How To Download Torrents On A Mac

This article shows you how to download movies on Mac different ways in 2019.

It’s a good idea to download movies to watch them on a plane or anywhere else with no or poor Internet connection. Can you download movies on MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac? The answer is definitely yes. Actually there is more than one way to do this. Some of them are free.

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How to download movies on Mac from YouTube and similar sites
How to download movies on Mac from torrent sites
How to download Netflix movies on Mac
How to download Amazon Prime movies on Mac
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Using torrents, you can quickly download movies, films and other files to your Mac. A torrent is a file with the file extension.torrent. This article will explain how to download torrents on a Mac. Are torrent files legal? Torrent files are not illegal, but downloading copyrighted material is.

Below are some common ways to download movies on Mac, Windows or mobile. And they will be covered in this article.

  • Save movies from YouTube and other video sharing sites using video downloader software
  • Download movies using the offline modes provided by YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.
  • Use torrents
  • Directly download from public domain movies sites

How to download movies on Mac from YouTube and similar sites


YouTube is one of the best places online to watch movies, TV shows, news and live streaming content, just to name a few. It’s super easy to watch free movies there, but it’s not that straightforward when it comes to downloading them. Don’t worry! The instructions below will show you how to easily find and download free movies from YouTube to Mac.

#1 Tips to find movies on YouTube

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  • Go to https://www.youtube.com/. If you already have a movie in mind, type the title in the search box and see if it’s available.
  • Type “full movie” in the search box and click the search button. Additionally, you can click FILTER and choose TYPE > Movie.
  • Discover movies worth checking out in subreddit r/fullmoviesonyoutube.

#2 How to download movies on Mac from YouTube

Step 1. Download and install video download software iFunia Video Converter for Mac. Launch it.

At the top of the interface, there are four tools: Video Conversion, DVD Burning, Video Download and Share. Choose the third one, Video Download.

Step 2. Copy the link address of a YouTube movie and paste it in the URL box at the bottom. Click the download icon, and it will start saving the movie to your Mac. To do it in batch, just repeat the process.

Pro tip: You can use the app’s conversion feature to convert downloaded movies to any format you need.

You can also use iFunia Video Converter for Mac (which supports 1000+ sites) and the similar steps to save movies from sites like Dailymotion, Vimeo and more.

How to download movies on Mac from torrent sites


If you want to download files from Internet, torrenting can be a good choice. It’s an extremely popular system for quick peer-to-peer file sharing. Downloading torrent movie and video files on a Mac requires specialized software. You’ll need a torrent website, a Mac torrent downloader and a movie player.

#1 Best torrent websites

  • EZTV EZTV is a great website specifically designed for downloading television shows. The interface is easy to use, and the torrents are laid out by their air date, which makes it really easy to find the show you are looking for. If you are like me and think about television in terms of what night what show is on then EZTV is great. There are also useful features such as filtering and show list.
  • The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay brings a huge list of all kinds of torrent files such as movies from across the web. It is made up of many different users who upload torrents to the site. This can be very good for variety but can also be very bad for finding the right torrents.

#2 How to download torrent movies for Mac

The first step is to open your Internet browser, be it Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox, etc. Go to a torrent hosting website listed above.

Use the site's search box to find the movie you wish to download. When you search, note the seeds and peers counts listed on the movie torrent files. Peers are other downloaders like you, while seeds are those who already have the movie file and are sharing it with the peers.

Download the movies’ torrent files. Note that they are not the actual movie, but files used by a torrent downloading application to download movies on Mac. Open a new window in your browser and use a search engine to find a torrent downloader application for Mac.

Below are two free torrents clients that you can use.

  • BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent is the global standard for accessing rich media over the Internet. It supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • UTorrent is one of the most popular programs used to open torrent files and can exchange data between hundreds or even thousands of people from just one file. UTorrent was primarily focused on using the Windows operating system. And now it also supports other platforms including Mac, Linux and Android.

#3 How to play/open torrent files on a Mac

Once you have downloaded a torrent, however, you may have to convert, unzip or decompress the file before it is available for playing on a Mac and Apple devices. By using the aforementioned iFunia Video Converter for Mac, you can convert torrent movie files into MPEG format and any other video format. MPEG video files typically have .mp4 or .m4v extensions and can be played on iTunes on computer and iPad, iPhone and iPod and other players and mobile devices.

Step 1. Download iFunia Video Converter for Mac. Install and run it.

Step 2. Drag the downloaded torrent movie files into the app.

Step 3. Click the RVC button to open the output format window. Click General Video and select the format you need. Hit the conversion button.

How to download movies on Mac from Netflix


Netflix is definitely one of the best and most popular video streaming services. It has over 130 million subscribers. If you are one of them, then it’s very likely that you can download movies from the site. Netflix officially allows subscribers to download movies (not all of them though) to view offline on iOS, Android, Fire OS and Windows. As can be easily noticed, macOS is currently not among the supported operating systems. As a result, it’s not possible to download Netflix movies this way.

But there’s a workaround. You can record the screen of your Mac as you play a Netflix movie. If your Mac runs on macOS Mojave, you perform a screen recording by pressing Command + Shift + 5. Earlier versions will need QuickTime Player. Also, there are many third-party recorders available.

One of the benefits is that you can play the captured movie using the media player you like. With the official method, the playback is only supported on Netflix apps. Of course, the drawbacks are obvious. It’s far less straightforward. Also, there will be downgrade in video quality when compared with the original source. It’s a better idea to download offline Netflix movies on a supported device.

