Cyberduck is the most polished free Mac FTP program available. It’s GPL Open Source, too. If you have modest FTP requirements it may be all you need. And, I love the rubber ducky icon. It’s worth having a copy just to have the ducky in the dock.

Cyberduck is an FTP program of the old school. Much like the venerable Fetch, it gives you one window into your web server in list/outline view. From that window you can move files and folders back and forth between you Mac and your web server. It’s easy and simple. The tutorial takes about three minutes to read. If you have any experience with FTP clients, you’ll be up and running immediatly.

Cyberduck has the basic features you would expect from a modern FTP client. With it you can upload and download files and folders, create new files and folders on your web server, change permissions, rename and move both files and folders and resume transfers. It also works hand-in-hand with most popular html editors to allow you to edit text based files directly on your web server.

In addition it has a nice bookmarks setup and offers synchronization of local and remote folders and supports the whole gamut of secure transfer protocols.

If that were all that Cyberduck offered, I’d recommend it. If something works reliably, as this does for free, you have to be happy. But, beyond the bare basics, Cyberduck is a pretty polished Mac program.

Cyberduck looks good. It is localized for a number of languages. It supports Applescript, Bonjour and .Mac iDisk. It allows toolbar customization. It is even a Universal Binary, ready to run natively on Intel Macs. And it supports third party productivity utilities like Growl and Quicksilver.

Publisher: http://www.cyberduck.ch

Cyberduck runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Ease of use: 4
Features: 3
Value for money: 5
Macness: 4+
Recommended

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