Swarm vs qBittorrent
qBittorrent is the feature-packed, open-source power tool — but it's a cross-platform Qt app that never quite feels at home on a Mac. Swarm gives you a genuinely native macOS experience with most of the power and a fraction of the clutter.
✓ Full support
– Partial / limited
✗ Not supported
Where qBittorrent shines
It's open-source, exhaustively configurable, cross-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac), and has two things Swarm doesn't: a built-in search engine and a web UI for remote control. If you need those or run multiple OSes, it's hard to beat.
Why people switch to Swarm
- It actually feels like a Mac app — native SwiftUI, Liquid Glass, not a Qt port.
- Live throughput charts, global and per-torrent.
- Stream while downloading with a real Play button.
- Calm, modern design — pick your own accent color; no settings maze.
- All the essentials qBittorrent has — RSS, scheduling, proxy, blocklists, ratios — done cleanly.
Swarm is free, no ads, Apple-notarized. macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon).
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* Swarm omits a built-in search/scraper by design, to stay a clean general-purpose client.