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Oğuzhan KARACABAY
Oğuzhan KARACABAY

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I built syncSCP, a WinSCP-style file manager and SSH terminal for macOS

#macos #swift #opensource #ssh

After moving from Windows to the Mac, the tool I missed most was WinSCP. So I built syncSCP: a native macOS file manager and SSH terminal for SFTP, SCP, FTP/FTPS, WebDAV and S3, with WinSCP's two-pane Commander workflow. It is free and open source (GPL-3.0).

syncSCP

Features

  • Two-pane Commander: session tabs, directory tree, Compare Directories, Find Files, bookmarks, Quick Look, ⌘K Quick Open
  • SFTP, SCP (also through sudo su -), FTP/FTPS, WebDAV and S3
  • Background transfers with automatic retry; SFTP resumes partial files
  • Two-way synchronization and Keep Remote Directory up to Date (FSEvents)
  • Built-in SSH terminal with tabs, split panes, find, snippets, and port forwarding
  • Import from Windows WinSCP (also under Wine/Whisky) and ~/.ssh/config, including passphrase-protected PuTTY keys
  • Opt-in saved passwords in the Keychain with Touch ID
  • syncscp CLI for scripts, in the style of winscp.com

How it's built

SwiftUI + AppKit for the UI. SFTP v3 is spoken directly over the system /usr/bin/ssh; FTP, WebDAV and S3 go through a small C bridge to the system libcurl, with S3 SigV4 in CryptoKit. The terminal uses SwiftTerm. Passphrase-protected PuTTY keys needed an Argon2 implementation, checked against the RFC 9106 test vectors. Integration tests run against disposable local SSH, FTP/FTPS, WebDAV and MinIO servers.

Try it 

brew install --cask oguzhankrcb/tap/syncscp
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Or download the signed and notarized app from the releases. Source: https://github.com/oguzhankrcb/syncSCP

It's a development preview, so feedback is very welcome.

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