FTP is very popular protocol to transfer files over network and internet. FTP have some security problems and SFTP is designed to solve these problems. Connecting sftp or ssh file system from Windows clients may become a nightmare because lack of built in client. In this tutorial we will look different tastes of SFTP or SCP Windows clients.

WinSCP

WinSCP is the most popular and useful client between other scp clients. WinSCP can be downloaded from following link.

https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

Integrated drag and drop feature
Windows explorer right click send to menu
Command line interface support
Storing session information like ip, hostname, username, password
Writing scripts to transfer file
Automatic sync from local directory to remote directory
Portable without-installation
Open Source
Multipart and multithreaded file transfer

PSCP and PSFTP (Putty)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Putty collection suite provides a lot of tools related with ssh . PSCP and PSFTP are some of them.

Usage without installation with portable
Fully command line
No GUI

Filezilla

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

Filezilla is actually designed for FTP servers but also provides support for SFTP.

Supports FTP, FTPS and SFTP
Drag and drop support
Edit remote files
Compare local and remote files and folders
Portable without-installation
Open Source
Multipart and multithreaded file transfer

FireFTP

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp/

FireFTP is an extension and plugin to Firefox browser. It has decent features.

Connect with URL bar
No other application
Set initial directories

CoreFTP LE

http://www.coreftp.com/download/coreftplite64.exe

CoreFTP is commercial product but also have free version for personal use.

Drag and drop support
Stop and Resume file transfer
NEtwork bandwidth control
Multipart and multithreaded file transfer
Command line interface

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BitKinex

http://www.bitkinex.com/ftp/client/bitkinex323.exe

Bitkinex is simple and free software.

Multipart and multithreaded file transfer
Supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV
Server to Server file transfer
Command line interface

Jscape AnyClient

Jscape is platform independent file transfer client. It has also commercial version named Anyclient Enterprise

Supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, WebDAVS, Amazon S3, AFTP

1 thought on “Best SFTP or SCP Clients For Windows Operating Systems”

MaxG

30/01/2019 at 9:34 pm

This is a good post. Another really good SFTP client that would be great to add is WebDrive (www.webdrive.com). Supports lots of connectors and has a super clear, easy interface.