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CLUSTER MACOS-FINDER-FTP · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-12

macOS remote file access tools

This cluster consists of macOS apps for connecting to and serving remote file systems—covering FTP servers, SFTP mounts, and WebDAV integration. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with zero dated entries before the index start, indicating the cluster predates the index or most members are undated. Among traction leaders, syncpoint leads with 3 activity stars, followed by sshdrive and FTPServer-macOS at 1 star each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 7OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 1 indie · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01velcro1★17 dayslivemacOS menu bar app and command-line tool that automatically remounts SMB and NFS network shares after sleep, Wi-Fi drops, or network changes, with fallback hosts.
  2. 02sshdrive1★23 daysliveindiemacOS utility that mounts remote SFTP servers as Finder folders with on-demand file downloads and cached offline access.
  3. 03mountie-macos0★24 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that mounts and unmounts NFS, SMB, and WebDAV network shares without requiring sudo.
  4. 04fileshuttle0★17 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that uploads dropped files to a personal FTP or SFTP server and copies the resulting shareable link to the clipboard.
  5. 05btrfs4mac0★5 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that unlocks and mounts encrypted Btrfs external drives, manages snapshots, and keeps idle drives powered.
  6. 06Hamasen2★1 mo—macOS app that mounts SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers as Finder locations so remote files open without a separate client window.
  7. 07VolumeMountTroubleshooter1★1 mo—macOS utility that diagnoses and mounts external volumes safely with read-only support and disk monitoring.
  8. 08MountPilot0★29 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar utility that connects network shares after login and safely unmounts clone backup drives unless a backup is running.
  9. 09paranco0★1 molivehobbySmall macOS utility that holds Full Disk Access and copies files one-way from protected folders into ordinary folders along user-defined routes.
  10. 10PathBridge0★28 days—hobbymacOS menu bar tool that converts paths between Windows, UNC, and SMB formats, connects to network shares, and locates files in Finder.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.