uTorrent’s Mac Client Leaked
Written by Ernesto on September 23, 2008An early Alpha release of the long awaited Mac version of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent has leaked to the public. The application is still in development, but most features seem to work just fine. As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.
Thus far, only Windows users have had the pleasure of running uTorrent. The client saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. In 2006, uTorrent was acquired by BitTorrent Inc., who continued to develop the application, and promised a Mac version too.
The Mac version came later than expected. One of the initial developers was taken off the project, and the others were focusing more on the Windows release. This August, however, uTorrent developer Greg Hazel told TorrentFreak that the first public Alpha version of the Mac release would be ready in a few weeks.
It now seems that someone has beat the uTorrent developers to it, as an early release was posted on The Pirate Bay a few hours ago. A leak of the BitTorrent client, developed in Cocoa, seemed to be inevitable. As mentioned before, it is an Alpha version, and not all the features seem to work like they should (search is broken), but it’s definitely a good start.
Simon Morris, BitTorrent’s VP of Product Management told TorrentFreak in a response to the leak: “Apparently an internal development build of uTorrent for Mac has been leaked publicly. It has been referred to as an “alpha” quality build. The unfortunate part is that we did not intentionally release this build and would strongly recommend folks not to use it as it isn’t yet complete or stable enough to be released to the public.”
“The good part is that this is a testament to the fact that we’re serious about releasing uTorrent for Mac in the near future. (And counter to recent rumors, this is indeed the uTorrent code-base ported onto OSX, not just Libtorrent with a Mac UI). Hopefully more news coming soon. We have a sign-up page on the uTorrent website.”
Most of the people who have tried the application are reporting that the application is fully functional, but that it’s clearly an Alpha release. Nevertheless, the first reviews are quite positive. “It seems like the uTorrent every Mac-owner has been waiting for is coming,” an early user told TorrentFreak.
We posted some screenshots of the leaked Alpha release below, click to enlarge.
Main Window
Settings
Torrent Details
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94 Responses
amazing. trying this out when i get home tonight.
it’s been very long awaited.
Finally, cant wait to get this awesome program long overdue for mac.
yay… shitty candylike interface
I just hope Utorrent Bittorrent don’t go abit like all those annoying pop stars and complain about an early leak.
Either way it’s nice to hear Utorrent going multi-platform, to bad a Linux (binary x86 & x64) version doesn’t get made really.
So this this mean it will also be compatible for Linux based systems, like Ubuntu?
Better than the windows version? Well, it is great to see that this mac version has been developed to this point.
Roze
http://www.28chan.org/apstdt/
How does that look “better” than the Windows version?
i’m gonna stick with transmission it’s got all i need.
they got to give me a good reason for using utorrent instead of transmission.
looks like itunes
wackintosh…need i say more?
Why is there a need for a utorrent for linux?
Google rasterbar libtorrent and btg
or rtorrent and libtorrent
there allready perfect
Transmission pwns…
I have had uTorrent since the original release of Crossover Mac…
so thankfully now the PPC users can have the glory!
awesome, i’ll get this when the bugs are sorted out. till then, ill stick with azureus
Linux? Not unless has a cocoa port I don’t know about. IMO rtorrent is all anyone needs. If you really think you need a gui, deluge looks an feels like utorrent on linux.
“As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.”
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There isn’t a reason in the world that it couldn’t be made to look like that on Windows.
Personally, I don’t care. uTorrent works just fine regardless of appearance.
it looks liked the just putted an new ui over transmission
Two years ago this would’ve been a good idea. Transmission rocks now.
“As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.”
Kind of inviting a Apple Vs MS flame thread arnt we? :D
Didn’t work on my PPC 1.3Ghz ibook g4
almost deleted transmission before i noticed :(
BLUEBALLS like a muvvalicka!
omfg i cant believe this I PUT THIS UP ON DEMONOID SOMEONE STOLE IT PUT IT ON TPB AND NOW THERE GETTING ALL THE CREDIT
Eh, the build isn’t that great. I mean, most of uTorrent’s awesome functionality (the scheduler, the RSS feed) aren’t there. So it’s not really finished.
