Ask HN: Torrent client (Mac) recommendations?

4 points by questionr 9 years ago | 10 comments

Preferably open-source. What are my options?

Also I remember hearing some uTorrent clients included mal/adware, is that right?

Solinoid 9 years ago |

qBittorrent if you want a drop in replacement for uTorrent, otherwise Transmission is great if you want it running in the background and like having some command line control.

http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php

LordWinstanley 9 years ago | |

Another vote for qBittorrent. I switched to it, after uTorrent started adopting shady practices, such as installing other apps and changing my system settings, without permission.

It [qBittorrent] is ugly as sin and there are also a few hoops to jump through to get rid of OSX's "Allow qBittorrent to accept incoming confections?" alerts. But I've found it rock solid and more reliable than either uTorrent or Transmission

jachee 9 years ago |

Transmission. Hands down best in class.

kaizoku111 9 years ago | |

Couldn't agree more! I also use this service and download off it to avoid ISP notices.. http://put.io/ also if the torrent is popular enough (downloaded at least once) it will finish it instantly! Which is pretty awesome.

milkytron 9 years ago |

I see a lot of recommendations for Transmission and qBittorrent. Having used both of them, I found them both to be great.

My only concern is that the Transmission site was hijacked and the download was replaced with ransomware [1]. For those still using Transmission, what are your thoughts on this?

[1] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...

simosx 9 years ago |

Indeed, uTorrent has been trying to monetise by installing third-party software.

There are several options including Transmission and Deluge-torrent.

achairapart 9 years ago |

Miro, an open source media player, comes with a great torrent client built-in: http://www.getmiro.org/

atjamielittle 9 years ago |

WebTorrent Desktop: https://webtorrent.io/desktop/

chrisked 9 years ago |

Transmission ist awesome. qtorrent good too.

flippant 9 years ago |

I set up Deluge web on a server, and I use SFTP to transfer downloaded files to my Mac.