HALEAKALARI  wow. i've never seen so many negative reviews for a solid program, just because the people writing them can't figure out how to configure their own damn computers. you're all a bunch of retards. you need to open the correct ports in os x's firewall and if using a wireless connection, in your router as well, for any torrent client to work. end of story.

the problems you all have with tomato obviously arise from not understanding the basics. and to the person who called this application "junk", eat a fat one. this was one of the first alternative torrent clients for os x and it is actually fairly configurable (see "advanced settings" when you start up a torrent). cripes people, get yourselves together.  
(Version 1.5.1)

CORPSECORPS  VASTLY overrated junk.  
(Version 1.5.1)

ANONYMOUS  1.5.1 worked from the very beginning, unlike Transmission previously installed.

Tomato's basic use is straightforward. The additional features are not commented for non expert users to even understand them. There is a menu supposed to regulate the ratio of download/upload volume but it does not work.

Stopping and restarting is very simple and efficient.

Compared to rapidshare downloads, I find torrent horribly SLOW (typically 3k/s downloads with 2 peers and 3 seeds) and I almost systematically upload more than I download. It is getting even worse as the size of the downloaded file increases.

Am I missing a better tuning of the parameters?   
(Version 1.5.1)

DAIJYOOBI  Problem connecting to tracker -

is all I get whenever I try to download using tomato torrent. How do I fix this?  
(Version 1.5.1)

APPL LVR  this client is the only one that does not crash my router! all the others ive tried have stopped internet service through my router, too traffic-heavy, i think. this is a great little program, very fast start and resume.  
(Version 1.5.1)

MACBEAN1  I can't remove this program from my iMac (running leopard) it says it is a disk and that it is running when it certainly is not in use. Please help, I want to remove it. I also cannot remove the icon from my dock. Help!  
(Version 1.5.1)

JOHNSOTM  I'm new to this whole torrent deal but everytime i try to download a new torrent it says there's a trouble connecting or it can't find a server or something to that extent. I've tried downloading from numerous people and all sorts of different files. I'm thinking that even though the FAQ says it's not my problem, it probably is.  
(Version 1.5.1)

DALTONMC  When I am school on my breaks between classes I try to download, or resume my torrents and all I get is "Problem connecting to tracker - (54, 'Connection reset by peer') then the date, etc.

How do I fix this?

Thanks.

--d.mc.  
(Version 1.5)

GSLIDE06  Just installed 1.5 version supporting OS X 10.3.9 and I had some trouble. Basically a movie or tv torrent downloads through Tomato with no issue and the length of the download is reflected.

Then when I try to play the avi through a Media Player(Quicktime) or burn it to DVD a black/blank screen appears. No images or volume. This also happened when I used the Azureus client.

Any help is tremendously appreciated!!  
(Version 1.5)

STARBARK  i would start using this if the torrents are compiled in just one window rather than multiple small windows. :(  
(Version 1.5b1)

MSADESIGN  This is an excellent and free application, and you morons posting snide remarks about an intel version should be ashamed. Go write it yourself.

Sheesh.  
(Version 1.5b1)

NEO979  Now it is 2007, and still no Intel version. :(  
(Version 1.5b1)

PXL  My only complaint is how easy it is for someone to quit the application by clicking the (x) button. Nothing more stupid when having the (x) button as a quit command.

Come on... it almost 2007. New version please!  
(Version 1.5b1)

GLORYOFMYSTORY  so for the most part i like tomato torrent. however, i seem to have a lot of trouble seeding files...after a file finishes d/l-ing, it promptly stops uploading which is hell on my ul/dl ratio [eek!] and i can't figure out for the life of me how to get it to seed.

my best option thus far has been to crank up the max u/l rate, which is v. unhappy-making on my connection.

help would be greatly appreciated =D  
(Version 1.5b1)

WALT9500  Just simply works fine for me!  
(Version 1.5b1)

KAYLA MULLIS  Im a bit confused about why my torrent files are downloading at such a slow speed. The file that im trying right now supposedly had 250 seeds but rarley connects to any of them. I have yet to see the speed go above 6 or 7 K/s. I see that most people are very happy with tomato and would really like the same results. Any help on increasing my speed would be great.  
(Version 1.5b1)

JOHN  Great app. Many tweaking features to eke out just that extra bit of speed. Rarely crashes even with multiple downloads. One thing though, it would be easier if all downloads are compiled in the same window rather than separate ones which takes up precious desktop space when you're using an iBook!  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Ok I am new to this whole torrent thing. Maybe i'm just slow but why wont my torrents download? All of my download things say 0. I'd really appreciate it if someone would email me at melywely113@hotmail.com and help me out with the torrents for macs. Thanks!  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Torrent shuts off after download is complete. How do I keep it seeding and uploading?

much thanks  
(Version 1.1.2)

MIKE ABDULLAH  So far for me, this is a really nice little app. Dead simple to user, just tell it the torrent and away it goes.

