Best FTP Clients with a Free Trial
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FTP clients provide users with a desktop application that enables them to copy, edit and upload files to a website through a hosting connection. Compare and read user reviews of the best FTP Clients with a Free Trial currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Files.com
Files.com
6,000+ companies trust Files.com to automate and secure business critical transfers. We obsess about security, compliance, reliability, and performance so your critical business processes just work every time. Easily manage any transfer flow without writing scripts or code, and onboard workloads and partners effortlessly. We support standard file transfer protocols (FTP, SFTP, AS2) for working with external partners and also provide native apps for high performance internal transfers. As a fully Cloud-Native SaaS, there are no servers for you to buy or maintain, there is no installation required, and high availability and redundancy are built in and free. Out-of-the-box integrations include Microsoft (Azure, SharePoint, OneDrive, Active Directory & Office), AWS (S3 & SNS), Google (Cloud & Drive), Box, Dropbox, Zapier, and dozens of others. Developers can leverage our SDKs, API, and CLI to build custom integrations too. -
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JSCAPE MFT Server
Redwood Software
Platform Independent Managed File Transfer Server. JSCAPE is the perfect solution for businesses and government agencies looking to centralize your processes and provide secure, seamless and reliable file transfers. Meet all compliance regulations including PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and GLBA. Centralize and gain control of file transfers to meet challenging business requirements. Deploy in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid cloud environment. Triggers are used to automate various business processes without the need to write custom scripts. Exchange files with JSCAPE's free Android and iOS file transfer clients. Integrate with Amazon, Google and Microsoft regulatory compliance. Get powerful and flexible user authentication mobile support for iOS and Android devices. -
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Cerberus FTP Server
Redwood Software
Cerberus FTP Server provides a secure and reliable file transfer solution for the demanding IT professional in any industry. Supporting SFTP and SCP, FTP/S, and HTTP/S, Cerberus is able to authenticate against Active Directory and LDAP, run as a Windows service, has native x64 support, includes a robust set of integrity and security features and offers an easy-to-use manager for controlling user access to files and file operations. - FTP/S, SCP, SFTP, HTTPS - SAML SSO - Active Directory & LDAP - Secure SSL Encryption - Two-Factor Authentication - IP Auto-Banning and Geoblocking - HIPAA Compliant - FIPS 140-2 Validated - Advanced Reporting - Comprehensive Auditing - Web File Transfer Client - Email Notifications - Event Support & Automation - File Retention Policies -Unlimited Connections -Virtual Directories -Users & Groups -Detailed Logs -Full IPv6 Support -FTP with TLS/SSL -SOAP control API -Web Administration -SSH2 SFTP and SCP -Public Key AuthenticationStarting Price: $1,599/year -
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WebDrive
South River Technologies
Simple for the Novice, Powerful for the Pro. Access SharePoint and OneDrive within the applications you already use. Easily edit Adobe, text, and all versions of Office. Box, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more can be accessed right from your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. WebDrive is the FTP client you already know how to use. Map FTP and SFTP servers as a drive letter for productivity and convenience. WebDrive is the WebDAV client with options to mount at startup and lock server files. It works the way the native Windows WebDAV redirector should work. Reduce installation and setup time for large implementations. Customize and push the settings out to all your users with no need to configure each PC. Improve security by accessing your remote files without syncing and filling your device with copies of your files—a major security risk if your device is lost or stolen.Starting Price: $39.95/one-time/user -
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ExaVault Cloud FTP
ExaVault
Secure Cloud FTP platform -- trusted by over 5,000 companies from Adobe to Zillow. Instant setup for manual and automated file transfers with a full web interface and direct FTP, FTPS and SFTP support. A robust API for integrations, audit logs for compliance, unlimited user logins and straightforward pricing. If you need client facing file transfer, branding and website integration capabilities let you build our product right into your site -- using your logo, not ExaVault's. Reliable hosted FTP backed by enterprise grade security, managed by dedicated engineering and support -- let us know how we can help. -
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Commander One
Electronic Team, Inc.
