A dual-pane SFTP file manager.
Same tool, only a little different.
If you've ever used a two-pane file manager to move files over SFTP, you already know how to use miniSCP. Two panels, a connection on each side, copy between them. Nothing to relearn.
The difference is in the corners. Both panels are fully symmetric — either side can be your local disk or any saved server — so a copy isn't only up or down. You can move files straight from one server to another, remote to remote, without staging them on your machine first.
It's the same familiar tool, sanded down where the old ones snag.
What's different:
Remote → remote. Copy straight between two servers — nothing staged on your machine.
Symmetric panels. Either side is your local disk or any saved server. Every panel is equal.
Knows your servers already. Reads the hosts from your
~/.ssh/config, and imports the saved sessions from your previous client.
Tabs that keep working. Open several sessions at once; transfers keep running in background tabs.
Edit in place. Open a remote file in your editor — every save uploads itself, automatically, until you disconnect.
Won't eat your files. A multi-layer guard catches when the source and destination are secretly the same file, even behind NAT or split-DNS, before it can truncate anything.
Honest overwrites. Compares size and date, tells you which copy is newer, and lets you replace-all or skip-all in one go.
A queue with an ETA. Per-file speed and estimate, cancel anytime.
Permissions. Rename, delete, create folders and files, and change permissions (chmod) on remote files.
Themes. Light, dark, or follow the system — with a set of accent tones.
macOS and Windows. macOS is the primary target; Windows 11+ (x64) is in beta.
Always the latest stable build.
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xattr -cr /Applications/miniSCP.app~/.ssh/config automatically, and it can
import the saved sessions exported from your previous file-transfer client.