Sorry, correction. They do have RSS done, they just call it subscriptions.
But they don’t have some other features such as “When complete move to” and the scheduler is still sub par. I wouldn’t say it’s fully featured.
It’s a nice client and excellent for an alpha. Don’t expect it to replace your currrent client though.
“As expected, the application looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.”
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Dont suck up to stupid mac, you a$$holes. Windows users come here too & maybe more than those rude rats.
You made me say 1st time FU TF.
I’ve always thought mac applications looked kinda ugly. I liked the way macs looked in the old days, but the new mac os looks kinda corny with that shitty faux-chrome look. A 12 year old with a photoshop tutorial could make brushed chrome better than that.
Not that windows looks any better. XP and 98 always looked pretty ugly. Vista looks a little better… but while its pretty on the outside, its ugly on the insides.
Today I go for something simple. Give me gnome anyday. Sure, the default gnome look is pretty spartan, but check out gnome-look.org for some cool stuff people have done with it.
Part of the reason I loved u torrent was because it looked uncluttered and simple. Now with the mac interface, its just another itunes.
gay ass piece of shit is intel only stupid developers go to hell and die
Gayest interface if you ask me, a Windows screen is way more powerful then a Mac GUI any day of the week.
Matter of personal taste, I don’t like my screen cute and cuddly … I like it quick, powerful, and without the gloss. 1 Reason why Vista at first rubbed me the wrong way, but overall the Explorer window has stayed intact.
why does mac shite always look like fucking itunes. I like macs but itunes sucks major shaft. Don’t like being reminded of it with every other app.
omg like we care about p2p stuff
i download with 256bits SSL encrypted FTP site on 1 gigabit
uTorrent PLUS POINTS is single small file & clean interface.
Of course, Mac addicts will need their Apple’s patented Gay interface.
TF dont say its better than Windows. Agreed Windows is not the greatest, but it blows Apple away.
“APPLE IS FOR GAYS”
Say it 10 times after waking up & before going to bed.
@28 get a life
nobody cares about what TF thinks, they are only intrested in getting cash off the ad$.
Eh, no thanks! — I think I’ll stick with Transmission.
Transmission still owns
Transmission developed pretty well over the last year. Only thing I’m missing is an integrated RSS fetcher.
As for µtorrent. I’ll wait for the final, since Transmission works pretty well.
better than its Windows counterpart
lmao, your a typical idiotic Mac user that switched without knowing why, and thinks everything Mac is better.
Get a grip, Windows despite having its flaws, will beat Mac in every way possible
Why not use Transmission? Pretty simple and stable.
Cool..can’t wait!
ROFL!! Look at all the Windows crybabies.
Someone found a comparison, uTorrent freakin’ stole Transmissions UI:
http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6023
Okay, I’ll tell you how it crashes:
Right click on the toolbar and click “customize toolbar” or select it from the menus. Thats it. It will shut down. ;-)
Since I have over 150 torrents seeding right now, I can only hope that the good folks at BitTorrent Inc. have added a way to group torrents together as Transmission does it. Otherwise, they won’t see me switching, even though there was a time when I used to cry myself to sleep every night because uTorrent wasn’t around. That was, however, before Transmission became such a kick-ass client. Comparing these two will be interesting indeed.
transmission sucks, get over it fan boys
Fuck YEAH!
To each his own, I’m fully satisfied with what Transmission does.
i looks like an Xtorrent clone.
only things i like about utorrent : portability, small singular file size, simple interface, scheduled bandwidth control.
Transmission doesnt have : scheduled bandwidth control, doesnt have a portable binary…but really…why do i need a portable binary when most places i go either already have a decent torrent client or wont let me run anway….
since i dont use windows anymore…i use rtorrent on a old laptop that sits under my bed…which i control via my desktop through ssh.
this is something utorrent and transmission need to address…remote admin via ssh console. i doubt it will happen though with the consolephobia trend increasing
You must be crazy to use closed source clients doing who knows what in background…
Y’know, I’m suprised no-one has picked up on the fact that this is just Transmission that’s been hacked up.
