Top 20 Best Peer to Peer (P2P) File Sharing Programs and Applications

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Traditional Downloading of programs and application from a website has become outdated as well as there are not many website providing free software for download. Another medium for downloading and sharing of files is peer to peer file sharing Networks & Programs and it has grown to tremendous level with many networks having more then millions of users to share software’s, Music files, Videos and Programs etc.

With increase in popularity of Peer to Peer (P2P) network it has become one of medium for spreading of Viruses, Spyware, Ad ware, Malware thru this file sharing applications. Users are seeking for clean, Safe, Fastest and Best p2p file sharing applications.

After searching for hours on google I have got big list of safe and best peer to peer (P2P) program and application.

Top 20 Best p2p (Peer to Peer) File Sharing Applications and Programs

1) Bittorrent :

BitTottent LogoThis is one of best, fastest, safe and widely used p2p program. Performance of BitTorrent is way better then any other available P2P programs.

Supported Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac
Download Bittorrent Client

2) Limeware:

LimeWire LogoLimeWire is clean, safe, virus and malware free p2p software.it has build in media player with optimized search result.supportes download from multiple hosts.

Supported Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac
Download Limeware Client

3) Shareaza:

shareaza logoThis was one of early p2p program when p2p was still new concept. It supports wide variety of networks like Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and which can handle magnet links, ed2k links, Piolet links, and the now deprecated Gnutella links.

Shareza has billions of users and uncountable numbers of files shared across shareaza network

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download Shareaza Client

(Update: From comments we have found we were linking to wrong shareaza websites, we have corrected the link. Thanks for your comments)

4) Kazaa:

kazaa logoLike Shareaza, Kaaza was one of best and most popular p2p during early days of p2p evolution. but in past few year due to many issues like virus infected files, lawsuite, spywares, Kazaa has lost its popularity.

However kazaa has been continually trying to make Kazaa network virus and spyware free with many new features like built in virus scanner, infected file blocking made available in latest Kazaa Client to protect users.

Kazaa Lite is one of best client of Kazaa P2P network for file sharing.
Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download Kazaa Lite

5) iMesh:

iMesh LogoiMesh another popular and spyware, adware free p2p file sharing with application multi language support. iMesh claims to have over 15 million FREE songs & videos Over 2 million original high quality songs licensed from the record labels.

Personally I liked iMesh for downloading music and videos but haven’t found it good for downloading any freeware software or application.

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download iMesh Client for Windows

6) Bearshare Lite:

bearshare logoBearshare is pretty good p2p file sharing program with having pretty good user base and millions of files shared on Bearshare also supports for Multilanguage.

Bearshare is good for downloading music and mp3 files
Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download BearShare Client for Windows

7) eMule:

emule logoeMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world thanks to its open source support and based on edonkey2000 client.

eMule has Multilanguage support with ability to connect to multiple servers and intelligent file corruption detection system to help you in getting genuine files. eMule is free from spyware, adware and its completely free.

eMule is also available in portable form to run from your USB derive

Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download eMule Client

8 ) KCeasy:

Kceasy logoKCeasy is client based on giFT peer to peer file sharing protocol. This protocol improves the overall usability of peer to peer network, ability to downloads single file from multiple peers simultaneously.KCeasy supports multiple networks for file sharing.
Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista
Download KCeasy

9) Ares Galaxy:

ares galaxy logoAres is one of my favorite p2p program and I have been using it from last 4 years, ares network is not that much big as compared to other p2p but its completely free from viruses, spywares and adwares.

I haven’t got any infected files or corrupted installer. Ares List is used more then normal Ares client because of its low size, speed and performance.

Supported Operating system: Windows XP, Vista
Download Ares for Windows

10) Soulseek:

soulseek logoSoluseek central server type of P2P file sharing application. Soluseek is good old p2p file sharing program best of sharing music files. i haven’t tried soluseek ever but have heard that soluseek is best of music, audio, Mp3 files download.
Supported Operating system: Windows XP, Vista
Download Souleseek Client

11) WinMX

winmx logoWinMX one of pretty old peer to peer file sharing program has suffered due to lowsuite and its official website and server is now offline form 2005 although WinMX program is still operating successfully.

WinMX network has limited number of Viruses and also it has restriction of maximum file size can be shared is 2 GB only.WinMX is mojouly used for audio and video file sharing but you can use it for sharing any types of files.

Supported Operating system: Windows XP
Download WinMX

12) Piolet:

piolet logoPiolet is the 3rd generation peer-to-peer file sharing client. This is considerably new p2p file sharing application/Website and it has started gaining popularity among P2P users.

