The developer of the application has made the app available for free through Github, and we will show you how to get this app for free by doing a bit of tweaking. It is a paid application, and costs $2.99 for a simple download. JSTorrent is a javascript based torrent client on the Chrome Web Store. However, like the kids of the smartphone era say – “There’s an app for that.” There is, indeed, an app on the Chrome Web Store that functions as a full-fledged torrent client. Since most popular torrent clients like Utorrent are downloadable applications (and Chrome OS does not support anything that’s not on the Chrome Web Store), the availability of torrent clients on Chrome OS becomes a major concern. For a lot of people, torrenting is a daily activity, whether it be the newest episode of your favorite TV show or a movie that just got released. Rather than downloading torrents locally, you'll add them to an online account which will handle the fancy transfers and then simply stream / download the complete filed directly from that service.“But will I be able to download torrents?” is one of the top concerns of people considering the shift from traditional operating systems to Chrome OS. JSTorrent was definitely cutting edge technology.Īlternatives, in the meantime, are going to be mostly cloud based. There have been Javascript powered clients in the past, but none that were required to handle all connections in total using it instead of system API's. did.Īccording to, the homepage for the project, it would now seem that those licensing disputes have come to fruition with the removal of JSTorrent from the Chrome Web Store and a push for a rewrite.Īs for why writing a BitTorrent client that works on Chrome OS is so difficult, that's because it truly is breaking new ground. As such, he wasn't sure if he owned it or if BitTorrent Inc. As it turns out, he is / was an employee at BitTorrent Inc., and JSTorrent was developed partly using his 20% time.

When it was first released, I contacted the developer about forking it (to rework the UI) and learned that there were licensing complications. It was functional, but had an admittedly horrible UI.

JSTorrent has by far been the leader in the Chrome OS BitTorrent game. Hopefully I can clear some things up here.

Chrome torrent downloader