What are the best FTP clients for Windows?

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Free and open source

FileZilla is free open-source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License free of charge. Basically this means that everyone, including corporate entities, can use FileZilla, including but not limited to private, educational and commercial use.

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SFTP support

Supports FTP, FTPS (SSL) and SFTP (SSH)

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Cross-platform

In addition to Windows, FileZilla client is available for Unix, OSX and Linux.

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Andris Pelcbergs

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Suppots FTP and FTPS

FileZilla Server is a server that supports FTP and FTP over SSL/TLS which provides secure encrypted connections to the server.

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Kind of de-facto standard

If you're troubleshooting things, everybody will first try if it works with File-Zilla.

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Installs junk software on your computer

The installer will install adware by default.

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Recommended 3 months ago
Most popular ftp clients with portableapps support
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 Suppots FTP and FTPS
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Filezilla installs spam software on your computer. Stay away from it!
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Readable password

Doesn't encrypt saved passwords.

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May install adware

Main download link includes SourceForge Download Manager, which which bundles opt-out adware.

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