FileZilla - 3.1.6

FileZilla has the advantage of reliability, which for an FT client is gold. The UI is pretty standard, but what I love most about it is when other FTP clients choke or fail, FileZilla comes through. The only one I've found that is as fast is EmFTP by Emurasoft.

This is a great ftp program. I managed to upload stock images so much faster with this program than anything else. The only ggripe i have is that sometimes it doesn't always use the maximum number of available upload slots to upload the files

I've tried FileZilla more than a year ago. My friend recommended it as a very small, very powerful, free OpenSource FTP client. I tried it and liked it but at the time it didn't have enough features. Since then I used MANY different FTP clients. I'm a Computer Science student, on my 4th year and I use FTP a lot, also have my own server. So I tried the top of the line: WS_FTP Pro, Cute FTP Pro, Flash FXP and others, but the only client that I would prefer over FileZilla at the moment would be CuteFTP Pro - (that's $59.99 US). Now if you consider that FileZilla is FREE - that's an amazing piece of software with incredible amout of features: multiple uploads, resume support, site manager, SSL/SFTP, download/upload queue, custom commands and more... Of course it has a lot of settings - that's a must for the FTP client of such power, and I'm glad it has so many. The UI might not be as flashy and good-looking as one of corporate clients, but that's not what I need it for - it does the job sooooo well. Yes, it still has some small bugs, but unlike most of the corporate products they will be fixed very fast because it's an OpenSource.

Transmit does everything you said and more. What you need to understand about Mac programs is that the GUIs are always simplified to hide the complexity of what they represent. Transmit is far more powerful, fast and flexible than you give it credit for it also properly connects to secure ftp using SSH because if you haven't noticed it uses the ncftp engine. Anyone familiar with it knows that both ncFTP and Transmit are solid programs and that Transmit is well worth its fee. If you want that "extra information" there is a disclosure triangle at the bottom of transmits window that will show it to you. LIke I said before, the UI is simple because UIs always should be extrememly simple all the complexities are there only if you want them.