Free version of piolet shows ads and has no search functionality. i really doubt whether this can become good P2P file sharing program.

Supported Operating System: Windows XP
Download Free Piolet client

13) Gnutella:

gnutella2 logoGnutella is file sharing network which is supported by several p2p clients like LimeWire, BearShare, Shareaza etc.

Gnutella has strong user base with less number of infected files present in file sharing network.
Supported Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac

14) Overnet:

overnet logoOvernet is distributed file sharing program which is based on its own network Overnet has more then millions of users with some interesting features like File corruption detection, decentralized, fast search and downloading of files.


Supported Operating System: Windows Linux, Mac
Download Overnet client

15) Azureus now called as Vuze

azureus logoAzureus is best torrent client with built in search functionality as well as peer to peer torrent sharing. Veze has best bandwidth management for faster file transfer and downloading

Supported Operating System: Windows Linux, Mac
Download Vuze client

16) FrostWire:

frostwire logoFrostwire is like Vuze is another most popular bittorrent client as well as p2p file sharing client which supports Gnutella, Gnutella2, EDonkey Network. it’s completely free from virus and spyware with iTunes integration.
Supported Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac

Download FrostWire Client

17) uTorrent :

utorrent logouTorrent is lightweight efficient bittorrent client with lot many features like RSS downloader, Multiple simultaneous downloads downloading, Bandwidth configuration and IPv6 support.
Supported Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 98, NT
Download uTorrent Client

18) Morpheus:

morpheus logoMorpheus is free p2p file sharing program with many features like search, easy user interface, No spyware, Popups or ads. Latest version of Morpheus also supports P2P Streaming media for video and audio.
Supported Operating System: Window Xp/Vista
Download Morpheus Client

19) ANts:
ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. This is only one of kind of peer to peer file sharing application which encrypts every thing. It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others.

ANts is written Java hence it’s supports all types of operating system.Ants is still in beta and not many users are using it

Download ANts peer 2 peer file sharing client

20) Acquisition:

Acquisition LogoAcquisition is relatively new and paid type of p2p file sharing programe. Acquisition uses Gnutella network for peer-to-peer file sharing and BitTorrent client .It is based on LimeWire.

This is one of dedicated P2P software which runes only on Mac OS X.

Download Acquisition client.

If know any other free peer to peer (P2P) file sharing Application/Program then please post in below comment.

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Reader Comments

Azureus/Vuze:
“Veze has best bandwidth management … “: typo: Veze should be Vuze
And: Azureus/Vuze does IPv6, which is not mentioned.

HTH

Written By Felker
on September 15th, 2008

ANTs p2p is a great anonymous p2p file sharing program but it can sometimes be slow.

Dargens p2p is a mod of ANts p2p that makes it download faster while still being anonymous.

Goals of Dargens

The aim of the system is to spread information to those who find it difficult to access information freely.

It has been designed (STUNT and SSL spoofing) to penetrate national censorship system such as the great fire wall of China.

However, it is not meant to circumvent national laws but to give privacy to responsible adult users which is a right we take for granted in the physical world but which is diminishing in the virtual world.

We are all connected, if not directly then via friends of friends of friends etc. It has been prooved both theoretically and experimentally that everyone in Europe and North America are connected by a maximum of six steps.

This is how Dargens p2p works all nodes are connected but not randomly. They are connected like a social network a society. So path lengths are short and everybody can download and upload from everybody else.

And as it is ANts p2p (only change is network topology) it is anonymous.

And as to the single point of failure. I agree there is a single point of failure but it is open source (including the website) so it is like bit torrent. Sure they can kill a few trackers but they will never kill them all.

Lastly by being web based allows the featured files to be quality checked. So now you can download quality files anonymously. Of course you still have the ability to search and download like limwire etc again anonymously.

Nothing is 100% anonymous; this is safe enough to prevent snoopers from knowing what you’re downloading without slowing downloads.

Go on download a file.

http://www.Dargens.com

or join my private network:
http://www.dargens.com/invitefrom/f5…9da0597233f80a

Written By Ezzy Elliott
on September 15th, 2008

My fav ones are utorrent, Limewire, Gnutella.

Written By Madhur Kapoor
on September 15th, 2008

bearshare imo is the worst. about 50% of the files are spyware/trojan downloaders… that’s a good list btw man. you have them almost all there!

