TorrentMilk

TorrentMilk is a tiny poster-wall library for what you're torrenting on macOS - drop a magnet, hit play the moment the first bytes land, and let your watchlist auto-organise as you go.

Torrents live in the library, not in a downloads folder. Videos show up as cards with covers and watch progress; the player streams straight from the still-downloading file so you never wait for the green bar to fill up.

Highlights

1. Stream while you download - press play the moment the first bytes arrive; seek anywhere and the stream catches up as more of the torrent lands.
2. Plays everything that matters - MP4 and WebM play natively, MKV and AVI go through a bundled playback helper so you never need to crack open VLC.
3. Library, favourites, collections - auto-detected video cards, heart anything you want to keep close, group titles into named collections you can pin to the sidebar.
4. Continue watching - TorrentMilk remembers where you stopped per file, even after a restart, and offers a "Resume" / "Start over" pair on the detail screen.
5. Subtitles, your way - auto-loads .srt / .vtt next to the file and lets you tune size, vertical offset, and timing delay live while watching.
6. Custom player, mini + fullscreen - consistent controls across every format, plus native picture-in-picture and Tauri-level fullscreen so the same player works in a corner overlay or edge-to-edge.
7. Drop anything in - drag a magnet link or a .torrent file straight onto the window, or paste a magnet into the Add dialog.
8. Local-first, no accounts - everything lives under ~/Library/Application Support/TorrentMilk/; no telemetry, no server-side state.

How it works

First launch fetches a small playback helper from a public macOS ffmpeg mirror - one click and you're done. After that, drop a magnet link or a .torrent file anywhere in the window. The torrent is added straight to your library and indexed by playable file; click any card to open its detail screen with a Play / Resume / Start over button and a separate Download panel for pause / open-folder / remove actions.

Pick a video and the in-app player takes over - full-bleed cinematic when expanded, a tucked-away mini overlay when you minimise. Browse the rest of the library, organise into collections, or switch to Continue watching to pick up exactly where you left off.

Perfect for

1. Anyone who hates waiting - start watching a movie or episode the second its torrent lands, no progress bar to babysit.
2. Format-fatigued Mac users - one app handles MKV, AVI, MP4 with the same controls; no third-party player roulette.
3. Series + collection builders - group episodes, films, anime arcs into named collections, pin the active ones to the sidebar, archive the rest.
4. Local-first folks - no cloud sync, no telemetry, no account; the app does its thing and gets out of the way.