Transmit 5

[rvanmil]

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.

[Outofthebot]

Agreed. I get that it's easier to build a singular cross platform app using a JS framework, but the decrease in quality from a well done native app really shows. I'm looking at you Spotify, todoist, Slack and others

[drcongo]

I'm buying this just for it not being a monthly subscription.

[amazingman]

I don't understand the allergy that so many developers have (in my experience) to subscription software. Software is never finished, golden master style distribution ends up orphaning huge swaths of customers across major updates, and most of the cost of software maintenance is continuous. Continuous income via subscription services goes a long way toward solving these issues.

[Osmium]

Congratulations Panic :)

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.

[sergiotapia]

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!

[mortenjorck]

The funny thing is, there was never anything strictly skeuomorphic about the old versions of Transmit either - Panic has just always had an engaging approach to UI design, independent of trends.

[mikepurvis]

Stick around at the top of the page so you don't miss out on the gratuitous rotating 3D truck of awesomeness.

[gfaure]

I love that the tires say "Firewatch" instead of "Firestone" :)

[anonacct37]

Oh, that explains why my cpu utilization doubled when I opened that page.

[erickhill]

And you can click it and spin it, too. :)

[nodesocket]

Was this modeled in a 3d application and then exported to canvas? Curious to hear how something like this is done.

[33degrees]

In case anyone else is wondering, for me it works in Safari but not Chrome

[rwparmenter]

Took a peak into the source, apparently they thought writing 30,000 lines of code was worth it for a 3D spinning truck.

[blacksmith_tb]

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).

1: https://cyberduck.io/

[blipmusic]

I like Forklift[1] but that's more of a Finder-replacement with remote possibilities, I guess.

1: http://binarynights.com/forklift/

[wukerplank]

Cyberduck is not bad if you don't use SFTP too often. But Transmit is way superior in terms of protocols and speed. Definitely worth the money.

[kennydude]

Cyberduck also has Mountain Duck which is incredibly useful. Not sure if Transmit has a similar feature

[nathancahill]

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.

[0]: Throwback http://vintagemacmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Fetch...

[athenot]

I was surprised to see Fetch is still around:

"Originally developed at Dartmouth, this product is now sold by FetchSoftworks."

https://fetchsoftworks.com

http://tech.dartmouth.edu/its/services-support/help-yourself...

[ivanhoe]

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.

[bdcravens]

I primarily use it for S3, not FTP (though these days I find myself going to the AWS CLI more and more)

[aezell]

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.

The Panic app I miss most is Unison. Well, miss in the sense of miss it getting updated. It's still available.

Years ago, Unison and a fat Giganews subscription were fantastic ways to discover music.

[SyneRyder]

The Panic app I really miss is Audion. The Winamp-alike app that very nearly got bought by Apple to be rebadged as a little music player called 'iTunes'...

https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/

[pyrophane]

Among other things.

[dangayle]

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.

Instabuy for me.

[copperx]

Curious, what do you use it for?

[Exuma]

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.

[atYevP]

Yev from Backblaze here -> good news! Backblaze B2 as a destination ;)

[kup0]

Very glad to see this :D

[dmix]

They also launched a new sync service which automatically encrypts your files clientside: https://panic.com/sync/

It's great to see encryption is becoming standard practice with new services.

[LeoPanthera]

It's not new, it's been around for a long time in Coda and Transmit for iOS.

[deanclatworthy]

> And yes, Transmit still handles the classics — FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and S3 — better than any. We make complex services drag-and-drop simple.

I love Transmit, but S3 has been broken for a long long time on Transmit 4 [1]. Is it now fixed in 5?

[1] https://twitter.com/derscuro/status/525570239120285697?lang=... (There are earlier references to this issue than this).

[bdcravens]

Can't speak to this feature, but appears features usable in latest s3 API are working that weren't in v4.

[pier25]

Finally.

I've been using Transmit for 10 years and had already moved to Forklift since the Transmit 4 engine was so slow.

Transmit 5 looks awesome and I only miss access to Google Cloud Storage which surprisingly only Cyberduck supports.

[kasperset]

While not native but I believe there is a way to access Google Cloud storage with Transmit. Read: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability

[aficiomaquinas]

I've also been waiting for Google Cloud Storage support for a long time. Please add it, Panic! That's the only thing I'm missing.

[copperx]

Thanks for the heads up. Forklift looks like a great improvement over Transmit.

[bleomycin]

I didn't see any mention of segmented download support via sftp? This is something lftp and smartftp support but very few other clients do.

[bdcravens]

Looks like it's no longer on App Store (not surprising or disappointing, though it was convenient when I moved to a new machine)

[breadmaster]

This app store thing just burned me pretty bad when I cleared my machine and did not back up Airmail 2. When I went back to install it, It was no longer on the app store and I was informed that there was no way to get it again unless I paid for Airmail 3.

This is where just having a license key and a dmg somewhere is preferable.

[breadmaster]

Always worth the money I've spent for a Panic app. Coda 2 got me through my previous gig as a web dev.

[favorited]

Pretty awesome that they've been building the "same" app for 20 years – since MacOS 9!

[danpalmer]

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.

[copperx]

I agree; however, it's invaluable if you use S3 or the like to manually backup files you never want to lose. Arq, for example, works great to backup your entire computer/server, but I like have a manually curated backup.