mabel ☆

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Description:
Fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Networking

Tags: bittorrent terminal tui networking cli

Install: brew install mabel

About:
Mabel is a modern BitTorrent client designed specifically for the terminal, offering a rich, interactive user interface. It provides real-time monitoring of download and upload speeds, peer connections, and torrent progress. The tool's main value proposition is delivering a full-featured torrenting experience without requiring a graphical desktop environment.

Key Features:

Interactive terminal UI with real-time stats
Supports adding torrents via magnet links or files
Manages multiple torrents simultaneously
Configurable keybindings and themes

Use Cases:

Managing torrents on a headless server or remote machine via SSH
Lightweight torrenting on minimal Linux installations
Users who prefer keyboard-driven workflows and terminal aesthetics

Alternatives:

rtorrent – rtorrent is a highly stable, older client with a more terse, less interactive UI, while Mabel offers a more modern and visually intuitive experience.
transmission-cli – Transmission is primarily a background daemon with a separate CLI; Mabel integrates the full UI directly into the terminal.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 4:20am		0	VERSION_BUMP	45a48083
Sep 13, 2024 7:44pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	07ad3b58