Transmission vs Webtor

Both are self-hosted file transfer - peer-to-peer filesharing projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Transmission scores 69 against Webtor's 57, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Webtor may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Transmission	Webtor
Health score	69/100	57/100
Commits (11 mo)	616	123
Commits (last 3 mo)	42	116
Stars	15k	689
Latest release	30 Jun 2026	18 Sept 2026
Licence	GPL-3.0	MIT
Built with	C++, deb	Docker
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Transmission

Fast, easy, free Bittorrent client.

69/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 28/40

Releases 21/25

Community 17/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 69% of tracked projects; popularity more than 85%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Webtor

Web-based torrent client with instant audio/video streaming.

57/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 14/40

Releases 25/25

Community 6/20

Momentum 13/15

Commit activity more than 34% of tracked projects; popularity more than 29%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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