One request to the developer though, (I can't find his email address!). When I first tried a torrent with this app, it wouldn't work. It just sat there trying to connect to the torrent. I realised that I had my firewall on and that was what was causing the problem. So I turned it off. However, Tomato Torrent still didn't work. I had to close and then re-start the feed. So, would it be possible for a future version of the app to check if the computer's firewall is blocking a particular port when trying a torrent? iTunes does so.  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Klick Show more an you´ll see!  
(Version 1.1.2)

MYSTERY  im bit confused with the upload k/s value. Have i change a high number value? or not? can you explain me a clear please?  
(Version 1.1.2)

RANDOMMAC  Wow! Seems much faster at downloading than Azureus, and I like its simpler interface. Works for me!  
(Version 1.1.2)

A MARTIN  Seems supercool.

Is there a way to limit upload bandwidth?  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  This client rocks! I got fed up with Bits on Wheels (slow download speeds) and moved to this beauty. And I'm glad I did. Interface is simple and easy to use. Connection speeds are smoking! All in all, a great experience... and I don't even like tomatos!  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  More a question, not a comment...

I have used Tomato Torrent 1.0.1 and liked its simplicity (and what a great icon!)

But... maybe it's just my newbieness and the fact that i only do torrents occasionally... but is there a way to change port settings? Could not find this in the FAQs.

Many trackers reject the default bittorrent ports (6881-6889) or any other common p2p port for incoming connections. So I consider the ability to change port settings a necessity for any bittorrent client I use.

So... does Tomato Torrent let you do that? Or does it not?  
(Version 1.1.2)

JONATHAN DALE  What about adding SOCKS support?  
(Version 1.1.2)

CHLORAN  Best damn torrent client around. It works and works right  
(Version 1.1.2)

MACZOMBIE  Best bittorrent client for the mac! Keep up the developing!  
(Version 1.1.2)

FEDERICO  Just an hint for the developer, about the "Download Torrent To Here" applet.

You can avoid the "race condition" and get the path (an AS alias actually) of an applet using:

set myPath to path to me  
(Version 1.1.2)

YEPS  I've been using version 1.0.2 from time to time & it worked fine most of the time; however whenever I use this p.o.c. my whole mac hangs after a few minutes & I have to make a complete restart (what other app succeeds in ding that apart from MS-software?) So: I like the interface & functionality very much - but it shouldn't crash the system...  
(Version 1.1.2)

ANONYMOUS  Used to work fine for me before Tiger and this update now all I get are these "Aborting the torrent as it was rejected by the tracker while not connected to any peers" errors.

But Azureus downloads the same torrent files for me just fine.  
(Version 1.1.2)

LANOUVELLECHAIR  Tomato Torrent 1.1 is based on BitTorrent 4.0.1.I don't know about the 1.1.2 !  
(Version 1.1.2)

SMOKEONIT  when can we expect a tomato based on BT 4.1 engine??? and thnx for the good work, i like tomato the best;-)  
(Version 1.1.1)

VIP  i upgraded to this version last night, and havent been able to download anything since, i even left it running since 10 pm last night and its still 'verifying torrent' 1.0 worked much better for me :l .. maybe im missing something?  
(Version 1.1.1)

ANONYMOUS  upload speed is L-O-C-K-E-D I can't change it anymore even if I change the Maximum Upload Rate.  
(Version 1.1.1)

ANONYMOUS  From the developer website: Built on BitTorrent 4.0.1  
(Version 1.1.1)

LANOUVELLECHAIR  This version does not work for me anymore ! Tomato need to upgrade to 4.0.2 for tiger i think !

This was the best client...  
(Version 1.1.1)

ANONYMOUS  That previous comment was actually for 1.1. Max upload speed is working in 1.1.1. Still think it shouldn't default to 20K/s though...  
(Version 1.1.1)

ANONYMOUS  For the health of the torrent, the upload speed should not default to 20k/s. Also, after setting it to a higher value, the upload rate did not change. It might just be this torrent, but I doubt it...  
(Version 1.1.1)

ANDREAS/MITCH  Great App !!!

