One particular vendor wants to charge you $25.00 for a slowpoke ‘lite’ ftp client that offers ‘drag and drop transfers’ and an address book, and they want to charge you $60.00 for the zippier version that supports encrypted security. There are much better open source programs available free…
FileZilla is free open-source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License free of charge, which means anyone can download and use it, even for commercial use.
Amongst many other features, FileZilla boasts:
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- IPv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Bookmarks
- Drag & drop
- Configurable transfer speed limits
- Filename filters
- Directory comparison
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
- Logging to file
- Synchronized directory browsing
- Remote file search
Not only is FileZilla free, it’s fast.
You can download FileZilla here.
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Yes it’s a great FTP client and I like the built-in update feature and language support as well!