qBitTorrent for Mac
Lightweight Bittorrent client.
Free
In English
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qBitTorrent overview
The qBittorrent project was started in March 2006 to create a lightweight but featureful BitTorrent client that would be multi-platform and very easy to use.
What's new in version 5.2.2
- Feature: Use D-Bus to show file in file managers
- Bugfix: Fix friendlyUnitCompact precision calculation
- Bugfix: Remove all top-level folders
- Bugfix: Use proper API for checking exit status
- Bugfix: Delete stale lockfile when hostname mismatch
- Bugfix: Fix wrong removal procedure of watched folder paths
- Bugfix: Don't reannounce before interface changes are applied
- Bugfix: Use Latin script for Bosnian locale name
- Webui: Fix performance of global checkbox toggling
- Webui: Fix Safari transfer list header misalignment
- Webui: Fix error when submitting magnet before metadata loads
- Webui: Use correct row id when updating Rss Downloader feed selection
- Webui: Use SameSite=Lax for session cookie to fix cross-site login
- Webui: Bring back properties panel expand/collapse button
- Webapi: Only use X-Forwarded-Host header when reverse proxy support is enabled
- Rsss: Fix "RSS Smart Episode Filter" RegEx
- Rss: Fix previously matched episode format
- Windows: Fix Python fallback search path
- Windows: NSIS: Allow to install x64 binary on ARM64
qBitTorrent for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.2.2
What users say about qBitTorrent
Reliability: 1.0
Crashed repeatedly after the third day. I lost all of the 30-60% of downloaded content I had due to this. Note: I had to put something down for the "What do you like?" field. I didn't so what's there is not true. Please ignore it.
Other user ratings:
Value | 1.0
Ease of use | 1.0
Features | 1.0
Customer support | 1.0
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Jun 5, 2026
Version: 5.2.1
Popular but don't like it on Macs.Try BiglyBT based on Azureus.Fantastic-needs you to educate yoursef.Transmission OK.It's illegal but this war will go on.Use it to download apps like LibreOffice What's the point if they haven't got the back up helpers for Macs?
Jun 3, 2026
Version: 5.2.0
For BT clients, macOS really has just two choices, qBittorrent and Transmission. Transmission I no longer support because of their snarky customer attitude. qBittorrent is mostly wonderful, has great support and responsiveness to bugs, except on macOS, only because of the lack of mac developers, not because of lack of desire to keep it updated. So I have resorted to running qBittorrent for Linux using Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon. Stable, fast, plus because it is a VM and Linux, I'm not too concerned about downloading malware etc, because I simply reset the VM after each use, and, well, it's Linux. I use Parallels and VirtualBuddy for creating virtual machines. Parallels is paid, and that's okay because I have to run Windows 11 ARM VMs. VirtualBuddy is absolutely free, and supports macOS and Linux virtual machines (no Windows). I've had no issues running VPN software within virtual machines (you should always use a VPN with a torrent client.).
Keeping an eye on a new torrent program, Harbor. Long way to go, bare bones, no bells whistles, but very promising if the developer keeps it up, open source, Swift, macOS native, and free. Look up Harbor here on MU.
Feb 20, 2025
Version: 5.0.4
I really wanted to like this app, but it has too many problems with bugs and reliability. The message on the developer's download page doesn't inspire confidence. "The macOS version is barely supported, because we don't have active macOS developers/contributors.
The project is in need of macOS developers. If you are a macOS developer willing to help, just go to our bug tracker for a list of macOS related issues. Or try to fix bugs that you yourself have discovered and annoy you."
