Transmission
Fast, easy, free Bittorrent client.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 30 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 4.1.4 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Transmission quick facts
- Health score
- 87/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 15,361
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 4.1.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Transmission
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. It comes in several flavors: A native macOS GUI application GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc. A Qt-based Windows-compatible GUI application A headless daemon for servers and routers * A web UI for remote controlling any of the above."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Transmission scores 87/100, #4 of 8 in File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing: 30 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (4.1.4, 6 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 15,361 stars add 16.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
30 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
4.1.4 released 6 days ago
- Stars 16.7 / 20
15k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 30
- Last 90 days
- 578
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 8 tools in File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing by health , between qBittorrent (#3) and bittorrent-tracker (#5) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C++, deb |
| Latest release | 4.1.4 · 6 days ago |
| Stars | 15,361 |
| Open issues | 723 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | transmission/transmission ↗ |
Transmission vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Transmission (File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| slskd | 95 | 4.2k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Webtor | 91 | 713 | MIT | today |
| qBittorrent | 88 | 41k | GPL-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| Transmission (this tool) | 87 | 15k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| bittorrent-tracker | 55 | 1.9k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| bitmagnet | 40 | 4.4k | MIT | 3 months ago |
Transmission: common questions
Is Transmission still maintained?
Transmission had 30 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 4.1.4, is from 6 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.