FileZilla has become one of the most popular FTP clients on the net and with good reason - it's fast, reliable and packed with lots of cool features.

Now things just got better with the introduction of a portable version that you can take anywhere - superb for web administrators of all abilities and backgrounds. Like it's bigger brother, the program supports the resuming of downloads and uploads, detects when a connection has timed out and features support for firewalls, SFTP, SSL and more. Best of all, it's retained the drag and drop functionality of the original too so it's easy enough for use for anyone not familiar with FTP clients. The interface and preferences are a bit limited but you can see at a glance all of your transfers. It also includes a handy "Quickconnect" function which basically allows you to reconnect to your most frequent FTP sites instantly. You'll also be impressed by the general speed of the application although it does tend to drop connections as a security timeout feature which can be annoying. You can also set limits on how much of your bandwidth it uses if you're worried about it hogging it.

The classic FTP client that you can now take anywhere - what more could you ask for.

You could pretty much consider FileZilla an open source success story. It's popular, works well and fast, and regularly updated.

If you're looking for a solid FTP client what more could you ask more? In fact, FileZilla is not just limited to FTP, but also handles FTPS and SFTP for secure transfers of multiple files on multiple servers. The interface gives you a quick outlook of all your transfers, sites and disks and makes it easy to drag and transfer. I also quite like the QuickConnect feature to access your favorite server in seconds.

FileZilla is known to be fairly fast, and can also resume downloads and handle very big transfers, I'm talking here higher than 4 GB. You can set both local and remote filters for things like images, explorer files or CVS and SVN directories or even create your own. FileZilla also includes a tool to compare directories in terms of file size or modification time.

The application can guide you when setting up your network and lets you set speed limits in case you don't want to overload your bandwidth.

One thing really missing from FileZilla though is a scheduler to automatically set transfer times.

Despite lacking a scheduler, FileZilla is an excellent open source FTP client. It's stable, fast and very efficient. Highly recommended.

WebDrive is more than an FTP Client. By connecting to WebDAV, FTP, or SFTP servers through a virtual drive, files are transferred by simply saving them to a drive letter. There's no need to run a separate FTP client interface. Unlike typical FTP clients, WebDrive lets you open and edit server based files without the additional download step.

WebDrive has built-in support for the industry standard SSL protocol. When used in conjunction with secure WebDAV, FTP or SFTP servers, WebDrive will open an encrypted tunnel between the client computer and the remote server; giving you secure transmission of critical data over the Internet. WebDrive can even be used as an alternative to a corporate VPN. Install the WebDrive client, and an SSL enabled server, and WebDrive can act as the VPN for your company, an efficient alternative to an expensive VPN or non-secure FTP client connections.

Features:

• SFTP support
• WebDAV support
• Firewall/Proxy server support
• SSL Support for secure file transfer
• FTP resume interrupted download
• File caching to enhance FTP Client performance
• S/KEY Password Encryption - MD4 & MD5 for supported FTP servers

If you're looking for a highly professional, no nonsense FTP server then you can't do much better than FTP Serv-U.

In this latest release, the developers have completely re-engineered Serv-U FTP Server from the ground up to be faster, more secure, and more flexible. Particularly for those seeking a highly secure FTP server, this is a rock solid product that will give you peace of mind. Serv-U supports high-grade 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encrypted communications using FTPS and HTTPS. When using FTPS or HTTPS, file transfers and remote administration sessions are secured meaning that no one can see, interrupt or access in anyway the transfers you may be making. However, this is a pretty standard feature for FTP clients but what's great about FTP Serv-U is that you can completely restrict access to the entire File Server, specific domains, or even individual user accounts with powerful IP access rules. You can even specify a domain name that allows dynamic DNS to grant access for mobile users - great for if you need to administer your files on the move from your mobile device.

Highly secure and rich with features, this is one FTP server that no professional administrator should ignore.

FTP Now is a fast, multi-threaded Windows FTP client software with the look-and-feel of Windows Explorer. It makes moving files between the Internet and your computer as simple as local file manipulation. Whether uploading a Web page, an image, or downloading music and software or transferring various files between your computer and any FTP server, FTP Now will get the job done easily and fast, it is suitable for beginner and expert.

This free FTP client for Windows houses all the features expected of a complete FTP client. SmartFTP reveals a very intuitive and user-friendly configuration, thanks among other things to a friendly interface. Along with the classic features included in most FTP clients, such as passive mode transfers, uploading and downloading of files, a large choice of FTP connections, creation of favorites, SmartFTP carries its unique batch of attributes. For instance, you can connect to multiple FTP connections without time delays or errors. By dragging and dropping, you can transfer files from folder to folder. A few other notable features are passive mode and site to site transfers.

However, its most entertaining novelty is probably the transfers menu. This handy tool allows you to create queues of transfers, either global or in a specific session. You can easily monitor the speed of your transfers and set specific tasks to the queue, like hibernating or shutting down, once all files have been transferred. Last and not least, SmartFTP’s menus can be customized in a breeze, letting you choose what information you want to see.

