Locks to your VPN
Bind Peerbloom to any active VPN. It follows the tunnel through reconnects, and nothing ever slips out over your normal connection.
Free · Open source · Made for the Mac
Torrents, without
the creepy parts.
Peerbloom is a fast, beautiful BitTorrent client for macOS. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Ever. It locks to your VPN, warns you about malware, and stays out of your way.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · 9 MB · First launch help
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This is a live demo running in your browser, moving the way the real app does.
Everything you need
Simple on the surface.
Serious underneath.
Built on libtorrent, the same battle-tested engine behind qBittorrent and Deluge, with a native Mac app on top.
Privacy mode
One switch: VPN or SOCKS5 proxy only, encryption required, anonymous mode on, and no local broadcasts.
Malware warnings
Spots apps, installers, scripts and fakes like movie.mp4.exe before you download, and quarantines everything it saves.
Watch while it downloads
Stream mode fetches pieces in order, so open videos start playing right away.
Feels like a Mac app
Menu bar speeds, notifications, colour tags, a slow-mode schedule, and it pauses before your disk fills up.
Make it yours
Six built-in themes, and a Theme Maker that designs a new one from a few questions.
Privacy, honestly
If the VPN drops,
nothing leaks.
BitTorrent is public by design: peers can see the address you connect from. Peerbloom makes your own VPN watertight. Bind it once, and when the tunnel goes down, traffic stops instead of falling back to your home connection.
- No ads, no accounts, no analytics. Not now, not later.
- Shows the address peers see, so you know your VPN works.
- Detects your VPN app and opens it in one click.
- SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, with the password kept in your Keychain.
Protected Traffic only goes through your VPN.
Safety, built in
Movies don't need
to be programs.
The biggest danger in torrents isn't the protocol. It's malware dressed up as something harmless. Peerbloom checks every file list and flags apps, installers, scripts and disguised files, with one click to skip them. Everything it saves gets the same quarantine mark as a Safari download, so macOS checks it before it can run.
Sintel (2010) 4K · 3 files
- ✓ Sintel.2010.4K.mkv 4.2 GB
- ✓ Subtitles/English.srt 18 KB
- ! Sintel.2010.4K.mp4.exe 2.1 MB
Themes
Your colours. Your rules.
Pick a theme to restyle the demo window above, and this mini one. Or paste the Theme Maker into any AI assistant: it asks what you like and writes a theme file you double-click to install. Themes are data only, so they can't run code.
{
"name": "Night Swim",
"appearance": "dark",
"font": "rounded",
"colors": {
"download": "#4FA3FF",
"seeding": "#2DE1C2",
"background": "#0B1A2E"
}
}0ads, trackers or analytics
23 MBthe whole app
~90 MBmemory, measured while running
GPL-3.0open source, forever
Questions
Good to know
Is Peerbloom really free?
Yes. It's open source under the GNU GPL v3, with no ads, no paid tier and no accounts. Anyone can read the code, and changed versions must stay open too, so it can't be turned into a closed app with ads later.
Why does macOS say it can't verify Peerbloom?
Peerbloom isn't signed with a paid Apple Developer ID. To open it the first time: open Peerbloom once and close the warning, then go to System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only do this once. Or build it yourself from the source on GitHub.
Does Peerbloom hide my IP address?
No torrent app can on its own: BitTorrent shares your address with the peers you trade with. What Peerbloom does is make your own VPN or SOCKS5 proxy watertight, show you the address peers see, and stop all traffic if the VPN drops. Peerbloom doesn't include a VPN.
Is BitTorrent legal?
BitTorrent is a legal technology, used to share Linux releases, open movies, game updates and large public datasets. Downloading or sharing copyrighted material without permission is not, so please respect the law where you live. Peerbloom has no built-in torrent search.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon (M1 and newer).
Can I make my own theme?
Yes. In Settings › Appearance, click Copy Theme Maker and paste it into any AI assistant. It asks a few questions and writes a .peerbloomtheme file. Double-click it to install. You can also write one by hand; the format is on GitHub.