Commander One is the all-in-one file dual-panel file management application for Mac. It fully supports Mac M1 and M2 silicon and comes with a great interface that’s easy to maneuver and productivity-driven. The app is packed with features designed to increase the speed and ease of working with files. The ability to customize hotkeys, select specific files, show hidden files and view the entire work history and favorite files makes it amazing for those working with a lot of content. Moreover, Commander One also comes with an operation queue section, where users can see all of their files being processed, full support for archives, and a built-in viewer for text files of all kinds. Users can also choose to encrypt their files, with the super secure encryption feature that is built in and easy to set up. Power users can use the terminal emulator which also comes with the application to set up specific tasks and have full control over their workflow.Starting Price: $29.99 -
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EditPlus
Sangil Kim (ES-Computing)
EditPlus is a text editor for Windows with built-in FTP, FTPS and sftp capabilities. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.Starting Price: $35 -
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Cyberduck
Iterate
Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox. Connecting to every server. With an easy to use interface, connect to servers, enterprise file sharing and cloud storage. You can find connection profiles for popular hosting service providers.Starting Price: $10 one-time fee -
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Titan FTP Server
South River Technologies
Titan FTP Server provides the most secure transfers in the industry, events to thwart hackers, host key support, and intelligent passwords. With over 20,000 servers installed worldwide, Titan is the SFTP Server you can trust. It’s easy to install, easy to use, and it just works. Every time. Titan is so reliable that it's recommended by Cisco to back up the entire Unified Communications Suite. Titan FTP Server’s Web User Interface allows for easy upload and download, without the inconvenience or expense of installing client software. No plug-ins are required. Granular configuration settings give system administrators an unmatched level of precision. Server configurations can be inherited or customized at the server, group, and user levels, making it simple to configure settings for users with similar requirements.Starting Price: 1,249.95 -
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Sharetru
Sharetru
Trust your data is secure as you store, transfer, and share files with complete confidence. Keep your information private in our fully redundant cloud-based platform that exceeds the compliance requirements of major industry frameworks. We equip companies with an agile cloud-based platform designed to store and transfer files securely and in compliance with all applicable regulations. Doing all of our development in-house and in the U.S., we serve as a digital safety deposit box and secure courier for our clients. We put people’s minds at ease by making it simple for them to keep their data safe and stay compliant, so they can expand their business. Built and hosted entirely within the United States, our private cloud-based platform is trusted by hundreds of organizations in: Aerospace, Defense & Government Healthcare Financial Services Information Technology Manufacturing & Engineering And many other industriesStarting Price: $120 -
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Viper FTP
Viper FTP
Simple, user-friendly yet powerful FTP client for Mac. Viper FTP is a handy and powerful file manager for macOS, with a tremendous user interface that makes it effortless to use. Viper FTP allows you to transfer files by FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, WebDav and YouTube. If you maintain a website, upload documents or photos, or if you upload your movies to your YouTube account and you want it done quickly and easily - try Viper FTP. The batch upload feature allows easily upload files and folders to many servers with one click. Define a list of servers, name it, then use as a single server - uploads will go to all defined servers simultaneously. Bookmark your personal, work and social upload servers via FTP. Viper FTP features groups, recent connections and favorites management to make your life more organized. Find everything fast. Just type the name to locate the files, or use a filter to display specific types of files.Starting Price: $18.95 one-time payment -
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UltraFTP
UltraEdit
UltraFTP is a personal, stand-alone FTP client built upon the framework of other IDM applications like UltraEdit and UltraCompare. Designed with maximum usability and performance in mind, UltraFTP offers full theme support, session support, an explorer interface, drag-and-drop transfers, and more. Even better, UltraFTP integrates with UltraEdit/UEStudio, UltraCompare, and UltraFinder to provide a seamless editing and publishing experience both on local and remote systems. UltraFTP supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS protocols. Folder sync is a simple and fast way to sync a local folder to an FTP folder. Set your sync rules, review sync actions, change sync actions on a per-file basis then launch and let UltraFTP do the rest. UltraFTP's blazing-fast transfer engine will begin uploading and downloading according to your sync rules.Starting Price: $79.95 per year -
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Fling
NCH
Fling FTP Sync Software is typically used to maintain a website on a remote-hosted server or to automate backup of folders. The software supports both Internet file transfer protocol (FTP) and network file transfer. Upload files automatically when changes are detected or at preset intervals. Manually upload files by selecting Fling and then Upload from the right-click menu within Windows Explorer. Set up multiple folders to upload to their own destinations. Software as a service (SaaS), Fling continues to automate file transfers when logged off. Can be integrated or linked to other programs using command line arguments to create automation upload systems.Starting Price: $34.99 one-time payment -
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FTPie
