5 Android Torrent Apps, Compared on Privacy, Ads and Price

Updated August 2026 · every rating, rating count, install band, price, advertising label and Data Safety line re read from each app's own Play listing, the single sharing column split into what each app collects and what it shares, and the privacy section rebuilt on the protocol specification and the developers' own documentation

Five listings from three clients, compared on price, the advertising label and what each Data Safety section declares. A torrent client is not a VPN: the tracker hands out an address for every peer in the swarm, which is what the protocol specification describes.

Best on privacy

3.8 stars, 8,162 ratings · 1,000,000+ installs · Free, no in-app purchases listed · Developer proninyaroslav · Version 4.1.1, listing updated 25 July 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 3.8 (8,162) · read 20 August 2026

LibreTorrent is the pick here: free, no advertising label, and the only free listing of the five declaring both no data collected and no data shared. The blunt part is the rating. Its 3.8 from 8,162 ratings is the lowest of the five builds on this page, and its 1,000,000+ install band sits an order below the two free clients. Flud+ declares that same pair and charges for it.

Its Play listing names the licence as GPLv3+ and points at a source repository on gitlab.com. The same version, 4.1.1, is published on its F-Droid page, read 20 August 2026, which states the build there is built and signed by F-Droid and lists android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE among its permissions. The two builds are not interchangeable, and the developer says so in the project README, read 20 August 2026: Google Play version doesn't have permission to access all files, use another version (F-Droid or direct APK), filed under a note for Android 12 and above (gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent). F-Droid publishes no rating, no install count and no price, so every figure above is the Play one.

• Good: Its own Data Safety section declares no data collected and no data shared with third parties, the only free listing of the five to declare both
• Good: Free, with no in-app purchases and no advertising label on the listing
• Good: Published as GPLv3+ with a public source repository, and the F-Droid build is built and signed by F-Droid against that source
• Con: Rated 3.8 from 8,162 ratings, the lowest score of the five builds compared here
• Con: Its install band is 1,000,000+, an order below the two free clients in the ten million band
• Con: The Play build does not hold Android all files access, and the developer README sends anyone on Android 12 or above to the F-Droid or direct build instead

Skip this if. Skip it if a polished interface matters to you more than what a Data Safety section declares.

Choosing between them. Choose LibreTorrent over Flud when the data declaration decides it, and Flud over it for the larger and better rated user base.

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Best free client

4.6 stars, 450,596 ratings · 10,000,000+ installs · Free, no in-app purchases listed · Developer Delphi softwares · Listing updated 12 August 2026 · Contains ads: Yes · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.6 (450,596) · read 20 August 2026

Flud is the free client with the largest following here, and the trade is printed on the same listing. It carries the Contains ads label, and its own Data Safety section declares that the app may collect data types. None of them are shared with third parties. Dropping the advertising means buying a separate app rather than unlocking this one.

Its developer points at that separate build on its own Play listing, read 20 August 2026: We're happy to announce that the paid ad-free version of Flud is now available for download.

• Good: Rated 4.6 across 450,596 ratings, the largest sample on this page
• Good: Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties
• Good: Its listing was updated 12 August 2026, joint most recent on this page
• Con: Its listing carries the Contains ads label, and that is how the free build is funded
• Con: Its Data Safety section says the app may collect data types, and that data cannot be deleted
• Con: The build without advertising is a separate purchase, so taking it means installing a second app

Skip this if. Skip it if an app that declares data collection is a problem for you, whatever it does with what it collects.

Choosing between them. Choose Flud over LibreTorrent for the interface and the far larger rating base, and LibreTorrent over it for the stricter data declaration.

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Best paid pick

4.7 stars, 16,983 ratings · 100,000+ installs · USD 3.99 up front, no in-app purchases listed · Developer Delphi softwares · Listing updated 12 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.7 (16,983) · read 20 August 2026

Flud+ is the paid build of Flud at USD 3.99 up front, with no advertising label and nothing declared collected or shared. The blunt part is that LibreTorrent declares that same pair and asks for nothing. It is also not an in-app unlock: it installs as its own app under its own package id, so buying it means running a second app.

Its developer sets out the difference on its own Play listing, read 20 August 2026: This app contains no ads and has additional theming features. Please try the free version before buying this app.

• Good: Rated 4.7 from 16,983 ratings, the highest score of the five
• Good: Its Data Safety section declares no data collected and none shared with third parties
• Good: Updated 12 August 2026, joint most recently updated listing on this page
• Con: It costs USD 3.99 up front, and the listing shows a buy price rather than a free install
• Con: Its install band is 100,000+, a fraction of the free build it is based on
• Con: LibreTorrent declares the same two Data Safety lines for nothing, so the money buys the interface rather than the declaration

Skip this if. Skip it if you would rather not pay to remove advertising from a client you can already run for nothing.

