We will have a look at the best Mac torrent clients available rated by us on the ease of use, simplicity and features available. Ideally a good BitTorrent program should be easy to use, reliable, quickly download files from other computer users, less footprint on the device. Large or obscure torrent files can take a long time to download, so a good BitTorrent client for Mac should also be unobtrusive, sitting in the background and quietly pulling down your files while you continue to work.

Deluge

Deluge

Deluge is a venerable classic, and is one of the oldest BitTorrent clients around. Perhaps because of its age, it’s much smaller in stature than other BitTorrent clients and has a small footprint. It’s also completely free from advertising and unwanted plugins, and has a focus on providing features the community needs, such as private downloads, password protection, and scheduling and bandwidth options. Sometimes you just can’t beat the classics.

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qBittorrent for Mac

QBittorrent

qBittorrent is a relatively obscure program, so there’s a good chance you haven’t heard of it yet. However, we have swiftly become fans. It’s simple to operate, easy on the eyes and perfectly functional. We found it used little background processing and is bereft of adverts and spam. The interface is a bit clunky compared to Transmission or uTorrent: despite being new, it looks like an app from an old version of OS X. However, it has a very nice combination of features and ease of use. While other torrent programs are too simple, like Transmission, or quite detailed, like Vuze, qBittorrent strikes the middle ground confidently. It’s easy to download single or multiple files, and to choose files from within a single torrent.
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Transmission

Transmission

Of all the apps here, Transmission is the most Mac-like, with a gorgeous interface and Apple-like simplicity – not that Apple would ever make a BitTorrent app; it won’t even allow them on the App Store. Transmission is an extremely light BitTorrent client with a good range of features. It needs very little configuration and is designed to be as minimalist as possible, so files just open in a small window displaying a single upload bar. You can get more information on files but this opens is in a separate window.

We think Transmission takes the simplicity thing a little too far, and both qBittorrent and Vuze offer a wider range of features (such as in-app search). But if you very rarely download torrents, but want a torrent client on your Mac, this is a good app to add to Mac OS X.
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