Cyberduck

Cyberduck
	Cyberduck 6
Developer(s)	David V. Kocher, Yves Langisch
Initial release	April 2002; 22 years ago
Stable release	9.0.3 / 18 September 2024
Repository	github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck.git ;
Written in	Java, C#
Operating system	macOS, Windows
Available in	37 languages
Type	FTP client
License	2017: GPL-3.0-or-later; 2002: GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	cyberduck.io

Cyberduck is an open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage (OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 and Microsoft Azure), available for macOS and Windows (as of version 4.0) licensed under the GPL. Cyberduck is written in Java and C# using the Cocoa user interface framework on macOS and Windows Forms on Windows. It supports FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), using AUTH TLS as well as directory synchronization. The user interacts with the user interface (GUI), including file transfer by drag and drop and notifications via Growl. It is also able to open some files in external text editors.

Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports Apple's Keychain and Bonjour networking. It supports multiple languages including English, Catalan, Czech, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Welsh.

Cyberduck CLI

The Cyberduck creator also provides a version for the command-line interface (CLI), called duck, available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It has its own website at duck.sh. The program can be used as FTP and SFTP-client, for operations with different cloud services. [1]

Monetization Model

While the Cyberduck software is open-source, it actively asks users for donations when the program is closed or updated, similar to nagware.

References

^ ^a ^b Kocher, David. "Cyberduck". ~/dkocher. Archived from the original on 2002-08-03. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
^ "Release 9.0.3". 18 September 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ Kocher, David (2017-07-24). "Changeset 42003". trac.cyberduck.io. Retrieved 2019-12-02. Update to GNU GPLv3.