WinSCP Alternatives

WinSCP is described as 'A versatile client for SFTP, FTP, and other protocols for file transfer. It offers GUI choice, and supports automation and key authentication' and is a leading File Manager in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WinSCP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best WinSCP alternative is FileZilla, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinSCP are Cyberduck, ForkLift, muCommander and Transmit.

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WinSCP 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, Android, iPad, Mac + File Management, Mac + FTP Client and Mac + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to WinSCP .
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  1. dRemote icon
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    dRemote is an easy and free tool to handle mutiple remote connections of different types. This tool comes in handy when you have to connect to differnt remote connections all the want to have to change all the settings manually.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. PTFTP icon
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    Simplistic and intuitive explorer-like ftp client. Open source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Automates file transfers using rules and filters for moving, copying, deleting, or renaming; supports numerous cloud storage and protocols; handles multiple file transfer jobs with scheduling, admin monitoring tools, email notifications, and advanced error handling.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. WS_FTP 95 icon
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    WS_FTP95 is a standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client application for Windows Sockets. The user interface for this FTP client is designed with the novice FTP user in mind. Usage should be fairly obvious.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    FTP Commander - Free ftp client: Try out FTP Commander now - and speed up your FTPing today!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    A web based FTP client. Like really simple, kind of, filezilla, but for your browser. The main goal of this tool is: Install on a server/NAS/synology/raspberry/desktop and use it like a desktop tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Web FTP Client is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to WinSCP .

    • Web FTP Client is Free and Open SourceWinSCP is also Free and Open Source
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    Total Manager is Total Commander for Mac version - an all-in-one app to manage loads of files in an efficient way. Total Manager = Archiver / Unarchiver with Password encryption + Photo Viewer + Videos,Audios Player + FTP, SFTP Client + ...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Share iOS, macOS files & folders with any device and OS on the same network.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. Starfire icon
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    SFTP and Amazon S3 client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. CurlFtpFS icon
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    CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl. It is the simplest and very convenient way to work with remote FTP sites. No special FTP GUI apps is necessary and credentials can be stored in Netrc file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. UpFTP icon
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    Inspired by the Upload Manager of Linux Mint, UpFTP 2 is a Windows program that allows you to share files using an FTP server in a couple of clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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