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deluge is probably the best for native gui. It doesnt have the amount of integrations as qb and it struggles with many thousands of torrents (or at least it did 10yrs ago), but otherwise a great client.

Otherwise there’s qui for qb which, while still a webui, is great.

I'd recommend checking out qui - still web-based but extremely well made.

You can probably just use VueTorrent or qBitController android app for headless mode.

VueTorrent is a web client.

I currently use the official Web UI in an isolated Chromium instance and made an automatic log in page so that I don't have to type in the password every single time I open it.

I add torrents to the qBittorrent instance using a Firefox addon. It's all a bit jank.

I started some work to make my own qBittorrent client for desktop; I don't care about mobile that much.