Since 1.1.1 the on the fly Upload Max works again.

Never had problems with partial/resumed downloads.  
(Version 1.1.1)

ODDSBODKIN  Tomato Torrent 1.1 would not allow me to pick up and continue a partial 400MB download created by TT version 1.0.1 without the "Save As" dialog which threatens an overwrite resulting in 0MB.   
(Version 1.1)

ANONYMOUS  Great little client. Just needs one feature to make it the absolute winner: the ability to disable certain files inside a torrent. BitTornado or Azureus can do this and it would be great if this one could. I could finally ditch Azureus :)  
(Version 1.1)

ANONYMOUS  Features:

Built on BitTorrent 4.0.1

Remembers recent downloads and where you’ve saved them to, making resumes quick and easy

Displays useful download statistics

Supports AppleScript

User interface for torrent generation allows you to specify torrent comments

User interface for starting a torrent tracker on your Mac

Most BitTorrent options are fully customizable  
(Version 1.1)

ANONYMOUS  Best Torrent application out there yet.   
(Version 1.1)

ANONYMOUS  Jaguar users, pls stay with previous version. This one doen's launch. Otherwise great app :-)  
(Version 1.1)

SOTW[KENSAI]  New version have some problems. I am using 10.3.9. The "Download torrent to here" script now always downloads to the default downloads folder. And when resuming some torrent downloads, it remains at "starting (0.0%)" , and it doensn't start. You can see the disk activity but after it is finished, it still says starting (0.0%). Unusable at this state I'm reverting to the previous version. If anyone have problems like me, you can find the previous version at the developers site.  
(Version 1.1)

ANONYMOUS  in mac os 10.4 tiger, tomato now downloads to the USER folder as the default. I haven't found a way to change this to say, the desktop folder. worked fine in 10.3 panther.  
(Version 1.0.3)

BROCK GUNTER-SMITH  On my DP 2GHz G5, if I run with only 1GB of RAM (under either 10.3.9 or 10.4) Tomato runs awesome and with no problems. As soon as I added an additional 1GB then another to a total of 3GB, Tomato creates a kernel panic within about 15 to 30 seconds of launching and downloading torrents. This is on clean installs, and after swapping out 3 different pairs of memory (from cheap to expensive that all pass the Apple Hardware Test and also pass memtest) to ensure that it's not faulty RAM. I can max out my system using tonnes of other apps with no kernel panic, but launching Tomato, as soon as system RAM usage goes above 1GB and it's running, kernel panic EVERY time. I LOVE TOMATO!!!...just not this bug which has forced me to now use Azeurus which has fixed this bug in their code. NOTE TO DEVELOPER: I'm willing to help test this, it's completey reproducable on my system.  
(Version 1.0.3)

MLUCIFERSAM  Been using this with no problems for a while. However, just installed Tiger OSX 4. If I do things while not running Tomato Torrent everything is fine. If this is running, within 10 minutes I get a 'kernal panic', everytime without fail. :(  
(Version 1.0.3)

ALICORN  I love this client. It is very simple to use, it's unobtrusive, and it works reliably. One feature it really needs is the ability to limit *download* speed. Normally this isn't something one should be interested in doing, but in an environment like a college campus where you're sharing bandwidth it can cause problems if a download goes too fast. I had to switch to Azureus because Tomato was going too fast and I don't like Azureus much at all.  
(Version 1.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  using tomato torrent, everytime I go to download a torrent file, after a certain % of the file is complete, line 227.in listen forever appears in the comment. At that point, it just idles forever. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?  
(Version 1.0.3)

CROSSEYE  Although I feel this client has potential (very efficient re: screenspace), its still missing a basic feature --- there is no listing of seeders/leechers!!!! I don't get it either - thought this would be in the update. Oh well.

I'm not sure I understand why anyone would design a bt client and not include that most basic functionality. Not to mention that no matter what ports I forward or how I set up its incredibly arcane interface, I can never get a decent d/l rate. And, yes the file I'm testing now has 27 seeders 14 leechers and I'm getting about 5 kbps.

Heck, Xfactor is faster than this. Although Azureus is a processor hog, at least it works properly.  
(Version 1.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  Whoops! Please disregard previous...figured it out.

