I've been a long time user of uTorrent on windows, and when I made the switch to Mac I got torrent first. I had heard some good things about transmission on the mac, so I decided to try it and see if it was any better. The interface of transmission is very nice, better than uTorrent, but looks don't count for anything when the download hangs. Transmission seems to be incapable of downloading larger torrent files, where as i've never had any problems with uTorrent downloading files as large as 50GB. uTorrent just does what it does, and does it well, I don't need features like live streaming etc, I just want a stable, fast torrent downloader, and although uTorrent DOES have these features, they don't cause any problems for me.

I still do not like the GUI but even worse, it downloads sometimes got stuck.
IMO Transmission is the way to go!

Bye-bye Transmission... My old friend...
Finally a Torrent client that works! No hangs, no slowdown.
Very fast and stable.
Only missing an option to prevent my Mac to sleep.

The new icon badge showing the number of completed torrents in the dock is a welcome addition!
No more need to bring uTorrent in foreground to check if some download has completed.

It crashes randomly on my Macbook Air.
I can highly recommend Transmission. Never failed on me.

Even though the release notes mention improved https support, I can't get it to work with https connections (I couldn't get earlier versions to work either.) Am I missing something?

Updated to 0.9.3 and now have a problem - it is crushing all the times. I would love to downgrade to the previous version with which I had no problem at all! Just switched from Transmission and the only thing I miss - I can't choose the itmes within torrent as I did in Transmission. I am happy with all the rest - especially with the effective speeds of download/upload.

Is there WebUI for the mac version?

I followed the instructions on http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/webui/

"Enable and configure the WebUI in µTorrent (Preferences -> Advanced -> WebUI"

There is no advanced section in the preferences!

Big problem with the 0.9.1 update (100% cpu load...).
Reverted to 0.9.0.4...

Nice app though.

Well, it launches. It finds and loads torrent files. It finds the tracker. Get's peer and seed info. But then the trouble starts. Although it finds the peers and seeds, and at times connects to a few, no data goes in or out. Port is open. Even tried letting it map the port. Both ways I get a green light and functioning connection, but no data transfer. I have never seen it connect to more than 4 peers at a time and zero data transfer. I even let it sit there all night and same situation. It also does not retain preferences across relaunches. The minute you quit, all preferences are reset to stock. After using this on Wintels, I was very excited to see it in action on a Mac. Very disappointing so far. I hope they get the bugs worked out.