Your files.Any shore.One rope.
Ferry runs parallel archive ops on your remote servers without downloading first. Dual-pane, SFTP, cloud, and streaming preview — for developers who live in ~/.ssh/config.
Archive ops on remote servers.
Right-click a folder on your staging box. Ferry runs a parallel tar.zst on the remote machine using the dolzip engine, streams the bytes back, and shows a preview of any file inside — all without a full download. Nothing else in the macOS file manager space does this. That's the whole point of Ferry.
Select on remote
Click a folder in the right pane. Ferry is already holding an SSH connection, so there is no per-action handshake.
Ferry runs the engine on the far side
dolzip's parallel compressor executes on the remote machine directly, not on your laptop. Multi-threaded, zstd, mmap-aware.
Stream bytes, preview inline
Results stream back. Hit F3 on any entry to render an image, read a log file, or scrub through a video — without ever extracting the archive to disk.
Your config is already the bookmarks.
Table stakes, done right.
Dual-pane + tabs
Independent L/R panels with multiple tabs each. Local folder on the left, three production servers on the right. TAB to switch, Cmd+T for a new tab, keyboard nav throughout.
SSH config as bookmarks
Ferry reads ~/.ssh/config on launch. Every Host block becomes a bookmark. ed25519 and rsa keys via Keychain, agent forwarding supported, no passwords re-typed.
Remote archive ops
Parallel tar.zst, unzip, 7z — executed on the remote host via the dolzip engine. Preview archive contents without extracting. The feature that justifies Ferry's existence.
Streaming preview
Press F3. Images (PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF), PDFs, text with 50+ language syntax, video, audio — all streamed from remote without downloading the file.
Two-way folder sync
Compare local and remote side by side: new, changed, deleted, identical. One-click sync in either direction. Saved as a named route for repeat use.
Cloud when you need it
S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Backblaze B2, WebDAV. OAuth in the browser, tokens in Keychain. Treated as just another remote pane.
Resumable transfers
Multi-threaded queue. Auto-resume on disconnect. Pause, resume, cancel, ETA, bandwidth limit. Safe on flaky hotel Wi-Fi.
Keyboard first
F3 preview, F5 copy, F6 move, F8 delete, Cmd+Shift+H/D/L jumps, Cmd+T/W tabs. Learn once, stay in the home row.
Rust and Tauri
~8 MB bundle, not Electron. Native performance. Sandboxed file access. Uses the same dolzip engine that powers the StonZip archiver.
Stay in the home row.
Cast off when Ferry launches.
Ferry is under construction. The dolzip engine is live. The landing page is this page. The app itself is next. Drop your email and I'll notify you when the first build ships.
Notify me at launchmacOS 13+ · Apple Silicon · Internal testing, not public release