Smart FTP is free for personal use, and although beginners might need a bit of time adjusting to it, they will be bound to love the flexibility of SmartFTP as much as more seasoned users.

FTP Voyager is the most powerful FTP client program for Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the market. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, FTP Voyager lets you update a Web site with a single click, transfer files directly between FTP servers, and resume interrupted downloads. A perfect tool for Web developers or anyone that moves files on the Internet.

Titan FTP Server is one of those rare FTP servers that aims to cater for both home users and huge commercial enterprises. Because of this, it's a bit daunting for beginners although if you get the hang of it, you'll find yourself with one of the most powerful FTP servers out there.

The good news is the user interface is very simple and straightforward to use meaning the server is fairly simple to setup and maintain. For home users, the functionality does not extend much more than this although it does offer configurable upload/download ratios and disk quotas and you can control the way that files are shared on your system.

For large businesses, Titan FTP Server offers unlimited user accounts (in the professional edition) and the power to appropriately manage them. It also offers bandwidth throttling and configurable maximum transfer speeds that allow you to customize the bandwidth given to any user or server.

The security features are particularly impressive as they should be when serving big businesses. Titan FTP Server features SSL for secure file transfers, S/Key MD4 and MD5 password encryption, enabling or disabling of anonymous access, and the ability to permit or deny access based on IP address. This is an excellent FTP server although business users will get much more out of it than home users.

Auto FTP Manager is a powerful FTP client that enables you to establish a connection to any FTP server and automate file transfer procedures. You can schedule transfers and take advantage of a wide range of functions that allow you to manage files on the FTP server. Auto FTP Manager offers a powerful directory synchronization feature to help you synchronize files across multiple FTP servers.

An intuitive user interface allows you to drag and drop files and directories between your local system and the FTP server. Auto FTP Manager supports the simultaneous transmission of several files to one or more FTP servers running in the background. You can even schedule tasks in the background and synchronize directories between your local PC and FTP server, without having to individually select and copy files.

With Auto FTP Manager you can:

• Schedule and automate file transfers
• Synchronize directories
• Complete proxy support
• Resume uploads or downloads in case of data transfer errors
• Make backups of remote folders and restore them whenever necessary
• Compare local and remote folders to find differences
• Perform scheduled tasks in the background

If you're in charge of a company or running a professional administration service, you'll need some a solid FTP server.

G6 FTP Server is about as advanced as FTP servers get - highly advanced and packed with features. It works via any Windows defined account and features advanced encryption at every stage. You can choose who can and cannot connect to your sever plus define a maximum and minimum level of connections. You can create unlimited accounts but the good thing is that you can set a date for expiration so they won't last forever. It's also very flexible in that any changes you make do not require you to restart the whole server - they take place in realtime. In addition to all this, there's also an events logger - useful for logging unauthorized logins or attacks - plus you can schedule and limit bandwidth usage according to what you are doing on the server at any one time. There are also options to resume and pause downloads as well as check the validity and integrity of connections currently established.

An extremely powerful FTP server that's not for the faint-hearted but will provide for just about any company's needs.

FTP clients can range from the utterly incomprehensible to the ridiculously easy and this one definitely falls into the latter category.

This means that it doesn't necessarily feature everything that you'd expect from an FTP client but it's certainly an excellent start for beginners and you can be sure your files will get transferred when you want them to. That's not to say m2ftp is short on features. Indeed, it includes everything you'd expect from such a client including a very easy to use and well presented GUI for administration of data files and simple but straightforward buttons for delete, renaming copy etc.

Connections are established with minimum fuss and you can display just about any type of data located on the server. Sometimes the browsing through server files can lag a little but it's nothing serious and can depend on your server response time anyway. There's an easy to use drag and drop interface so it's easy as using Windows Explorer to move and manage files plus you can move huge batches of files at the same time. What's also nice is that there's a clear status bar telling you exactly the status of your transfer, how fast it's going and when it should be complete.

It may only be limited to uploading and downloading but m2ftp is a refreshingly efficient, easy to use and very well presented client that's an ideal start for beginners to FTP.

AbleFtp has been designed to allow you to set up scheduled tasks that will then run automatically, saving you the hassle of repeating steps over and over. Automation ranges from transfers between FTP, intranet and internet, renaming files based on time or date, multiple file transfers and subdirectory transfers.

If there are any problems encountered, the exit code will reflect it and you will automatically be sent an email with details of the failure. Deleting files can also be automated based on wildcards.

SecureFX is a high-security file transfer client with great flexibility in configuration and transfer protocols. SecureFX includes a command-line utility for scripting batch jobs to perform secure unattended file transfers using the Secure Shell protocol (SSH). SecureFX also supports "relentless" file transfers that automatically reconnect and resume when transfer connections are broken.

