So, I see everyone recommends Filezilla, SmartFTP, Wise-FTP, Cute-FTP, Angry-FTP and other weirdass named clients as the best FTP client. I’ve tried all of the above and honestly, I don’t like them at all. The interfaces are ugly, they don’t support SSH and they’re slow (or at least not as fast as I want them to be).

So, here’s my recommendation: BitKinex. Yes, the name is also weird (Kinetics?), but the program itself is quite different. A few features not found in other clients include: SFTP (SSH 2) and WebDAV support, Multiple connections (with different websites, secure and non-secure), multiple parallel download/upload streams (upload and download at the highest speed possible), photon cannons (© The Doctor…guess which one? :-) and a very nice interface with detacheable and hideable windows, nice navigation and other stuff.

Maybe I’m over-praising it, but I’ve beein using it for 2 years and only had a few problems with it freezing up for a few seconds (well, it runs on Windows, so I guess that’s a given :-).

Check the screenshot below (All four visible windows are Bitkinex’s and can be moved about independently):

Now you’ll have another tool to consider when choosing, and I think this is the best client I’ve ever used (for Windows, anyway)…