Used to be you had to enter more numerals in the upload rate field...thanks for the little fix, Sarwat! :)  
(Version 1.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  Love this program but am having a small issue - upgraded to 1.0.3 from 1.0 and can no longer modify upload rate...the feature is there, I can enter data in that field but the program will not respond to the change entered. Is this some sinster way of getting me to upload at a higher rate, against my will? ;) I do prefer to keep a 1:1 ratio. Tried d/l'ing app. several times & reinstalling but the bug persists...any thoughts would be appreciated!  
(Version 1.0.3)

SOTW[KENSAI]  The best!

v 1.0.3 ="minor aesthetic improvements" ;

What does this mean? Now with v1.0.3, tomato torrent gets less than %5 cpu usage down from %20 in hide mode. My old ibook liked it :-).

"The main goal of this project was to separate the BitTorrent code from the Macintosh code, so that either can be updated without having to modify the other."

The bittorrent v4.0.1 for Mac is out!. So we can expect a new version in a few days. :-). The other improvents can be done later. I want v.4!, but with tomato :-). The all-in-one window would be fine though!  
(Version 1.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  When a torrent includes 10 files (for example) there seems to be no way to only grab one or two of them, rather than all 10. Am I missing something, or is this not yet possible?  
(Version 1.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  Does this support a way to globally or per-torrent control an upload (seeding) bandwidth cap? I don't want to cause performance problems for those on my LAN. Sometimes I need upload bandwidth caps to make it acceptable to use torrents at all. Other times I could seed for much longer periods if I had an adjustable cap. It might be helpful to have a timer to allow changing the cap a set number of hours or days after a file is complete. If there were several torrents going it would also be helpful to prioritize upload bandwidth based on which files have the greatest need for seeders.

In short I'm looking for ways to contribute in the most useful way while minimizing local impact.  
(Version 1.0.3)

REVERB  Still the best Mac Torrent client out there. Good interface, solid performance. Hopefully it'll keep being updated to match features with the official BitTorrent code.  
(Version 1.0.3)

PAUL  I like this software.

Though I'm not someone who uses BitTorrent with great frequency, whenever I get a few files going, it would be nice to have all downloads bunched into one window, instead of one window per download, as with this program. Now, Azureus does this, but unlike that program, Tomato Torrent doesn't hog a quarter to a third of my CPU time--this program is so light on the resources that it amazes me.

So, though it lacks some advanced/power features, it makes up for it in great performance.

Try it out.  
(Version 1.0.3)

RAILHEADDESIGN.COM  Works great -- I like it a LOT better than all the other clients available.

However, I *do* wish he'd make it so that all the current downloads are listed in one window -- if you're doing several downloads at once, it can be a real pain to keep track of them.

Also, it would be great to have a warning dialog pop up when you close a download window. I've done this by accident, losing my connection, so a confirmation dialog would be nice.

Lastly, does anyone know how the world to get a hold of the developer? His website doesn't list his email address and I'd like to send him my requests.  
(Version 1.0.3)

CIENFUEGOS  after trying various bit torrent clients, eg, bit torrent itself, azareus and a couple of others i was pretty ready to give up on the bit torrent experience. then i found happiness, i found Tomato Torrent!

It is fast,simple, and allows u to make your own torrents. Oh, and it is pretty too.

the only alternative for me would be bits on wheels, which has more options but on my 550mhz tibook, it is much much slower.

All power to the tomato!  
(Version 1.0.2)

BOB  Tomato Torrent may lack a few features, but on the whole it is superior to the original BT. (Sorry Bram!)

On first try, TT was a bit off-putting, but I quickly got over the difference in interface. The next thing I noticed was that it was not hogging the CPU like I was used to with the original BT. Content checking was quicker and a LOT less CPU-intensive as well -- it didn't slow the Dock down, choke the HD or cause the spinning beach ball.

I ran Activity Viewer to check on CPU usage, and with 3 torrents running both u/l and d/l it used only 1.5% of the CPU!! Impressive!!

I believe I will switch to Tomato Torrent. Sarwat Khan, keep up the good work! Others could learn a lesson from you on how to make a lean 'n' mean app.  
(Version 1.0.2)

ANONYMOUS  If you want nice features and interface, lots of statistics, single window downloads, check Bits On Wheels. It still doesn't create torrents, but so far I haven't needed that.

