1. ruTorrent

Pros

  • looks and feels like the utorrent webgui
  • allows you not to create a folder when adding a new torrent. Convenient when downloading collections
  • allows you not to immediately start the torrent when adding
  • alot of plugins available
  • very smooth scrolling even with thousands of torrents, and a slow browsing computer
  • various settings to configure the rutorrent user interface
  • only webgui that implements the rtorrent labeling
  • very good javascripting
  • fetching torrent files from the web (direct url)
  • kind of cool, download / upload speed graph

Cons

  • buttons are not working
  • still in heavy development

Screenshots

Comments

Personally this is by far the best webgui. I almost have 1000 torrents active running in rtorrent at any given time. This is the only client that doesn’t take a long time to load hundreds of torrents, and the only one that uses the labeling system. I usually label my torrents by tracker, and rutorrent allows me to do that.

2. rtgui

Pros

  • very lightweight
  • convenient way of setting the upload and download speeds
  • easy check boxes for bulk actions

Cons

  • you cannot pick you download location of the torrents
  • you cannot upload torrents via url
  • in general very little options

Screenshots

Comments

I use rtgui sometimes when i want to check the status of incomplete torrents. I bookmark the “incomplete” tab in my browser, so i can avoid having rtgui load up all the torrents. However even with hundreds of torrents on the page, the JavaScript is nice and smooth.

3. wTorrent

Pros

  • visually appealing
  • allows you to pick the download destination, and if to immediately start the torrent
  • multiuser webgui, with passwords, and forced specific user download directories

Cons

  • horrible with hundreds / thousands of torrents
  • you need thirdparty database management
  • you need to log in, depends what you need. If your the only one using the rtorrent, then this isn’t the gui for you

Screenshots

Comments

Of the years I used rtorrent, I use this gui the least. I hate it, I think it’s absolutely bloat ware. However when I ask the forums what their favorite webgui for rtorrent is, wTorrent gets a lot of votes. So I thought I might as well mention it. Who knows you may like it.