Rtorrent 16 · QTS 6 & QuTS hero
Free foreverMaximum performance & total control.
Unleash your NAS. Unthrottled and uncompromising. Rtorrent 16 turns your server into an absolute downloading powerhouse — delivering maximum link speeds, auto-tuned storage, and effortless library automation. Zero bloat, pure performance.
No ads, no accounts — 100% private, 100% on-premises.
— 18 years of rtorrent on QNAP. Legacy: rtorrent++ 2008 · rtorrent-Pro · Rtorrent 15
01 · Dashboard
The dashboard answers the only question that matters: is it working? Monitor live rates, torrent counts, and disk space at a glance. The port check tests the path in order: whether rtorrent is listening, the router's UPnP mapping, a loop-back connection, and a check from the internet, plus IPv6 when the NAS has a global address. Each step reports pass, fail, or could not tell, with the reason, so you know where to look.
Open the dashboard in the demo02 · Quick access
For the days when you only want to monitor incoming traffic. Start, stop, play, unpack, or move to trash right from the torrent's row, while a clock counts down the estimated time left. The full ruTorrent interface is still just one click away for advanced management.
Open Quick access in the demo03 · Add torrent
Just drop a .torrent file in, and the system takes over. The Add page guesses the category from the name (movie, TV, kids, music, game and more), lets you change it, and saves the data into that category's folder. Files and magnets on the page, .torrent files in a watch folder, RSS through ruTorrent's rules: four inputs, one organized destination.
Works incredibly well…
so far so good… very intuitive and of easy use… recommended.
04 · Media library
Visually map your file operations from the active queue to your finished archive. Every hop explicitly states its operation: hardlinks on a single volume, cross-volume copies, or requested moves. FileBot (installed and licensed) or the built-in Movie Agent names films and series and fetches their artwork, followed by automated API calls to refresh Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, or Emby.
Open the media library in the demo05 · Search
Search your private tracker accounts directly, and add the optional Search add-on (Jackett) for public indexers. Ask for latest Stranger Things and the query parser works out that you want the newest episode; over WhatsApp the bot names it and adds it once you reply yes. Tracker logins stay on the NAS, in files only the system can read, and are masked in the panel.
Sooooo much better than Download station
06 · Notifications
When a download finishes, the message names the film with its rating, runtime, director, cast and plot, or, for a file it cannot identify, lists resolution, HDR, runtime, size and audio tracks; the WhatsApp bots add the poster. It goes out via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Signal, ntfy, Gotify, Matrix, more than a dozen other services, or any webhook. The interactive WhatsApp bot answers commands such as status, searches your trackers and adds the torrents you choose.
07 · Backups
Automated daily copies protect your torrent list and your configuration: settings, the panel password, tracker credentials, notification destinations and the certificate. Restoring the torrent list stops rtorrent, puts the copy in place and starts it again; restoring the configuration restarts the services with it. Downloaded data is never touched.
Open Diagnostics in the demo08 · Performance
The Performance wizard measures your link and the download volume's disk I/O, weighs the results against the NAS's memory and storage type, and proposes rtorrent settings for you to review and apply. The optional, experimental auto-tuning then adjusts peers, upload slots and piece cache during active transfers, one change at a time, and never touches your rate caps.
Open Performance in the demo09 · Network & NAT
Once you switch it on, Rtorrent 16 asks your router for its ports over PCP, NAT-PMP and UPnP and keeps the mappings renewed. If the router refuses a UPnP or NAT-PMP mapping, the panel shows its reply. A trace of the first hops detects double NAT and carrier-grade NAT, and behind two routers the package also asks the outer one over PCP or NAT-PMP.
Open Network & NAT in the demo
10 · Seeding & Retention
Configure precise seeding rules based on ratio, upload volume, or time, with distinct policies for public and private trackers. When free space falls below a threshold, the optional storage protection deletes finished torrents and their data, worst ratio first (or oldest first), until enough space is free again.
Open Seeding & Retention in the demoBEST Torrent app for QNAP!!
11 · Settings
158 parameters, 11 themes, and 9 languages. Every setting carries its own explanation behind the ? beside it, many with a diagram, and the guides (English and Polish) are built into the panel.
Rtorrent 16 Seerr, Radarr, Sonarr and Prowlarr come from this site's App Center repository and run on a NAS with an x86_64 processor. Set up as the How-to shows, they choose what to download and read your library; Rtorrent 16 downloads it, seeds it and files it.
