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posted on 10/20/06
Transmit vs. Cyberduck
Amongst the many comments I got from users after my post was dugg, the most common was the question, why am I not using Cyberduck instead of Transmit?
Because I had never used Cyberduck before I started using Transmit, I decided to give Cyberduck a shot.
Since Cyberduck is free, that gave it a quick edge. After looking over the features that seperated the two though, there wasn’t a whole lot different.
One thing that both programs have is the Dashboard widget. Both allow you to use a widget that lets you drop files into to upload straight to a specified folder on an FTP server.
They both have a favorites or bookmark features that I find to be the most useful. I can never remember all of my client’s password, especially since more of them are randomly generated numbers and letters.
The only major differentiation between the two are the layouts. The advantage I see in Transmit is the two column layout that lets you see “Your stuff” and “Their stuff”, while Cyberduck has a single column of the files on the site you’re logged into. The ease of being able to bookmark not only the site’s folder, but your local folders tips the scale for me. I know I could just open up a finder window, but when I’m working between uploading files and coding, it’s much easier to just have a static window of my local files that I can drag onto my site.
So if I didn’t have any money to spend on Transmit, there is nothing wrong with Cyberduck, it stacks up almost equally, but it’s just those small details that will have me sticking with Transmit.
Matt
posted on Oct 21, 06:29 PM
that’s true, I haven’t used a lot of droplets, because I tend to just drop files in the dashboard widget, but that is a cool little feature.
dustin
posted on Oct 22, 10:35 PM
I used to do that, but then I updated to the latest version (which included droplets) which kind of made the dashboard widget useless. With droplets you don’t need to ramp up the CPU when you open dashboard and drag the file into the widget (or at least that happens with me since I have a lot of widgets.
BTW great blog, I subscribed to it after this article and I notice its been dugg again. Good going, keep it up. :)
Matt
posted on Oct 22, 11:20 PM
thanks man. i’ve been trying to write some useful stuff. i tend to get a lot more crap than thanks(somethin about diggers, haha), so i appreciate any kind words :)
Scott
posted on Oct 23, 02:40 AM
One thing you’ll quickly realize when comparing the two is that Cyberduck is SLOW compared to Transmit. It’s hard to test directly as servers play a part, but it’s definitely noticeable.
Also the transmit UI and features blow Cyberduck away. I finally had to spring for transmit after using the duck for a long time.
Henrik
posted on Oct 23, 05:14 AM
Over time I’ve come to hate Cyberduck due to it’s slowness, because it’s written in Java. Otherwise, I think it’s a nice and elegant program, bogged down by its own slowness.
If it were reimplemented in Cocoa, I think it would stand as a much better competitor to Transmit.
Josh
posted on Oct 23, 07:44 AM
I’m a big fan of Fugu. It’s a SFTP, SSH, SCP client. It doesn’t do straight FTP, but why would you want to when you can have a secure SFTP connection instead?
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
Frank
posted on Oct 29, 05:55 AM
Transmit is definitely the app to use when it comes down to moving loads of files on and off a server. Fore the small things I recommend the Fire FTP Firefox extension which is brilliant.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/
bryan
posted on Mar 13, 11:13 AM
I used to be a huge fan of Cyberduck, mostly because it was free and easy to use. But it seems that with each new update it gets buggier and buggier. I would always keep a stable version on hand when the latest would prove unusable. Transmit hooked me with the two column layout. Not having to open a finder window to drag and drop is great.
One thing I miss from cyberduck however is the upload status bar. Transmit has one, but it tracks the time left for each individual file, and not the total.
I checked out the site… I like your work! Good luck to you.
Alex
posted on May 31, 04:59 PM
For the easy and stable FTP transfers, I’d recommend the free CrossFTP, which supports two column layout and multi-tabs!
http://www.crossftp.com/
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dustin
posted on Oct 21, 04:23 PMAnother advantage of Transmit is droplets.