BitTorrent has been around for so many years and it’s still widely being used today. You can find a lot of things including the latest movies and TV series to download on a popular Torrent tracker websites like “The Pirate Bay” which the authorities can’t seem to permanently shut down. Downloading files using BitTorrent is usually done with client software such as uTorrent, Vuze, qBitTorrent or Tixati.

Every torrent client has its own distinct advantages and one very useful feature that is not commonly found is the ability to “stream” which is to start the playback without waiting for the whole file to complete downloading. Just like viewing online videos on YouTube, you get to start watching right away and that saves you a lot of time.

If you’d like to stream a video or movie file from a torrent without waiting for it to download first, here we have 10 options that allow you to do that for free.

1. WebTorrent Desktop

Search for torrents and download in a few steps. Instantly stream torrent files and magnet links. The best online torrent player and downloader!

• Keep in mind that magnet links and download torrent links are not the same. Go to the online torrent client (Zbigz, or any other), paste the magnet link into the designated field and click ‘Go’. The website will download the file to the server, without making another link.
• Apart from movies, here you can get torrent links of television, games, music, software, anime, Ebooks, Audibook, images, adult and others. TorLock features a clean and user-friendly interface. One of the best things about TorLock torrent movie site is that they pay $1 to its users for finding fake torrents.

WebTorrent has fast become one of the best ways to stream torrents and especially videos online. Because it uses WebRTC to exchange data, you will connect with other WebTorrent enabled torrent services or clients and not standard Bittorrent. WebTorrent should still provide good video streaming.

WebTorrent Desktop is an open source torrent client and is dedicated to streaming video and audio. A big advantage of this program is it accepts connections from both WebTorrent and BitTorrent which means you should be able to stream at the best possible speeds. WebTorrent Desktop is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

After launching WebTorrent Desktop all you have to do is drop a torrent file onto the window, press Ctrl+V or go to Edit > “Paste Torrent Address” to add a magnet link. Some free videos are already in the main window for you to test. Press the Play button to open the video window and wait for the video to start. A red bar at the bottom will show the buffer status. If the torrent has multiple video files you can click on it and select to play a specific video.

WebTorrent Desktop won’t directly play all content (such as H265) and if it tries to stream an unsupported video you will be given the option to use an external player. VLC is the default option but something else can be chosen in preferences. Popular players like MPC-HC/BE and Daum PotPlayer will also work. Streaming to AirPlay, Chromecast and DLNA is also supported.

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2. Soda Player

Soda Player is a torrent video streaming player that claims to be able to handle all video formats, including the likes of H265 and DTS. Theoretically, you shouldn’t find a video it can’t play. It also has a built in proxy to help with privacy and ISP torrent throttling. This feature is free at the time of writing but is planned to be a paid option going forward.

On launch, Soda Player will accept dropping a torrent file or magnet link onto the window, browsing for a torrent file manually or pasting in a magnet/torrent URL. If there’s a link in the clipboard it will be automatically added. The video will start once enough of it has been downloaded, a marker on the play progress line will show how much has been buffered.

In addition to playing subtitles that are already included with the torrent or video file, Soda Player can automatically download extra subtitles from Opensubtitles.org. There’s support for multiple audio streams as well as the ability to cast the video to Chromecast or Apple TV.

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An alternative player we tried was Powder Player. It works and looks good but it did seem to stop and buffer the same torrents far more than Soda Player did. There are settings to control things like buffer length but it didn’t help. It may work better for you and is worth keeping in mind as a streaming player.

3. Instant.io / Magnet Player

These two websites are grouped together because they both stream video online from a webpage using WebTorrent instead of BitTorrent. They are very easy to use and require no external tools, however, there are a few drawbacks as opposed to using the WebTorrent Desktop client.

The online services that use WebTorrent do not have the ability to accept both WebTorrent and BitTorrent connections like the desktop client, which potentially means fewer available peers. All you have to do is paste a magnet link/info hash into the box or add a .torrent file, a video window will open on the page and begin playing once enough data has been buffered.

