The Best Torrent Search Engines & Trackers
Updated : 2008/08/16
The criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: breadth and depth of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, and readers' comments.
Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, then downloading P2P files may put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties.
Your Internet Service Provider may, at their discretion, release their logs of your downloading activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. The more megabytes you download, the more you risk being sued by the MPAA, RIAA, and other pro-artist groups. Please keep this risk in mind before you use any of the following Torrent search engines below.
The Pirate Bay http://thepiratebay.org/
Our favorite!
The Pirate Bay, by readership size, is the most popular torrent search site today. Pirate Bay has an immense database of 600,000+ torrents, the largest database at this time.
May 2006: The Pirate Bay has been shut down by Swedish authorities. Details are available on the Pirate Bay home page.
June 2006: The Pirate Bay has restarted operations, now that the police have duplicated the TPB hard drives for forensic purposes.
August 2008 TPB is still running, yeehaaaa!
The Pirate Bay has been shut down by Italian Goverment. Go to http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123 To see more about it.
For Italian fellow go to http://labaia.org/ to access TPB.
BiteNova http://www.bitenova.org/
(formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.)
Bitsoup http://bitsoup.org/
Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders. As the trend towards private torrent sharing continues, you will need to signup and join as a member to participate in the Bitsoup swarm.
Demonoid.com http://www.demonoid.com/
[A Private Network, you need an invitation from the member to be member of Demonoid].
is back online! After legal conflicts in April of 2008, they have reestablished themselves outside of the USA, and have resumed torrent operations. Demonoid is still a private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends carefully, lest you lose your own membership.
YouTorrent.com http://www.youtorrent.com/
Still in beta testing format, this new torrent site claims to be the largest legal torrent search engine today. Accordingly, the result sets are much smaller than the "pirate" counterparts, but definitely try this site for yourself.
Torrentportal.com http://www.torrentportal.com/
Torrentscan.com http://www.torrentscan.com/
(a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines)
Isohunt.com http://www.isohunt.com/
September, 2007: Isohunt is barring American users from connecting to American torrent trackers. American users, however, can still use Isohunt to find torrents, and connect to third party trackers.
Torrentspy.com http://www.torrentspy.com/
March 24, 2008: Torrentspy has voluntarily closed its doors. Instead of conforming to the American court mandates to change their privacy policies, the Torrentspy team has opted instead to cease operations. A sad day for downloaders everywhere.
Torrentz.com http://www.torrentz.com/
(special thanks to Jonathan R., for this link)
Another Torrent Search Engines and Trackers
Torrents.to http://torrents.to/
Snarf It! http://www.snarf-it.org/
(born from previous Suprnova influences)
Torrentmatrix.com http://www.torrentmatrix.com/
Mininova.org http://www.mininova.org/
has 190,000 torrents indexed as of April, 2007. Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
FileMP3.org http://www.filemp3.org/
Torrentreactor.to http://www.torrentreactor.to/
(Torrentreactor has made a comeback from a hijacking and an uncooperative hosting service. They have moved to a different server setup and a Tonga country domain outside the USA. Read the details on their home page.)
Torrentbox.com http://www.torrentbox.com/
FYI: like Isohunt, Torrentbox is being sued by the MPAA as of February 28, 2006. The days for this fine search engine may be numbered.
BTjunkie http://www.btjunkie.org/
TorrentTyphoon.com http://www.torrenttyphoon.com/
(a unique bittorrent meta-search engine that searches several of the most popular sites. Unfortunately, it does not do a good job categorizing the torrent files themselves)
Yotoshi.com http://www.yotoshi.com/
TorrentBytes.net http://www.torrentbytes.net/
Scrapetorrent.com http://www.scrapetorrent.com/
is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.
Meganova.org http://www.meganova.org/
Torrent-damage.net http://www.torrent-damage.net/
ByTorrents Meta Search http://free.7host07.com/bytorrent/index.asp
FullDLS.com http://www.fulldls.com/
Thinktorrent.com http://www.thinktorrent.com/
FileList.org http://filelist.org/
Torrentlocomotive http://www.torrentlocomotive.com/
(special thanks to Juan C. for this submission)
bittorrent.com http://www.bittorrent.com/
(the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)
Fenopy http://www.fenopy.com/
(formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)
BTbot.com http://www.btbot.com/
(this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate Bay)
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The criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: breadth and depth of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, and readers' comments.
Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, then downloading P2P files may put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties.
Your Internet Service Provider may, at their discretion, release their logs of your downloading activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. The more megabytes you download, the more you risk being sued by the MPAA, RIAA, and other pro-artist groups. Please keep this risk in mind before you use any of the following Torrent search engines below.
The Pirate Bay http://thepiratebay.org/
Our favorite!
The Pirate Bay, by readership size, is the most popular torrent search site today. Pirate Bay has an immense database of 600,000+ torrents, the largest database at this time.
May 2006: The Pirate Bay has been shut down by Swedish authorities. Details are available on the Pirate Bay home page.
June 2006: The Pirate Bay has restarted operations, now that the police have duplicated the TPB hard drives for forensic purposes.
August 2008 TPB is still running, yeehaaaa!
The Pirate Bay has been shut down by Italian Goverment. Go to http://thepiratebay.org/blog/123 To see more about it.
For Italian fellow go to http://labaia.org/ to access TPB.
BiteNova http://www.bitenova.org/
(formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.)
Bitsoup http://bitsoup.org/
Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders. As the trend towards private torrent sharing continues, you will need to signup and join as a member to participate in the Bitsoup swarm.
Demonoid.com http://www.demonoid.com/
[A Private Network, you need an invitation from the member to be member of Demonoid].
is back online! After legal conflicts in April of 2008, they have reestablished themselves outside of the USA, and have resumed torrent operations. Demonoid is still a private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends carefully, lest you lose your own membership.
YouTorrent.com http://www.youtorrent.com/
Still in beta testing format, this new torrent site claims to be the largest legal torrent search engine today. Accordingly, the result sets are much smaller than the "pirate" counterparts, but definitely try this site for yourself.
Torrentportal.com http://www.torrentportal.com/
Torrentscan.com http://www.torrentscan.com/
(a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines)
Isohunt.com http://www.isohunt.com/
September, 2007: Isohunt is barring American users from connecting to American torrent trackers. American users, however, can still use Isohunt to find torrents, and connect to third party trackers.
Torrentspy.com http://www.torrentspy.com/
March 24, 2008: Torrentspy has voluntarily closed its doors. Instead of conforming to the American court mandates to change their privacy policies, the Torrentspy team has opted instead to cease operations. A sad day for downloaders everywhere.
Torrentz.com http://www.torrentz.com/
(special thanks to Jonathan R., for this link)
Another Torrent Search Engines and Trackers
Torrents.to http://torrents.to/
Snarf It! http://www.snarf-it.org/
(born from previous Suprnova influences)
Torrentmatrix.com http://www.torrentmatrix.com/
Mininova.org http://www.mininova.org/
has 190,000 torrents indexed as of April, 2007. Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
FileMP3.org http://www.filemp3.org/
Torrentreactor.to http://www.torrentreactor.to/
(Torrentreactor has made a comeback from a hijacking and an uncooperative hosting service. They have moved to a different server setup and a Tonga country domain outside the USA. Read the details on their home page.)
Torrentbox.com http://www.torrentbox.com/
FYI: like Isohunt, Torrentbox is being sued by the MPAA as of February 28, 2006. The days for this fine search engine may be numbered.
BTjunkie http://www.btjunkie.org/
TorrentTyphoon.com http://www.torrenttyphoon.com/
(a unique bittorrent meta-search engine that searches several of the most popular sites. Unfortunately, it does not do a good job categorizing the torrent files themselves)
Yotoshi.com http://www.yotoshi.com/
TorrentBytes.net http://www.torrentbytes.net/
Scrapetorrent.com http://www.scrapetorrent.com/
is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.
Meganova.org http://www.meganova.org/
Torrent-damage.net http://www.torrent-damage.net/
ByTorrents Meta Search http://free.7host07.com/bytorrent/index.asp
FullDLS.com http://www.fulldls.com/
Thinktorrent.com http://www.thinktorrent.com/
FileList.org http://filelist.org/
Torrentlocomotive http://www.torrentlocomotive.com/
(special thanks to Juan C. for this submission)
bittorrent.com http://www.bittorrent.com/
(the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)
Fenopy http://www.fenopy.com/
(formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)
BTbot.com http://www.btbot.com/
(this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate Bay)
Source : All over the place.
Try http://torrent.seekfreak.com to dual search for torrents (combine & compare results side by side) on all the top sites. Find more (or add) torrent searchers on http://torrent.presearcher.com.
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