Usable for a while but then keeps freezing in Big Sur. Every time I trash the app with `AppCleaner` and reinstall it. Other than that I like the functionality, especially working with magnets.
Quite good, but I would really like to see some improvements...
- The window should be devided into "downloading" and "downloaded/sharing".
- The "last activity" should NOT be resetted when restarting the app.
- When deleting torrent files or the files itself, they should NOT ne deleted at once but be put into the trash.
Kudos to qBitTorrent dev team, this version is a good initiative to the right path. The UI has improved so much. Now it usable. Keep improving and will keep giving up stars.
My problem with qBitTorrent for Mac is the interface, it is ugly as hell. Even for obscure and unused Haiku OS, qBitTorrent is nicer. Come on. I tried it on Windows 10, Mint Linux 18, Haiku OS and it sure is worst on Mac.
link is wrong, it goes to 4.1.3
correct link https://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-mac/qbittorrent-4.1.5/qbittorrent-4.1.5.dmg/download
Worked for a while - 3.3.6 but now I'm completely stumped - it searches and finds lots of torrents, the yellow light at the bottom stays on saying I have network issues, I test the outgoing port and it's OK but I cannot download anything - download button not working. I've spent significant time reading their forum and internet posts on the topic and just can't find anything - at least at a low enough technical level that I can understand. Like the interface and speed but just can't get it working.
My solution for crashing on qBitTorrent 3.3.3 and lower is to uncheck / turn off Display torrent content and some options within Preferences -> Downloads. Do this before you ever add a torrent or magnet link. Use AppCleaner to trash the app if you're stuck, then reinstall qBitTorrent, and subsequently (before anything else) get into Options (Preferences) with my suggestion. This resolution works on Lion 10.7.5 and Mavericks 10.9.5 .
Really horrible. Doesn't work most of the time. It crashes more than 75% of the time at launch. I can keep re-opening, or ignore, the launch again, but the bottom line is that it doesn't work most of the time. I switched back to Transmission. It's not as pretty, but it's completely stable.
If they ever fix this one, I will try it again. I do like the looks of the interface more, it's just completely unusable. It didn't work back in April when I tried it before, but now we are many versions later, and it's still not fixed. MU says 3.2.3, and I tried it, but then I even tried 3.2.4. MU us just one version behind. None of them work.
qBittorrent does not look like your usual Mac app, but once you get past it's appearance it is feature rich and fast. I would like to see it support a blocklist but other than that it is very good. I especially like the "Download in sequential order" which is useful when downloading anything with episodes, such as podcasts or tv shows. And for me it is MUCH faster than uTorrent and without the adware the BitTorrent developers are so fond of. Thank you developer for this excellent app!
Mac Pro, OS X 10.9.5
Too bad, it looks like it would be better than the other Mac clients if it worked.
I guess they need to fix it for Yosemite.
All it does is add files to the queue, but they never download. It is just stuck there forever.
I just downloaded v3.1.3 SIX TIMES directly from the Sourceforge site, using 3 different mirrors, and this app just will not open; The disc image mounts fine, and I can drag the app to my Apps folder, but it won't open.
I even compared the checksums with the qBittorrent website, and they all matched.
Evidently there's a bug in the newest version, because that's the only app giving me trouble, but that seems unlikely given that the sourceforge site says there were "134,523 Downloads This Week."
I tried to register to post a bug report, but my usernames were taken so I gave up.
Cross platform (whether QT, Java, etc) is the antithesis of lightweight. Needless abstraction layers adds libraries, space, and memory, impairs performance, and least common denominator usability.
Lightweight is native code, finely tuned.
In excemple what lightweight is: uTorrent (v1.5.4) ~2.4MB
Transmission (v2.3.3) ~3.8MB - that's real lightweiths.
qBitTorrent is only free - this it ok
You can find the Mac OSX version 2.6.6 here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-mac/qbittorrent-2.6.6/qbittorrent-2.6.6.dmg/download
Took a bit of time to find it on the developer's site, but it's a stable version. They should at least update their listing here at macupdate!
Version 2.4.4 (latest as of 10.11.10):
http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php
Direct download link for Mac OS X version:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-mac/qbittorrent-2.4.4/qbittorrent-2.4.4.dmg/download
`Lightweight' is nearly 13MB larger download than Transmission. I assume that it bundles QT and that probably adds a lot substance. I guess lightweight refers to the memory footprint whilst running. QT is pretty ugly too, so perhaps a nicer way of making it cross platform and just as ugly would have been a Java UI to lower the size of the download.