Written By stratosg
on September 15th, 2008

nice effort buddy..
good work

Written By jigish
on September 15th, 2008

Surprised that Azureus and uTorrent are so low in your list. I mean, these two are most popular torrent clients. Besides, the official BiTTorrent is now based on uTorrent anyway.

Written By Peter G.
on September 16th, 2008

It’s a shame that the anonymous clients are mentioned so little in that list. The only one is ANts, which seems to be abandoned by the developer. In times of increasing surveillance by the music and film industry, anonymous file sharing will become more and more important.
A very promising program seems to be Stealthnet; it also seems to be one of the most secure.

Written By SpeedOfLight
on September 30th, 2008

Hey!! This is good!!!! I FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING NOT LIMWIRE ALLLL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! I LUV U WEBSITE!!

Written By Ani
on October 17th, 2008

i have used all kind of p2p software till now but the best is bittorent.good download speed.

Written By johnyb
on November 14th, 2008

Utorrent for torrent
Limewire Pro for direct P2P (good to download Quick mp3’s quickly) beware of malwares and spywares on limewire, Make sure you have a good Antivirus

Written By Vikram
on December 5th, 2008

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
gracias

Written By caca
on December 21st, 2008

Done!!
For file searching, I used only Limewire (free of charge) – Now I learned very much of P2P –
Thnx,
A. Samad

Written By A. Samad
on December 29th, 2008

I wonder who else would agree with your description of Emule. I find that almost every file I download has some type of malware. Either my system is corrupting the dowloaded files or your article does not tell the full story.

I’d sure like to know other peoples experiences.

Written By Fred
on December 31st, 2008

P2P file sharing application is mainly used for downloading and uploading files like music, videos, softwares, games, mp3 tunes, photos and many more. I have been using Shareaza and FastestP2P for downloading.

Written By Steve Allan
on January 6th, 2009

for me.. the BesT 2 P2P are… LIMEWIRE & uTORRENT…..

Written By Drag
on February 10th, 2009

They say some are Mac OSX dedicated but every file I download is an .exe that my Mac opens as a page of symbols.. any advice for a rookie?

Written By Cabin
on February 17th, 2009

In my opinion, I think the best ones are the free and open source ones because they’re are trustworthy and there can be nothing to worry about the “things” people download. For my Windows XP I chose Shareaza and Deluge because Deluge is lighter than Azureus and open source compared to utorrent and Shareaza can connect to emule server and gnutella. For my Ubuntu Linux, I chose Transmission because it came with the OS and amule because it was the only choice in synaptic manager.

Written By Ron
on March 7th, 2009

common ARES is wayyyyyyyyyyy better than LIMEWIRE!!
also utorrent/bittorrent or whatever..they’re all the same..it’s not like we’re downloading from that client..it’s from several torrent sites..however utorrent should be on the top..and most torrent sites banned other clients except for utorrent and azureus..i’m not saying im 100% right..but thats how i feel..however nice work for putting up this site..

Written By ravin
on March 11th, 2009

AGREE,
ARES is THE BEST

Written By Picco
on April 4th, 2009

“I wonder who else would agree with your description of Emule. I find that almost every file I download has some type of malware. Either my system is corrupting the dowloaded files or your article does not tell the full story.

I’d sure like to know other peoples experiences.”

I’ve been using emule for well over a year and a half now with over 100 gigs downloaded and not one file infested with malware or spyware. There are still a few good ed2k links sites in existence that I suggest you use. I’ve also had no problems with emule’s search function and cross-referencing file sizes with either BT sites or just using ed2k link sites grantees a legit download. The network has a much wider variety of movie and music files than most BT sites I’ve used and the large amount of HD and non-HD bluray rips to choose from, free or everybody, puts the network at the top of my list. The only downside in using emule is that the speeds are almost never greater than 150 kb/s and usually hover around 10-60 kb/s. For me personally, this is not a problem since I stockpile instead of watching immediately.

Written By miami
on April 16th, 2009

Kazaa Kazaa Lite iMesh BearShare Ares and Morpheus all keep computer repair companies in business with spyware removal. Thanks for supporting local businesses!

