diff --git a/compose.yaml b/compose.yaml
index 14e21e1..567f58f 100644
--- a/compose.yaml
+++ b/compose.yaml
@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@ services:
     environment:
       - ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
       - ConnectionStrings__Postgres=${POSTGRES_CONNECTION_STRING}
-      - Torrent__QBittorrentUrl=http://qbittorrent:8080
+      - Torrent__QBittorrentUrl=${QBITTORRENT_URL:-http://host.docker.internal:8080}
       - Torrent__SavePath=/data/books/incoming
     volumes:
       - books:/data/books
       - audiobooks:/data/audiobooks
-    depends_on:
-      - qbittorrent
 
   pagemanager.web:
     image: pagemanager.web
@@ -27,22 +25,6 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - pagemanager.api
 
-  # Optional: self-hosted qBittorrent (comment out if using an external instance)
-  qbittorrent:
-    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
-    environment:
-      - PUID=1000
-      - PGID=1000
-      - TZ=Etc/UTC
-      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
-    volumes:
-      - qbt-config:/config
-      - books:/data/books
-    ports:
-      - "6881:6881"
-      - "6881:6881/udp"
-      - "8090:8080"   # WebUI on host port 8090 to avoid conflict with pagemanager.web
-
   # Optional: Prowlarr indexer aggregator (comment out if not needed)
   # prowlarr:
   #   image: lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
@@ -58,4 +40,3 @@ services:
 volumes:
   books:
   audiobooks:
-  qbt-config: