Top 6 Free FTP Clients, Secure FTP (SFTP) Software Programs

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Are you looking for free and secure FTP software to help you in transferring files between your computer and website? This page is right for you if the answer is yes. There are more than 10 free FTP client applications available on the internet today. I am not try to include all of them here, but only top 6 FTP programs that provide you both functionality and security features. Popularity, Easy to Use, Security, and Functionality are what I consider the most important aspects for good FTP program.

Some people ask me about what program I am using for file transferring at iSoftwareReviews. Do I use paid one or free one? I have experienced using many applications (both paid and free). At the present time I am using WinSCP; it is completely free, easy to use and secure one. This is only my personal preference. You may be different from mine. But I hope you got an idea on what I am using.

From one to another program there are some differences regarding to features and interface. Here are some highlights, WinSCP supports three main connection protocols including FTP, SFTP, SCP over SSH-1, SSH-2. The cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client, FileZilla is available for Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. You can see more detail on each review page. Now let find out what are the top rating and popular one for other users in the following:

(You are also encouraged to join the rating and voting system, it is free. Be to share your experience and make it useful.)

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Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using free FTP software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience; for the FTP program which you never use, please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
WinSCP	(14 votes)  Loading ...
FileZilla	(9 votes)  Loading ...
CoffeeCup Free FTP	(4 votes)  Loading ...
Core FTP LE	(3 votes)  Loading ...
FireFTP	(2 votes)  Loading ...
AceFTP Freeware	(2 votes)  Loading ...

Voting for Your Most Favorite Free FTP Client Software

These are top free FTP client software programs which available on the internet today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite one? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing free FTP program by finding out which is the most popular and best FTP Client software. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You can also see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and changing based on number of voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

Read Review and Share Your Value Experience

You can read reviews on free FTP client software as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

WinSCP

WinSCP is one of the popular solution for Windows users. It is an open source application, so you can download and use it for free of charge. It is a good and free solution for the secure file transferring between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP also provides you SFTP client functionality. There is no limit on the size of the file transferred. However, there are restrictions placed by protocols used. SCP protocol does not support files over 4 GiB (32-bit boundary), while SFTP and FTP support them.

FileZilla

FileZilla is a simple and easy to use FTP client program developed by Tim Kosse. It is an open source application which you can download and use for free of charge. FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. The program is available for multiple platforms including on Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X.

CoffeeCup Free FTP

CoffeeCup Free FTP is simple and easy to use. With the program, you now have a choice between different protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS and their different methods of encryption. With file management feature, you can easily manage your local and remote files (add, move, and launch files all from inside the program). Here are highlight features of the program.

Core FTP LE

Core FTP LE free version FTP client software for Windows, developed by Core FTP. It provides you all essential features for transferring files between your computer and website. The program supports various connection types to choose including FTP, SFTP (SSH), SSL and TLS. This free, secure FTP client gives you a fast way to update and maintain your website via FTP. It also provides a secure method (via SSL, TLS, or SFTP) to upload as well as download files to and from FTP servers.

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free and cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. You can upload and download files between your website and computer using this simple Firefox Add-on.

AceFTP Freeware

AceFTP Freeware is a free version program developed by Visicom Media Inc. It provides you the solution for transferring files over the Internet. This freeware version provides you essential feature for FTP client. This company also offers Pro edition which have more features regarding to security, file transferring, action toolbar and site profile options.

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