- Softonic rating:
- Excellent:9/10
- License:
- Free
- Added:
- February 6, 2006
- Updated:
- October 25, 2009
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 5.1 MB
- Downloads:
- 24,232
“Super lightweight Bittorrent client”
by Cyril Roger
Transmission is currently the best torrent client on Mac thanks to a beautiful interface and a simple set of intuitive features.
This new version brings many more improvements to an already solid release. You can set different priority levels for torrents and establish stall limit times. The speed limit mode, represented by a turtle icon at the bottom of the interface, is extremely useful if you're looking to control the amount of bandwidth you use for uploads and downloads.
Transmission has consistently improved over time, offering many more options to view your torrents. You can now filter your torrent list according to downloading, seeding, or paused. The client can also organize transfers by queue order, date added, name, process. Transmission also allows you to label, filter and sort torrents by groups and total activity. You can also encrypt your torrent activity in case you want it to stay private.
We really like the new interface, which blends in perfectly to the new Mac OS X Leopard. Transmission manages to display all the essential information without actually seeming crowded, which is no easy feat. The only little nag we'd have with it is that it doesn't offer as many advanced statistics as you'd find in Azureus.
Despite no advanced statistics, Transmission is a beautiful and incredibly intuitive torrent client for Mac.
Languages:
English, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Russian
Recent changes in Transmission:
- Fix a potential crasher on Snow Leopard
- When creating a multi-tracker torrent, give each tracker its own tier
- Fix minor protocol error that didn't send a port message to some peers
- Fix display glitch when changing sort to "Queue Order"
OS requirements for Transmission:
- OS: Mac OS X
Minimum requirements:
- Processor: PPC/Intel MHz
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- Prioritize and set stall times
- Set global and per-torrent connections
- Speed limit mode
- Label, filter and sort by groups
- Encryption
- Extensive display info
- No advanced statistics
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User Rating
11 ratings- Usability
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- Currently 10/10.
- Stability
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- Currently 10/10.
- Installation
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- Currently 10/10.
- Functionality
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- Currently 9/10.
- Appearance
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- Currently 10/10.





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A perfect program
about Transmission - 12 Mar 2009It is lean, feature-filled yet simple and easy to use.... read more
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