Yummy FTP is my favorite. It has good feature match with Transmit but moves multiple files much more quickly. Unlike Cyberduck (or Filezilla) I can trust it to transfer all the files of a large site. I use Yummy’s scheduled syncs for multiple sites and drop folders for sites I’m currently designing. It’s the only Mac FTP client that comes close to transferring files as quickly as a Windows program. The built in OS X FTP functions than most Mac FTP clients incorporate are noticeably slow in this regard.

Crush FTP and Captain FTP also have nice feature sets. All of the clients offer free demo periods. Try them out.

Interarchy is powerful but I’m not willing to pay extra for its system admin features that I don’t use. Fetch, unfortunately hasn’t kept up with the other quality FTP clients.

But it’s not the case that the project is dead. In fact, I’ve got quite a few things that I want to implement this summer, and hope to make a 1.0 release sometime in the future. I won’t commit to any specific timeline because it will just slip, but it’s definitely a goal for me.

Also, despite a lack of time to work on the code, I’ve been responding to e-mails about bugs and feature requests all along. So if you have something to say, let me know.

~Douglas
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Haven’t tried most of the others, but that’s because I never have had to. Cyberduck is free, clean, fast, has never bugged out on me, and is updated on a regular basis.

It also has a really awesome and fun icon.

Seriously, how can you go wrong? Cyberduck it is.

Interarchy really is the better ftp client in terms of connection reliability and transfer speed, but its multi window management is irritating.

I believe it was previously titled “Anarchie” (ie: an Archie, the original search engine for FTP archives)

Panic’s customer service has always worked well for me and I really like them as a company.

The first FTP client I really used was Interarchy (back when it was still called Anarchy) and I really liked it but it’s just gotten a little over the top for me (I don’t feel like learning a massive app for something as simple as FTP) but I can totally see why many power-users would prefer it.

Since I commented on that post, I’ve resolved essentially all the issues I’ve had with Cyberduck and still continue to use it as my FTP app of choice. I tried Yummy and found that it was not all that delicious after all. I like Cyberduck so much, in fact, that I donated cold, hard euros to the project, even though it’s freeware.

The developer, David Kocher, is very prompt is answering emails, bugs filed in the tracking system, etc., and seems to be totally on top of adding a lot of new features current users are asking for in upcoming releases.

My recommendation is 100 percent for Cyberduck!

One of my professors called me a moron for not using his prescribed Dreamweaver workflow. I can’t stand that clunky, slow app.

Slow transfers, constant seemingly-random crashing, issues connecting to random servers (one day it would work, next it wouldn’t), and the general lack of polish of the UI.

I switched to transmit and loved it so much I took 20 minutes to write a long thank you to the developers (who are the coolest guys). I’ve never had any reason to write for support but I got a reply to my ‘great product guys!’ email in less than a day, from one of the founders noless!

I’m glad I haven’t had the problems some people are quoting here, but I’ve gotta say, you must be doing something wrong becuase Transmit has been more than flawless for me. And I’m not exactly a newb either, I use quite a wide variety of ftp servers in quite a variety of ways. All the ftp servers I connect to are on various OS’ (bsd, winblows eXtra Painful, mac, various linux distros, even a really old win98 box).

Lucky me I guess :p

Dan