Comments on: Mac OS X FTP Clients Throwdown

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:56:53 +0000

I’m not agreeing with Transmit being listed as number one. Although I’m using it (v.4.1.5), it suffers several critical bugs in drag and drop and synchronisation.
Ex: Sometimes you download a folder and it doesn’t copy the whole content without saying ANYTHING about it. Synchronisation also doesn’t refresh the remote content so, if the remote content has changed the synchronisation won’t take it into account…
Few bugs but potentially very critical issues !

By: Protex

Protex — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:50:08 +0000

It is really frustrating that Mac can’t come with some free basic FTP client.

I have tried like 5x and none are compatible with various versions of my OS. LAME APPLE.

By: toro

toro — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:33 +0000

check out macfusion, it integrates into the finder, so u can save to FTP from any save dialogue!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:11:14 +0000

Thanks for this post! Very helpful.

By: ForkLift - Best Damned OS X FTP Client « Mister E.

ForkLift - Best Damned OS X FTP Client « Mister E. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:13:21 +0000

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By: Mejne

Mejne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:18:44 +0000

Thanks to Jim Jordan for reminding everyone that Filezilla also exists for Mac.
I always find it funny how Mac users like to pay for crappy software while they can get high quality open-source for free.
I agree Filezilla doesn’t look that great on OSX but it does work great and has all the features you can expect from an FTP client.

By: Brandon Klapholz

Brandon Klapholz — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:18:05 +0000

This is perhaps the lamest article I have ever come across comparing OS X ftp clients.

What exactly do you consider an “advanced feature”?

ncftp, net2ftp, manyot her options exist including TextWrangler’s built in ftp, and a thousand more on freshmeat and sourceforge – although Interarchy, Viacom, and Yummy aren’t bad… i refuse to pay for http://ftp…thats ridiculous – you don’t even have to on Windows.

I will concede the overall client list for ftp on OS X is relatively pathetic compared to other platforms.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:12:59 +0000

The FTP and FXP client named CrossFTP looks good, and the basic version is free:

By: Jim Jordan

Jim Jordan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:59 +0000

Free (GPL), very capable, cross-platform, open source

http://filezilla-project.org/

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:40:38 +0000

People who love Transmit have not tried Yummy.