Instant.io and Magnet Player cannot play formats like MKV, AVI or H265 and if you try to play a video with an unsupported format, nothing will happen. They’re fine with H264, AAC and MP4 though so something like YIFY (YTS.am) releases should play quite well.

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4. Webtor

Webtor is different from the online WebTorrent services above because it uses standard BitTorrent. It also has an advantage in what can be played and what can’t. In addition to H264 and MP4, major formats like MKV and AVI are supported along with the increasingly popular H265. If the video format in the torrent is not natively supported by your browser it will be automatically transcoded for playback.

All you have to do is click “Open torrent online” to browse for a torrent file or click the arrow and paste a magnet link into the box. Once the torrent has been parsed, hover over the video file and press the play button. Pressing the download button instead will start the file downloading in your browser like a normal file. After a short wait, it will begin playing.

There are some very useful features available in the web player options menu (cog wheel) such as allowing you to select audio and subtitle streams, although we couldn’t get that to work. The copy stream URL button can be used to copy and then paste the link into video playing software like MPC-HC, PotPlayer or VLC. There’s also a Cast button to send the stream to a Chromecast device.

A Webtor Chrome extension is available that will open a clicked torrent/magnet link directly in Webtor.

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5. qBitTorrent

Some standard torrent clients have the ability to download torrent videos in such a way that they can be played while being downloaded. The required feature is being able to download torrent data in sequential order. Some clients can do this like Tixati and uTorrent, but the tool we will look at here is qBitTorrent.

Apart from the sequential download option, qBitTorrent has an option to download the start and end pieces of the file first (to help with compatibility) and also to launch the video in an external player from its UI. All you have to do is add a torrent to qBitTorrent in the normal way and check the “Download in sequential order” and “Download first and last pieces first” boxes before starting the torrent.

You can also select those options later by right clicking on the torrent in the list. Watch the progress bar of the torrent and when a sizeable continuous chunk of the start has been downloaded (10%+), right click and select Preview File. This will launch the video in the system default video player. Make sure there are no gaps in the first block of the video in the progress bar or it won’t play properly because there’s missing data.

Another way of launching the video which will work on qBitTorrent, uTorrent, Tixati and other compatible torrent clients is to simply open the downloading video file in your favorite video player.

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Dude, this works and is much faster than any other torrent streaming sites, tysm, i hope they never shut this project.

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Yes it is one of the best

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Take a look at miniget, you will not regret it.

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Thanks man

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Yes. It is strange that streamdrive.net is not on the list

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thank you for your good advice,

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Thank you for the Info. I use streamdrive.net . They say that are still in beta but never the less work very nice.

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Don’t forget about stremio!

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Stremio is awesome. It is like the Netflix of torrents! Everything is so organised and well catalogued.

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thanks

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Yeah, stremio is a great option!

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thanks raymond you rock

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Super Coolllll Ray. Tnx =3

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Ray, you are undescribably good. keep up the good work

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Actually, he rocks! Thank you so much for all the tips! :)

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thanks raymond you are rock

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Nice share Ray.Now it’s your time to find out some bugs ;).

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Thanks Raymond for such a fine share

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It very modern and it make me more easy for watching. I hope you will try to help us more. Good luck reymond.

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very usefull tool ray, thank you for sharing it,

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Thank you Raymond.

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Finding a site for torrenting can be very tricky.

First, the cat-and-mouse game between political authorities and some of the popular torrent sites often results in torrent sites shutting down really quickly.

Second, there are a lot of torrent sites riddled with ads and malware that provide low-quality torrent files or even fake torrents all together. To address this, we decided to compile a list of the best torrent sites for 2020 while providing the following information to give you a true assessment of the state of a torrent site:

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• Year established: This is a sort of “reliability gauge.” The older a site the more reliable it is. A popular torrent site that’s been able to survive five, 10, or more years without being shut down must be very reliable.
• Popular content formats: We include some of the popular content formats available on the torrent sites we feature.
• Banned in the following countries: If we have information that a torrent site has been banned in a particular country, we include this information.
• Supports instant downloads: We indicate whether a torrent site supports instant download or not.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: We include mirror sites and/or IP addresses to allow you other means of accessing a torrent site in case it has been blocked by your ISP.
• Number of torrents: We include the total number of torrents available on a site at the time of compiling this list.
• Speed test: We downloaded the same file from all of these websites using NordVPN and listed the results under each torrenting website (100MB/s connection out of Estonia).

