. Our research didn’t find any annoying ads on this website which can’t be blocked using the ad-blockers.

TorrentProject

  • Year Established: 2010
  • Number of Torrents: 8 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

This is a multi-niche torrent downloading website where you can find torrents of movies, TV series, games etc. Launched in 2010, it faced a terrible time from the LEAs and blocking from the different ISPs around the world. The major block down occurred in September 2017.

It is banned in most of the countries but still, you can access this website either via its own mirrors and using the VPNs services. It’s better to hide behind the VPN tunnels even if the website is working on your network.

This website works as a torrent search engine and helps you to find the torrents you are looking for the top rated torrent websites in no time. The user interface of this website is quite simple and easy to operate as well.

Monova.org

  • Year Established: 2005
  • Number of Torrents: 2 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

Monova was registered back in 2005 and enjoyed good fame for a few years. But it seems it couldn’t bear it’s on load and went down for some time. Either some issues among the owners or lack of a proper financial plan. Now its back with a wonderful redesign.

You can find all sorts of torrents here but its good for the movies and software. You can use either the search feature of the website or browse through categories as well. The search feature is not that effective as we speak.

Most of the ads on the website can be avoided using the ad-blockers but the few remains. These are mostly found on the download page of the torrent you wish to download. And guess what, they appear as the Download buttons and look very familiar to the design of the website.

TorrentDownloads

  • Year Established: 2007
  • Number of Torrents: 16 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: TV Series, Movies, Books, Music, Games, Software

This website is as simple as its name sounds. Started in 2007, and still surviving regardless of multiple tries by the law ensuring agencies to take it down. This website is equally famous for Books, TV Series, Software.

This website serves a lot of ads. Most of them are very annoying and can’t be avoided even using the ad-blockers. But still, it is advised to use the ad-blockers because you can prevent around eighty percent of them using it.

If you failed to access this website on your network. There are few proxies of this website as well. Even if those also doesn’t work, you might want to use the Virtual Private Network software.

YourBitTorrent

  • Year Established: 2009
  • Number of Torrents: 1.2 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

This is quite an old name in the torrent business and serving the torrents for more than a decade. This website is famous for the movies torrents and software. Operating Systems including Windows 7 is most downloaded software on this website.

Browsing this website is quite easy but not downloading the torrents especially for those who are using this website for the first time. The torrent download button is accompanied by the ads on its both sides. So, it becomes tricky to click on the right button. You can hover over the button to find the right one.

This website doesn’t support the magnet links. Along with the torrents, this website is also quite useful for reading the torrent-related news. The news is fetched from different sources but mostly from the Torrent Freak torrent-exclusive news website.

Zooqle

  • Year Established: 2013
  • Number of Torrents: 3.3 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

Zooqle is just like the Google to torrent the movies. You will find hundreds of movies here gathered here from The Movie Database (TMDb). Not only movies but the TV Series are also available here to download.

Everything is organized very beautifully. They verify each torrent before making it available to download for other users. Movies are available to download in 720, 1080 and even in 3D. The torrent is quite simple.

You need to avoid the Direct download button because it’s a click-bait/bobby trap. Ads on this website can be easily avoided using the ad-blocker extensions. It is also recommended to use the VPN as well.

CiniSearch

  • Number of Torrents: 4 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

This is primarily a torrent finer for the movies only. You just need to write the movie name in the search bar and it will give you the results based on your query. There is nothing much special about this website.

It also uses Google’s Application Programming Interfaces to generate results. So, this you are making a torrent-specific Google Search. Design and User Interface of this website is also just average.

This website advises you to use the VPNs to avoid any privacy issues. The website also accepts DMCA although it is not serving any torrents by themselves. Go to this website if nothing else is working.

OfflineBay (ThePirateBay Clone)

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  • Year Established: Unknown
  • Number of Torrents: 4 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best suited for: Movies, Music, Games, Software

The offline version of The Pirate Bay is quite amazing and wonderful torrenting download website. OfflineBay comes as the best alternative to the users of TPB. This is an offline version of Pirate Bay that you can download on any operating system including Windows, Mac, and Linux. This software is not a complete torrent site but an offline cache of the original website. This software is developed using NodeJS and its open source to allow other developers around the globe to contribute.

Bobtor.com

  • Year Established: 2016
  • Number of Torrents: 1 Million
  • Tor Support: No
  • Best Suited for: Movies, TV Serials, Cartoons

Bobtor has managed to find a place in our list as it has rightfully made its way into one of the most popular and best movie torrenting sites around. It has a website interface that is very impressively designed in terms of functionality and appearance. In short, you will definitely not get lost here if and when you’re searching for a specific torrent.

