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On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me. The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.

horsawlarway 4y ago
I use both transmission and deluge. Personally - I happen to like deluge more, but they both work fine. https://deluge-torrent.org/ https://deluge-torrent.org/
- davidjytang 4y ago
  Could you share the reason you like deluge?
  - horsawlarway 4y ago
    Based on LibTorrent, Lots of features, easy customization, web UI is consistent and stable, API is easy enough to work with. Plus it generally works everywhere I need it to - as a GUI app (across all major OSes), a web app, or a terminal app. So I can just dump it on whatever machine I'm using without having to think very hard. Transmission is also fine, but it kinda felt like it was stalled out for a bit - missing features, some ui bugs, not much movement around it. So I switched to Deluge and haven't really had a reason to move anywhere else.
par 4y ago
the uTorrent client on web feels like straight up malware (which it probably is.)
- eastbound 4y ago
  uTorrent desktop used to mine bitcoins. Which is a pretty good deal for a free product.
Reason077 4y ago
qBitTorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org https://www.qbittorrent.org) works great on Mac.
- tjex 4y ago
  only worked a few times for me. tried a lot of different configs... was just always stuck retrieving the metatdata. Transmission worked straight away and has continued to behave just the same since. very happy with it!
  - Reason077 4y ago
    I did use Transmission up until a few years ago. Forget exactly why I switched, but there was some issue with it at the time. qBittorrent has worked great ever since, and I certainly never configured anything more complicated than speed limits.
- mindwork 4y ago
  I disagree. I was using that because it had RSS integration. Since then - RSS integration got broken for me. Also there is something wrong with their scheduler/thread performance. Any time I add any torrents to the downloads, GUI starts to pause for multiple seconds at a time. At this point it's unusable unless you are willing to wait multiple seconds for any action that you want to do. I don't know whats wrong, but it shouldn't happen on Mac
  - Reason077 4y ago
    Weird, it's always been fast and responsive for me - I haven't noticed any pausing issues. Never tried using RSS, though.
latchkey 4y ago
I've been happy with Folx. https://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html https://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html

I use both transmission and deluge. Personally - I happen to like deluge more, but they both work fine. https://deluge-torrent.org/ https://deluge-torrent.org/

davidjytang 4y ago
Could you share the reason you like deluge?
- horsawlarway 4y ago
  Based on LibTorrent, Lots of features, easy customization, web UI is consistent and stable, API is easy enough to work with. Plus it generally works everywhere I need it to - as a GUI app (across all major OSes), a web app, or a terminal app. So I can just dump it on whatever machine I'm using without having to think very hard. Transmission is also fine, but it kinda felt like it was stalled out for a bit - missing features, some ui bugs, not much movement around it. So I switched to Deluge and haven't really had a reason to move anywhere else.

par 4y ago

the uTorrent client on web feels like straight up malware (which it probably is.)

eastbound 4y ago
uTorrent desktop used to mine bitcoins. Which is a pretty good deal for a free product.

Reason077 4y ago

qBitTorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org https://www.qbittorrent.org) works great on Mac.

tjex 4y ago
only worked a few times for me. tried a lot of different configs... was just always stuck retrieving the metatdata. Transmission worked straight away and has continued to behave just the same since. very happy with it!
- Reason077 4y ago
  I did use Transmission up until a few years ago. Forget exactly why I switched, but there was some issue with it at the time. qBittorrent has worked great ever since, and I certainly never configured anything more complicated than speed limits.
mindwork 4y ago
I disagree. I was using that because it had RSS integration. Since then - RSS integration got broken for me. Also there is something wrong with their scheduler/thread performance. Any time I add any torrents to the downloads, GUI starts to pause for multiple seconds at a time. At this point it's unusable unless you are willing to wait multiple seconds for any action that you want to do. I don't know whats wrong, but it shouldn't happen on Mac
- Reason077 4y ago
  Weird, it's always been fast and responsive for me - I haven't noticed any pausing issues. Never tried using RSS, though.

latchkey 4y ago

I've been happy with Folx. https://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html https://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html