Bitquil
Seamlessly connect your cloud storages to FTPie and take control of your files. Download, upload, search, share, copy, move, and more with our user-friendly and intuitive platform. CREATE DOCUMENTS Create and view documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, images, and PDFs right inside the app, no need to switch applications. STREAM AUDIO AND VIDEO Enjoy your videos and music hassle-free, without the need to download them locally. FTPie effortlessly streams video and audio stored on any cloud storage to your preferred media player, ensuring zero loss in quality.Starting Price: $44.99 one time payment -
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Synqion
SNAP Innovation
Highly secure cloud service for data storage and data exchange, end-to-end encrypted and GDPR certified. Thanks to Security & Privacy by Design, Synqion meets the highest requirements for data protection and data security. Full end-to-end encryption guarantees perfect protection against data misuse and ransomware. Synqion is easy to use, making it the ideal platform for everyone for exchanging data within the team and between companies, both in the Cloud and on your own servers (onPremise). Synqion is GDPR certified with the EuroPriSe seal of approval.Starting Price: 59.50€/User/Year -
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Serv-U FTP
SolarWinds
The Serv-U FTP software from SolarWinds is built to deliver quick, easy, and reliable file transfer for your organization. You can exchange sensitive files with your trading partners using secure FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) over IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Users can view, upload, and download files from intuitive web and mobile interfaces. Designed for small businesses, Serv-U FTP Server is a safe file transfer software designed to help accomplish all your internal and external file transfer needs.Starting Price: $528 one-time payment -
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SecureFX
VanDyke Software
Our flexible secure file transfer client gives you the tools you need to increase the security and efficiency of file transfer operations and site synchronization. Our flexible file transfer client for Windows, Mac, and Linux gives you the tools you need to increase the security and efficiency of file transfer operations and site synchronization. SecureFX's user-friendly interface makes it easy to learn, and support for multiple platforms allows you to apply the strong encryption and authentication mechanism of Secure Shell protocol to your data-in-transit. SecureFX assures recovery when transfers are interrupted, automatically resuming multi-file transfers. Relentless file transfer automatically reconnects and resumes transfer after a broken connection. Transfer files across networks and the internet with a choice of SSH2 SFTP, FTPS (FTP/TLS), HTTPS (WebDAV and Amazon S3), SCP, or FTP and HTTP for access to legacy systems for access to legacy systems. -
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Transmit
Panic
So, you have files you need to manage on servers. Maybe you’re a developer. Maybe you’re a system administrator. Maybe you’re a contractor or freelancer. But you need to connect to a thing, and upload, download, or tweak the files on that thing. Transmit’s big strength is its clean interface — our famous “dual-pane” view is way faster than the Finder. But Transmit also has tons of very nice features like File Sync, which can mirror remote and local (or, now, local and local!) files in one click. Transmit also takes great care to let you organize your Servers for fast access. And with Panic Sync, you can sync them to all of your computers. Never type a server address again.Starting Price: $45 one-time payment -
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ShellBean
ShellBean
ShellBean is a lightweight yet comprehensive SSH SFTP client that combines monitoring and automation tools for easy management of Linux servers without third-party apps. Features: Multi-level jump server support Built-in text editor for easy file editing Multiple color schemes and font settings for SSH terminal iPad split-screen support iOS 17 Widget for monitoring servers on the Home Screen SSH terminal and Zmodem file transfer port forwarding (local, remote, dynamic) Secure iCloud synchronization View process list sorted by PID, CPU, and MEM Monitor CPU core usage, temperature, memory usage, and network traffic Disk partition occupancy and read/write rates NVIDIA graphics card status monitoring Batch snippet execution on selected serversStarting Price: $24.99 -
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MOVEit
Progress Software
MOVEit Managed File Transfer (MFT) software is used by thousands of organizations around the world to provide complete visibility and control over file transfer activities. Assure the reliability of core business processes and the secure and compliant transfer of sensitive data between partners, customers, users and systems with MOVEit. MOVEit's flexible architecture allows you to choose the exact capabilities to match your organizations specific needs. MOVEit Transfer enables the consolidation of all file transfer activities to one system to ensure better management control over core business processes. It provides the security, centralized access controls, file encryption and activity tracking needed to ensure operational reliability and compliance with SLA, internal governance and regulatory requirements. MOVEit Automation works with MOVEit Transfer or FTP systems to provide advanced workflow automation capabilities without the need for scripting. -
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Sysax FTP Automation
Codeorigin
Sysax FTP Automation is file transfer client software capable of automating complex file transfer sequences and associated file processing. It enables files to be sent or obtained privately on the internet by connecting to other file transfer servers. Command line execution: Task scripts can be executed from the command line or from within batch files without the need to schedule them. Public key authentication, protected passwords, and client side SSL certificate. Tasks can be set to repeat at specific time intervals. Tasks can be run based on the status of a monitored folder.
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