Free to use · Ferry 1.9.1 · macOS 14 or later

Copy large files with verification.

Ferry is a Mac app for reliable file transfers. It verifies copied files, saves progress, and keeps your source files untouched.

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Saved Transfers
Ferry showing saved, paused, and completed transfers with generic example names

What it does

The essentials for long file transfers.

Verified copies

Ferry checks copied files and runs a final verification before marking a transfer complete.

Pause and continue

Progress is saved, so long transfers can continue after a pause, interruption, or app restart.

Source files stay put

Ferry copies files. It never deletes the originals or turns a transfer into an automatic move.

Community build

How to open Ferry on your Mac

This build is ad-hoc signed but not Apple-notarized. macOS may ask you to approve the installer once and Ferry once.

  1. 1

    Open the installer

    Open the DMG and double-click Install Ferry. Let macOS show its warning.

  2. 2

    Open Privacy & Security

    Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, and click Open Anyway.

  3. 3

    Confirm

    Authenticate and click Open. If Ferry itself is blocked later, repeat the same step for the app.

Keep Gatekeeper on. Use Apple’s one-app exception instead of disabling Mac security.

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Privacy

Local, with no telemetry.

Ferry has no analytics, ads, cloud sync, account, or automatic network updates. Transfer data and checkpoints stay in ~/Library/Application Support/Ferry.

What Ferry stores locally

Selected source and destination paths, backlog and checkpoints, file progress and checksum state, installer rollback copies, and a small health log.

Optional agent control uses a user-only local socket and records local agent activity when enabled. Bug reports are shown for review and editing; Ferry never sends one automatically.

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Download details

Ferry 1.9.1

Universal community-unsigned build for macOS 14 or later.

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Community support

Help us join the Apple Developer Program.

We want future Ferry builds to be Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized, so they open without the extra approval step. Community support helps cover that membership and ongoing release costs.

Support is optional and is not a purchase or a promise of a release date.

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