Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"

dawidpotocki wrote: post #5

gfrecvh wrote: post #3

Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories...

As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.

You can probably just use VueTorrent or qBitController android app for headless mode.

Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"

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Post by dawidpotocki » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

Trung0246 wrote: post #7

dawidpotocki wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.

You can probably just use VueTorrent or qBitController android app for headless mode.

VueTorrent is a web client.

I currently use the official Web UI in an isolated Chromium instance and made an automatic log in page so that I don't have to type in the password every single time I open it.

I add torrents to the qBittorrent instance using a Firefox addon. It's all a bit jank.

I started some work to make my own qBittorrent client for desktop; I don't care about mobile that much.

Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"

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Post by ahartmetz » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:40 AM UTC

benoau wrote: post #6

Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.

Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.

Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"

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Post by davkan » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:48 AM UTC

dawidpotocki wrote: post #5

gfrecvh wrote: post #3

Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories...

As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.

deluge is probably the best for native gui. It doesnt have the amount of integrations as qb and it struggles with many thousands of torrents (or at least it did 10yrs ago), but otherwise a great client.

Otherwise there’s qui for qb which, while still a webui, is great.