ForkLift 4.4.0 for MacOS 2025

General Overview

ForkLift is an efficient fork-based file management and transfer program on macOS, the program is written as an alternative to the wide-wise file manager known as Finder. ForkLift offers powerful file management capabilities, such as tabs, workspaces and advanced search combined with easy to use support of an extensive range of remote connections, including FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 support and features of cloud based storage systems Dropbox and Google Drive. It also features a dual-pane interface where transferring, moving or synchronizing files through local folder and remote servers is easily done within the same window making workflows much faster to developers, designers, and IT professionals.
In addition to simple file management ForkLift features more sophisticated tools like intelligent batch renaming, file archiving and extraction, application removal, and folder comparing and synchronizing, presented in a detailed comparison view. It has built in preview functionality so that users can read documents, images, and program code without opening an external application. Combining the usability of a modern file manager with the functionality of professional-level file transfer, ForkLift lets users take full, convenient control of local and remote filesystems.

Important Features

• Remote Connections: Access SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Rackspace CloudFiles, SMB, AFP and NFS remote partitions and manage your files across networks with ease. You may be connected to more than one server simultaneously and even copy between servers via drag and drop
• ForkLift Mini: Stays in your menu bar and allows you to mount a saved remote connection as a disk, upload files to a remote server through the finder by drag and drop or run a saved Synclet when ForkLift has stopped
• Compare: Compare local or remote source and target directories and identify matching, modified, new and deleted files. One or two-way synchronize them with a single mouse-click, or save it as a favorite. You will enjoy this feature when you are a web developer
• The preview panel: The preview panel shows the useful information about the selected file. It allows you to play audio and video files, examine photos, PDFs and other commonly used document formats. You can load, make quick edits of a text file in place, on local drives and on remote servers
• Frequent places: Launch your favorite application or tool, open your preferred device, send a file to an application with the Multi Rename tool or use a Multi Rename preset that you saved