Ferry

File transfer for your LAN

A simple way to move files to and from your iPhone or iPad over your own network — SMB or SFTP, no cloud round-trip, no AirDrop juggling. No accounts, no telemetry, no clutter.

See what's on your device, see what's on your network, move files between them. That's it.

Free. iPhone & iPad, iOS 17+.
No accounts, no in-app purchases.

Ferry connections screen with saved hosts and an On your network section — Saved hosts and what's on your network.

Ferry discovering NAS and Macs sharing over the local network — Find NAS and Macs sharing over your Wi-Fi.

What's in the box

SMB and SFTP, done rightConnect, browse, download, upload, and delete against real SMB2/3 shares and OpenSSH servers — password or SSH-key auth.
Finds hosts for youBonjour discovery surfaces NAS boxes and Macs sharing over SMB or SSH under “On your network,” so you're not typing IP addresses.
Saved connections, credentials in the KeychainSave a host once and tap to reconnect. Passwords and imported SSH keys live in the iOS Keychain — they don't leave your device.
One pane or two, automaticallyA clean single-pane flow on iPhone and a true dual-pane browser on iPad, so “from where, to where” is always obvious.
Transfers you can trustA transfers screen with per-job progress, a queue, and retry on failure — plus a prompt before you overwrite a file at the destination.
Open with QuickLookHand a local file off to the system QuickLook preview — no built-in viewer suite to wade through.

What's not in the box

Not a file manager. Not a cloud client. No ads, no accounts, no tracking, no syncing, no “pro” tier. Nothing leaves your network — there's no Ferry server to leave it for.

Requirements

iOS 17 or lateriPhone and iPad.
A server on your networkAn SMB or SFTP share — a NAS, a home server, or file sharing on a Mac — reachable over the same Wi-Fi.

Move a file in three taps.