CuteFTP is one of the small and powerful classic FTP tools, has friendly user interface and stable transfer speed, once known as the three best FTP clients together with LeapFTP and FlashFXP. It was originally developed by Alex Kunadze from Russia in 1996 (distributed, supported and later acquired by GlobalSCAPE).

WinSCP (short for Windows Secure Copy) is a free, open-source (S)FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Windows, developed by Martin Přikryl from Czech Republic in 2000. It's mainly used to securely transfer files between local and remote computers, but it also provides features as a simple file manager and file synchronizer. In order to realize secure file transfer, it uses Secure Shell (SSH) to establish connections and provides support for SCP and SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).

ExpanDrive is a powerful and practical cross-platform cloud drive mapping tool that can mount a variety of cloud disks as network drive that works like a local disk. It supports Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Team Drives, Amazon Drive, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sharepoint, Openstack Swift and other internationally-known cloud drive services. In addition, for webmasters or administrators, it also supports mounting your own servers as local disks via SFTP (SSH), FTP, WebDAV for easy and efficient use.

Cyberduck is a popular free and open-source FTP/SFTP client for Windows and Mac. This FTP client from Switzerland is one of three excellent FTP clients recommended by cPanel. It has simple operation interface and single column view, which make users feel very relaxed, convenient and quick.

If you are a webmaster, you are likely to have such a demand: Regularly upload/download your database or website files to/from multiple servers through FTP client. Manually uploading/downloading files, database is a time-consuming and hard work. Lazy but smart people will try to find and test a variety of automation tools in order to efficiently accomplish the same work with ease.