Flow 1.0 Is Now Available!
I’m incredibly(!) proud to announce the immediate availability of Flow, Extendmac’s new FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and .Mac client exclusively designed for Mac OS X Leopard. After a 15-day fully featured trial, you can purchase Flow for just $29.
What makes Flow different from any other FTP client on OS X?
I’m glad you asked! Flow is different because of how it feels to use. It’s hard to quantify, but immediately obvious when you begin using it. Despite being an incredibly powerful application, Flow is always light on its feet. It’s fast, it’s gorgeous, and it makes sense.
But there’s more to Flow than being delightful to use. Flow is also very smart: Flow can QuickLook just about any file on your server, can automatically copy the URL to the file you just uploaded to your clipboard, and can edit your files too, complete with tabs, syntax coloring, code sense, and live-previewing.
Words only mean so much, though. Download Flow, and fall in love with the FTP client that makes you smile.
What about support? What about the future?
Included with each license is unlimited support to help you out when you need it. Even our beta testers have been surprised at how quickly and accurately we respond — I’m sure you will be too.
As for Flow’s future, you can bet on it being big. As I’ve mentioned previously, Flow 1.0 is truly just the beginning, and I can’t wait to get started on the exciting ideas that are in place to be implemented in future Flow 1.x releases.
Thank You
To those of you who’ve been watching since the beginning: thank you. The endurance of your enthusiasm and support is what keeps me going every single day. I couldn’t have done it without you!
To Flow’s Beta Testers: thank you. You guys, all 1700 of you, have been awesome. You’ve been invaluable. You’ve been perfect. I couldn’t have asked for a better group. Together, you helped shape the development of a hand-crafted piece of software I care about an awful lot. Your participation, activism, and enthusiasm have made it clear that Flow means an awful lot to you, too.
To my family, friends, and everyone in a 10 mile radius to my house and/or TwitterFeed: thank you. I can only imagine what it has been like to put up with me these past few months. Needless to say, it hasn’t been easy, but I appreciate it. I couldn’t have done it without you, either.
Flow’s development has been a long, long journey, but I couldn’t have asked for a better beginning to an exhilarating adventure.
Passionately, Excited, And Truly Yours,
Brian Amerige.
(P.S. - Thoughts? Comments? It’d make my day if you’d let me know by posting a comment!)
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April 4th, 2008 at 5:03 am
And that’s the fastest I’ve gone from downloading to buying. Quick Look = awesome. Congratulations Brian.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Awesomeness! Great job Brian.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Congrats, Brian!
April 4th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Wow, it’s really fast and easy to use but there are some interface ‘thingies’ that should be improved in the next release, like:
- The Tiger folder style is used in a Leopard-only app
- Tabs have a different color than the toolbar which doesn’t flow that great
- The connect/disconnect button is blurry and cut of by 2px on the right
That’s about it. Great app, I’m buying it.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:53 am
You did a great job man. Everything works fine on 10.5.2, great app!
Greetings from Germany
April 4th, 2008 at 5:56 am
@Kevin
That’s odd. We actually grab the folder icons directly from the OS itself (Leopard), so there certainly shouldn’t be any non-Leopard icons. Are you sure you have the latest release? (1.0 (306))
Also, the same applies to the tab color –– they most certainly should look right on Leopard in the latest version.
In any event, shoot an e-mail over to support at extendmac.com and we’ll get these sorted out.
Thanks!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:10 am
welcome aboard, let’s keep the flow ppl!
April 4th, 2008 at 6:20 am
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April 4th, 2008 at 6:49 am
I didn’t get in on the beta (sadly), but I have been following the news of Flow since the first preview was announced and must admit I got my hands on a very early copy of what was probably beta 5 or 6. Even then I was blown away. 1.0 is an amazing product, and you should be applauded for bringing a fresh breeze into a room as stuffy and old as FTP software.
Thank you so much for all your hard work!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Flow: FTP-Client für Leopard erschienen…
Schon länger Zeit suche ich ein vernünftiges FTP-Programm, mit Editier-Funktion, oder einen Editor mit FTP-Funktion. Etwas das bisher halbwegs meinen Erwartungen gerecht wurde war Coda. Dieser war mir aber mit 99 Dollar dann doch etwas zu teuer, f…
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Thanks a lot for this!
I guess Kevin is talking about the folder icons in the toolbar. Although they’re face on they’re pretty much the old style of folders from Tiger & earlier (although very nicely done
).
April 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Wow man. Inspirational. This is like the forward to a book. Good job and godspeed.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I can tell how much work you have put into Flow, and it works like a champ for me on my Macbook. The seamless editing is what grabs me. I became tired of editing in Textwrangler, saving, then dragging the file from a finder window to a cyberduck window. Now? I can just double click on whatever file I want to edit, do what I need to do, and hit save. It works great.
Job well done, Brian.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Congratulations on this release! Kudos for all the hard work you’ve put into this product - it shows
April 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I’ve been following this for some time now as well. Excellent working of core features into a single application. Now I can throw Dreamweaver out the door completely for my Mac-based web development.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:09 am
At first blush, looks very cool, very smooth. Any way to save tab sessions, or do those get killed every time you quit? If so, why?
April 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Flow is really nice–very fast, which is great. But I have to say–for me–Flow won’t be useful without a local files view. I don’t want to have to drag from Finder every time I want to upload something. It’s not practical.
In addition, the focus on the transfer view is a little strange to me. When I upload something, I don’t want to watch a large graphical representation, I just want to keep working. While I know you can turn off this auto-switch to the view, I think the progress display when NOT in the view it’s successful enough at describing how the uploads are progressing. Needs a total progress bar in addition.
