Tixati is a free BitTorrent client for Windows and Linux, with a separate Android edition, for downloading and sharing files between peers. Its transfer workspace shows both the files being retrieved and the connections supplying them, with controls for deciding what to download and how much bandwidth to devote to each transfer.
Torrent transfers
Tixati accepts .torrent files and magnet links. When a transfer starts from a magnet link, it first obtains the torrent’s metadata from other peers. A torrent containing several files does not have to be downloaded in full: you can select the files or folders you want and assign priorities to individual files. The Files view shows their separate progress and status, while completed pieces are checked for integrity before being saved to disk.
The transfer list shows download progress, incoming and outgoing rates, peer counts and upload ratios. Downloads and seeds can occupy separate parts of a split view, and queued transfers can be reordered by dragging them. Transfer properties go further into individual connections: you can inspect peers, connect or disconnect them, ignore a peer, and read its event log. Tracker entries can also be edited and reordered when a transfer needs different tracker settings.
Creating seeds
Tixati can turn local files into a new seed for distribution. You can start with a file or folder, add further items, and arrange the names and folder structure that recipients will receive. These changes affect the torrent’s metadata while the original local files keep their existing names and locations. Seed creation supports BitTorrent v1, v2 and hybrid torrents, with automatic or manual selection of piece size.
After creating the transfer, you can save a .torrent file or copy a magnet link to give other people access to its swarm. Public seeds can use DHT and peer exchange; private seeds disable those methods for use with private trackers. Once a download becomes a seed, an upload-ratio target can stop sharing after the chosen ratio is reached. Tixati provides both a default target and overrides for individual transfers.
Bandwidth allocation
Incoming and outgoing traffic have separate charts and maximum-rate controls. You can change the charts’ time scale to examine shorter bursts or a longer period of activity. The outgoing controls also divide capacity between trading with peers that may send useful pieces back and seeding to peers that need data.
Transfer priorities determine how bandwidth is distributed among peers, so a more urgent torrent can receive a larger share of the available connection. Tixati’s Auto Limit offers a different approach to a fixed cap: it measures latency and adjusts the bandwidth throttle in response.
RSS feeds
The desktop RSS reader checks feed URLs periodically and retains a list of published items. You can download an item manually or let matching items create transfers automatically. Initial-feed downloads and downloads discovered on later refreshes have separate settings, allowing a feed to begin following new items without immediately downloading its whole existing list.
Filters can match titles and recognize episode or date identifiers. Additional limits control repeated downloads of the same episode, the number of files in a torrent, and its size. A test view retrieves feed titles and shows which ones pass the filter before you rely on automatic processing. Feed-created transfers can also use a specific destination folder. Items that provide only a web link open their description page in the browser instead of starting a torrent download.
Transfer scheduling
Tixati’s scheduler runs tasks once, daily or on selected days of the week. A task can start or stop downloads, seeds and RSS feeds, change bandwidth limits, or apply a bandwidth preset. This supports arrangements such as enabling transfers during one period and reducing their allowed traffic during another. Tasks can also be run manually, and their event logs show the actions taken.
Sharing channels
Channels give Tixati users a decentralized space for chat and sharing links. You can join through a channel link, gather the public channel list, or create a public or secret channel. Within a channel, participants can exchange messages and browse shared torrent and web links. Channel roles control participation and moderation.
Searching a channel works on information that has reached your client from other participants. Results therefore build up as shared information spreads after you join. Sharing a torrent link in a channel does not automatically upload its file contents: the share list advertises the metadata, while the transfer list separately controls whether the files are being seeded.
I2P routing
Tixati can route torrent transfers through an external I2P client running locally. Each transfer can use I2P, the regular Internet, or both networks, with a default available for new transfers. The external client supplies the I2P connection; selecting this mode in Tixati does not replace that client.
Tixati on Android
The Android edition has a smaller feature set than the desktop application. RSS feeds, sharing channels and the scheduler are currently unavailable there, and its builds remain experimental.
