Vuze Review

Vuze is well known bittorrent client. But it was already known under the name Azerus. Where is connection between torrent client and the mobile topic? The answer can be found here vuze.com/features/remote. Vuze describes its product as “the most powerful bittorrent app on earth.” Let’s try to clarify is it really so?

Site provides:

Vuze bittorrent client:
“The most powerful bittorrent app on earth”, quite modest isn’t it? But still this client is really powerful and has many useful and not really useful features. Here they are:
HD 1080p player:
Is a very simple but still very comfortable video player. After downloading video using Vuze you shouldn’t start searching for necessary codecs or for additional media player. Vuze has all build in. You get nice feature of automatic downloading of subtitles from opensubtitles.org. And of course playing of high quality, even 1080p videos without any problems or drawbacks.
subscription.
If you know what does RSS stands for, or you use subscriptions, here is the similar feature build in. If you have downloaded your favorite series . Next time you can just press ”subsribe” and new content will be downloaded automatically. Sometimes this feature doesn’t work so well, because of changing names of torrents or because of changing the location of torrent. But still in most cases it’s useful and comfortable.
meta search
It is the start point of your entrainment. You can type in some keywords or tags and press the search button the rest will be done by Vuze. This feature seems to be so simple but still not many torrent clients can’t offer it.
Web remote
So here we reach the climax of our review. This is new feature supported by Vuze. If you have a smartphone or notebook. You can log in and control your Vuze client wireless. So you can be at work and just start downloading your favorite cartoon, so then you are at home it’s already finished. You can control the downloading process pause or continue the torrents, or if you have already downloaded this episode at work you can delete the torrent at home.

Site drawbacks

Vuze plus version
Most interesting features are included into this version. But this version is not free of charge. It costs 30.99 USD. Actually this is expensive, especially if you compare it with other torrent clients. Most of them offer you similar features but they are completely free of charge. But for these money you get:
Antivirus
Protection get only people who have paid for it. This feature might be very serious if you are downloading a lot of content from different unknown sources. It can help you to protect the computer. But from the other side for 31 dollar you can get the license for a normal standalone anti-virus software.
DVD burn
This service is provided only in paid version. Probably it’s not so important, because fortunately nowadays DVD disks lose their role in our life.
No Ads
Again a drawback of the software. Actually free versions are full of advertisement and it can be really annoying especially if you are using it for long time. The only solution to remove or to close those ads is to pay for it.
Play now
This is the most important feature for all torrent clients. This actually means that you can stream the video content instead of just downloading. So if you decided to watch a film and you have normal Internet connection (usually 2-5 Mbps is enough) you can start streaming it and watching without waiting for hours until it’s downloaded. Not many people know about this possibility and they just wait, wait and wait… But unfortunately Vuze offers this feature only for your money (huge minus)
Performance
The Vuze software is quite heavy and requires a lot from your computer. For old computers it will be too difficult to download a video and to play a game. Actually Vuze influences the work of almost all computers.

Site summary and verdict

Nowadays we have many bittorent clients like utorrent, bitcomet, free download manager and others. Even some brothers support downloading of torrents (for example Opera). So the users want to have simple. powerful tool and it must be free of charge. We consider that this is possible. But the Vuze is outside of this list. It has quite a number of features but the most useful are not free of charge. Still this review was done to write also about its new mobile features. So know you can control it without sitting in front of your computer. How many people will need it? How many will pay for it 30.99 ?Probably not many, but for some people it can be the most important feature. So Vuze tries to get the position on mobile area of bittorrent clients. We hope that in the coming future Vuze and others will make torrent clients for Androids and Smartphones. This would be something extraordinary.

Verdict. There are better variants of such soft and they are free of charge.

Our mark. 5/10