I have Tomato as a backup, just in case. They both satisfy me, in their own ways.  
(Version 1.0.2)

ANONYMOUS  This is a pretty good client, but overall I don't think it offers much over the standard BT client. Of course, there are many good points:

Fast, doesn't eat up my CPU even at high speeds, which is a huge plus.

Pretty easy to use, it can make your computer act as a tracker, which is a really nice feature even though I rarely use it.

It also makes torrent files in a easy to use way.

But on the downside:

Every torrent is it's own window (like the original BT client), which gets clumsy. There aren't advanced options like "superseed", and the interface for editing the options provided is not intuitive.

I think this client should take some notes from BitTornado (windows), while I don't use Windows anymore, BitTornado had some nice features and a good interface.

Overall, at this time, I still think this is the best BT client for Mac. Azureus has more features, but it eats up all my CPU and crashes often.   
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Review: Tasty Tomato!

I run Tomato Torrent on the 550 Powerbook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) over wireless on a pretty clean installation of 10.3. My provider is Comcast. My down and up in Tomato are both about 25 K/s which on this platform is the best I've gotten since Napster. (On Napster for the Mac I would routinely get 100+ K/s.)

My experience with Tomato Torrent so far has been great. BitTorrent has never worked out for me (on the Mac) and neither has LimeWire. A BitTorrent client I ran at my university on a Windows computer got me in a little hot water (apparently it served out terabytes of data over a weekend) but anyway it worked really well.

Other reviews have made me apprehensive about restarting downloads. I have never expected much from this feature in a program because it has never seemed to work anyway!

Anyway, if I wasn't clear, this is a VERY POSITIVE REVIEW of Tomato Torrent for this download-starved Mac-using jamband lover with high expectations of his music sharing software. It does have a tasty intuitive interface and is giving me my best throughput I've gotten from any Mac OS X client ever.   
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  I have never ever managed to get this program to resume a download.

I just get this error everytime:-

File "./BitTorrent/RawServer.py", line 227, in listen_forever  
(Version 1.0.1)

WEED  This is a great app, really fast. I only have dial-up internet and at some points the program sucks out all the speed, unabling me to surf websites or check my mail. It would be nice if it could have a pause button, instead of me having to close it everytime. Because it also loses some of what i've already downloaded on restart.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ARVIDTP.NET  Very good. Works for me! Would like easier way to see number of peer connected to.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  When uploading (seeding) the rate is not shown?? It works fine when dl/ul together though.  
(Version 1.0.1)

BUD  Tomato Torrent is currently the best BitTorrent client for the Mac, although unfortunately it too, is far from perfect:

- You must start up all transfers manually when you restart the program

- There is a seperate window for every download (not too bothersome, unless you have a lot of downloads)

- etc...

BUT...it is still more powerful than the official client (although the soon-to-be-released 2.0 might win out) and it is better than the slow-and-huge Azureus...

With the few aforementioned additions, this would be a perfect little app. Not bloated, simple, small, and just simply nice to use...  
(Version 1.0.1)

ERIK  Love it! Been using the official bitTorrent client for soem time but after trying this baby there's no goingg back. Also have had tons of problems with Azureus and generally had my fill of java apps! The TOTOTO droplet is a great idea! And can't beat the price!!! Thanks and keep up the good work mate!   
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  better than bittorrent! everyone should make this their default for .bt files!  
(Version 1.0.1)

MATREYA  What exactly does this app do better than the standard OS X build of the 3.4.2 client?

With the standard client, I have all torrents in one window, I can easily change upload/download parameters, it remembers torrents I had open last time it was running....  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Super simple, may not have the advanced features of others but for beginners this is the one.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Can you set a limit for upload speed? We need a BT client for Mac that will allow us to limit our upload speed to save bandwidth.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Very stable and lite. I don't use anything else after trying a bunch of the Mac BT apps  
(Version 1.0.1)

KARINA  Great app, just wish all downloading torrents were kept in one window, rather than a new window for each download and that settings can be applied globally as defaults instead of only being specific to each torrent being handled.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  can you change the ports on thip app?  
(Version 1.0.1)

BRILDENLANCH  I love this client except for one thing. For the life of me I can't figure out how to restart a torrent after I quit the app. Like say I opened up Crap.torrent and it started dling. Then I stopped it, cleared it off the app, then wanted to open it again. In the Official BT Client, you can just choose the same file, and it will automatically check the file and resume the dl, in TT, it just tells me it will replace the file if I try to save over the same one. Is there a way to do this correctly?  
(Version 1.0.1)

