Michael Marmarou pits Mac OS X FTP clients against each other and comes out with a “Top 5” list of the best of the best:
Marmarou’s Top Five Mac OS X FTP Clients:
1. Transmit
2. Interarchy
3. Cyberduck
4. Yummy FTP
5. Fetch
Marmarou notes, “Although the Top 5 is in order of rating, any one of these apps would be a great FTP application for most users. Each has their strong points and weaknesses.”
Marmarou also looks at the following FTP clients:
• CaptainFTP
• RBrowser
• SimpleFTP
• Fugu and Son of Fugu
• CuteFTP
• BulletProof FTP
• ecxFTP
• OneButton FTP
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Which one do we use? Just like Marmarou (stated in full article), we use the free and very capable Cyberduck.
MacDailyNews Note: (added: 12:51pm EDT): With the Cyberduck Widget, just F11 to Exposé, grab your file(s), then F12 to invoke Dashboard and drop said files onto Cyberduck Widget (you need to configure the Widget with your specific FTP info first, of course).
cyberduck for sure. open source is what’s it’s all about.
Cyberduck should be #1
I use Cyberduck as well…
Transmit. Transmit. Transmit.
Best interface.
Cyberduck
Going to try cyberduck…I actually love Transmit.
cyberduck, havnt used the others though
Cyber duck…Disco Duck…it’s all the same to me, man.
Transmit.
cyberduck.
Fugu. I don’t do FTP for security reasons (except for anonymous access, which doesn’t involve divulging a password).
If i need an anonymous FTP download, i just use the Finder.
I would not trust FTP with access to my machine, transmiting username and password unencrypted over the net is just plain stupid! SFTP is the way to go.
Gave up on CyberDuck after it refused to upload 1 folder. instead it forced me to upload the whole website. deleting folder also proved wonky. Thus, as much as I like “free’ I’ll pony up for Transmit. Too bad Interarchy became bloated with extras…
Cyberduck
Just can’t figure out what their widget is for..
Cyberduck!!! I agree with Mac4lfe; what’s with the widget?
It’s all about Transmit.
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Cyberduck works well for me. I also still use old and dated Fetch 4.0.3. Fugu has its place.
I use Yummy professionally…
For Windows, Riverfront Software makes an FTP client that gives full Explorer access to any FTP server. The server shows up as just another letter drive and you access files on that FTP server from any application’s open/save dialog. For all of the Mac’s advanced features I’m still waiting for this simple integration.
Fetch works great for me. I got a student license, so it was free for me.
Yummy is Yummy…
Transmit rocks. Well worth the shareware price.
Captain FTP has always works flawlessly for FTP and SFTP.
Reading the article, this is reason Captain FTP was not considered:
“CaptainFTP – Lots of features but a UI that looks so ugly I wouldn’t recommend the app.”
The UI has the look and iTunes and Safari. The UI is not ugly, this was not a fair comparision.
Fetch has my money!
cyberduck!
Fetch!
Good Boy.
I have used all except Yummy, and still Transmit from Panic software has always been my favorite. I read about Captain FTP recently and that sounds sweet, especially if you are working with a lot of vendors/partners and need to distribute PDFs or other files to them.
I do wish that Apple’s FTP finder functionality worked better though.
Cyberduck is ALWAYS my suggestion.
I even suggest donating a small amount of funds (if you can) to help keep the program going strong.
Articles about FTP clients are a dime a dozen.
Does anybody know of a good source for info on setting up a FTP client (on OSX) with specifics on getting it to work with a dsl router?
Thank you thank you
Cyberduck is nice, and it’s free, but its throughput is worse than Transmits. With my 2MBit/sec line, with transmit I get very near the theoretical max when using SFTP, but Cyberduck gets less than half that throughput.
Not a big problem if you transfer little files infrequently, but if you use it frequently for large files, Cyberduck is a lame duck.
Transmit. Everyone should own a Panic app.
day in and day out..Transmit
Cyberduck! very nice app!
Been using Interarchy for years. I like it fine, but I’m wondering if there’s anything out there that provides even basic transfer STATS? (Upload/download size, transfer time, avg rate, etc.)
Transmit and Cyberduck. I registered Transmit for myself; for other uses that would require another license, I use Cyberduck.
I use FTPeel (http://www.freshsqueeze.com)
I’m on the Transmit bandwagon. Love it! Keeps me sane with the several sites I have to update on a regular basis – it has an excellent mirroring feature.
Transmit – essential app for me (apparently latest cyberduck version is very buggy)
Transmit all the way baby!
S
I love Transmit. And I feel good sending money to the Panic guys — they deserve it!
Good to finally see it getting some recognition, but Yummy is still way underrated. It blows the others out of the water for speed and resilience, in my experience.