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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
Cyril Roger

“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
Pros
  • Prioritize and set stall times
  • Set global and per-torrent connections
  • Speed limit mode
  • Label, filter and sort by groups
  • Encryption
  • Extensive display info
Cons
  • No advanced statistics
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