JASAZZO  Hello, I'm new to Mac after years of PC. I have downloaded TT and keep getting the following error message when I'm trying to start a torrent; 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-18: invalid data. I beleive my problem is simlar to It's similar to 'Troubleshooting by Lox'. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Jasazzo  
(Version 1.0.1)

JOHN  Great App! Works well for me! Keep it up!  
(Version 1.0.1)

LOX  I'm running version 10.3.6 and i just downloaded the Tomato Torrent and i am not having a good time with it. It will not go past the point of finding the torrent information, so what the hell is going on with it? What do you suggest? Please send comments to L.D.Mitchell@gmail.com Thanks ahead of time.

I really would like to use this program because of the great ratings and plus i need a change.  
(Version 1.0.1)

DEXTER3789  Very good app, but I can't set the Max Upload Rate: if it's not set at "no limit", the Upload Rate is always zero Kb/sec  
(Version 1.0.1)

DAYOS_X  Crashed iMac G5 running 10.3.6 not 5 minutes ago. Tried force quitting to no avail. Wanted to brute force it by SUDO KILLing it, couldn't call up Terminal! Could not do anything besides reboot. I've had better days with mlMac. But Torrent gives me the transfer rate I like. Oh well. Time to give Azureus a go. If Azureus no likey iMac G5, I'm going back to mlMac.  
(Version 1.0.1)

HEINZ  Works without any problems.

By far the best (and sexiest) bt client.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  I LOVE TT!!!!  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  i used bittorrents app and this one and got better results with bittorrent. this app took forever to connect and to forever to get speeds up. bit launch connected to 34 other in 1 min and speeds were at 226K/sec in 2 mins hmmm whats wrong.   
(Version 1.0.1)

REVERB  Works like a charm. Best Mac BT client out there.  
(Version 1.0.1)

TOBES  These are the release notes that are in the read me....

1.0.1

• Can now download to the default downloads folder if it contains non-ASCII characters.

• Some fixes; mostly housekeeping.

• BitTorrent 3.4.2

I love this program btw, it's been my BT client of choice for ages now. Keep up the good work Mr. Developer!  
(Version 1.0.1)

SEAN  Why not install it first and see how it looks and works?

All you guys care about is its interface rather than its functionality?

Besides, I assure you that among other BitTorrent clients, Tomato Torrent has the best UI so far..  
(Version 1.0.1)

ALEX SANDERS  this program COMPLETELY killed my 750mbps connection, d/l'ing at 2 kpbs and u/l at 3kbps. close program and everything goes back to normal.

interesting to note is that i worked this out after a tech support man for my broadband connection blamed a virus on a windows machine connected to the same network. no virus found on there, it was this app doing all the damage...  
(Version 1.0)

SCHMELDING  Here goes my usual developer rant: SCREENSHOTS! SCREENSHOTS! SCREENSHOTS!

Lots and lots of us don't want to install anything without seeing what the app. looks like first. Think: Window shopping (without Windoze).  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Very configurable, but Tomato Torrent never worked much for me. I tried it with several known good .torrents and it made almost no progress downloading the targets over six hours. OTOH Azureus has both files down in a few hours.

Yet another buggy Python app that promises much and delivers little.  
(Version 1.0)

SASHA  Although good you are unable to download a folder with lots of files within it. For instance a folder full of photos or a tv series may not download yet individual images or programs will.  
(Version 1.0)

SKETCHYCLOWN  This is the premier Torrent client for Macintosh. Allows controlled upload rate so as not to completely hog all your bandwidth like the official client does.

Excellent work. Keep the updates coming though.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Great torrent client.

A few improvements I can think of though:

1. Option to set default download path.

2. Number of peers/seeds reporting.

3. "Upload Rate - Max" should be in KB/s as the description says, not B/s.

4. More robust torrent comment display. Currently long/multiline comments are messy.

5. Compact tracker protocol support? I get a "Your client does not support the compact tracker protocol. Please update your client" error occasionally.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  it's an excellent torrent client. however, it lacks the ability to change ports and occasional crashes. good download.  
(Version 1.0)

MARCO  PROBLEM WITH UPLOAD RATE - MAX

Can someone tell me the relationship by.

a) the number to type in the "upload rate - max" field

and

b) the numbers shown as "up" values (the ones that you can see in the window even in the "show less mode")?

