Flow App Reviews

All of the updates are really helping and this is an awesome app. Thank you for keeping up on it rather than letting it become one of the many pieces of abandonware that are in the store.

Very clean and usable app aside from the fact that there is no way of getting an actual ftp link or a full path for a given file. Kinda weird for an FTP app, but then probably most wouldnt care. Still, its something I really miss from Cyberduck. Great FTP client otherwise.

Ive contacted support three different times in the last few weeks with a question about the app and they never responded...

Most of the time when I try to transfer files it just says it is transfereing but takes glitches and does not. Evean if it is a 6 kb file. :l

Cool icon, but thats about it. The layout of this app just feels akward to me. I still havent figured out how to save a connection configuration (aka favorites). Flow has no option to pause downloads (it just keeps on flowing amirite!?). There are no features in the transfers window; nothing is clickable, right clickable, etc. The icon badge in my dock doesnt even show progress it just tells me whether or not a transfer is happening. The button to toggle the transfers window is in a very illogical place and I often forget how it functions. The local file browser is for bollocks too. There needs to be more buttons, more features. Im a total barebones FTP user and Im completely amazed this app is not even sufficient for me.

Can the default editor change from Flows editor to an external editor? I know I can change the default external editor, but I would like to not use Flows editor at all.

I was using it for a couple of months and liking it a lot . . . its simplicity, ease of use, and speed were so nice. It also allowed multiple instances so that you could transfer between two ftp sites directly. sweet! Then one day she just stopped working .. she wouldnt respond. I re-installed, re-booted, and re-committed myself to the relationship . . . but she never responded again. So long Flow . . back to FZ, who has never let me down.

Theres a critical bug that causes the app to stop responding. I have a small website and Im merely trying to back it up locally but this application cant handle that. I have contacted the developer who responded acknowledging that he could reproduce it and I even gave him access to my FTP. However he basically said he was too busy to fix it and I never heard back. Basically unusable and hes unresponsive. If this worked well and was supported properly it seems like a nice/cheap FTP application but dont waste your money on it now.

I like it – It’s fast – It’s easy. Ill love it when it can save settings. I keep a text file open so I can copy in the data needed to sign in. Im currently feeding two servers and getting tired of copy/pasting paths, passwords, and server names. Bring out the next level - Ill buy it.

After years of empty promises, missing and/or broken features, this steaming pile of code has been -officially- abandoned by its creator, as he skips off to join Facebook. So, I wouldnt expect any further app updates, fixes, or support response of any kind.

This application was okay when I first got it, but for months and months now I havent been able to connect to any of the SFTP servers I need to work with: the program becomes unresponsive and I have to force it to quit every single time. But even before that, the program had severe memory leaks that caused it to take massive amounts of memory if I left it open overnight. Since, as others mentioned, this application has been EOLd as the developer moves on to other fields, I do not imagine any fixes are in the works.

I needed to use SFTP to edit code on a remote server this week, and since I didnt have a client installed on my new MacBook, I went looking in the App Store for something that I hoped would be Mountain Lion compliant. This thing looked beautiful, and for $4.99 I figured, what do I have to lose? Answer: an entire afternoons worth of work!!! I was using an external text editor because the Flow editor didnt have syntax highlighting for Perl, and everything seemed to work fine. Then after a couple of hours of successfully editing and saving to the server repeatedly, poof, my file was wiped out on the server! Apparently theres no support for the app anymore, which I guess means no bug fixes either. Time to install my trustworthy old pal Fetch, which I can apparently upgrade for $10. Thanks for nothing, Flow!

This was the first client I used after using primarily "sftp." Older versions where pretty buggy, but Ive not had any issues with the newer releases since the author rewrote his transfer system in 1.5 and finally re-added SFTP support. That said, the author has basically abandoned this. I will keep using it until it stops working for me and I hope that is a long time because this has one of the simplest interfaces in transfer clients Ive seen. Yes, the sidebar is a little weird, but dragging and dropping from finder works just as well.

I really enjoy FLOW. My only issue that ive come across with this softward is that if you try to upload a bunch of files at one time one ore two may freeze and not upload. No matter how long you wait for it to upload it never does so you have to close out of the softward and start over. This gets annoying.

I have to agree with all the other reviews. The app has been abandoned by its developer who joined Facebook, support is not provided and yet here it still is for sale. Just when some serious strides were being made with the underlying engine, (was really getting fater than all its competition). I prefer to support developers who dont abandon their projects and then leave the app up for sale to scrape a few dollars on the way out.

It would be GREAT if there was an option to set Flow to automatically connect to a saved connection when Flow is launched. Please consider this.

Before Flow, I was using Cyberduck. Comparing the features to other FTP clients, I never really felt anyone offered anything remarkably different enough worth paying for. When I saw Flow, it was everything that I wanted to see in an FTP client. After purchasing this great app, and using it just to log in and quickly transfer a few files, I feel like I should have paid more. Incredible, you definately get your moneys worth… and then some!

the app idea is nice and clean but it crashes all the time when going into a sub/sub directory.. its a shame

Sadly this application is abandonware. Over a year has gone by and a plethora of bugs and instabilities still plague this potentially great application.

I love the interface and look of FLOW, but the no resume function has absolutely wasted my week. Until they add this function, you will be banging your head against the wall when your download stalls out for the 10th time and you have to start over.