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OrbTorrent 1.0 is the first release: a native torrent app for the Mac, with qBittorrent's engine underneath. It's free and open source, for macOS 26 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.

What it does

  • Lives in your menu bar. The orb fills up as your downloads progress. Click it for live speeds, your downloads and their files.
  • Magnet links and .torrent files open straight from your browser or Finder. Choose the files, their priority and the folder before anything downloads, or let it start right away.
  • Downloads only through your VPN, if you like. If the VPN drops, downloading and sharing stop until it's back, and a port your VPN forwards is picked up by itself.
  • Holds fake downloads. The Fake Download Check holds a download that looks fake, such as a film that contains a program, before any of it arrives. VirusTotal Scan can check finished files.
  • Brings your downloads over from Transmission or qBittorrent in one step.
  • Extensions, written in TypeScript and each run in a sandbox. Build your own.
  • Updates itself, with signed updates.

Install

Open the disk image below and drag OrbTorrent to Applications. Or, with Homebrew:

brew install orbtorrent/tap/orbtorrent

What it sends

No account, no ID and no crash reports. The daily check for updates carries a few anonymous counts, listed one by one at orbtorrent.com/privacy. Settings › General shows what the next check sends, and turns the counts off.

The engine

OrbTorrent runs qBittorrent's engine, built from source with:

Project Version Licence
qBittorrent (qbittorrent-nox) 5.2.3 GPL-2.0-or-later
libtorrent-rasterbar 1.2.20 BSD-3-Clause
Qt (qtbase, static) 6.10.3 LGPL-3.0 / GPL
OpenSSL (static) 3.6.4 Apache-2.0
Boost 1.86.0 BSL-1.0

The source of each is attached below, as downloaded from the project and checked against the SHA-256 in engine/versions.env. It's built by engine/build.sh with the patches in engine/patches. OrbTorrent's own source is this release's source code archive.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/OrbTorrent/OrbTorrent/commits/v1.0

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