I've been using Cyberduck for years as my primary FTP/SFTP client. It's very well-designed, quite intuitive to use and versatile. I find Fetch (the other FTP/SFTP client I've used enough to compare) to be a little less intuitive and a less attractive (though that may be because I'm more used to Cyberduck). Both programs cover the basics very well and both offer a mostly-overlapping set of advanced tools; each has a handful of features the other doesn't but none of the differences is very significant. Both have been stable -- I have seen a couple of crashes with Cyberduck over several months, but they're rare.
The one advantage Fetch does have is that (for some reason I don't understand) Fetch consistently transfers (or at least uploads) a little faster than Cyberduck. The difference is small (e.g. the last comparison I tried had Fetch finish uploading in 5 minutes to Cyberduck's 7) but has been reproducible for several sites and over a period of a couple months. I'm not sure why there would be a difference, but there it is.
If you have lots of large (>50 MB) transfers you might save time with Fetch, but Cyberduck might make it back by being a little easier and more pleasant to use.
Cyberduck
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 client browser.
Version: 3.3
Solid, well-designed, intuitive; slower transfers?
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: iayork Saturday, January 12 2008 @ 07:00 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
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I disagree - mmmgood
I find that approach is less intuitive. After all, the Finder is for navigating your computer's files and you're used to it. I think two-paned FTP clients like Transmit just waste precious screen space.Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 09:40 AM PST
Solid, well-designed, intuitive? - ianrid
I wouldn't describe it as well-designed or intuitive, at least not by comparison with Vicomsoft FTP Client. I like the way Vicomsoft shows the contents of my local disk and the server side by side so I can simply drag from one to the other.IanR
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Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 05:25 AM PST