What is FTP?
File Transfer Protocol — A way of transferring files over the Internet/Intranet from one computer to another. When this process occurs in a secure or encrypted way its called SFTP. You can read more about FTP on Steven Frank’s blog.
Here is a list of Macintosh FTP clients I listed from an ongoing conversation via Simplebits and a few others from different sources on the Internet for all your FTP and SFTP needs.
FTP clients on Macintosh
- Transmit — must have on a mac, thanks Andy!
- RBrowser
- Interarchy
- Fugu
- Inbuilt in BBEdit
- Fetch
- FTPeel
- Cyberduck
- LfTP
- CrushFTP
FTP clients on Windows
- Flash FXP — must have on Windows, thanks Stef!
- WS_FTP
- SmartFTP
- FileZilla — thanks Neil
- Cute FTP
- BulletProof FTP
- Core FTP
and the list grows…
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I use SmartFTP, and have actually never been dissatisfied enough to bother using or buying anything else. The part that it’s free is a very nice bonus though. I saw something similar to this (though done through the browser) as a Firefox extension (http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/). This is neat though.
You can add FileZilla to the list of Windows clients. It has its fans, but I personally hate the interface - SmartFTP is much nicer. Despite its name, it’s not in any way related to the Mozilla Foundation.
The only problem I have with SmartFTP is its become nagware now. During some x hour time frame something like 8am to 5pm every time you start it up it nags you to buy a license, even if you are well within their ‘free’ license !
FileZilla is best that I’ve used for Windows. I didn’t really like the Nagware of SmartFTP but SmartFTP was actually quite nice. FileZilla was faster on loadups on my computer.