Many torrent sites may beblocked in your region, so to restore access you’ll need to use a VPN. Our top choice for torrenting (based on both speed and privacy) is NordVPN – check out our list of best VPNs for Torrenting. Not only can you access blocked torrent sites, but you can rest assured that your torrent activity won’t be traced back to you in the form of a nasty letter from your ISP. We recommend you using NordVPN while doing all your online activities.

If you don’t want to use a VPN, you can follow this guide on how to unblock websites.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: We do not encourage illegal activity. Downloading copyrighted material is often times illegal, even in the countries which allow torrenting.

1. Torrentz2

Torrentz2 is a popular torrent search engine that sprang up in 2016 when Torrentz shut down. Torrentz2 combines results from other search engines to provide one of the biggest databases of torrents. The torrent search engine boasts of having over 61 million torrents and our research shows that it has more movie torrents than other types of torrents.

• Year established: 2016
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Music, Applications, Games.
• Banned in the following countries: None.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: Torrentz2.me, Torrentz2.is, Torrentzwealmisr.onion
• Number of torrents: 61 million+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 1.9MB/s

2. iDope

iDope is a torrent search engine that provides direct magnet links to torrents. Besides having a massive database of over 18 million torrents, it features a clean UI and has a mobile version that makes torrenting on smartphones easy.

• Year established: 2016
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Shows, Music, Games.
• Banned in the following countries: None.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: idope.bypassed.bz
• Number of torrents: 18,450,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.7MB/s

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3. Torrent Downloads

Torrent Downloads is a torrent index with one of the biggest databases out there. At the time of compiling this list, it features over 16 million torrents.

• Year established: 2007
• Popular content formats: TV Shows, Movies, Music, Books, Games, Software.
• Banned in the following countries: United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: torrentdownloads.unblockall.org, torrentdownloads.unblocker.cc
• Number of torrents: 16,121,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 1.8MB/s

4. LimeTorrents

With over 9.8 million torrents, LimeTorrents is one of the torrent sites with the biggest databases out there. It offers torrents for several content types such as movies, TV shows, games, and applications. It is currently banned in Australia and France.

• Year established: 2009
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Music, Games, Applications, Anime.
• Banned in the following countries: Australia, France, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: limetorrents.asia, limetor.club, limetorrents.info
• Number of torrents: 9,833,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 2.8MB/s

5. Bit Torrent Scene

Bit Torrent Scene is one of the leading sources of torrents online. It allows users to torrent movies, TV series, music, games, software and ebooks.

• Year established: 2017
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV series, Music, Games, Software, Ebooks.
• Banned in the following countries: None.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: btsproxy.com, btscene.unblocker.cc, bittorrentstart.com
• Number of torrents: 5,118,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.6MB/s

6. Torlock

Torlock is a torrent index and search engine mainly focused on TV series and movies. Torlock is particular about ensuring that users have access to only genuine torrents, and it takes this so seriously that it once introduced a program that pays users $1 for every fake torrent they are able to find on its site.

• Year established: 2010
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Games, Music, Applications, eBook, Anime.
• Banned in the following countries: Australia, India, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: torlock.unblocked.mx
• Number of torrents: 4,440,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.1MB/s

7. The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is certainly the biggest torrent site in the world and one of the most controversial to ever exist. It has been blocked in at least 28 countries and has survived battles with some of the world’s most powerful governments. This site is over 15 years old, however, and as a result ranks high in terms of reliability. It allows users to torrent movies, TV series, books, applications, games and music. Our research shows that the majority of torrents on TPB are movies and TV shows.