Written By yeah
on June 5th, 2009

hi there, its been many yrs ive been using p2p software, infact since yr 90’s!!! its my passion downloading music.
concerning speed of download it depends on 1st software, 2nd network bandwidth(for both client,ie uploading and downloading.) it also depends on the number of peers u r downloading from..
The best software doesnt only mean download speed, always remember if u want great download speed u must have great upload speed too..as p2p works by uploading from other clients.
try searching rare files e.g for rare mp3 files are ( Dow jones-just a techno groove,, avion de nuitagatha de co,, hobby one-everybody movin’up,, passion-toujour envie d’elle,,Docteur jones l’explorateur….) these are mp3 files that are rare to find.. personally ive use most of the mentioned p2p, for best result use Emule, for quick use Limewire..but limewire is not as in the early 2000’s,so beware..
Torrent i use bitcomet/utorrent/rarely vuze as it takes too much memory, what i apreciate with torrent is that i can select mp3’s/ files to download from huge files… coz sometime one needs only a readme file from a 1 gig file!!that’s the best of torrent files..

in general i use web like filespump/rapidlibrary/4shared.. files that i dnt find i use Emule/limewire… till now ive download many many many Gig of Mp3 and sincerly ive got 99.9% of music ive searched from yr 70’s to latest techno..

sorry for ortho err, im from mauritius island and our native language in not english :D

Written By rajiv
on June 17th, 2009

Amazed to see Kazaa in the list. I think it is the black list.

Written By salman
on June 26th, 2009

dude limewire is shit its full of viruses why is it no2 wth

Written By dav
on June 30th, 2009

hey ares is also my favorite

Written By ron
on June 30th, 2009

The link for Shareaza (www.shareaza.com) is not the legit website address, as stated in the official homepage (shareaza.sourceforge.net) the website had recently been overtaken by hackers – in which the fake version for download (version 6.0) contain viruses.. the real legit version at SourceForge is 2.4 is you follow Shareaza version history.

Do not download from Shareaza.com – instead: shareaza.sourceforge.net

Written By Brendon
on July 1st, 2009
Written By Brendon
on July 1st, 2009

BearShare sold out to iMesh in the Summer of 2006 or so as part of their settlement with the music industry. Any BearShare installer downloaded since is based on iMesh re-skinned to look like the old BearShare.

Morpheus is dead. It should rank at the bottom. StreamCast (publishers of Morpheus) went bankrupt after its legal troubles with the recording industry.

The old BearShare should definitely rank above Shareaza, but the new BearShare should rank down at the bottom, only ahead of Morpheus.

You should mention that LimeWire supports both the Bittorrent and Gnutella protocols.

I can understand the grammar mistakes, as you’re probably not a native speaker. However, the terrible spelling is harder to dismiss. A spelling check before publishing wouldn’t kill you, would it? Have pride in your work and some personal standards that have to be met before slapping your name on something.

Written By Karl
on July 6th, 2009

Limewire always looses the network and ares has a low quality of music i try frostwire and is the same exact thing as limewire. Can somebody help me choose what p2p user can i use? I am downloding imesh can somebody tell me a description of it?

Written By erikaa
on August 5th, 2009

The link to Shareaza website should be changed! It’s NOT the real website! Don’t you people learn!? Search the internet about it!
Even the download link – It points to the wrong download. It’s dangerous. I dare you to download the fake Shareaza and use it!

Note, also: Users that have Trend Micro installed will notice that the website, and download link, aren’t accessible as the website is blocked and classified “dangerous”. See, Trend Micro caught on to it, so why not everyone else? Please change the link. For some reason it really bothers me.

Okay, let’s just say a few ten thousand people are wrong, and it was the so called “real, no spyware, no adware, 100% free” version – which Shareaza has never used those words in ANY of their distributions – if it was “real”.. Why would such a program jump from version 2.x to version 4.. And to this date (2 months later).. Version 6? It’s not right. This link needs to be changed.

Written By MIKE
on August 11th, 2009

Also, to add to my comment. Download.com is a trusted site by millions of people. Search for Shareaza…What comes up? The REAL LEGIT VERSION (version 2.4.0) which links to: http://shareaza.sourceforge.net

Please see for yourself:
http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=shareaza&tag=srch&searchtype=downloads&filterName=platform%3DWindows&filter=platform%3DWindows

Also, check out SiteAdvisor, Shareaza.com has a really bad rating – mostly compiled with the comments of “FAKE” and “HIJACKED DOMAIN”.

Please let people know. This is a serious matter.

Written By MIKE
on August 11th, 2009

Forgot some of the Japanese P2P (I am into anime so I use them alot).

Perfect Dark
Share
Winny

Only bad thing with these programs is they can be difficult to set up and it REQUIRES you to have 20-40GB of space set aside for uploads.

Written By Kkitten
on August 18th, 2009

Ahh, very sad to see uTorrent at 17th place.

I consider that utorrent shud be placed in the first position given the simple interface and advanced features and reliability of it.

Written By Suneel
on September 6th, 2009

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