Looking for app for NTFS and FTP

For NTFS you can buy Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software

Avoid Paragon, trust me, I’m using Mounty on Tahoe for reading and writing NTFS drives, and it works fine

NTFS for Mac Try parallels and windows or exfat on Mac.

Cyberduck for s/ftp : https://duck.sh/

For FTP etc. Use CloudMounter .

For NTFS write support, Mounty is free and works well for occasional use — it remounts NTFS volumes in read/write mode with no setup required. If you need it reliably every day, Paragon NTFS is the most recommended paid option at around $20 one-time and it is very stable. For FTP and network storage, Transmit from Panic is the Mac standard — handles FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, and Backblaze all in one clean interface, $45 one-time. If budget is tight, Cyberduck covers FTP and most cloud protocols for free, the UI is less polished but it gets the job done. Both problems solved with two apps.

Try to format with exfat on Disk Utility. Lot of modern routers and TV can run exfat

- Windows reads & writes to NTFS, and FAT32 - The Macintosh OS reads and writes to FAT32, Mac OS extended (aka HFS+), and APFS - The Macintosh OS can read from, but not write to, NTFS (i.e. it is read only for the Mac) MacDrive ($50) will allow Windows computers to read and write to drives that are formatted as HFS+: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ and TransMac ($48) http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm A Mac can write to (as well as read from) a NTFS disk using: NTFS for Mac OS X (free) last updated 2016 https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/ NTFS-3G (free). ONLY up to Mac 10.6 http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/09/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-201088.html Paragon NTFS - Mac ($30) http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ Seagate Paragon drivers for both Mac and Windows (free; for Seagate drives only) https://www.seagate.com/support/software/paragon/ Tuxera NTFS ($29) http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ https://ntfsformac.tuxera.com

Good summary. With the answer being Paragon NTFS for Mac.

Even after these posts from years ago?

You can connect to any FTP server using nothing more than the macOS, but you can only download files, you cannot upload files without additional software. In the Finder choose: Go menu --> Connect to Server, and enter the FTP server's address. A new window will appear on your Mac's desktop for the FTP server that you can use more or less like a folder on your internal drive. Download files by simple drag and drop out of this window! If you want to add a bookmark to ‘Favorite Servers’ for quick future connections, click on the + icon next to the “Server Address” field.

I strongly recommend you do not use FTP unless there's literally no other option. Use SFTP, use HTTPS, use SMB, there are many better options. FTP is a crufty old protocol that's badly designed and hard to secure.

Cyberduck, is good for FTP! Highly recommend

For pure nostalgia value and also for a pretty good FTP client, go with Fetch - https://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/ - Basically the original FTP client for Mac. I've been using Fetch since the early 1990s and they have an interesting backstory if you want to read it here: https://fetchsoftworks.com/about-us

This is something I started doing as I have both mac and windows. For usb disk you can actually format them to exFAT and this is something both apple and windows and Linux can read and write to. The drawback is that it does not have a journaling system which means specific on mac and Linux you first unmount them before unplugging as there is more risk to your data.

For ftp on separate note and for those who don't know Mozilla does provide ftp client and server as well. Filezilla it is called. However as longtime user of Flashfxp most ftp client miss one function I miss greatly and while Filezilla has this, it does not work great and that is comparing folders local vs online.

Donemax NTFS https://www.donemax.com/ntfs-for-mac/ the price ist $ 49.95 Livetime

I bought it on Friday on the Bundle Hunt for $3.50. It worked great.

me too, a while ago

For NTFS write support, Mounty is free and works well for occasional use — it remounts NTFS volumes in read/write mode with no setup required. If you need it reliably every day, Paragon NTFS is the most recommended paid option at around $20 one-time and it is very stable. For FTP and network storage, Transmit from Panic is the Mac standard — handles FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, and Backblaze all in one clean interface, $45 one-time. If budget is tight, Cyberduck covers FTP and most cloud protocols for free. Separately, if you find yourself juggling multiple local folders and drives at the same time, mq-dir is a nice complement — it's a multi-pane file manager for macOS that lets you keep 3-4 directories visible at once, which helps a lot when moving files between NTFS drives and your Mac.

If the drive just needs to work between Mac and Windows, consider formatting it as exFAT in Disk Utility instead of NTFS. macOS and Windows can both read/write exFAT without extra software. If you specifically need NTFS, macOS can read NTFS but not normally write to it, so you’ll want a driver like Paragon NTFS for Mac or Tuxera NTFS for Mac. For FTP/network storage, that’s a separate thing from NTFS. Try Cyberduck first since it’s free and beginner-friendly. FileZilla also works. If you want a polished paid Mac option, Transmit or ForkLift are good. Also, use SFTP/FTPS or SMB if your server supports it, rather than plain FTP.

Regarding the FTP app, you might want to look into FinderTools. Among other things, it lets you manage FTP servers with a simple right-click directly inside the Mac Finder. https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1tduig5/comment/olzx2xw/?sort=new