Cross between Bitrocket, transmission and xtorrent. Intel only?? Gay
@ Hyram H
No it is not. Run strings on it, it contains the same strings as utorrent and the code looks similar. Project name is NuTorrent?
FEED ME
MAC IS SHIT
Looks nice and simple. Hopefully they take some of the cues of this version and apply them to the windows version.
Outstanding! A good torrent client for MAC. Its about time!
Jiff
http://www.anonymize.us.tc
I am staying with Transmission, I’d use Transmission on Windows if there’s a binary (hint: they’re actually working on it!). Transmission is Open Source, unlike uTorrent.
is it me or do those screens look like an exact replica of xtorrent by Dave Watanabe?? I realize they are both using native os x widgets and such, but uTorrent couldn’t be a little different?
about time!!
I still don’t understand why people think the Mac interface theme is so fucking sexy.
I think it’s ugly, and I hate every moment that I have to use iTunes because it’s so FUCKING slow on my PC, compared to other media library programs.
Use http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=28869 you lazy people >< seriously.
1) It’s alpha 2) It’s private alpha not even on-par with build 6104 of 1.8 which was released to the public 9 months before 1.8 was released.
Xtorrent is just a GUI over Transmissions Open Source Code. The wanker.
Looking forward to this as Azuerus is enough the resource hog.
I don’t think Transmission uses DHT (unless this has changed).
Well, judging on the screenshot it looks great in my opinion. It looks like a native mac application, well it probably IS a native mac application. Competition and diversity is always good. Although I’m totally happy with Transmission, I’m thrilled to try out utorrent for mac.
If you need a reliable, feature-complete bittorrent client for Mac OS X, take Transmission, it looks good and has the right set of features. Especially if you’re on a lot of different private trackers, Transmissions grouping feature is very helpful (every torrent can belong to a group, and every group has it’s own color, and you can watch torrents by groups, like “ah, I’m upping with 50kb/s to wfm right now and with 21kb/s to wcd”). It’s free and open source too! :-)
did it seriously have to take them so long to the point that it got leaked? being too slow and letting stale data hang in the air for too long can have its downfalls.
What a disgusting display of ignorant whining. Looking forward to the actual release.
omg who cares
this site only wants to make $$ of the ad$
utorrent just used transmission’s source code :)
http://mattro.org/451
Looks good. However the Mac has had it’s own light weight, heavy feature bittorent client for a while now, in the form of Transmission. The only thing Utorrent has which Transmission hasn’t is support for RSS. One can argue the need yet-another-bittorrent-client on the Mac. The need was significantly larger some years ago before Transmission picked up the speed on it’s releases. But uTorrent allways has it’s fans and it will please many that the Mac has an official client that doesn’t suck dog turds.
When it comes to the design of uTorrent, the one-window-design of uTorrent is very slick. Transmission also has a very nice and minimalistic UI, aber it’s ‘Inspector’ as it’s own window which buggs many (me included). Both clients support encryption, quick look and bandwidth managing. Though Transmission has a feature where it scans a folder for torrent files and automaticly opens them. Good for users of Safari which (unlike Firefox) doesn’t give you the option to automaticly open files with associated app.
uTorrent is in alpha and it shows in the speeds you get from torrents. For now it seems Transmission is still the client of choice for Mac (and Gnome) users. It’s also open source unlike uTorrent which is allways a plus in my book.
i own a mac. I’m better than you windows and linux users! snort snort !
oh please
Colin: Waa waa waa. Cowboy up and buy a new computer. Or maybe ask mommy to.
this site sucks soo bad
This is great news!
I’ve tried it for the last couple of hours and it looks great! I belive we really need this one.
I just love the view you use when every torrent is just a small column. Transmission doesn’t have that (not that small anyway), and you can’t really add groups for Transmission the way you can in uTorrent.
It is, however, clearly an early alpha-build, as the build has frozen one too many times the short period I’ve been using it.