Choosing between them. Choose Flud+ over Flud to be rid of the advertising, and over LibreTorrent only if the interface is worth USD 3.99.

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Read its data line first

4.4 stars, 197,194 ratings · 10,000,000+ installs · Free, no in-app purchases listed · Developer tagsoft · Listing last updated 5 April 2025, 16 months before this check · Contains ads: Yes · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.4 (197,194) · read 20 August 2026

tTorrent Lite is free, carries the Contains ads label, and shares. Its own Data Safety section says this app may share these data types with third parties, which on a page about privacy is the deciding fact. Its listing has not been updated since 5 April 2025, about 16 months before this check.

Read this first. Both tTorrent builds declare in their own Data Safety sections that they may share these data types with third parties. The other three listings on this page declare no sharing with third parties, and paying for the build without advertising does not change that line. Read from both listings on 20 August 2026.

Its developer states how the free build is funded on its own Play listing, read 20 August 2026: The Lite version is ad supported.

• Good: Rated 4.4 across 197,194 ratings with 10,000,000+ installs, one of the two widest deployments here
• Good: Free, and its developer says plainly in the listing text how the free build is funded
• Good: Its Data Safety section states that data is encrypted in transit
• Con: Its own Data Safety section says it may share these data types with third parties, which is the subject of this page
• Con: Its listing carries the Contains ads label
• Con: The listing has not been updated since 5 April 2025, about 16 months before this check

Skip this if. Skip it if third party sharing is the thing you came to this page to avoid.

Choosing between them. Choose tTorrent Lite over Flud for the web interface and the custom save paths its listing describes, and Flud over it on the data declaration alone.

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Paid, sharing unchanged

4.6 stars, 6,267 ratings · 50,000+ installs · USD 2.99 up front, no in-app purchases listed · Developer tagsoft · Listing last updated 10 April 2025, 16 months before this check · Contains ads: No · checked 20 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.6 (6,267) · read 20 August 2026

tTorrent is the paid build at USD 2.99 up front, with no advertising label, and it shares. Its own Data Safety section says this app may share these data types with third parties, exactly like the free build, so paying does not change that. Its listing has not been updated since 10 April 2025.

Its developer answers the difference between the two builds in its own FAQ, read 20 August 2026: There is no difference betweeen the two, except the ads. The wording, including the typing slip, is quoted as published (ttorrent.org/faq).

• Good: Rated 4.6 from 6,267 ratings
• Good: Its listing carries no advertising label
• Good: Its Data Safety section states that data is encrypted in transit
• Con: Its own Data Safety section says it may share these data types with third parties, and paying does not change that
• Con: The listing has not been updated since 10 April 2025, about 16 months before this check
• Con: Installs 50,000+, the smallest deployment of the five builds here

Skip this if. Skip it if you are paying in order to be private rather than in order to be rid of advertising.

Choosing between them. Choose tTorrent over tTorrent Lite only to remove the advertising, and Flud+ over both if the data declaration matters more than the client.

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BitTorrent moves one large file between many computers at once, and a great deal of material is published this way because it saves the publisher bandwidth and reaches the reader faster. This page covers that material and nothing else:

• Linux images. Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint publish official torrents of their installer images, and Mint runs its own tracker at torrents.linuxmint.com. This is the normal way to download a distribution.
• Public domain works. The Internet Archive seeds books, films and recordings whose copyright has expired or was never claimed.
• Creative Commons media. Music, photos and video released by their creators for free sharing.
• Large open datasets. Research data and machine learning sets are often handed out as torrents because the files are enormous.
• Game mods and patches. Community projects sometimes distribute big updates over torrents to spare their own servers.

Material published without the permission of whoever holds the rights to it is outside what this page covers. No app here is presented as a way to obtain it, no source for it is named or linked, and nothing below explains how to move it or how to go unnoticed while doing so. This page reports what five listings and their developers declare. It is not legal advice, and it does not tell you what any country requires of you.

What these five can and cannot do about privacy

The swarm always learns an address for you. The BitTorrent specification describes the tracker reply as a list of peers, each of which contains the keys peer id, ip, and port, mapping to the peer address and port (BEP 3, read 20 August 2026). What a setting can change is which address that is, not whether there is one. libtorrent, the engine under LibreTorrent, documents the switch: of proxy peer connections it says peer connections are made (and accepted) over the configured proxy, if any (libtorrent settings reference, read 20 August 2026). The swarm then holds the proxy address, and that is still an address someone can be asked about.

