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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-storage/cyberduck-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-storage/cyberduck-profile/alternatives/) # Cyberduck User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 49 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 5.0/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 35 reviews (71%) - 4 stars: 12 reviews (24%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Is very easy to use and offers a lot of connection fuctionality to many providers. - I love the interface that has options that are just enough for me. ### Most mentioned cons - The interface may be too basic for some users, especially if you're expecting a graphical UI. ## Cyberduck customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 49 (page 1). ### Cyberduck Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gabrielle O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Think Tanks - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like cyberduck in order to house a large amount of large files. Cyberduck allows us to turn all of those large files in to CDN links that can be entered to the back end of our website. These cdn links can be podcast files, audiobook files, and pdf files. It is a great tool to turn any of those files types in to a link that can be added to any website. You can also send the cyberduck-created cdn links via email! #### Cons Once you put many files in to cyberduck, if you do not have someone monitoring and creating a nomenclature system it can be difficult to go back and find what you may be looking for. I would suggest creating many tabs and keeping a nomenclature system consistent throughout your usage of cyberduck or you will not be able to go back and find a file. --- ### Should be installed on every machine by default. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Price - It's free and feature rich. Everyone should have Cyberduck installed, even if it's not your primary FTP client. The UI is easy to use and gets the job done without fuss. Cyberduck is reliable and connections stay solid. Speaking of connections - ever find even when credentials are 100% correct, your FTP client refuses to connect to the server (I'm looking at you Filezilla)? Not once have I had this problem with Cyberduck! #### Cons There is nothing I dislike about Cyberduck. It has saved us in so many binds and is a must install on any machine. --- ### Cyberduck is a good FTP - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Torikul I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience is good, I've used Cyberduck for my project purpose. The FTP was helpful software for me so far, highly recommended. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I can easily access the SSH file directory with just a few clicks, it's really a comfortable FTP. File uploads, copy and paste, management moving everything looks simple with Cyberduck. Such a great software that was so helpful for me. #### Cons There is a speed problem I've noticed, big files take too long time for downloads. As well as I've faced few problems with synchronizing. I think this software need to improve the user experience a bit. --- ### Makes it easy to move files between environments - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I spend a lot of time moving data between systems, particularly from my desktop to servers and Cyberduck makes this simple, easy and fast. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Cyberduck makes it so simple to move files between systems. There are so many options available and it handles most things automatically, particularly automatic compression, which is awesome. #### Cons There really isn't anything I dislike about Cyberduck, it just works and does the job that it was designed for. --- ### Best FTP software for OS X - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Amazing :) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to install just Swiss Army Knife for everyday FTP :) #### Cons its impossible to not like the Cyberduck - just look at that cute icon ;) --- ### Trusty friend when no other SFTP agrees with the server. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Love it! It's easy, gets the job done and I have never had trouble connecting with it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, quick and reliable. Cyberduck has not failed me over the 10+ years I have used it. #### Cons Managing connections is a bit backwards. No other cons. --- ### Very good FTP client - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Cyberduck helped me to upload files to remote servers with a pretty interface. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What I most like about Cyberduck is the ease of use, the compatibility with macOS and the integration with cloud storages like S3 and Google Drive. #### Cons What I like least about Cyberduck is the configuration necessary for using private keys to connect to remote servers, it was a little difficult to me. --- ### Makes it easy to access files remotely - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Cyberduck has been positive, it is intuitive from a user perspective. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Cyberduck makes it easy for me to access files from my company's cloud based server in an organized and efficient way. #### Cons I don't like that you can't see file previews for photo and video files. I have to pull down all the files to see which one I need. --- ### Best FTP Client Available - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anthony M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use, FTP navigation, file management, over FTP editing. And it has the best name, always brings a smile to my face whenever I run it. Was first exposed to it 10 years ago, and have used it ever since. Every company I work for I make them buy a license. #### Cons When downloading an image from FTP when default action is to open file in text editor results in the image being opened in a text editor. Not really a problem as it is doing what I told it to do, however adding the ability to define a default action depending on file extension would be fantastic. #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck Because CyberDuck is much better. --- ### Great FTP app - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Cyberduck has been around a long time and has been easy to, go-to software that makes moving files across servers great. #### Cons I don't have any cons to the software as I haven't had any issues with it that needed fixing. --- ### Cyberduck, una Papera Gialla al nostro servizio. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: massimo v. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros La funzionalità principale è ovviamente quella di connettersi a siti remoti, questo viene eseguito egregiamente ed in maniera molto intuitiva. Ottima la funzione di salvataggio dei diversi servizi a cui abbiamo accesso. Interfaccia semplice ed intuitiva. #### Cons Non ho trovato grossi difetti al programma, forse il fatto che spesso è richiesto un aggiornamento, ma in realtà non so se è da considerarsi una cosa negativa (è probabile sia legato alla necessità di aggiornare i protocolli). --- ### Cyberduck - Great program for SFTP file uploads - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's been a huge timesaver. In my position, I have to upload dozens of files per week and having Cyberduck open all the time makes it super easy. Highly recommend if you are uploading a lot of files. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use. Literally 3 clicks and I am in the right bucket and ready to upload files. From there you drag and drop the file in. It's that easy. #### Cons There is a learning curve. you have to know what you are doing. They do not hold your hand with it. --- ### A super easy and effective way to FTP - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: jason a. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I use this almost exclusively for my online FTP needs. Great product and I love that people can try for free. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love how intuitive the interface is. It very much feels like I'm using a MacOS or another OS with drag and drop capabilities. Very simple to log in to my FTP and upload, save, download etc. #### Cons I think the navigation could be a little cleaner. Sometimes I find myself looking around for the right item. However this is a tough thing to improve upon with the complexities of FTP in general. Overall no complaints. --- ### Excellent tool for pushing data to the cloud - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use CyberDuck for uploading commonly used data and internal software to the cloud. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Exceptionally fast. Very reliable. Software just works. #### Cons I didn't find any, and my team mates didn't find any either. --- ### Excellent cloud storage browser! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dan P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great tool to use on the road or from the office to interact with cloud based storage including upload/download of files. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use and functionality rich - it provides a simple way to access cloud based storage providers. #### Cons No real cons, the tool has been independently developed to support a multitude of cloud storage platforms - if you are using a less common platform it might not be supported. --- ### Perfect FTP Tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tobias L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This little tool does what it should. The surface is very simple and beautiful. A connection to the server is quickly set up. Multiple bookmarks can be created. So you can connect quickly. #### Cons There is hardly any criticism of the tool. I haven't been using it for so long. Where I didn't take it easy at the beginning are the symbols from the quick selection menu. These are not really easy to interpret. --- ### A very capable file transfer client - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vasilis K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience is very positive so far. I use Cyberduck very often for transferring files to my server and also my cloud storage providers. It's a fast and easy to use tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros First of all I like that it's open source and free to use. Also, in addition to ftp and sftp Cyberduck offers excellent integration with popular cloud storage providers. #### Cons I wish there was an option to sync files between different servers. #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck Because Cyberduck was a bit easier to setup. --- ### One of the absolute best FTP programs - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very good experience overall. Loads super quickly when opening the program. Remembers all my most important FTP login informations. Fast upload and downloads. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like the ease of downloading the program and getting it up and running. Generally only takes a few minutes to get up and running. I also like how Cyberduck remembers all my server informations and makes it easy to find what I need. #### Cons The only flaw I have really found is a difficulty in gaining access to the WordPress file called htaccess file. I have had difficulty getting that file to show up on some servers. Sometimes I cannot get it to be found on the server within the program. #### Reasons for choosing Cyberduck I like the interface more than FileZilla. Cyberduck has overall better visual interface. #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck I have switched back and forth between FileZilla and Cyberduck to get my FTP work done. Cyberduck has a better interface to remember all the most important sites I need FTP info to be remembered for. I also like the logo for Cyberduck, even if that doesn't mean much. I do like it and it's a joy to open the program because of the visual duck. --- ### Cyberduck much power for FREE - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Leslie J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used Cyberduck primarily for looking after a hobby flight simulation website , but also in a role as a freelance software developer I have used the product to upload my work to client servers without any problems with permissions or client requirements. IT is a unique product for being free and I encourage any user to support them with a small donation as to keep the evolution of this product going. I would be lost without it now !! