When comparing Swarm by Foursquare vs Turbo FTP Client, the Slant community recommends Turbo FTP Client for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” Turbo FTP Client is ranked 58th while Swarm by Foursquare is ranked 77th. The most important reason people chose Turbo FTP Client is:
Turbo FTP client handles FTP, FTPS, FTPES and SFTP protocols, making for a wide array of configurations that Turbo FTP Client can work with, no matter the FTP it needs to connect to or share.
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Pros
Pro Stickers
Formerly known as badges in the original app, you will be rewarded stickers whenever you check-in to a specific place or for the number of check-ins you have made.
Pro Mayorships
Mayorships is a feature where the person with the most check-ins in that particular place will be rewarded with a mayorship of that particular place.
Pro Leaderboard
Leaderboard is a features that ranks how frequent you and your friends gain points via check-ins, exploring new places and mayorships.
Pro Powered by Foursquare
All of the places data is obtained from Foursquare, as Swarm is part of Foursquare product.
Pro Supports multiple FTP configurations
Turbo FTP client handles FTP, FTPS, FTPES and SFTP protocols, making for a wide array of configurations that Turbo FTP Client can work with, no matter the FTP it needs to connect to or share.
Pro Material design
Turbo FTP is developed within the Material Design guidelines making for a nice looking FTP app on Android that has a familiar interface for anyone familiar with Material Design.
Pro Multiview support
For Samsung devices that can use the multiview feature, Turbo FTP Client can utilize multiple windows.
Cons
Con Viewing a place requires main Foursquare app
Since there is a split between place discovery and the social check-in feature in main Foursquare app, anyone who wants to check out a place must install the main Foursquare app in order to view the places details, photos and contacts.
Con Outdated
This app was last updated in July 2015, so there are potential vulnerabilities
Con Has low memory issues
Turbo FTP Client may run in to problems with a device running out of memory during a transfer, meaning the app will crash due to Android memory management. Making it difficult to successfully pull off transfers as well as use any other application during a transfer.