I wouldn’t recommend using it as you primary client yet, as it still has too many bugs and is still missing out on some important features (as auto-add from dir, auto-delete when added and more).
It looks very promising though!
Transmission without DHT is fine, you get the peers through PEX anyhow.
rad
If you don’t like mac, no bother come here to claim all users are gay… come on ! You don’t need it ? Fine, we are happy that Utorrent is coming on mac computer.
And since Transmission does the same freaking thing than utorrent, I don’t see why it should be treat like shit… get a life please ;)
I tried it and it looks/runs like shit. What are people ranting and raving about this new client?
I have a Mac and I have Parallels running Windows specifically for the Windows uTorrent… I thought this might save me from having to run Windows anymore but apparently not.
Why do so many Windows users seem to feel threatened by an application being developed for an OS they don’t use? If you don’t use a Mac this doesn’t affect you in any way, shape or form. Opening up an application’s use to more users can only be seen as a good thing.
I can’t wait for this to be finally released. One thing closed source has that open doesn’t is money. That means the developers are going to be dedicated. And no, you stupid idiots, uTorrent didn’t steal any Transmission code. The look maybe, but not code. Transmission is years behind. No DHT. No RSS. No adaptive bandwidth limits. No max peers. No ratio initiated stopping. No scheduling.
If you want to use an application that plays “Big Daddy” and controls when you can update a tracker, what your upload/dload ratio should be, refuses to tell people how to downgrade if they don’t like the upgrade and is generally built by a bunch of “we know better” techheads with zero people skills, then go ahead and download it. Personally I like to make my own decisions on how I run my apps.
SO WHEN ITS FINISHED WILL IT BE BETTER THAN TRANSMISSION?
And you say that looks BETTER than it’s Windows counterpart?… Mmmkay.
When I was using Windows, uTorrent was definitely my favorite client. I’ve been using a Mac now for almost a year and have gone back and forth between Vuze (classic mode) and Transmission.
I personally like my Mac. I’ll admit, there are certain aspects of Windows that I wish Mac could catch up with. Unfortunately there is no perfect operating system that has everything anyone could ever want.
I am excited for this Mac release of uTorrent. Transmission (for the most part) is a nice client, but it still lacks some more advanced features, that and they seem to have buggy releases. I currently use Vuze in classic mode to save resources and the bloaty-crap interface. In terms of Mac clients, I think it’s fair to say that it is best all-around.
I think I’ll skip on the leaked Alpha and sign-up on their e-mail list, waiting patiently for the stable release
>>>>>>>>alpha
been waiting for this, looks over simplified though – shame, think I’ll stick with Azureus
love the file menu item ‘Crash me’
I don’t see why you just wouldn’t use Azureus? Seems to be the best client by far. Yep it’s a little bit of a hog but if you have 2gb of ram and a core2duo you’re hardly going to notice it.
Johan Bach, you are obviously uninformed about Transmission or haven’t used it in a very long time. You can set the max peers, it has ratio initiated stopping, it has scheduling. Aside from lacking DHT it’s very comparable to uTorrent now.
Ah, so after a couple years, it’s still behind?
It may “look better” than the Windoze build but at 1.26 MB this is total bloatware.
Looks good, works nice, still obvious alpha though. Finally a good client for Mac OS X! Hope Beta and RC’s come out soon!
I’m a Linux user and uTorrent is still my preferred client… even if I do have to run it through Wine :)
Only problem i found with this is that when you go to remove the torrent it deletes all your data you just downloaded so just as a heads up make sure to install everything before deleting the torrent
hrmm.. that looks a lot like how Transmission is layed out. I would like to see the final release and see how the two are different.
and why is this better than transmission?
is it because its closed source?
http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6023
RIp off of Transmission.
wheres the graph!!!! ZOMG THERE IS NO GRAPH…
its the same as any other client without the ubber leet graph.
I’m sorry but it took 46 meaningless comments for someone to finally speak the word of God?
all of you GTFO, you have no place in this community.
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