It seems to be a "not so direct" relationship and it seems to be in byte the first and in kilobyte the second, even if both of them are indicated as "k" (kilobit? kilobyte?)  
(Version 1.0)

AZARK  Best Torrent client.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Great stuff! Far more stable than Azereus, and far more sleek. The simplicity ethic appeals to me. One comment -- how about a report of the number of seeds/peers in the download window? (And yes, I would appreciate single-window multiple downloads as well.)  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Had to return to version 1.0b8, the latest one (1.0v11) seems to download fine for a little time, then it stalls and sends a lot of messages to the error log, things like "in listening forever" if i remember correctly, and other stuff. I suspected tracker problems but downloads are fine with the old client. As for the old client, it works excellent. Tomato really has its potential to be a great bittorrent client.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Tomato Torrent rocks! I have used this for quite some time with wicked success. Very good app. I would agree with a review that I read earlier to centralize the simultaneous downloads. It's easy enough in Panther to just block them together... but so far this rocks! Props to the developers!!  
(Version 1.0)

NATHAN  Sarwat, since I was bored tonight - I actually knocked up some icons (App and document). I'd email them to you to see what you think, but I couldn't find a contact email for you anywhere on your site. Let me know if you're keen to have a look  
(Version 1.0)

NATHAN  Nice app, better than the official one that's for sure. Tomato is a nice name too. Reminds me of Tomato Bank (a bank in Japan - interesting identity that one!)

Would like a single window interface though for multiple downloads - something along the lines of Speed Downloads interface (although it doesn't need to be anywhere near as complicated as that). And I'm not a big fan of the initial window either (where you pick what you want to do).

Not so sure on the icon either.. maybe something a little more abstract.. like the tomato bank logo - along those lines ( http://www.tomatobank.co.jp )  
(Version 1.0)

TOBIAS ROGG  I can't download! It hangs at the window "getting torrent info". please help! This programm looks so great!  
(Version 1.0)

JASON DUNN  TT is great on my Panther Titanium laptop, but with a proc upgraded AGP G4 running Jaguar 10.2.8 it gives me lots of errors. Bit Torrent at least works on that machine, but not as well as Tomato Torrent does on my laptop.

I jumped onto a torrent with a T1 connection (T Mobile Hotspot at Starbucks) and the upload speed was flying at over 120 kbps. People were getting serious download bandwidth. TT rocks!

I do wish it would always show the number of current connections in the stats window like Bit Torrent does. It seems to need a little work, but is off to a very nice start.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Careful with those Unsanity haxies pretty much disable Fruitmenu right off the bat or it will crash everytime it attempts to connect to a tracker...  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  great  
(Version 1.0)

PHILIP  The best bittorrent client I've used on the Mac. Has worked pretty much flawlessly. It occassionally crashes when I'm downloading lots of torrents at once, but even then it is rare - and certainly rarer then using the official client.

My two requests for the client:

1) A single-window interface for managing multiple downloads

2) I'd like to see how many users I'm connected to on each torrent - something which is pretty standard on other clients, but for the life of me I can't find in this one...  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  Very Good!!!  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  Crashes immediately when opening any .torrent file. Have deleted preferences and app and reinstalled, to no avail.  
(Version 1.0b8)

CREIGHTON FOX  Read the release notes. The upload limit number is in bytes, although it says Kilobytes. Meaning that if you wanted '75' you would have to enter "75000". Try that and see if it works.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  I also have the same problem with upload limits killing my download limits. Im not trying to choke the network here; only limiting it to 75 k/s, which shouldn't be enough to punish me on the network... this is a software problem.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  When I put in an upload max value, my uploading drops to zero. =(. Any Ideas? Great program though.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANGRYLAWNGNOME  I like the new name. Nice icon too! Great app.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  Nice client...has a lot of promise. I wish it had a few of Azureus's features though. Like being able to specify the files you want out of large folder torrents. Also, wish it had some seeding options so that you can specify which files have seeding priority and such.

Much lower CPU and memory requirements than Azureus and many more features than the standard client (and less cpu requirements).

Best overall OS X client, use Azureus when you need a specific feature.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  He thanked Batman in the credits/about. Highlight the text box to see it.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  I love this client! I've been using this since the last version and I'm impressed.

I don't like the name change tho. Tomato?   
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  Tomato Torrent 1.0b8 is based on BitTorrent 3.4.1a not on BitTorrent 3.4

This was shown in Help->Release notes option.

