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BitTorrent, made simple
for your Mac.

A fast, native client with plugins and a remote control API.

Download for macOS View source on GitHub
macOS 12+Built in Rust

01 / Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Built natively for macOS with Zed's GPU-accelerated UI framework and a fast Rust BitTorrent engine.

Add anything

Drag in .torrent files, click magnet: links, or paste one with Cmd+U.

Choose files

Pick what to download before and during a transfer, with per-file progress.

Inspector

Press Cmd+I for an overview, files, peers with country flags, and trackers.

Speed limits

Set limits, plus an alternative set you can schedule by time and weekday.

Watch while downloading

Stream video and audio into IINA, VLC or your default player before it finishes.

Menu bar

Live speeds at a glance from the menu bar, and opening at login.

Plugins

Add menu commands, Inspector tabs and settings, or run scripts when a download finishes.

Web remote

Manage downloads from any browser on your phone or another computer.

Works with your stack

Connect your own apps and scripts through the API.

Updates itself

Only installs notarized builds signed by the same developer.

Themes & accents

Light and dark mode, built-in themes like Catppuccin and Gruvbox, or your own JSON theme.

The essentials

DHT, UPnP, stop seeding at a ratio, and fast resume.

02 / Screenshots

See it in action

Every transfer at a glance, with the Inspector one click away.

Torrie downloading Big Buck Bunny with the Inspector showing pieces and peers A download in progress in the Dark theme A paused and a seeding transfer, with the Inspector overview The empty library, ready for a torrent or magnet link

03 / Remote

Control it from anywhere

Open the built-in web remote in any browser, or connect another app with the settings shown here.

  1. In Settings, open Network and turn on Remote control, and Allow other devices for anything that isn't this Mac.
  2. Restart Torrie.
  3. Open http://<your Mac's IP>:9091 in any browser and sign in with the password shown in Settings.
Web remoteJSON-RPC

Away from home? Reach it over a VPN. API docs →

Torrie's web remote in a phone browser, showing a paused and a seeding transfer 
Host              192.168.1.20
Port              9091
Username          anything
Password          shown in Torrie's Settings

04 / Plugins

Make it yours with plugins

A plugin is just a folder with a plugin.json. Add commands to the Plugins menu, tabs to the Inspector, options to Settings, or run a script when a download finishes.

  1. Hooks run on torrent-added, torrent-done and torrent-done-seeding.
  2. Plugin processes talk JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdin and stdout, in any language.
  3. Share a .torrieplugin package with a one-click torrie://install link.

Read the plugin docs →

{
  "id": "media-organizer",
  "name": "Media Organizer",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Renames finished movies for Plex",
  "hooks": {
    "torrent-done": "on-done.sh"
  }
}

05 / FAQ

Good to know

The short answers.

RequirementsmacOS 12 or later.
PriceFree. MIT licensed, with the source on GitHub.
Default appMove Torrie to Applications and launch it once to open .torrent files and magnet: links.
SettingsSaved to ~/Library/Application Support/Torrie/settings.json.
Built withlibrqbit, GPUI, Tokio + axum, tray-icon, objc2, resvg and maxminddb.

Ready when you are.

Drag it to Applications and you're set.

Download for macOS