Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to RetroShare

Product categories

Audio Player BitTorrent Chat Communication Group Chat & Notifications Instant Messaging Messaging Music Downloader P2P Text Messaging Torrent Downloads Torrents

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to RetroShare are Transmission, Signal, and Tox. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Transmission Landing Page
1

Transmission

Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P 55 social mentions
Signal Landing Page
2

Signal

Fast, simple & secure messaging. Privacy that fits in your pocket.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 180 social mentions
Tox Landing Page
3

Tox

Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 28 social mentions
qBittorrent Landing Page
4

qBittorrent

Lightweight and open source torrent client that runs on all major platforms.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #Torrent Downloads #BitTorrent 18 social mentions
Deluge Landing Page
5

Deluge

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Unix and Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P 28 social mentions
Element.io Landing Page
6

Element.io

Secure messaging app with strong end-to-end encryption, advanced group chat privacy settings, secure video calls for teams, encrypted communication using Matrix open network. Riot.im is now Element.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Group Chat & Notifications #Communication #Chat 1 social mentions
Jami Landing Page
7

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Jami

Application and Data, Collaboration, and Web and Video Conferencing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 9 social mentions
Nicotine+ Landing Page
8

Nicotine+

Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#P2P #Torrents #BitTorrent 24 social mentions
Matrix.org Landing Page
9

Matrix.org

Matrix is an open standard for decentralized persistent communication over IP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 582 social mentions
Wire Landing Page
10

Wire

Private & Secure Messenger
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 14 social mentions
BiglyBT Landing Page
11

BiglyBT

BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, bittorrent client. Auto migrate from Vuze and Azureus. I2P integration, Swarm Merging, Advanced Tag System, WebTorrent support, built-in VPN kill switch, Meta-search, UPnP/DLNA access, and much more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Torrents #BitTorrent #P2P
Lidarr Landing Page
12

Lidarr

Lidarr is a music collection manager for downloading and organizing music libraries.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music Downloader #Audio Player #Communication 21 social mentions