SeerrSomeone asks for a film or a series, or adds it to their Plex watchlist.
Radarr and Sonarr, with ProwlarrRadarr takes the films and Sonarr the series. They search your tracker through Prowlarr and add the release your quality profile accepts, labelled radarr or sonarr. They do not import, rename or remove the downloads.
Rtorrent 16Downloads it and seeds it by its own rules. Movie Agent files it into your library, under Movies or TV Shows or in the Kids, Family or 4K branch where it fits, and Rtorrent 16 tells Radarr or Sonarr on the same NAS where the file is.No. Rtorrent 16 has a Movie Agent of its own, which identifies films and series and names them; games and software are recognised by name and linked into the library as they are. FileBot is recommended, though: to get everything out of the media library, consider installing it. A FileBot licence costs USD 8 a year.
Yes, one click from the launcher, with its plugins. The Control Center covers what ruTorrent was never meant to do: ports and NAT, the certificate, the media library, notifications, performance, backups and the guides.
On 64-bit ARM, yes: take the arm_64 build. It needs QTS 6, which QNAP
has not released for ARM models yet. 32-bit ARM models are not supported. uname -m over SSH says which one you have.
Nothing. Rtorrent 16 is freeware: no licence key, no paid tier, and no nag you cannot dismiss. The support section below lists the payment options.
On forum.qnap.net.pl, in English or in Polish. Worth reading first: the difference between torrenting on a PC and on a NAS. The guides are in the panel itself.
K***QNAP Enterprise User · PolandVerifiedNASTS-253D
“I used the default Download Station for years, but it always choked when handling hundreds of active seeds. Migrating to Rtorrent-Pro was a night-and-day difference. Now it fully saturates my gigabit fiber. This is a masterpiece!”
AlexNetwork Engineer · TaiwanVerifiedNASTS-464
“This installation saves hours of blind troubleshooting. Easily the most professional BitTorrent implementation available on any NAS with everything preconfigured and ready to go!”
DavidHome Lab Enthusiast · GermanyVerifiedNASTVS-1282
“What completely sold me is the media library automation. Dropping a file and having the system automatically categorize it, download it, create hardlinks on the correct volume, and trigger a Plex refresh via FileBot is pure magic. It’s a flawless set-and-forget ecosystem that perfectly manages storage space.”
***Long-term User (Since 2012) · SwedenVerifiedNAS2 × TS-2483XU-RP with a custom disk configuration for seeding
“I remember using the original rtorrent++ builds years ago. Today it takes everything that made the original engine rock-solid and modernizes it without introducing any bloatware. This is just brilliant piece of software.”
We ran the tests in the lab on two QNAP TBS-h574TX units connected by a Gigabit network and repeated them. The figures are medians; the private-tracker figures come from one round.
Verdict rtorrent16 finishes the whole set first: 56 s and 63 s on the two NAS units, and it is the only one that finished it in every round.
| CPU seconds | private memory, MiB | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QTS | hero | QTS | hero | |
| rtorrent16 | 19 | 31 | 31 | 35 |
| qBittorrent | 40 | 68 | 39 | 39 |
| Transmission | 31 | 39 | 32 | 35 |
| Deluge | 32 | 51 | 120 | 156 |
| aria2 | 25 | 32 | 17 | 18 |
| rtorrent 0.16.24 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 14 |
6/6
runs in which rtorrent16 reached it itself
Wanna meet the beast? The pure definition of unthrottled throughput is coming to your NAS. That’s Rtorrent 16. Designed with users. Built for a NAS. Made for you!
Add this site’s repository once. After that Rtorrent 16 installs and updates from App Center like any other app. App Center never offers an update to a package installed by hand; the panel still says when a new build is out.
QNAP Utilities, paste https://www.qnaputilities.com/repo.xml, Add.By hand instead: take the build for your processor, then App Center → Install Manually.
Incredible app!! Thanks for the development!!!
Supporter pass
Rtorrent 16 is freeware. You can support it once or every month through Stripe.
Stripe processes the payment and sends the receipt. Each amount opens its checkout in a new tab.
One payment. Stripe accepts cards, digital wallets and local payment methods; paying in your own currency avoids conversion fees.
Renews every month until you cancel it from the link in the receipt e-mail.
Questions regarding payments or receipts: forum.qnap.net.pl.
