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Transmission

 1545 likes

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.

Transmission Windows

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows  Available in the official GitHub page: [https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases](https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases)
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • PortableApps.com
  • Haiku
  • Cloudron
  • Xfce
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (46)
1545likes
31comments

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Simple installation
  2.  Remote Management
  3.  Portable
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  File Sync
  6.  Command line interface
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  Support for Rsync

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Transmission information

  • Developed by

    US flagTransmission Project
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9 (46 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    74 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

File SharingBackup & SyncOS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  13,173 Stars
  •  1,267 Forks
  •  884 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 13, 2025 
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Our users have written 31 comments and reviews about Transmission, and it has gotten 1545 likes

Transmission was added to AlternativeTo by Stuck on Oct 1, 2008 and this page was last updated Jun 9, 2024.

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Comment summary: Transmission is praised for being a lightweight and easy-to-use torrent client, particularly favored on Mac and Linux. Users appreciate its clean and intuitive interface and its efficient performance with minimal resource usage. However, it faces criticism for lacking advanced features like automatic bandwidth management and sequential downloading, issues with proxy settings, and security vulnerabilities. Some users find it less reliable on Windows due to stability issues and limited features compared to uTorrent.
Top Positive Comment
alerque
Aug 13, 2018
5

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).

Top Negative Comment
Neoh
Sep 4, 2016
5

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.

alerque
Aug 13, 2018

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.

Lehuga ntaps
Aug 20, 2024
0

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

Kezxo
Jun 13, 2024
-1

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.

bastheking
Jan 13, 2024
0

Good peace of FOSS that does what it's suppose to!

Paul
Oct 13, 2023
0

This has been my BitTorrent client of choice for years. I've started using it on macOS, and now I use it on Linux, and it's still really good. The interface is pretty minimal (which I like), and it has all the features and settings I need. It's free, open source, regularly updated, so it's perfect for me.

arsCynic ??
Sep 13, 2023
0

Fast and easy, just as their description says. They also don't accept crypto"currencies" as donations, which is a big plus to me.

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What is Transmission?

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.