At a glance
Transmit's column comes from Panic's own pages: the Transmit 5 product page and Panic's Transmit 5 help (protocols, SFTP, SSH configuration, transfers, synchronize, editors, Mac App Store), checked November 4, 2026.
| AnyBucket | Transmit 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| SFTP, FTP, FTPS, WebDAV, Amazon S3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two panes side by side | ✓ | ✓ |
| Copy from one server to another | ✓ | ✓ |
Reads your ~/.ssh/config |
✓ | ✓ |
| Jump hosts (ProxyJump) | ✓ | Not described |
| Commander keys: F5 copies, F6 moves | ✓ | Not described |
| A palette to go to bookmarks and folders by name | ✓ | Not described |
| Automatic retry on a fresh connection | ✓ | Not described |
| The queue picks up again after quitting | ✓ | Not described |
| Sync both ways | ✓ | Not described |
| Save tabs as a workspace | ✓ | Not described |
| Transfers in the menu bar | ✓ | Not described |
| Price | $9.99 once, for two Macs | $45 once, or $24.99 a year on the Mac App Store |
The full comparison has every row, with Cyberduck, ForkLift, Commander One, FileZilla and the Finder too.
Price
AnyBucket costs $9.99, once. One license covers two Macs, and there's no account to create.
Transmit 5 costs $45 once from Panic, with a 7-day trial, for all the Macs one person uses. On the Mac App Store it's a $24.99 yearly subscription. Panic says a future all-new major version would likely be a paid upgrade for the direct copy.
The keyboard and ⌘K
Transmit has keyboard shortcuts for its menus, such as Go to Folder (⌥⌘G). AnyBucket is built around the keys of the two-pane commanders: F5 copies, F6 moves, F2 renames, F3 opens Quick Look, F4 edits, F7 makes a folder and F8 deletes. Space marks a file, ⇥ switches panes and + marks by pattern.
⌘K opens a palette that finds bookmarks, recent folders and open tabs by a few letters of their name, or connects to a pasted sftp://, s3:// or davs:// address. ⌘G copies the marked files to any place you pick, without opening it first. See the keyboard and the palette.
Server to server
Panic's help says Transmit uses your Mac as the intermediary between two servers, and duplicates on the server for S3, WebDAV and several cloud services.
AnyBucket shows any two places in one tab: This Mac and a server, or two servers. On the same server the copy runs there: S3 CopyObject, WebDAV COPY, and cp over SSH when the SFTP account has a shell. Between two servers, files stream through a small, bounded spool on your Mac. See server to server.
Transfers and sync
AnyBucket's queue retries transient failures on a fresh connection after 1, 3 and 8 seconds, is saved as it runs and comes back after a relaunch. Checksums are verified where the protocol allows. When a file is already there, choose replace, replace if newer, keep both, skip or resume, with apply to all.
Transmit syncs in one direction you pick, with an option to delete orphaned files and a dry run. AnyBucket's Compare & Sync mirrors either way or syncs both ways, row by row, and you can change any row's action before anything moves.
SSH and jump hosts
Transmit reads keys and user names from your ~/.ssh/config. Panic's SFTP help says ProxyJump is supported in Prompt 3, another Panic app.
AnyBucket runs the ssh that comes with macOS, so whatever works with ssh user@host in Terminal works in AnyBucket: Host, IdentityFile and ProxyJump in your config, your agent and security keys. See SSH keys and jump hosts.
Where Transmit shines
Panic Sync keeps your servers and keys in step across your Macs, and Transmit connects to many cloud services beyond the ones both apps share.
Switching to AnyBucket
- In AnyBucket, press ⇧⌘K for each server, or paste its address into the palette (⌘K) and press ⌥↩ to save it as a bookmark.
- SFTP hosts in your
~/.ssh/configwork as they are, with the same keys. - Save the tabs you use every day as a workspace with ⌥⌘S.
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