Transmission vs Vuze

Transmission is free, ad-less and open source software licensed under GPL with parts under MIT with source code available here. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.

Transmission-gtk uses only 17 mb of RAM in idle state and 24 mb in download state.

Transmission is great for getting things done without looking too much under the hood. It still has advanced options, they're just tucked away from sight.

Transmission works well on OSX and various distributions of Linux due to having interfaces natively developed for those operating systems instead of haphazardly ported.

The Mac interface is written in Objective-C, uses dock badges and Growl notifications while the GTK+ interface follows GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and has support for popup notifications, desktop sounds, and a system tray.

There's also an unofficial port of Transmission-Qt for Windows.

Transmission covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. It includes MSE/PE for security. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, Web seeding and Local Peer Discovery. And it auto-updates.

Transmission can be used in text-only mode via transmission-cli that includes a daemon (transmission-daemon), a CLI and a web client (accessed on http://localhost:9091 by default).

Transmission has a web interfaces that can be used to remotely control torrents. It's great as a seedbox (a dedicated private server for uploading and downloading content) due to built-in webseed support.

For those who prefer Linux, the Ubuntu OS comes with Transmission already installed, so you can get your torrents up and running immediately.

Just put it on your server, SBC or even your old phone and you have your own torrent server.

Vuze has a lots of plugins available that are capable of performing a wide variety of tasks including automatically categorizing torrents, adding remote access solutions and even playing games such as Sudoku.

You can use built in search to find your torrent. Type torrent hash, name, or a tag in search box next to "open torrent" in main UI and Vuze will search in both Swarm and Web for your torrent file.

I2P or Invisible Internet Project is a decentralized anonymizing network. Vuze has a plugin accessible from the plugin wizard that adds support for I2P downloading, seeding, and I2P DHT support.

Combines the swarms of multiple torrents that have the same file, allowing for faster downloads, and completion of torrents lacking available pieces.

This means if a torrent is stuck at 99%, Vuze can add another torrent with the same file, and only have to download the 1% from other other torrent's peers.

Vuze covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX and Magnet URIs as well as Broadcatching, Sequential downloading (paid) and Search. It includes MSE/PE for security. It has graphical and web interfaces. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, web seeding, Embedded tracker, Super-seeding and proxy servers. And it auto-updates.

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.

It's possible to edit the tracker list to add or delete trackers. Vuze allows saving a list of preferred trackers as a "template" which can then be either merged with existing trackers or used to replace them.

Vuze can detect if it's running over a VPN. Once a connection to the VPN is lost, all traffic becomes public. To avoid this Vuze can be set to run only over a VPN.

With device playback on, it's possible to convert and transfer media for playback on a designated device by simply dragging and dropping the desired file. Device playback supports game consoles, Tivo, and iTunes.

Vuze has a capable video player built-in with reasonable support for most common video formats, subtitles and audio switching.

Fast and intuitive to use.

Follow your favorites type of torrents such as movies, songs, and apps. Just add the torrent file and look for the RSS icon next to it and subscribe to find all new related to your favorites type.

Scans all Vuze downloads for malicious files.

The way it works hand and hand with Tivo is awesome. It allows you to have all your media in one box.

Although an ongoing work, almost everything one needs for proper config is there.

Usable in Linux, as well as Windows and MAC OSx

You can track what's going on easily in the app thanks to its UI.

You can control which files are downloaded, in what priority, and not have to go searching for the features.

Vuze uses Swarm Discoveries, which allows you to search for similar downloads the user may be interested in.

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.

Because you can select how much memory is allocated to Vuze it is possible to run far more torrents on it than on other torrent programs. Many users report being able to run in excess of 3,000 torrents with no problems.