• Year established: 2003
• Popular content formats: TV Shows, Movies, Music, Games, and Applications.
• Banned in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: ThePirateBay.red, Tbp.tw, TPBMirror.org
• Number of torrents: 3,286,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.1MB/s

8. Zooqle

Zooqle is relatively younger compared to most of the other torrent sites featured on this list. It’s a torrent index specializing in verified torrents, and with a database of over 3 million torrents it certainly shouldn’t be taken for granted. While it features content in a variety of categories, movies and TV series are especially popular on the site.

• Year established: 2013
• Popular content formats: TV Shows, Movies, Music, Games, Applications, Books.
• Banned in the following countries: None.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: zooqle.unblocked.mx, zoqle.bypassed.org
• Number of torrents: 3,200,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.5MB/s

9. 1337x

At the time of compiling this list, 1337x has been online for 11 years. That ranks it high in terms of reliability. It provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links, and is often touted as the best alternative to The Pirate Bay. Our analysis shows that over 90 percent of the top 100 torrents on 1337x are movies.

• Year established: 2007
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Games, Music, and Applications.
• Banned in the following countries: Austria, Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: 1337x.st, x1337x.ws, x1337x.eu
• Number of torrents: 2,375,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 686.3KB/s

10. YourBittorrent

YourBittorrent has a somewhat controversial history. While founded in 2009, it really began operation in its original form in 2003 as a collaboration between two partners — the product of which was myBittorrent; one of the partners wanted the website eventually shut down while the other partner wanted it to become bigger. This led to a split, the product of which is YourBittorrent.

• Year established: 2009
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Software, Games, Music, Anime, Ebooks.
• Banned in the following countries: Portugal, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: 104.31.17.3
• Number of torrents: 1,190,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 1MB/s

11. Demonoid

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When it comes to reliability, you can count on Demonoid. The popular BitTorrent tracker was launched in 2003, the same year as The Pirate Bay, and it’s had its own fair share of downtime due to political pressure. The site with over 10 million users has over 800,000 torrent files and provides torrents for movies, TV series, music, books, applications, and games. Our research shows that Demonoid has more movies and TV series than other files, followed by music.

• Year established: 2003
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV series, Music, Books, Applications, Games.
• Banned in the following countries: Ukraine, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: Dnoid.me, Demonoid.unblocked.bet
• Number of torrents: 893,000+

Download Speed

The average download speed was 1.8MB/s

12. RARBG

RARBG is a popular torrent site that was established in 2008. Our research shows that the popular torrent site that provides torrent files and magnet links has more movies than other types of files.

• Year established: 2008
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Shows, Games, Music, Software.
• Banned in the following countries: Bulgaria, Denmark, Indonesia, Ireland, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: 185.37.100.122
• Number of torrents: 811,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 1.3MB/s

13. TorrentsGroup

This torrent site was established in 2016 and has since grown to host over 225,000 torrents. It allows users to torrent movies, TV series, apps, and documentaries amongst other types of files.

• Year established: 2016
• Popular content formats: Movies, TV Series, Anime, Apps, Documentaries, Games.
• Banned in the following countries: None.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: 104.18.52.165
• Number of torrents: 225,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 5.5MB/s

14. EZTV

Many avid torrenters will know EZTV, a popular TV torrent distribution site that was founded in 2005. After experiencing a hostile takeover, EZTV was claimed by a new group operating at EZTV.AG. While many popular torrent sites ban releases from EZTV due to its history, many have found its torrents to be of great quality.

• Year established: 2015
• Popular content formats: TV Series/Movies.
• Banned in the following countries: Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom.
• Supports instant downloads: Yes.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: eztv.red, eztv.unblocked.mx, eztv.unblocked.bet
• Number of torrents: 153,000+

Download Speed

The average DL speed was 3.7MB/s

15. YTS.AM

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YIFY movies are known to have excellent video quality at the smallest file sizes. YTS.AM is the leading source of YIFY torrents online.

• Year established: 2011
• Popular content formats: Movies.
• Banned in the following countries: Ireland.
• Supports instant downloads: No.
• Mirrors/Alternate URLs/IPs: yts.unblocked.mx, yts.unblocked.mx
• Number of torrents: 7,200+

Download Speed

The average download was 1.8MB/s

What torrent sites you have you used or use? Leave a comment below :).