What the five offer is narrower than anonymity. Each listing, read 20 August 2026, advertises a proxy setting and connection encryption. LibreTorrent, Flud and Flud+ list proxy support for trackers and peers; tTorrent Lite and tTorrent list proxy support for SOCKS and HTTP. Encryption here means the peer connection, which tTorrent spells out in its own FAQ where it explains that E beside a peer means an Encrypted connection (ttorrent.org/faq, read 20 August 2026). An encrypted connection to a peer is still a connection that peer can see.

Not one of the five claims anonymity. Read on 20 August 2026, none of the five listing descriptions uses the word anonymous or offers to hide, mask or conceal an address. The engine underneath is franker still. LibreTorrent names its own foundation in that same listing, read 20 August 2026: it is based on libtorrent4j, which its repository describes, read 20 August 2026, as a swig Java interface for libtorrent, and libtorrent's settings reference, read 20 August 2026, says of its anonymous mode that the client tries to hide its identity to a certain degree. What it lists under that heading is a generic user agent for trackers, a local IPv4 and IPv6 address withheld from private trackers, an announce address not sent to trackers, and a client version not sent to peers (libtorrent settings reference, read 20 August 2026). To a certain degree is the operative phrase: none of those four conceals the address a peer connection is actually made from, which is why the proxy setting above is the one that moves it.

A VPN is a separate product, not a setting in any of these. It carries the traffic through another network, so peers see that network address instead of yours. That is a decision about who sees what, and no client on this page includes one. Our separate roundup of the best VPN apps for Android compares them on price, the ads label and what each Data Safety section declares, so this page names none.

Permissions, storage and choosing between the five

A torrent client needs network access, storage access to write what it downloads, and notification permission to show progress. What differs between these builds is not the permission list but how freely a build reaches the file system. The F-Droid page for LibreTorrent, read 20 August 2026, lists android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE among the permissions of the build F-Droid signs. Android calls that all files access and tells developers to ask for it only when an app cannot work through the Storage Access Framework or the Media Store (Android developer documentation, read 20 August 2026). The Play build does not hold it, and the developer README says so plainly. What that does not mean is that the Play build can save only to Downloads and Documents: picking a folder through the Storage Access Framework needs no system permission at all (Android developer documentation, read 20 August 2026), and LibreTorrent's own Play listing, read 20 August 2026, lists auto moving finished files to another folder or an external drive among its features. The difference is reach, not one folder.

Magnet link support and the choice of which files inside a torrent to download are named in the feature list of every one of the five listings, read on 20 August 2026: LibreTorrent, Flud, Flud+, tTorrent Lite and tTorrent. That second one is what keeps a torrent full of files you do not want from dragging the one you do. When a transfer finishes, the files sit in the folder you chose, and a file manager app is the easier way to move or rename them afterwards. The wider tools and utilities hub covers the rest of that toolkit.

Two questions settle the choice

Does the Data Safety declaration decide it for you, or does the interface? If it is the declaration, two listings here declare nothing collected and nothing shared: LibreTorrent, which is free and carries no advertising label, and Flud+, which costs USD 3.99 up front. If it is the interface and the weight of the user base, Flud is the free client with the largest following, and its ads label plus its own collection line are the price of that. Both tTorrent builds declare that they may share data types with third parties, which on a page about privacy outranks their feature lists.

Checked 20 August 2026: every figure re read from the Play listing that belongs to it. Rating counts moved: LibreTorrent 8,149 to 8,162, Flud 450,325 to 450,596, Flud+ 16,950 to 16,983, tTorrent Lite 197,235 to 197,194 and tTorrent 6,264 to 6,267, and the Flud listing date moved from 5 August 2026 to 12 August 2026. The headline now names privacy, ads and price rather than the law, because the law is no longer what this page covers. The decision table carried one column, Shares data, doing two jobs: Flud read No in it while its own Data Safety section declares that it may collect data types, so a privacy reader scanning the table was told the opposite of the listing. It is now two columns, Collects data and Shares data, and both of them differentiate. Statements about what is illegal in most countries are withdrawn from the body and from the two FAQ answers that carried them: this page reports what listings and developer documentation declare and gives no legal advice. Two claims about what a client cannot do are corrected against the engine documentation. The page said no setting changes what the swarm sees, and libtorrent documents a proxy setting that does exactly that, so the page now says a proxy changes which address the swarm holds rather than whether it holds one. The page also said that anonymous mode withholds only a user agent and a client version, and the same reference lists two address fields it withholds as well. The diagram published with this article is withdrawn. It cannot be redrawn from here, and it printed a version and a date about twelve months out of date, an unsourced line about where the Play build may save files, and three assertions this page does not make. The claim that the Play build confines downloads to Downloads and Documents goes with it: the developer README states only that the Play build lacks all files access, and Android gives an app a folder the reader picks through the Storage Access Framework with no system permission at all. No app was added or removed.