Xtorrent for Mac

XTorrent was for a very long time the most beautiful BitTorrent / P2P file sharing client. Although not available for download anymore, XTorrent's interface is top notch even by the standards of today - vastly better than Vuze's, uTorrent's, BitTorrent's, and even Transmission's. Beautiful times those were… I remember buying a license many years ago; I don't recall particulars anymore, but I recall clearly that David Watanabe duped all his customers, myself included, into some sort of a financial scam. If I recall correctly, he either refused to provide the license data to customers for them to activate the software, asked payments for incremental updates - or something else along those lines. Any any case, while his software was the best within its kind, the man's ethical norms as a developer were a total junk.

$ 25 for an app, of which there are equally good in freeware. The support is sickening. You get no response.

I've been using xTorrent for years and slowly watched all the torrent servers ban it. Now, when you use xTorrent to search, hardly anything gets found. Developer has never been very likeable either!

I keep on reading all these negative comments and everyone recommending Transmission. I've been using Xtorrent for quite a few years now. What I love about it, is that I can use it to search for torrents, download directly or use the build-in torrent search. It still works for me, I love how it looks ( I have Lion). I did try Transmission, but it took me over 30 minutes to get it to work because I had to open up some kind of port. Xtorrent just always worked. I can leave my browser open and use Xtorrent to look for torrents. I've been using it a lot this past month and so far, so good. I don't get all the hate, but maybe I've just been lucky, or not expecting things other people seem to expect. Though I can't really figure out what those expectations might be.

This used to be a great app. But it has been banned from like 90% of the trackers. So it does not, and will never worked again. The developers used to be totally on top of things. But he has just become a scam artist. Save you money. Get Transmission.