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The cost is free and they suggest a donation which is very noble of them for such a great product. It allows you to upload and download files using a variety of standard ftp protocols. The preferences allow you to resume large downloads by setting things like skipping files that match etc , which is very good for my voluntary work updating a whole website. You can also store bookmarks of the configurations you set up to connect to file servers thus making subsequent connections to the same server only a click away. While using the server side of things you can use Cyberduck as a file manager as it allows creating duplicate copies of files , creating new folders , deleting files and a simple way to set up permissions to files which is very important on many web-sites to help control access and security. Yes it is missing perhaps some features that you may get in other ftp programs but since it is free and feature rich it is more than likely to fit the needs of the majority of users #### Cons I do not think there are any negative issues that one can associate to this product, I do get lost connections from time to time but that may be due to internet distance and speed, however with the preferences I can easily pick up where I left off when this happens. --- ### The cloud storage one click away - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Fast, functional and easy to deploy. Been hosting files for years now and it just works out of the box #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros How easy to setup it is, espcially using AWS, sharing files and hosting public urls works like a charm #### Cons The ui lacks some style, the files upload queues can also be s bit confusing #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck Easy of use, AWS setup and ability the use several cloud solutions --- ### Reliable and powerful SFTP client - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aivar K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. For me, it is an irreplaceable dev-ops tool. Helps me to configure and administer remote servers, upload files, and review logs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Remote editing - it is the best at editing the config files and reviewing logs on a server. Sublime text makes a great combo here. Drag and drop file uploading and downloading. Amazingly, feels even more solid than the native Mac file explorer! #### Cons Could be smarter at deleting or moving folders - as is, it does it by going through each file, which can be very slow, instead of using Linux commands such as rm, mv, etc. Eats up way too much RAM. An SFTP client shouldn't need 0.5-1GB #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck I needed something to replace WinSCP when I switched to Mac, and Cyberduck was a very welcome surprise. It is more stable, easier to use, and, generally, better in every way. --- ### Free and Straightforward - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Catlin N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The interface is simple and straightforward, which I think is beneficial for something like an FTP client that many people have not used.. it makes utilizing the program easy. #### Cons Login cannot be fully automated, but that may be common to all FTP clients --- ### One of the best file transfer software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Giuseppe N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I usually use for S3 Bucket transfer, has easy way manage drag and drop files over folders. #### Cons a useful thing would be the ability to transfer files between buckets or ftp servers --- ### Cyberduck - Powerful and Free FTP - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Cyberduck is a full featured FTP software. Easily transfer large files or file structures with professional level oversight of the process. Access servers and webpages for managing your online properties. And its free! #### Cons Some FTP programs have a slightly more graphical UI. Meaning some windows that appear like a finder window to navigate files. This one is more "old school" FTP, which I happen to prefer. #### Reasons for choosing Cyberduck Cyberduck has not removed saved bookmarks when upgrading like I have had issues with other FTP programs. #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck Recommended by developer friend. --- ### A Great File Transfer Client for the Tech Challenged - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tim C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Cyberduck is my file transfer go-to. It gets the job done in the least amount of time and with the fewest number of problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Cyber Duck is fast, reliable and easy to set up. It guides you through the process of making your connection, whether through standard FTP or secure socket. It provide ample feedback on progress and shows results clearly. #### Cons I have found nothing negative. I've used Cyber Duck on Windows, OS X and Linux platforms with absolutely no problems. #### Reasons for switching to Cyberduck I found the frequent FileZilla updates to be hurdles to the process of using the software. I also found connecting to a server could be difficult at times. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-storage/cyberduck-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Cyberduck Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice