Best Torrent Client Mac | What is the Best Torrent Client for Mac

Have you been thinking about downloading torrents on your Mac? If so, are you looking for the Best Torrent Client on your Mac? Almost everyone in the P2P business know which torrent client is best on a Windows platform. On a Mac however, is a whole new ball game.

Update: added a new Torrent Client for Mac. Check out the list below.

Let me just add that if you want to use P2P sharing softwares, you will encounter a lot of malware, viruses, trojans and worms. So, please be careful.

Best Torrent Client Mac

What is the Best Torrent Client for a Mac?

Best Torrent Client for Mac # 1. uTorrent Mac (Beta)
A very lightweight torrent Client for the Mac. It is currently still on Beta Phase but they released it so I think its already stable. I had this as the number one (1) because it is regarded as the premier torrent client on the Windows platform, there isn’t any reason for it to be different on a Mac.

Best Torrent Client for Mac # 2. BitTorrent for Mac OS X (V 4.27.2)
It’s second on my list because it is the only I found (as of writing this post) that supported the Mac.

Best Torrent Client for Mac # 3. Vuze (formerly Azureus) for Mac
At one point in time it was regarded as the Best Torrent Client. It didn’t lose the title of being the best because it didn’t get better. In fact, it has everything that uTorrent has. It’s just the amount of system resource Vuze eats up on your computer.

So far, we only have two (2) Torrent Clients for Mac. We will still be on the look out for more. The more, the merrier right?

Update: We now list 3 of the Best Torrent Client of the Mac. If you know more Torrent Clients compatible with the Mac, please feel free to comment.

December 28, 2008 | Filed Under Guides and Hints 

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6 Responses to “Best Torrent Client Mac | What is the Best Torrent Client for Mac”

  1. Bob on February 2nd, 2009

    You’ve named OS X versions of Windows clients while completely forgetting about Transmission and many other great clients because “it is the only [ones you] found”.

  2. Karim on February 12th, 2009

    As Bob said, you missed Transmission. An excellent client.

    You can find it at http://www.transmissionbt.com/

  3. Becky on March 15th, 2009

    To say that uTorrent for Mac is best because uTorrent for Windows is best is ridiculous. uTorrent beta for Mac is certainly a fast, lightweight client. But as yet, it only incorporates minimal features – after all the Mac version is at .9.0.4, whiie the Windows version is up to 1.8+.

    Transmission and uTorrent both fit the “fast, lightweight” standard, and both have some good features, but neither has the full feature set needed by advanced torrent users. Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a great range of features, but not being developed with Macs in mind, it eats up system resources like crazy, and the Ui is hardly intuitive.

    This is all to say: there isn’t yet a killer Mac bittorrent client. Ideally, I’d like to see something with the features and customization options of Vuze and the simplicity of Transmission built from the ground up as a Cocoa app.

    For the time being, I use all three, depending on the requirements of the tracker I’m using.

  4. rome on March 17th, 2009

    Thanks for the insights Becky :)

  5. torrent on October 5th, 2009

    thank you for this!

  6. Russ on November 4th, 2009

    I didn’t like uTorrent for Mac, finding it less than responsive when trying to delete torrents. Transmission was OK, but I am still yet to find something that works as well as the Windows uTorrent

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