Free FileZilla Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to FileZilla for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Cyberduck, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to FileZilla and 16 are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to FileZilla are Midnight Commander, odrive, FileZilla Secure and ExpanDrive.

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FileZilla alternatives are mainly FTP Clients, but if you're looking for File Managers or File Sync Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac, Windows, Open Source, Android + FTP Client and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to FileZilla.
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  1. Cyberduck icon
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    A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.

    94 Cyberduck alternatives

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  2. Text-mode file manager for terminals with dual-pane interface enables copying, moving, deleting, and searching files locally or via remote shells. Includes internal viewer, text editor, subshell integration, broad terminal compatibility, and works over SSH.

    112 Midnight Commander alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • MacPorts
     
  3. odrive icon
     86 likes

    Unify all your storage. odrive makes it easy to access, sync, and share all your files from one place. Integrations to 20+ services, desktop sync, CLI (inc. Linux), placeholders, zero-knowledge-encryption, web client, advanced sharing, and more.

    65 odrive alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  4. FileZilla Secure is a free FTP client that has all the features of the original FileZilla plus it encrypts your FTP passwords to help protect from hackers stealing them.

    21 FileZilla Secure alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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  5. ExpanDrive icon
     47 likes

    Map or Mount Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and more as a Network Drive. Seamless access to files without sync.

    53 ExpanDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. AeroFTP icon
     4 likes

    A modern, open-source file manager and client for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3, featuring an AI assistant, cloud sync, and military-grade encryption.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
  7. Rclone UI icon
     3 likes

    Rclone UI is a light, transparent layer on top of rclone to manage your cloud storage, backups, and syncing operations more easily!

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. SSH Pilot icon
     2 likes

    Desktop SSH manager featuring a user-friendly graphical interface, integrated terminal, tabbed sessions, port forwarding, secure credential storage, SCP upload, keypair generation, privacy controls, customizable appearance options, and .ssh/config import support.

    57 SSH Pilot alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. lftp icon
     16 likes

    lftp is a command-line file transfer program which besides FTP, also supports FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, HFTP, FISH, and SFTP. A BitTorrent client is also built-in as torrent command.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  10. AnyClient icon
     10 likes

    Free and portable FTP- and WebDAV-client software with support for FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV/S protocols

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  11. termscp icon
     1 like

    A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/Kube/S3/WebDAV.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • BSD
     
  12. Rsync is a very efficient open-source protocol for transferring large volumes of files and is much faster than FTP/SFTP.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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