UPDATE: I updated the feature table to reflect newer versions of the applications. (24 August 2010)
For some time now, there are four apps on the market that allow you to control your active torrents remotely. So how does Transdroid relate to its three competitors? Droiddog released a nice video review on all four. He tells only about the basic features, but thinks Transdroid and Torrent-Fu are the winners.
What he didn’t cover was the difference in features that the apps have. I have made a little feature comparison table for that. Hope I didn’t leave out any (let me know).
| Transdroid | Torrent-Fu | BarTor | Torrent Droid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website | here | here | here | here |
| Price | Free (FOSS) | Free | $1.49 | £1.00 |
| Client support | ||||
| Multiple profiles | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| uTorrent/BitTorrent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transmission | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Vuze/Azereus | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| KTorrent | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| rTorrent | Yes | No | No | No |
| Deluge | Yes (1.2+) | No | No | No |
| Torrentflux-b4rt | Yes | No | No | No |
| Searching and adding | ||||
| In-app search | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Torrent sites | 9 | 2 | 1 | Browser-only |
| Barcode scanning | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add via browser | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Add local .torrent | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Management | ||||
| In-app listing | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| In-app management | Yes | Yes | No | Web-UI |
| Individual files | Yes | No | No | No |
| RSS feeds | Yes | No | No | No |
| Widget | Yes | No | No | No |
| Alarm service | Yes | No | No | No |
This is really great they don’t have it in Taiwan
Transdroid always crashes when you want to switch profiles! Always.
It needs another app to load local torrents! So, it can not do that.
There are better ones.
Sorry to hear that it crashes (did you update to the latest version?). Please send an error report so I can fix these bugs.