Most computer users transfer files over the Internet on a daily basis. The Bittorrent protocol seems to be one of the most popular ones, not only due to its high transfer speeds, but also because of the great number of clients available on the web.

Torrent Swapper is one of these clients and, as compared to the others, brings some innovative features to this particular software category. Installation is just basic and, unless users want to uncheck the option that makes Torrent Swapper the default BitTorrent client on their computer, they have nothing else to do than to press Next until the final step of the process.

The first impression after starting the application is that of simplicity. The main window is kept as simplistic as possible, without any clutter or panels. All buttons are placed at the top of the window, on the toolbar, allowing users to quickly start, pause, stop or resume a download, get torrent details or add a new download link. Two of these buttons are not expected from a Bittorrent client: Manage Friends and Show Recommendations.

Basically, these two features are the ones designed to make the whole app special. Managing Friends is actually a way of picking a certain seeder as favorite, just to make sure the transfer speed it as high as possible and that the download can be resumed at a later time.

Recommendations on the other hand can offer some interesting files to download, all of them already downloaded by the members of the download hub one is connected to. It might not work at the beginning, but it is simply due to the fact that users have downloaded only a few files before testing this function and it did not get the time to create a database.

The search function might not be as powerful as users prefer: hitting the Search button opens a website that is restricted to just a few search engines, so there is still a chance that the desired file is not found..

Overall, Torrent Swapper can be considered an interesting solution for those looking for a simple way of downloading files from the Internet, but there are more complex applications available, both free and highly efficient.