peermint
Coming soon to macOS

Torrents, finally at home on the Mac

A BitTorrent client for the Mac that searches open sources and your own, plays video while it downloads, and sorts finished files for you.

macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon
What is inside

Built around what happens after you press download

Search

Open sources built in, plus your own

Peermint comes with sources of open content, and you can add the ones you use.Type once to search all of them, best match first: how well the name matches, how many seed it, how recent it is and how many sources list it.

Peermint searching four open sources for ubuntu: 129 torrents, best match first, each with its size, age, seeders and source. Peermint searching four open sources for ubuntu: 129 torrents, best match first, each with its size, age, seeders and source.
Screenshot · search Search on “big buck bunny”: results from several open sources, best match first, each with size, age, seeders and where it was found.
Video

Watch before it finishes

Start a video while it is still downloading. Peermint fetches the pieces in the order you watch them. Play it on the Mac or cast it to the TV.

Peermint's player with its own controls: the timeline, subtitles, casting and picture in picture. Peermint's player with its own controls: the timeline, subtitles, casting and picture in picture.
Screenshot · video The player on Sprite Fright while it downloads: the buffer with gaps ahead of the playhead, cast to a TV.
Follow

Know when something new appears

Follow a search, a feed or a release. Peermint checks it in the background and tells you what is new, or downloads it if you asked it to.

Follow with five subscriptions: two saved searches, the DistroWatch and FOSS Torrents feeds, and an Ubuntu release. Follow with five subscriptions: two saved searches, the DistroWatch and FOSS Torrents feeds, and an Ubuntu release.
Screenshot · follow Follow with a search, a feed and a release; one reports something new and offers to download it.
Rules

Tidy what arrives, keep seeding

A rule waits for a moment, like a download finishing, then runs its steps in order. It works on a copy, so the original keeps seeding.

The Play anywhere rule: when a download in Movies finishes, copy it to ~/Movies, repackage it as mp4 and replace dots with spaces, previewed on Sintel. The Play anywhere rule: when a download in Movies finishes, copy it to ~/Movies, repackage it as mp4 and replace dots with spaces, previewed on Sintel.
Screenshot · rules A rule: when a download finishes, in one category, copy the files, repackage as mp4, rename, move to ~/Movies.
Network

Only through the network you choose

List the connections Peermint may use, such as your VPN. It connects only through them, and if they all drop, it stops rather than falling back to your regular connection.

Settings, Privacy: only connect through the first of these that is up, with ClearVPN, a VPN, carrying the traffic. Settings, Privacy: only connect through the first of these that is up, with ClearVPN, a VPN, carrying the traffic.
Screenshot · network The connection pane: “Only connect through the connections listed below” on, a home VPN in use, an office VPN not connected.
Assistant

Ask your AI agent to download it

Peermint speaks MCP. Connect the agent you already use, and it can search, add and sort torrents for you. It cannot delete anything or run anything.

Also in the box

Queue

Set how many download at once and drag the rest into the order you want. A stalled download does not hold up the ones behind it.

Categories

A name, an icon, a colour and, if you want, a folder that downloads go to.

File priority

Pick which files in a torrent you want, and which are fetched first.

Stats

How much you downloaded and shared, by day, month and torrent, and where your peers are, looked up on your Mac.

Speed limits

Global and per-torrent limits, on a schedule for the hours you work. It slows down on battery, and stops on a phone’s hotspot.

Seed limits

Stop sharing at a ratio you set, or give one torrent its own: a ratio, a stretch of time, or never stop.

Menu bar and drop target

Current speeds sit in the menu bar. Start dragging a torrent file or a magnet link anywhere on the Mac, and a drop target appears for it.

Updates in place

When a torrent you have is released again with more in it, Peermint updates yours instead of adding a second one. It fetches what is new and keeps the files you already have.

Fast where plain torrents are slowed

Peermint speaks both BitTorrent transports, TCP and uTP, so it reaches peers that only one of them can, and it opens its own port on your router.

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In development

Coming soon

Peermint is in development.Write to us to hear when it is ready.

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