Transmission is a simple BitTorrent client for MacOS X that provides users with everything they need to download torrents quickly. While Transmission doesn’t boast sophisticated advanced features, it works great as a compact and very user-friendly client with little or no training required.

Once installed, Transmission will run on most Macs without any system setup, making it ideal for novice users. Its developers boast that it has an extremely low memory footprint, so most OS X users should be able to run it in the background without worrying about system performance.

Transfer is also available as a Linux application. It is actually included with Ubuntu, although it is available for most Unix distributions.

Other benefits include:

• Lots of third-party apps and add-ons to make Transmission even more useful, including Android remote controls, browser extensions, and instant messaging plugins.
• An ad-free interface and an open source philosophy that make the software truly free.
• Neat alignment with the OS X interface, including support for GNOME.
• Support for magnet links, encryption and UPnP.

Best of all, Transmission can be controlled remotely from anywhere using just a web browser.