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macSCP is here: file transfer that feels at home on a Mac

File transfer for the Mac: your Mac on the left, your server on the right. With SFTP, S3, WebDAV and now FTP/FTPS too, saved connections, and passwords kept only in the Keychain.

by NoiXdev

You want to drop a file on a server. Or pull down a log, tweak a config, tidy up a bucket. You don’t need a heavy tool for that. You need a window that behaves like the rest of your Mac.

macSCP shows your Mac on the left and the server on the right. Drag files across, out of the Finder or straight into it. Set up a connection once, and from then on it opens with a click. There’s no account, no cloud and no telemetry. Passwords live in the macOS Keychain and nowhere else.

What it does

  • SFTP, S3 and WebDAV in one app, with ready-made presets for Hetzner and Nextcloud. macSCP has since learned FTP and FTPS too.
  • Sign in with SSH keys, from a file or your SSH agent. Entries from ~/.ssh/config show up on their own.
  • A transfer queue with parallel transfers, resume after a dropped connection and a bandwidth limit.
  • Open remote files in your own editor. Save, and macSCP uploads them again.
  • A built-in terminal for SFTP connections, plus port forwarding and connection diagnostics.

Get started

The app is signed and notarized. Download and system requirements are on the project page, and everything else is in the documentation.

Go to the projectmacSCPMove files to your server the way a Mac app should.

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