synapse VS Transmission

Compare synapse vs Transmission and see what are their differences.

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synapse Transmission
3 257
853 12,670
0.0% 1.8%
3.6 9.5
over 1 year ago 19 days ago
Rust C++
ISC License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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synapse

Posts with mentions or reviews of synapse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-07.
  • Transmission v4.0
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2023
    Actually, not such a bad question. There's at least Synapse[1]. It even has a third-part broker to accept transmission GUIs by Drew Dewalt[2]. Why didn't they just reuse Transmission protocol from the get-go, to leverage the great Transmission-Remote-GUI[3] for example, is beyond me.

    Unfortunately, there's just not enough interest in the project and no adoptance.

    Transmission, at least previously, never have been too resource-friendly, so a lean and mean Rust alternative would be great.

    1. https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse

    2. https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/broca/

    3. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

  • I created a bittorrent client in Rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 29 Sep 2021
    There's Synapse which has been around for a few years now.
  • I wrote cratetorrent, a BitTorrent engine in Rust!
    4 projects | /r/rust | 22 Dec 2020
    Could you compare it to https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse ?

Transmission

Posts with mentions or reviews of Transmission. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-09.
  • Transmission a Fast, Easy and Free BitTorrent Client for macOS, Windows, Linux
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2025
  • Internet Archive: Security breach alert
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2024
    Not much money and bandwidth if you aren't on a metered connection. You can share tens of gigabytes or more on a cheap read only flash plugged into into a $25 single board computer that draws way less than a full PC and can be left sitting there near the router. Just limit its bandwidth on the torrent client and you won't even notice it during online gaming. The client can be as small as the Transmission daemon running headless on one of the many Debian based embedded distros: all control through either the web or from its client: no monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. just a small cheap box.

    https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

    (just an example, as it's way overkill for the task)

    https://transmissionbt.com/

    https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

  • You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2024
    > Would have to keep my desktop running 24/7 too?

    You could build a seed box out of a old ARM board running the Transmission daemon and a USB key mounted read only to avoid wear; power draw would be just a few watts and total cost could be less than 50 bucks. The desktop would be needed only when adding torrents or changing configuration from its web interface, although Transmission also has remote control apps running on phones and tablets. If the router permits it, QoS rules can be set up on the router so that the seed box can use all bandwidth, although at lower priority than other machines on the LAN, so that it will never clog the network, which comes handy for example with online gaming.

    https://transmissionbt.com/

  • Official releases of the Transmission BitTorrent client might be compromised?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2023
  • Show HN: PikaTorrent, a modern, multi-platform, open source BitTorrent app
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2023
    Why bake libtransmission into the app instead of just using the transmission daemon's RPC?

    What you've done actually makes it harder to use, because in order to configure any of transmission's settings (ports, connection/torrent connection limits, bandwith limits, etc) the user needs to dig around to find the transmission config folder and then manually edit JSON with a text editor - because your client doesn't expose any of transmissions numerous settings [1] to the user except for choosing the download folder.

    I'm not sure why anyone would want to use this instead of Flood [2] or even old Transmission Web Control [3]

    1: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/...

    1: https://github.com/jesec/flood

    2: https://github.com/ronggang/transmission-web-control

  • Bittorrent-Abmahnungen durch Kanzlei Nimrod
    1 project | /r/de_EDV | 9 Jul 2023
  • Where to watch Daria w/ original soundtrack?
    1 project | /r/daria | 7 Jul 2023
    Grab this file. Install Transmission on Mac or Deluge on Win. Optional: run a VPN if you're in the US(mostly) and worried about your ISP sending you a cease-and-desist notice. Open the file using the app you installed. Wait. It should start within a minute or two and download progress will be seen. Speed depends on how many people are sharing it. Any issues, let me know.
  • Serum Crack (NO TORRENT)
    1 project | /r/CrackedPlugins3 | 28 Jun 2023
    Why "NO TORRENT"? Just get TransmissionBT and torrent whatever you want
  • WIN 10/11: Can anyone else confirm if this library works on windows 11?
    2 projects | /r/AutoHotkey | 27 Jun 2023
    Its intresting you mention that, before reading your reply I went and created a post in the Q n A section, asking for help about this very thing and I linked to the same GitHub issue you linked to here. I have yet to get a reply lol.here
  • A server for download files (torrents and direct download).
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 3 Jun 2023
    transmission can run as a headless server with a web gui

What are some alternatives?

When comparing synapse and Transmission you can also consider the following projects:

cratetorrent - A BitTorrent V1 engine library for Rust (and currently Linux)

qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client

hypercore - Secure, distributed, append-only log

Motrix - A full-featured download manager.

herb - CLI BitTorrent client

rtorrent - rTorrent BitTorrent client

rqbit - A bittorrent client in Rust

aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

deluge - Deluge BitTorrent client - Git mirror, PRs only

transgui - 🧲 A feature rich cross platform Transmission BitTorrent client. Faster and has more functionality than the built-in web GUI.

cloud-torrent - ☁️ Cloud Torrent: a self-hosted remote torrent client

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