RELAY_FTP
WINDOWS DESKTOP·FTP · FTPS · SFTP·V0.8.0

Stop dragging files. Push the ones that changed.

RELAY_FTP watches your project folder, surfaces every edit as a ready-to-push card, and sends it to the host in one click. A mission-control client instead of a two-pane file manager.

Download for Windows — v0.8.0

FREE · NO ACCOUNT · INSTALLER IS UNSIGNED FOR NOW — SEE THE NOTE BELOW

01 — THE DEMO

Use the real interface, in your browser.

The demo is the app's own UI running in simulation — the same panes, palette, watcher and push flow. Numbered pins walk you through what each part does.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR MACHINE — THE DEMO IS SIMULATED, NO HOST IS CONTACTED

02 — HOW IT WORKS

Four steps, then it stays out of the way.

01

Connect once

Host, user, password. The protocol and the web root are detected for you; credentials are encrypted by Windows itself.

02

Point at a folder

Pick the project directory. Ignore rules keep node_modules, logs and build output out of the way.

03

Work as usual

Every save lands on the change card — added, modified, deleted — with the file, its size and the moment it happened.

04

Push

One click sends the selection with per-file progress. If the host changed underneath you, it says so before anything is overwritten.

03 — WHAT IS INSIDE

Built for the way deploys actually go wrong.

A — WATCHER

Change cards, not guesswork

The folder is watched live. You always know exactly which files are out of sync, and deletions can mirror to the server too.

B — SAFETY

Conflicts caught first

Remote timestamps are checked against a per-site manifest. Keep mine or take theirs — never a silent overwrite. Remote deletes land in a trash folder.

C — TRANSFERS

Survives a bad connection

Up to four parallel connections with a speed cap, offline queueing, automatic retry when the host returns, and mid-file resume from the server's byte offset.

D — WORKFLOW

Edit remote files in your editor

Double-click a remote file: it opens in your default editor and every save uploads itself. Sync review diffs both trees when you need the full picture.

E — PROTOCOLS

SFTP, FTP, FTPS

Key files, passive mode, SOCKS5 and HTTP CONNECT proxies for SFTP, honest protocol labels and measured latency in the status bar.

F — KEYBOARD

A palette for everything

Ctrl+K reaches every command. Select all, push, rename, delete and filter without leaving the keyboard.

04 — COMPARE

The classic client asks you to remember. This one keeps track.

Two-pane clients are file browsers that happen to speak FTP. The pane view is still here when you want it — it just is not the job.

TASK
CLASSIC TWO-PANE CLIENT
RELAY_FTP
Knowing what changed
You do, by memory or by timestamp squinting
A live change card per file, kind and time included
Uploading an edit
Navigate both trees, drag, confirm overwrite
One click — or automatically on save
Someone else edited the server
You find out after their work is gone
Flagged before the push: keep mine, take theirs
A dropped connection
Failed queue, restart the transfer
Queued, resumed at the byte offset, retried on reconnect
Deleting on the remote
Permanent, immediately
Moved to /.relay-trash, two-step confirm
05 — DOWNLOAD

Get v0.8.0

A standard Windows installer. No account, no telemetry, nothing to configure first.

Download the installer
AN HONEST NOTE

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will warn you the publisher is unknown. Choose More info → Run anyway. A certificate is on the list; buying one is part of what support pays for.

06 — SUPPORT

One designer, end to end.

RELAY_FTP is built and maintained by one person, given away free. A coffee pays for the code-signing certificate, the test hosts, and the next release.

Buy me a coffee →

BUYMEACOFFEE.COM/MADEBYARIEL

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