JaSFtp is a secure FTP (SFTP) interface designed with automation in mind, so you don't have to spend time interactively transferring files.

Its aim is to Improve your productivity and save time. Key features include:

Easy to use: no programming or scripting required, graphical interface
Powerful, versatile, reliable and affordable
Run more than 1000+ tasks a day
Timely and Free technical support before and after you purchase

CrushFTP is a fast FTP server with users/groups, ratios, quotas, bandwidth limiters, remote admin, virtual serving, SSL, redundancy, zipping of files/folders on the fly, FTP directing, .sfv file processing, load balancing, virtual directories, and can even discover your WAN IP if your behind a NAT firewall. Its simple to setup, but still has advanced features. Combine three servers into one with virtual serving!

With 32bit FTP you will be sending files to and receiving files from thousands of FTP sites around the world in a few minutes from now with this full featured FTP program. Use 32bit FTP client to connect to any FTP server whether it is a commercial FTP server or one of the many free FTP servers around the world. Many companies have a free FTP server that you can login to and download free software programs. Just logon to the FTP host using FTP or anonymous as your username. No password is needed. Now that your FTP client is connected to their FTP port, you can do FTP downloads, and in many cases you can do an FTP upload to certain directories.

FTPGetter is an automated ftp program which is intended to upload or download files between ftp servers and your local or network workstation drives using file masks, i.e. when neither exact file names, nor their numbers are known.

File batch processing using masks will allow you to flexibly adjust list of files that are to be uploaded to the ftp server or downloaded from it. Built-in task scheduler will duly start the tasks that you created.

FTPGetter can work simultaneously with any number of ftp servers using multithreaded processing technology. FTPGetter supports a direct connection to ftp servers, as well as connection through a FTP, SOCKS or HTTP proxy server.

As far as FTP clients go, Core FTP Lite is one of the most comprehensive out there. It allows you to do pretty much anything that you can do with FTP transfers. It features everything from SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser integration, site to site transfers to FTP transfer resume, drag and drop support and command line transfers.

Where Cute FTP really distinguishes itself is through it's security features. Not many FTP clients support so many different security protocols meaning you can upload and download to FTP servers with peace of mind. This is essential if you're administering a website that holds. The list of features doesn't stop there though and is truly mind boggling. It also supports Auto retry of failed transfers, bandwidth control throttle, remote file searching and .htaccess/.htpasswd editing amongst many many more.

If you're looking for a fully comprehensive free solution to FTP transfers, then you can't do much better than Core FTP Lite. If you're new to FTP transfers however, you'd probably be better off with something a bit simpler.

FTPRush is a fast, reliable, powerful and easy-to-use FTP/FXP/SFTP/TFTP client for Microsoft Windows. It allows you to transfer files from local to server, server to local or server to server. It allows you to fully customize the user interface on-the-fly. It allows you to create your own scripts to do automatic jobs... It allows you to do a lot of things.

Features:

• Tabbed Interface for smooth control over multiple active connections.
• GUI Runtime Customization and Integrated Docking; spice up the look of it all with your own style or favorites such as Office 2000/XP/2003.
• Drag-And-Drop files via Explorer-like interface.
• Built-in Task Manager for you to easily schedule all kinds of jobs.
• Allows to setting listing/downloading/uploading account individually into One site and switch them automatically
• On-The-Fly Compression saves your bandwidth.
• Multi-Language support makes FTPRush easily translatable to your native language if it's not already done.
• HTTP Proxy, FTP Proxy, Socks 4 & 5 support; create different proxies and switch between them with a simple mouse click.
• High performance Disk Buffer to decrease disk fragmentation.
• Secure FTP (FTPS) support; protect your data and information through SSL/TLS encryption.
• SSH FTP (SFTP) support.
• TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) support.
• Synchronize data.
• Built-in Script Engine for you to reap maximum benefits from each one of your transfers; either write your own scripts or choose from an always growing collection.
• Automatic SFV Checking and Reporting functionalities.
• Multiple-Files Renaming tool saves you time.
• Built-in Command Designer for Serv-U/RaidenFTPD/ioFTPD/glftpd; your always one click away from all the basic ftp commands but you can also personnalize them to make everything quicker for you.
• FTP Folders Caching speeds your browsing.
• Wildcards, Regular Expressions and Skip & Allow Lists tools make sure that you transfer wanted data only.
• Search for a file on a server as easily as you would on your own machine with our Advanced File Finder tool.
• IdentD Server support.
• Unicode/UTF-8 Charset support.

CuteFTP Professional provides simple yet powerful tools for tackling the complex challenges of data management and helps achieve HIPAA, GLBA and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The pro version boasts increased functionality and usability.

Features:

• Secure Shell, Secure Socket and Transport Security Layer
• Schedule fast, fully-automated transfers
• Connect to new sites in a snap with step-by-step wizards
• Drag and drop files for protected transfers
• Securely work with multiple remote sites at one time
• Dramatically accelerate file transfers