Transmit, the popular OS X FTP client by Panic Support, has finally broken its half decade run of version 3.x executables and finally released version 4.0, a significant and shiny upgrade that boasts faster performance, a new user interface and several fantastic new features.
The new user interface is very attractive: jettisoning the old Aqua-style drop downs, Panic now looks more like native Finder, including a path bar, custom icons for your favorite locations, Coverflow, thumbnail view, options to disclose folders or color code them and a new sync button.
Another new noteworthy feature is “Transmit Disks,” which allows you to mount any favorite FTP site in the finder and interact with it like a normal folder on your Mac. It works even if Transmit isn’t running.
Everything’s also much faster: Panic claims that Transmit has been greased up and now runs 25% faster than version 3.
It’s a significant upgrade, but it’s not free: a new license costs $34, while users of the previous version must pay a $19 upgrade cost, unless they purchased it after March 1st, in which case the upgrade is free.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
