Transmission Remote GUI

Features

All features

• Torrent list with columns (name, status, progress, size, ↓/↑ rate, ETA, ratio, peers, added, last activity) and fast native sorting
• Customizable columns: right-click the list header to show/hide columns — extra ones: completed on, remaining, downloaded, uploaded, download folder, seeds / leechers (connected, and the swarm size the trackers report — e.g. 3 (120)), tracker, labels; order, widths and visibility are remembered, *Default Columns* resets them
• Sidebar filters with counts (All / Downloading / Done / Active / Inactive / Stopped / Error), plus tracker, download folder and label (category) filters with counts — they combine with each other and the status filter; each section's All … row (or clicking the selected row again) clears just that filter. The list scrolls above a separate status footer, so long tracker lists cannot overlap the connection status or speed graph.
• Search within the list
• Download queue reordering: right-click selected torrents → *Move to Top / Move Up / Move Down / Move to Bottom*. The optional Queue Position column (hidden by default) shows 1-based positions and sorts numerically; sorting the table alone never changes the daemon's queue.
• Add torrents via magnet link / URL, **.torrent file, or drag & drop** onto the window
• Choose the download folder in the Add dialog — a daemon-side path for that torrent only (defaults to the daemon's download folder, which stays unchanged), with per-server favorite and recently used folders
• Open With / double-click a .torrent in Finder, click a magnet link, or drop a torrent onto the window — asks where to save before adding to the current server (queued until connected if the app was closed). The Add dialog offers the remote folders from your server's path mappings, and Cancel submits nothing. Choosing a .torrent file in the dialog also waits for Add.
• Start / stop / remove (optionally along with data), verify, and reannounce — from the toolbar or the row's right-click context menu
• Right-click context menu on torrent rows, which also offers move (torrent-set-location, with an optional "move the files" switch), rename (torrent-rename-path), and copy name / hash. A click inside a multi-selection acts on the whole selection, like Finder.
• Batch-edit properties of the selected torrents (right-click → *Properties…*): download / upload limit, honour global speed limits, bandwidth priority, peer limit and labels. Fields where the torrents differ show as *Mixed*; nothing changes unless you edit it. Labels can be added / removed (every other label stays) or replaced as a whole list (labels need Transmission 3.00+)
• Details panel (toggled with ⌘I) with tabs: General / Files / Peers / Trackers
  • Peers with country flags (bundled, offline country data — see Peers); every Peers / Trackers column is sortable, addresses in numeric order
  • Files as a folder tree: expand/collapse folders with aggregated size and progress; a folder's checkbox (mixed when partly selected) and priority apply to every file inside in one call; Show in Finder for a single file or folder when a path mapping applies
  • Per-torrent speed limit; labels/categories editing
• Torrent rules — per-tracker, per-label or per-name rules that set seed ratio, idle limit, speed limits and labels, or stop the torrent. First match wins, each torrent is classified once (manual changes are never overwritten), and every change is shown in a dry run first. Ratio/idle limits are enforced by the daemon, so they keep working while the app is closed. Screenshots ↓
• RSS auto-downloader — watched feeds + title-match rules (substring or /regex/) → automatic torrent add, with dedup
• mTLS client-certificate authentication (optional .p12 per server) for a reverse proxy that requires it
• Speed graph — a live mini-chart in the sidebar, a detailed Statistics panel, and a Stats-style menu-bar popover
• Sequential ("streaming") download (Transmission 4.1+) — pieces download in order so media can be watched while still downloading; no official GUI/Web UI exposes this yet
• Multiple servers, managed in Settings; passwords stored in the Keychain; auto-connect to the last used server on launch
• Show in Finder via per-server remote-to-local path mappings for mounted shares (the menu item appears once a server has a mapping)
• Full session settings (speed, peers, network, queues, download, seeding) — written immediately via session-set
• Turtle mode (alternative speed limits) with one click, plus a bandwidth scheduler (turbo on/off by time of day and day of week)
• Notification when a torrent finishes downloading
• Menu bar (tray) icon with ↓/↑ speeds and a live graph; the Dock icon can be hidden (app lives in the menu bar only)
• UI zoom (⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0), vertically centered torrent-list text at every zoom level, automatic refresh with configurable interval
• Multilingual UI: English, Hungarian and Simplified Chinese, switchable at runtime (Settings → General); separate, reusable language packs
• Update check: once a day (and from the app menu: *Check for Updates…*) — a new release shows as a small link in the sidebar (no pop-ups), with the brew upgrade command for Homebrew installs; *Skip This Version* is remembered
• Opt-in, anonymous usage statistics — off unless you switch it on in Settings → General; see Privacy

Torrent rules

Set it once per tracker: seed Ubuntu mirrors to ratio 3, stop Debian after two idle days, stop movies right away. Every new torrent is classified once — a manual change is never overwritten — and nothing is applied before you have seen it in the dry run.

Peers

A country flag for every peer, looked up offline in a table that ships with the app — no peer address leaves your Mac. Every column sorts, addresses numerically. Country data: IP Geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).

Why Transmission Remote GUI vs. transgui or the web UI

Install

brew install --cask epaxpax/tap/transmission-remote-gui-macos

Set up in 3 steps

1. On your server, enable RPC in Transmission (rpc-enabled, set a username/password).   2. Install this app on your Mac.   3. In the app: Settings → Servers → + → enter the host, port (9091), and credentials → Connect.

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