How to download Amazon Prime movies on Mac


Amazon’s Prime Video is also a popular service to provide movies and television shows. Just like Netflix, it also let users download movies for offline viewing. However, this offline mode only applies to Fire tablet, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Apple computers are not supported.

To make it’s possible to watch Amazon Prime movies offline on Mac, you will need to resort to screen recording. Thanks to macOS’ built-in screen recorder, it’s not that hard to do.

On a side note, Hulu, another big name in the content streaming industry, still doesn’t offer the offline viewing feature as of 2019.

Some other sites/platforms to download movies on Mac

#1 The iTunes Store

When it comes to downloading movies to Mac, one can hardly missing out the iTunes Store. You can find movies of almost all genres there, from action to romance. To be able to download a movie to watch offline, you need to purchase it first. There are also free movies there. Just try to type “free movies” in the search box in the upper right corner of iTunes for Mac.

#2 Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive is an online digital library where you can find, among others, free movies. And many of them are in public domain. On the Movies page, you can watch and download movies, documentaries, trailers, etc. Most of them are grouped by type like Sci-Fi/Horror, Comedy Films, Silent Films, Home Movies, etc. On the left side of the page, you can easily filter movies by year, topic, language and more.

It’s easy to download movies on a Mac for free from the site. Open a film. Navigate to the right part of the page and find the Download Options section. Hover your mouse over the format you need, and a download button will appear. Click the button. Some common available formats include MPEG4, MPEG2 and OGG.

#3 public domain movies

The site is dedicated to offering public domain movies for view and download. There isn’t a search feature, and you can only look for movies by category or tag. Each movie comes with a poster and a detailed introduction. To download, click the poster to open a movie and click the option Download Movie [Video Format: MP4].

Conclusion


Above are the common ways on how to download movies on Mac. Thanks to the offline viewing modes provided by some of the big online movie content providers, things become extremely easy. In addition, you can also efficiently rip movies from sites like YouTube. Are you a big fan of movies? Do you know other easy ways to download movies? Welcome to share your opinions and thoughts!

How To Download Torrents On A Macbook Pro

Torrents are great for downloading and sharing files. Unfortunately they get a bad name because they’re usually used for downloading copyright movies, TV shows and other copyright files. It is not illegal to download and use torrents, however when used to download copyrighted material it is.

Understanding Torrents

First a little explanation on what a torrent is and how it works. A torrent is a small file with the file extension .torrent. This file contains a list of files that are to be downloaded and other information that your torrent client will use. The torrent client will take this information and find other people download and uploading the same torrent. Once the torrent client finds some people it will start downloading pieces of the file from them and then put all the pieces of the file together once it’s done downloading. When you have some pieces of the file downloaded, your torrent client may start to upload pieces to other people. That’s pretty much how it works, a bunch of people sharing files to and from each other. Once you’re done downloading, you will become a seed and people will start downloading from you. You can stop the transfer anytime you like, it is however considered courtesy to seed back what you downloaded, at least to a certain extent.

Using a Torrent Client

Now that torrents have been somewhat explained, lets talk about the torrent client. Two clients that work great are Transmission (Mac) and µTorrent (Mac & PC). In this article I’m going to talk about Transmission as it is my favourite and in my opinion, the best for Mac.

Transmission Options

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Transmission is a free, lightweight application with some pretty powerful features. If you’re new to torrents you can rejoice because it is very easy to use. When you initially get Transmission installed there are some settings you probably want to set up.

So firstly we should tell Transmission where to download the files. Open Transmission go to the menu bar, click Transmission -> Preferences. In the preferences window go to the Transfers tab and select where you’d like all your torrents to download. I suggest somewhere you’ll be able to find it easily… maybe the Downloads folder. I also have it set to delete the small .torrent file once the download is complete. Another setting you might like to check is to have Transmission check your Downloads folder for new torrent files and automatically start downloading when it finds them.

Now that Transmission is set up the way you want, we need a torrent file. There are tons of torrent sites out there. To find one simply google “torrent sites“. There are also a lot of different torrents out there. Lets say I wanted to download a torrent containing Ubuntu, but when I searched for it I was presented with 40 different files. Which one do I choose? I want to download the right one on my first try. If there were any comments about the torrent I’d read them to make sure it was what I was actually looking for, as well as if it was good quality. Then I’d check the ones with the most seeds, as more seeds usually mean faster download speed. I’d also check the peers to make sure that the peer to seed ratio is not to high as the more people trying to download (peers) the file the longer it’ll take for me to get my file. As you can see from the picture below, the first torrent had 3006 seeds and 59 peers (leeches), while the second had 0 seeds and 8 peers (leeches). The first one is downloading fast and the second one hasn’t even started yet.

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Seeds are people who have completely downloaded the file and are now uploading it to anyone who wants it. Peers are people who are currently downloading and uploading, but aren’t at 100% yet. So lets say one torrent has 50 seeds and 3 peers, and the other had 3 seeds and 50 peers. The one with 50 seeds is going to download a lot faster. Usually the best quality torrent is the one with the most seeds.

Once you’ve downloaded your .torrent file, open it with Transmission. Your files will start downloading. When it first starts it will most likely start off very slow, this is because your client is looking for more people to download from. The more people connected and uploading to you, the faster the download will go.

If you have more than one torrent running at a time you can also set different priorities for each one. Another great feature is the speed limit mode, which you basically enable to stop your torrent from taking up all the bandwidth. I use this when I’m watching Netflix so that my movie isn’t constantly buffering.

Want to learn a whole bunch more about how torrents work? Here are some resources:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file