Transmission
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Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
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- Open Source
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Updates:
May 20th, 2022: Replaced Mylar with Mylar3. Removed Cardigan due to discontinuation of development.
May 17th, 2022: Removed CouchPotato since it has been officially discontinued and the github repo archived by the author. Added "Readarr" and "Requestrr" to media management and request management.
May 16th, 2022: Added additional apps to the Honorable Mentions section.
March 27, 2019: Added MediaElch for metadata editing, TagScanner for audio file metadata editing, and Emby as an alternative to Plex.
December 3, 2018: Added Soundiiz for online music service playlist synchronization.
July 30, 2018: Added Mylar and Ombi.
July 28, 2018: Added Honorable Mentions section with other noteworthy media apps.
July 11, 2018: Added cTiVo as a media downloader.
June 18, 2018: Added a section for Search and Indexer utilities, which may utilized by the various Media Managers also listed below.
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Comments and Reviews
Very clean functional interface. The native UI options work great on different platforms, and having CLI and web access to the same setup is nice too. The core program is fast and reliable. The only downside is it does not support sequential downloading (although there is a patched edition out there that does).
The developers of this have had their software repeatedly hi-jacked by attackers who infect it with malware. After the first time, you think they would have taken the necessary requirements to prevent this happening again. They did not and of course were attacked again. As of now, all they have done is change web hosts. There are so many security improvements they could make to their systems, but they don't. They will not learn and will be infected again.
There was a serious incident several years back yes, but it was fixed quite quickly and the root issue addressed. I have no affiliation with the project, just a user who was affected by the issue and watched carefully to see how it was handled to know whether it was safe to use. If you stick to distro packages and official distribution channels this should not be a problem. If you wander off into unofficial channels or "patched" versions floating around then you are on your own.
Really the only torrent app you should be using on macOS.
I like minimalism, but the lack of a dark theme in 2026 is a dubious pleasure.
There is no file search when adding a torrent file.
It does have a dark theme
I installed Transmission just to see how it works. My first impression was: it is too crude, not intuitive at all. Maybe it is OK for not experienced torrent users. I prefer applications with all the tweaking and tools at hand.
Finally, a simple torrent client after using utorrent, bitTorrent and a couple of torrent clients for awhile Now, it's simply the most simple and straightforward torrent clients speed is good, it's open source nonetheless
It's a good torrent client but it's sadly one of those programs that doesn't let you change the display language, it just forces you to use whatever language it detects from your operating system.
It's good other than that, it's missing some of advanced features of qBittorrent but it gets the job done.