Why I happily paid for the Transmit MacOS app - and it's not just the 16x faster file transfer speed

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If you regularly transfer files to/from remote servers, this app is for you.

Transmit can connect with SFTP, WebDAV, and several cloud services.

Transmit can be had for a one-time fee of $45.

I upload and download files from multiple services and servers throughout the day. These files range from small text files to larger video files. When I'm on MacOS, there's one tool I prefer to use for this process, and that's Transmit.

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Transmit is a paid app ($45/one-time fee with a 7-day free trial) that goes above and beyond what most file transfer apps can do.

What makes Transmit so special? Other than having a well-designed, easy-to-use GUI, it can work with more services than you've probably heard of. Transmit can interact with Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, DeamObjects, Dropbox, Google Drive, Azure, OneDrive, OpenStack, RackSpace, and any server that accepts FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV protocols.

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