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Your servers, in Finder.

DropCat is a native Mac app for browsing remote machines over SSH and moving files with scp.

Available for macOS 15 and later.

Native

Built for macOS. Uses your system ssh and scp, nothing bundled.

Familiar

Finder-style list and icon views. Press space for Quick Look.

Private

Your keys, your agent. Nothing to install on the server.

DropCat demo

DropCat just works

Connect to a host, browse it like a folder, move files.

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Machines

A sidebar with status dots, favorites and per-machine state.

Two views

List or icon view, with tree expansion in the list.

Drag to upload

Drop files in from Finder. scp does the transfer.

Quick Look

Preview remote files with the space bar.

Edit in place

Inline rename, new folder and delete.

Your ssh config

~/.ssh/config only pre-fills or imports hosts.

Open source

DropCat is MIT licensed. Read the code, file an issue, send a patch.

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