What is the best torrent website?

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There are many private sites, some of which cater to specific interests. However, without being a member of these sites, it is difficult to rate them, I will talk about public torrent search sites, which do not require registration.

What is the "best" torrent search site depends, in part, on personal preferences. Any good site should have well used comments, ratings and other features to help avoid fake torrents. I prefer sites that have a large amount of listings.

IsoHunt (over 1.5 million torrents listed) has many options to verify the quality of a torrent, including well used comments and ratings.

btjunkie (over 3 million torrents listed) has comments and ratings that are well used.

Torrentz (over 2.5 million torrents listed) has comments and ratings, but they are not as well used as the above two. They do have the nice feature of listing all the trackers for a torrent, not just the ones embedded in the torrent. Adding these trackers in may help get better download speed. They do also have list torrents that they have verified to be clean and real, but the number is relatively small.

The above sites list torrents from many torrent search sites and do not remove bad torrents, so the comments and ratings must be used.

Vertor (over 230,000 torrents listed) only lists torrents that they have verified to be clean and real.

Podtropolis lists only iPod compatible torrents

Coda.fm only lists music album torrents that they have verified to be clean and real. Their listings are relatively small.

Mmegatorrentz is a meta-search engine that culls search results from all the best torrent sites and is useful in locating hard to find torrents.


TorrentFinder is a meta-search engine that culls search results from 146 torrent sites and is useful in locating hard to find torrents.

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First answer by Krofs. Last edit by Dave Norminton. Contributor trust: 3 [recommend contributor recommended]. Question popularity: 4 [recommend question].