There are hundreds of sites available on the Internet to download torrents. Visiting each torrent sites to search torrents is very much time taking. When authorities took down The Pirate Bay and KickAss torrents, a new termed evolved in the torrent industry as the torrent search engines.

It works simply as Google does ( theoretically). It doesn’t host any data but crawls and searches the torrents on other websites hosting these torrents as per your query. This shrinks the list of your favorite torrent website to few torrent search sites.

Search EngineBest Known For
P2PGuruMovies, TV Series, Games, eBooks
Torrentz2Incredibly capable search engine; Currently Indexes more than 60 million torrents.
Torrents.MeParallel Search in 600+ Torrent Websites
XTORXVery simple UI; Fast and accurate; No advertisements.
ToorgleTorrent Search in over 450+ torrents websites at the same time.
The Pirate BayBig Boss of Torrents
RARBGMost Diverse Torrent Repository
1337xOne of the largest engine for movies, games, TV series and more
ExtraTorrentLargest Torrent Community
YTS.AGMovies Exclusive
AIO SearchGoogle of Torrent Stuff
BTDBSimple and effective; Clean design; Fast search.
TorrentHoundsMost resilient Torrent Community
Lime TorrentsRedesigned and Improved Features
Katcr.coClone of Original KAT Torrents
ISO HuntNew team comes with Advanced Features
ZooqleMovies Search only
SnowflVery fast; Easy to use; Custom filtering included.
TorrentSeekerMinimal UI, Customized search results; Wide range.
VeoblePowered by Google custom search; Tons of filtering options; All popular sources covered.
Academic Researchers Only for Researchers

Torrents are nothing but files of a few kilobytes without a torrent client installed on your computer. To get the actual files you want on your local storage, you will require some of the best torrent clients for a various number of supported operating systems.

Luckily for you, we recently covered a list of the 10 popular free torrent software for three popular platforms, Windows, Mac, and Linux. For added measure, we have also included some terrific free torrent clients that support Android, because you never know when people want to move this storage to their phones.

Most of you might not be aware of this but there has been a sudden increase in activity when it comes to law enforcement authorities on the shutting down of torrent download sites and arresting perpetrators. Apart from this, if you happen to be engaged in torrent downloading without some added protection, then it might become dangerous for you, but that will also depend on which country you’re inhabiting at the moment.

Most countries are already dealing with so many problems that they cannot invest the time, money and effort to curb torrent-downloading activities but developed countries are where such laws are quite strict. As a solution, the best possible way to start torrenting without potentially being detected by the authorities is by using privacy protection services in the form of VPNs.

ExpressVPN, Private Internet Access VPN, and IPVanish are some of the few services that are known to help out users in remaining anonymous when browsing best torrenting sites and downloading files, so try these out and start browsing when you switch on your machine.

Before you aim to get a boatload of content installed and running on your computer, know that there are several risks involved while using BitTorrent sites. If and when you are able to, please pay for this kind of content such as purchasing games or signing up for streaming services. This is because in some countries, it is actually a crime to download torrents and it is summarized as the illegal sharing of copyrighted material.

Still, allow us to remove the confusion a bit more. P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, as many of the files traded through P2P are indeed copyrighted. However, uploading these copyrighted files will put you at risk of a civil lawsuit in countries like USA, Canada, Australia, UK, and others to be very careful in what you are getting yourself into.

Lawsuits filed are categorized under class-action suits, meaning that they are filed against groups of users who copy and distribute copyrighted materials and will have to appear in court to answer for their crimes. However, and this bit is very important so please pay close attention, some lawsuits are also targeted towards individual users.

Now, why does such a thing happen? Perhaps the party wants to make an example out of you and the hearing of a lawsuit is sufficient to prevent an individual from ever engaging in the activity.

These P2P civil lawsuits are very real and they are very scary plus more often than not, it delivers an extreme level of stress and financial burden on the blamed individual. Since the internet is an open book right now, there are a higher number of chances of you being caught.

For example, you might not have read the terms and conditions of your Internet Service Provider but here is what they might do. They might choose to release a history of your download and upload activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. In short, the more content you download and store in your local-storage, the higher the chances are that you come under the radar of copyright protection groups.

Final Words

Though The Pirate Bay might become your number one choice as best torrenting site for the downloading your favorite stuff, it is possible that there is a unique file that you might not find on this torrent website, since we stated before that not all websites are perfect. Instead, try browsing other alternatives and see if your luck starts there.

As a reminder, be very careful when downloading torrents, especially in countries where the law is merciless to such offenders. As an added form of protection please use VPNs to reduce your chances of being caught by the authorities. The last thing you would want is to get into trouble with the wrong people.

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