Rill is a small BitTorrent client, written in Rust with GTK 4 and libadwaita on top of mtorrent. It needs GTK 4.20 and libadwaita 1.8.
Magnet links and .torrent files, added from the window, from the file manager or a browser, or dropped on the window. Transfers are grouped into downloading, paused and finished, ordered by when they were added, by name, by size or by how far along they are, with a limit on how many download at once and the rest queued. A torrent's folder can be changed after the fact, content and all, and a torrent of several files can download only some of them, picked when it is added or later from its details. The details of a torrent show a map of the pieces already on disk, its files, the peers it is connected to and its trackers, and switch it to sequential downloading, so a video can be watched while it arrives. On desktops with a system tray, closing the window leaves the transfers running in the background, and a torrent that was downloading when Rill closed carries on the next time it starts.
Rill does not seed. A torrent shares pieces with other peers while it downloads, but stops once it is complete. There are also no speed limits and no way to recheck data already on disk. These are not supported yet.
Fedora 44, 45 and Rawhide, from the Copr project sachesi/software:
sudo dnf copr enable sachesi/software
sudo dnf install rill
openSUSE Tumbleweed and Slowroll, from the OBS project
home:sachesi:software; for
Slowroll the address has openSUSE_Slowroll in it, and on aarch64 openSUSE_Factory_ARM:
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:sachesi:software/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:sachesi:software.repo
sudo zypper install rill
Debian testing, from the same OBS project; Ubuntu 26.04 has an older Rust than Rill needs:
sudo install -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:sachesi:software/Debian_Testing/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/sachesi-software.gpg
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/sachesi-software.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:sachesi:software/Debian_Testing/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sachesi-software.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install rill
Arch Linux: the AUR package rill-torrent, built from
packaging/aur/PKGBUILD, which each release tag updates.
The same packages are attached to each release.
just build
sudo just install # or: just prefix=$HOME/.local build install
Build needs Rust 1.95, blueprint-compiler, just, gettext and the development packages
for GTK and libadwaita. Details, other prefixes and removal are in
docs/installing.md.
- Installing
- Using Rill
- Contributing, including where things are in the code, and reporting a vulnerability
The interface is available in English and Ukrainian.
GPL-3.0-or-later. The engine, mtorrent, is under the Apache License 2.0.