[arkadiyt]

For whatever reason the ARM version of Transmission does not work well on my M2 laptop - it downloads quickly at first and then drops off to zero, and had some other bugs (the x86 version always worked flawlessly). I tried playing around with different settings, running their nightly builds, etc, and nothing fixed it for me. In the end I searched for other clients and found them all filled with ads and bloatware, and decided to use this excellent open source command line client instead:

https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

It has a few frontends built on top of it (linked in the project readme), but I just run `torrent download <magnet link>` and it downloads at full speed / with no issues.

[capableweb]

After uTorrent went south, I started using qBittorent on all platforms and haven't looked back since. Found it better than any alternative, might want to give it a try if you want client+ui in one package: https://www.qbittorrent.org/

[arkadiyt]

I wanted to evaluate it in the past but their downloads page has a giant warning, "The macOS version is not well supported", so I didn't bother downloading it.

[eatbitseveryday]

I am actively trying to use it on macOS/M1 and it does have bugs. Random crashes every few days, UI crawling (doing anything, right click, whatever) with more than 20 torrents, etc.

[dt2m]

The GUI is buggy to say the least, but the actual torrent transfers are faster in every step of the way compared to Transmission 3.x in my testing.

[stevenrj]

I encountered a similar issue on my M1 machine in the 4.0 betas. I went back to 3.00. Hopefully this has been fixed in the final release.

[dmix]

I just downloaded Transmission 4 via Github and it works on my M1 Macbook. I previously had problems with beta versions as well, so I guess they addressed that.

[anacrolix]

:)