Fantastic app, instabuy. I'm really happy to see these kinds of native Mac apps being successful for so long. They're a breath of fresh air amidst all the Electron crap lately.
Congratulations Panic :)<p>One of my favorite Mac app companies (along with The Omni Group and, more recently, Affinity). I always know I'll be paying for quality, polished software with Panic, and I've been looking forward to this Transmit update.
Their entire interface and UX persona reminds me of better times when skeuomorphic design reigned supreme. Now all we get is boring flat with single color highlights. Transmit 5 looks fantastic!
Transmit has always been slick, but it seems like Cyberduck[1] might have stolen a fair chunk of their clientele? I find it pretty useful on macOS (and/or things like yafc and ncftp on Linux).<p>1: <a href="https://cyberduck.io/" rel="nofollow">https://cyberduck.io/</a>
Used it when I switched from Fetch[0] back in the day when PHP code was deployed with FTP. Great client, definitely the most "native" feeling FTP app I've used. Now I mostly use it for S3, which is very well supported.<p>[0]: Throwback <a href="http://vintagemacmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Fetch.png" rel="nofollow">http://vintagemacmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Fetch...</a>
Funny how much git changed how we do things. Transmit was one of the apps that I've always had opened on my laptop, and now haven't touched it at all for more than a year.
I haven't used Transmit in a while as I don't have a need for it, but when I did it was a great client.<p>The Panic app I miss most is Unison. Well, miss in the sense of miss it getting updated. It's still available.<p>Years ago, Unison and a fat Giganews subscription were fantastic ways to discover music.
What timing! I was just telling my coworker this morning that Transmit was the best money I ever spent on tools I use for web development. I've been using Transmit for a long, long time and I still feel like I haven't fully utilized it.<p>Instabuy for me.
I've been a fan all the way since the beginning... I'll buy this even though I don't even use FTP and whatnot much anymore. Just for the extreme value this app gave me many years ago when I was getting started.
They also launched a new sync service which automatically encrypts your files clientside: <a href="https://panic.com/sync/" rel="nofollow">https://panic.com/sync/</a><p>It's great to see encryption is becoming standard practice with new services.
> And yes, Transmit still handles the classics — FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3 — better than any. We make complex services drag-and-drop simple.<p>I love Transmit, but S3 has been broken for a long long time on Transmit 4 [1]. Is it now fixed in 5?<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/derscuro/status/525570239120285697?lang=de" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/derscuro/status/525570239120285697?lang=...</a> (There are earlier references to this issue than this).
Finally.<p>I've been using Transmit for 10 years and had already moved to Forklift since the Transmit 4 engine was so slow.<p>Transmit 5 looks awesome and I only miss access to Google Cloud Storage which surprisingly only Cyberduck supports.
I love Transmit, and version 4 served me well, but I've used it less and less over the years to the point where I don't think I'm the target market, as a web developer, anymore. I wish I had a reason to use this, but I can't find one.
I wish there was a universal file-transfer app like this on Windows & Linux. The best cross-platform solution I know of is FileZilla, and even that (1) only does FTP/SFTP, leaving out S3 and all the other services and (2) features some utterly baffling design decisions (ahem: <a href="https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/2914" rel="nofollow">https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/2914</a>) that make it more or less unusable for serious work.<p>Sigh.
When I moved to a Mac (2004/5) Transmit was one of the first bits of software I purchased. It was a bit of a revelation to discover that software could be so lovely- it really added to the joy of using a new machine.<p>Having said that, nothing was ever as fast as LeechFTP I used on Windows [<a href="http://www.leechftp.de" rel="nofollow">http://www.leechftp.de</a>]. That thing was magic - no ftp client has ever felt so fast.
This says it supports "Amazon S3". Does anyone know if they allow you to configure the endpoint, and thus use an S3 compatible store[0]?<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3#S3_API_and_competing_services" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3#S3_API_and_competing...</a>
Glad to see them offer more cloud options (in addition to s3: Google, Dropbox, etc). While perhaps Transmit is "prettier", in recent years there have been many more complete offerings from their competitors.<p>Looks like they've made some S3 enhancements (which is my primary use). I hope they updated with support for KMS-encrypted files.
I've use transmit for over 10 years.. (Yikes). Was just wondering if this was going to get an upgrade.<p>Same price new/upgrade. Its been 7 years since they've upgraded the previous version so thats fair. I like the "Sync folders" feature quite a bit.<p>They started making games, and was wondering if thats where the company was headed..
I bought Transmit 3 in 2006, and upgraded to Transmit 4 in 2010. It's always been a shining example of extremely well supported, well designed Mac software.<p>I'm cool paying $35 for Transmit 5.
I bought Transmit 4 in 2011-ish and was happy with it. The major missing feature (IMO) was segmented downloading. I switched to lftp and never looked back.
FINALLY. So frustrating having to wait all of this time. I couldn't get a definitive answer from them on whether a Trasmit 4 license purchased at present, would be eligible for a Transmit 5 upgrade.