I’d also love a column view, since that’s my preferred way of browsing files.
This is a great start. I’m hoping you continue to develop it and make it even better!
April 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hey there,
Flow does look very nice but WebDAV doesn’t seem to work. I’m able to access my WebDAV server without difficulty using Goliath 1.0.1, but Flow just sits there, stuck on “Listing”. I’ve let it sit for something like ten minutes, but nothing. Goliath on the other hand connects right away.
I’ve been looking for a good replacement for Goliath for some time, considering how old it is (it was last updated four years ago!) and how unstable it can be sometimes.
Is there something I’m doing wrong with Flow? I’ve entered my site info and login/password correctly, but still I get no joy. Perhaps you can make some recommendations?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I love flow, definitely the best mac FTP app available right now, with the possible exception of Coda (which isn’t really a competitor).
I noticed it is executing php files in the code editor preview. How exactly does this work? It is a useless and potentially dangerous feature for me. None of my php files will generate useful output unless they’re being loaded via Apache, and some of them will destroy data if executed incorrectly (especially if they’re rendered in real time).
April 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Just a note - I tried the WebDAV thing with Forklift and it worked a treat. So either I’m missing something with Flow, or it’s broken.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Once I click “Connect” it beach balls me, and just hangs there…
April 4th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Congratulations Brian !
This is a pleasure for me to use this application and I just love it.
Worth $30 !!
April 4th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Awesome work! Love it already, give’s a one-two punch versus transmit in my opinion. Never was a fan for the split screen view anyways. Just inconvenient, when you already have a lot of finder or even one pathfinder window already open. Not to mention it uploads fast. Which is a funky thing to say when the upload speed is the same, but since it does multiple at once, small files won’t take forever, instead of maybe 10 minutes due to a bad ftp engine, flow screams in ~3 minutes to upload a whole base of wordpress. Simply wonderful
April 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
‘Tis great to finally try it out. Not an app I need right now, primarily because I rarely transfer files anyway, and also because I’m looking or older synchronisation and Amazon S3 support. But it’s very nice and I’ll play with it a bit more in the trial period.
Things I love: no local files pane. Others love it, but I don’t see much value to it. Breadcrumb navigation to instantly switch to parent folders. View button that knows how to form a URL to view externally. The Edit function with Live Preview would be good if I needed to edit files on a server.
Annoyances: Quick Look only works if Preview Files In Info View preference is selected. I don’t want to waste bandwidth having flow download everything I select just in case I want a quick look at it, especially on a slower connection. Also, I find it frustrating that I can’t press Space to launch Quick Look until the preview has loaded in the Info panel. My preference would be to have an instant response to pressing Space in the form of a progress bar that is replaced by the Quick Look panel once the file is loaded.
Lastly, get some sleep! Don’t work yourself into the ground - customers want software that can be developed sustainably. Congrats on a solid first release.
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April 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hrm … still no S3 support. Was hoping this would end up in the final version.
April 5th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Flow looks nice, but it definitely needs some things. The biggest feature for me that’s missing is local view… the last thing i want to do is drag a crap load of windows around and files so I can then drop them in the app to start uploading. Some people may prefer not having a local view, but for the people like me, you should make it a preference. It also needs S3 support. If local view makes it into a later version I might switch.
BTW: What happened to the sexy site you used to have? This one is ugly in comparison.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I develop using Ruby on Rails, so server-side editing, quick view etc don’t really aid me, but a solid FTP client does, Flow seems to suit perfectly, well almost. I have come across one issue - when upload files I acts as if someone is torrenting, and kanes the latency.
While this is good for fast uploads, it is bad for others trying to use the network, as it grinds everything to a halt, bandwidth isn’t a problem - it’s the latency, so opening say a flickr page takes a few seconds to do a lookup - then loads fine, but those few seconds is frustrating when multiplied by everyone in the office having the same slowdown.
Does anyone else have this problem?
April 6th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I really enjoy Flow, but I have the problem the certain folders appear to be empty (when they clearly aren’t). I can see and edit the 20+ files just fine using Transmit, but Flow doesn’t show anything! It’s always the same folders, but there’s nothing special about them (permission stuff, hidden files or something like that).
The connection transcript shows the following:
LIST -fa
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete.
…while an empty folder (I just created one) results in:
LIST -fa
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-xr-x 2 web52 web52 104 Apr 7 08:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 web52 web52 3088 Apr 7 08:07 ..
226 Transfer complete.
Any idea why this problem occurs?
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April 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Any chance of a maczot or mupromo discount?
I know you’re in high school, but so am I. I’ll still buy it to go along with my other FTP apps, but one of the discount sites bight help spread the word even more.
Just hoping.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am
There’s lots I like about Flow, but also lots I have problems with or don’t understand.
For a start I don’t understand why there a tabs in addition to the sidebar, it seems like duplicate functionality. I don’t think the bottom file info panel is really very useful, it introduces too many steps into setting permissions on a file, a floating inspector would be better.
As for actual bugs, I’m getting long hangs when connection to the IIS servers I use and Flow also allows me to try and set file permissions on those servers when I don’t have the privileges to do this. On, some other servers I repeated get a message saying ‘all connection types have been exhausted’. Finally, uploads to Box.net via webdav never seem to finish correctly. It would be nice to see a transcript snippet when errors occur (as in Cyberduck).
April 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I just tried the lastest nightly (1.0.1 (318)), but my problem I posted about yesterday is still there.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:12 am
@ Sebastiaan
When I believe your issue has been resolved by a nightly, you’ll receive a reply to your issue report asking you to try it out.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
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April 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Wow! Very cool program. It’s staying on the Dock.
Thanx, Bart
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