TorrentMilk is a torrent app built around the play button. Paste a magnet link and the video starts as soon as the first pieces arrive, while the rest keeps downloading behind it.
What you download becomes a wall of poster cards instead of a folder of filenames. There is no account to create, and the files you download stay on your own computer.
Highlights
- Play before it finishes - start watching from the first few percent. Seek anywhere and the player picks up from there as that part arrives.
- A library, not a folder - every download shows up as a card with a cover, taken from the file's own artwork or from frames of the video, and any file can be set as the poster.
- Favourites and collections - heart what you want close, group titles into collections like Movies, Series or Watch later, and pin the ones you use to the top of the sidebar.
- Picks up where you stopped - every file remembers its position, even after a restart, and a season pack shows how much of each episode you have already watched.
- Plays the awkward formats too - MP4 and WebM play straight away, and MKV and AVI are converted as they play, so there is no second player to install.
- Music as well as video - a whole discography plays track by track from its file list, and the mini player keeps going while you browse.
- Subtitles you can tune - subtitle files that come with the video load on their own, and you can change their size, height and timing while it plays.
- Watch it your way - full window, fullscreen, picture-in-picture, or a mini player tucked into the corner of the sidebar.
- Opens straight from your browser - set TorrentMilk as your default torrent app and magnet links and .torrent files open in it. You can also drag either one onto the window.
- Tidies up after itself - a finished download stops seeding and moves into your library, and changing the download folder later never breaks what you already have.
How it works
On first launch TorrentMilk sets up its playback helper in the background, or uses one already on your computer. That happens once.
After that, paste a magnet link into the search bar, open a .torrent file, or click a magnet link in your browser. The torrent appears in Downloads with its progress and speed, and you can press play on it right away. When it finishes it moves into the library, where you can search, sort by recently added or recently watched, rename titles and file them into collections.
Perfect for
- anyone who would rather start watching than wait for a progress bar
- people tired of hunting for a player that will open an MKV file
- series and anime watchers who lose track of which episode comes next
- music collectors who grab a whole discography and just want to hear one track
- anyone who wants their downloads kept on their own computer, with no account
