TorrentGalaxy review

TorrentGalaxy is closed. The public torrent site, also known as TGx, went offline at the end of February 2025 and never came back. Any “TorrentGalaxy” you find today is not the original site.

What was TorrentGalaxy?

TorrentGalaxy was launched in 2018 by former members of ExtraTorrent, shortly after that site closed. It quickly became one of the most visited public torrent sites, ranked fourth in TorrentFreak’s list of the most popular torrent sites, and was known for stable uptime, an active community, trusted uploaders and its own release groups, with movies, TV shows, games, music and software.

What happened to TorrentGalaxy?

In summer 2024 the founders sold the site to a new owner who was never named. Downtime became frequent soon after. In January 2025 the new operators asked users to help pay for the servers, and at the end of February 2025 the site became unreachable; in March its upload bots stopped too. There was never an official closing announcement, and staff and uploaders were left without an explanation.

In November 2025 the old torrentgalaxy.to domain came back online – not with torrents, but as a promotion page for a cryptocurrency. It has nothing to do with the original site.

Is TorrentGalaxy coming back?

Nothing suggests that it is. Sites called “TorrentGalaxy”, “TGx proxy” or “TorrentGalaxy mirror” are copies that use the name to show ads, redirects or fake download buttons – some ask you to install a “downloader” or to pay. Avoid them. Our TorrentGalaxy status page keeps checking the original domain automatically, and our guide on how to spot fake clone sites shows how to recognise copies.

Best TorrentGalaxy alternatives: sites like TGx

Many former TGx users moved to these sites:

• 1337x – a big, well-moderated public torrent site with trusted uploaders;
• The Pirate Bay – the oldest public torrent site, with a huge archive;
• RuTracker – an enormous, well-organised tracker, also with many English-language releases;
• private trackers such as TorrentLeech, if you want clean releases and fast downloads.

Our list of TorrentGalaxy alternatives ranks them by score, and the best torrent sites page shows every torrent site we have tested.

Our TorrentGalaxy verdict

TorrentGalaxy was one of the best public torrent sites of recent years, but it is gone. Don’t trust sites that use its name: use the alternatives above, with a VPN that allows torrenting.