7 Best FileZilla Alternatives You Should Try

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FileZilla

Although, FileZilla is one of the most famous FTP clients out there, it has recently come under a lot of fire from users due to the fact that it is hosted on SourceForge, which has a reputation for packaging bloatware along with the applications. That’s not cool at all, and a lot of people are now looking for alternative software to use FTP with their websites, or their remote servers. If you are one of those people, well, look no further. In this article, I’m sharing the 7 best alternatives to FileZilla that you can use:

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Cyberduck

One of the really neat features offered by the app is the ability to view any file in Quick Look (by pressing the space bar), just like one would view a locally saved file on their system. The difference being that Cyberduck allows users to use this feature with remote files, and that too without downloading the file to the user’s system. It also works with a multitude of character encodings, and can easily display files in Japanese, Umlaute, and Chinese as well. Cyberduck also supports concurrent transfer of files, along with caching to provide the best possible performance; every time. Overall, the app is definitely a must try, and it’s no surprise why most web developers prefer using Cyberduck.

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Transmit

Transmit is the gold standard in Mac FTP clients, and is recommended by almost every seasoned Mac user to anyone looking for a feature rich FTP client. The app definitely works great, and the UI is well arranged, although it does look dated by the standards set by today’s apps that use transparency and other visual effects. However, from a completely developer point of view (and let’s face it, casual users won’t really use an FTP client like Transmit), the app is awesome. Apart from FTP, Transmit also supports protocols like SFTP, WebDAV and S3.

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WinSCP

Unlike Cyberduck and Transmit, which support third-party editors for live-editing, WinSCP comes with a text editor built right in, and users can use it to edit files live on the server. WinSCP also has support for setting a master password to protect the site information that is stored in the application, so that no one without the master password can access any of the information that has been saved in WinSCP. It also supports a portable mode, which can come in handy if users want to use the application off of a removable external storage media.

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CuteFTP

CuteFTP Pro is another great FTP client, but it is pretty expensive, especially considering that its user interface is not as good as its Mac competitor, Transmit. If you are on Windows, however, then CuteFTP Pro might be something worth looking at. Apart from FTP, it supports protocols like SFTP, WebDAV and S3. Also, you can add servers to CuteFTP Pro to save them in the app, and save yourself from typing in the details every time you want to log in to one of them.

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FireFTP

It’s really simple to get started with FireFTP, and if you use Firefox anyway, then FireFTP might just be what you’re looking for. FireFTP supports the UTF-8 encoding set, and their website claims that it supports almost every other encoding as well. The add-on also supports remote editing of files, which means that users can directly edit files on a remote server without the need to download them, edit them, and then upload them back again; FireFTP handles all the synchronization between the file being edited and the copy of the file on the server.

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CrossFTP

CrossFTP Pro, as the name implies, is completely cross platform, and is available on Mac, Windows, and Linux distros. The interface is a bit, well, stuffed. However, the app has a great feature set, and supports protocols like SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, S3 among a lot of others. CrossFTP Pro also supports live editing of files, so you can simply edit the files that you want, and CrossFTP automatically uploads the saved changes to the FTP server that you are connected to. The client also supports tabbed mode, to connect to multiple servers at the same time. It allows users to extract, compress, and even browse archives, along with offering support for character encodings such as Unicode, CJK etc. Moreover, the app supports batch transfer of files, along with preview, and also offers support for favourites and history information right inside the app.

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BitKinex

One of the best features that BitKinex offers users is the ability to control user requests, and not only file transfers, but users can actually resume and control every user request that is made through the app, such as moving files, deleting files, creating directories, etc. It also supports transferring files from one server to another regardless of the protocol they are running. Along with all that, BitKinex also supports parallel request processing, multi-part transfers, scheduled requests and a lot more.

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