Copied from release notes:

1.0 beta 8

‚_ Tomato Torrent is the new name of BitTorrent Macintosh. It's named so in honour of the Tomato Convenience Store from the Dreamcast game Shenmue 2 (and the whole duck-racing thing). I wanted to do something better to brand this thing, but I got sick of doing yet another release without giving it a proper name, so Tomato it is.

‚_ BitTorrent 3.4.1a.  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  FYi, 3.4 was considered extremely unstable and should not be used; it had numerous problems with both client and tracker functionality. It was pulled within 24 hours of being posted.

The client should be based off the latest source, 3.4.1, not 3.4.

While this has a lot of nice features the official client lacks, it would also be nice to see the author contribute to the official client instead of starting an entirely new client.

Once this is based off 3.4.1(shouldn't be more than a quick change) I will certainly give it a try! 3.4.1 has many improvements on its own over 3.3...  
(Version 1.0b8)

SIECHO  This is shite!!!

Azureus outperforms this by a mile, even the standard BitTorrent Client is better than this piece of kack!!

I think the saying "if it's not broke don't fix it" applies very aptly here.  
(Version 1.0b8)

MEDICINEUK  love the program but the GUI is well not nice on the eyes. If you want some free toolbar icons for your project please e-mail me medicineuk@spymac.com.

This program works again the apple GUI guide lines and i wish it didn't   
(Version 1.0b8)

FAR  Great App... more features and gets updated faster than the official client, and uses the least CPU.

Not as complex and customizable as Azureus but is a lot faster and uses a lot less CPU.

I would recommend this as the best program for those who want a lean, clean, bittorrent downloader  
(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  Well, it seems to work pretty well. However, it really isn't all that different compared to the official client: it's still a doc-based app, just with more settings. I can't fathom why somebody would make a bittorrent client that is doc-based... ugh. Keeping track of all your torrents (let alone all the failed/interrupted ones) just blows...

Why isn't there a table!? If this app had a table, it'd be a thousand times better.

Mr. Developer (can't find your email anywhere at all), please:

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(Version 1.0b8)

ANONYMOUS  I found a way to crash this program 100% of the time. All I needed to do is try to start a download and bam, it crashes.  
(Version 1.0b7)

SKY  this is a great time saver, great job, still room for improvement but it's been great so far  
(Version 1.0b7)

CYBERFUNK  Good, but not as good as Azureus.. BTW, it's connects fine to the standard bittorrent port for me all the time. Perhaps you are behind a firewall (anonymous) ?  
(Version 1.0b7)

ANONYMOUS  there is another bittorrent client for mac called azureus. while features galore and interface rocks... it has one incredibly annoying turnoff. it fails to correctly connect to bittorrents port (6881 i believe) and thus you get a small fraction of your capable download speed. I definetly will try this one out as i need eficiency (standard bittorrent) and processor speed with funtionality (azureus).  
(Version 1.0b7)

JAKE  Smaller windows are good, but this app is really worth it for the reduced CPU usage. The standard client can easily use 50%+ on a G4 733Mhz. I've got 3 torrents going at once wright now and its using roughly 4% which is way more reasonable. An order of magnitude better than the standard client.

So far the best BT client on OS X. Plenty of features.

Still not a Mac 'friendly' app, but a decent app. And yes it doesn't have an icon yet =P  
(Version 1.0b7)

ANONYMOUS  BitTorrent Macintosh isn't supposed to be "competing" against BitTorrent since it's BASED off of Bittorrent, but smaller file size, more settings available to change without having to hack anything, and 'it just works'. an icon is just an icon, make one up in photoshop or appleworks if it hurts u that much. I personally like this bittorrent client.  
(Version 1.0b6)

JARVIS BADGLEY  Meh. The best thing it's got going for it is that it doesn't consume tons of processor power like the official client. The UI however is rather painful, doesn't follow any usability conventions, and still requires having a window open for every download. Using this program feels like using Windows.  
(Version 1.0b6)

ANONYMOUS  If you're going to release a competing BitTorrent client to the other one (http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/11869) that has been out for quite a while, could you PLEASE name the application something different? If you drag this one to your App folder, it replaces it. Slap an "X" (or something) on the end of that bad boy. :)  
(Version 1.0b6)

TEZLA  Cool thing! Really the best bittorrent app for Mac OS X. BUT where is the icon??? You should add an icon both for torrentfiles and for your app.  
(Version 1.0b6)