W_H_K  When it runs, it runs fast.

But on my snow leopard MacPro version 4.3 hangs after about an hour. Quit is not possible. Reboot is necessary.

Unusable.  
(Version 4.3)

XBOXSUMO  Very easy to use bit torrent sometimes the item your downloading wont download. Works better than Limewire and Frostwire. Arnages files better than original azureus. Has at least 1.2 million people on it at all times.  
(Version 4.2.0.8a)

CALL ME YO DADDY  I know we're all entitled to our opinion and it's very subject but for the life of me I can' figure out why some here consider Vuze 4 to be "bloated and ugly"? Vuze 4's redesign is anything but that. There aren't big and bulky round buttons all over the place (Firefox) but rather Vuze has a very clean and intuitive layout. It's a gorgeous Mac app.

This version has made me a real fan. Vuze is a lot of fun and downloads torrents in a snap. As far as bloated is considered, it is quite snappy and responsive on my Mac and considering all that it is designed to do of course it is a larger bit torrent app than Limewire, uTorrent, Transmission or anything else out there for the Mac. Vuze is simple much more than just a plain and boring bit torrent app.

I can't tell you how much I enjoy downloading a movie then firing it up in Vuze to watch it. That's a real nifty feature. Anyway Vuze 4 is hands down the best bit torrent app I have ever used with a very attractive and clean UI.   
(Version 4.2.0.8a)

GORDON142  Very mixed bag — bloated, ugly, and by default tries to install a very obnoxious browser toolbar with the potential to destabilize your applications (you can avoid this by using the "customize" option when installing).

On the upside, stability is rock-solid, downloading is the fastest I've seen on a Mac client and never corrupts files. It's probably the fastest and most reliable client available for the Mac right now. So, while I don't really like it, it gets the job done better than the others.  
(Version 4.2.0.8a)

JAKE THE SNAKE  Although this software is bloated and ugly:

It is still the most powerful torrent client of them all.

It is the only client able to defeat most bad ISP's using proper RC4 encryption and enabling the lazy bit field so I can actually seed.

The only reason I give it a 5 star rating is because it is the only one that works properly with my ISP at full speed and allows me to seed.

Thankfully with Vuze we at least have the option of toggling the "Classic View" so it still looks and feels like Azureus should.  
(Version 4.2.0.8a)

JON555  When Vuse was once Azureus, things were ok. Sure it was slow, bloated, and a resource hog, but it worked and had a lot of options. Being Java based, it was already a bad though.

Then it turned into Vuze and bad went to terrible. It's only been downhill from there. Please, PLEASE, avoid this app. There are so many other better alternative torrent clients for the Mac.

Again, stay away from this. Go up to that search bar and type in Transmission or uTorrent. Or whatever. Just avoid this app.  
(Version 4.2.0.8)

FYR  The CTLoader BROKE every apps I launch now. Stay away from Vuze.  
(Version 4.2.0.8)

BEIGE  Take your garbage toolbar and get it off my system. I just had a Maya render fail with a CTLoader error - guess which program installed this? Vuze, with it's toolbar tie-in garbage. If I wanted the cruft of Windows, I'd get Windows.  
(Version 4.2.0.8)

TEUN  Coming from Tomato torrent, which I like for its simplicity, I had problems with UDP only trackers, so I gave Vuze a try.

Wow, what a piece of bloat this is! It felt like dropping right back into the Windows era I happily left years ago.

Since when do we need a full blown installer for a simple bittorrent client?

Maybe for shoving in a drive by install of a toolbar in Safari, including usage feedback without asking me????

I wonder what other crap got installed as well...

(The toolbar can be uninstalled by going to /Applications/toolbar/vuze and double-clicking the uninstall script.)

Feels like realnetworks back in the day.

Interface wise, well, what can I say. I took me quite a few clicks before I found out how to start the download of the torrent that was already on my desktop...

The search function didn't find the torrent I was looking for, and generally returned results that I can find better with google.

I'll keep it around in case I stumble over a UDP only tracker, but otherwise I'll stick to tomato torrent...  
(Version 4.2.0.4)

TENKDAY  This program is amazing. Streaming downloaded movies from my laptop to my xbox 360 works flawlessly. I couldn't be happier with this program, and ITS FREE. Thanks do the developers  
(Version 4.2.0.4)