The functionality and appearance of Kickass Torrents set it different from many other websites with a similar aesthetic. Three major components make up the layout of the website:
* Top bar: The website's narrow top bar has a search field and the following five buttons: Browser, Community, Blog, FAQ, Register / Sign in.
* Tag cloud: A tag cloud is located just below the top bar and makes it simple to see which torrents are popular on the website. The tags may be clicked on by users to quickly show matching torrents, and they can also conceal the tag cloud by clicking on a little arrow symbol towards the bottom.
Kickass Torrents' most significant component is, of course, its list of torrents, each of which includes information on the torrent's name, size, number of files, age, and seed and leech counts.
* Kickass Torrents does not host any genuine torrents. Users instead copy magnet links—basically URLs with torrent hash codes—and paste them into their torrent applications. Modern web browsers almost universally identify magnet links automatically, allowing users to launch the built-in torrent client with only one click.