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Mac FTP Client Round Up

Posted by Scott | March 10, 2007 .

Not a day goes by that I dont have to log into my FTP client so I decided to do a quick round up of a few of the available FTP applications for OS X. Out of the list below, I prefer to use Cyber Duck. No particular reason really other than that it was just the first one that I tried and it works great. However, Transmit is one of the most popular FTP clients out there on the Mac. So check them out and find the one you like the most.

Cyber Duck

- open source
- supports Spotlight, Keychain, and Apple Scripts
- Growl Notifications
- Available in English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Slovak, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Swedish, Dansih, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Catalan, Welsh, Thai, Turkish, and Hebrew.
- Multi-Account Bookmarking for different FTP logins.
-Resumable Transfers
-Download CyberDuck




Transmit

-spotlight, automater, springloaded folder support
-batch downloading
-Multi-account bookmarking for FTP logins
-tabs for each connection
-Edit files on the fly with any applications; even images
-Download Transmit




Fetch

- Publish a website at a web hosting provider.
- Rename, move, delete, and change the permissions of files on a web server in order to maintain a website.
- Publish images for eBay auction listings.
- Transfer documents to a printing company or service bureau.
- Submit advertisements to newspapers and magazines.
- Move files between your Macintosh and other computers or specialized equipment.
- Download Fetch




Yummy FTP

-Remote Editing
-Apple Scripts
-Preview
-Synchronization
-FTP Aliases
-Scheduling
-Download Yummy FTP

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  1. Raku March 11, 2007 7:47 am

    You are forgetting the longest living transfer client for mac (1993 ffs :) , Interarchy:

    http://nolobe.com/interarchy/

    If you are like me, you use certificates based logins (SSH/SFTP) and you’ll be glad to know that Interarchy supports this too. Else is nice terminal / editor interaction wich is nice for the work I do.

  2. Scott March 11, 2007 10:25 am

    Thanks for that Raku,

    I haven’t actually heard of Interarchy before. I will definitely check it out, I like how it looks similar to the Finder.

  3. JoeSmall March 27, 2007 1:30 pm

    Check out ForkLift at www.binarynights.com. It’s a brand new app with built in FTP/SFTP client.

  4. Tandy March 29, 2007 9:36 pm

    I fell in love with ForkLift, sooooooooooo fast. And it is a file manager too.

  5. Scott March 29, 2007 11:35 pm

    Thanks for the recommendations; I’ve been hearing good things about Forklift. I have it downloaded but haven’t had a chance to really check it out yet, hopefully I can play around with it in the next few days.