AeroFTP
Developer-approvedAle (axpdev)
Multi-protocol file client for FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and cloud storage
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About
This is a community package of AeroFTP, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the AeroFTP project. It repackages the official upstream Linux build unmodified.
AeroFTP is a cross-platform desktop client for transferring files over FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, S3-compatible storage, GitHub and cloud providers, with a two-pane browser, an encrypted local vault for credentials, and a built-in media preview.
- Connect over FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV and S3-compatible storage.
- Two-pane transfers with a queue, and previews for text, images and media.
- Credentials stored in a local AES-256-GCM vault, or in the system keyring.
- Export connection profiles to rclone, WinSCP and FileZilla formats.
Permissions: this package keeps a tight sandbox by default — display, GPU, audio, network, a tray icon, and access to the system keyring for saved passwords. No filesystem access is pre-granted, which has one consequence you should know about before installing: AeroFTP's local pane browses the sandbox home under ~/.var/app/com.aeroftp.AeroFTP, not your real home directory. Transfers to and from anywhere else go through the desktop portal's file chooser.
To point the local pane at your real home directory — the way upstream's own build behaves — run flatpak override --user --filesystem=home com.aeroftp.AeroFTP. Narrower grants work too, for example --filesystem=~/Documents. For removable media, add --filesystem=/run/media. Note that the in-app updater cannot work here: it installs a .deb or .rpm through pkexec, which a read-only Flatpak install does not allow. Updates arrive through Flatpak instead.
Details
- Developer
- Ale (axpdev)
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Runtime
- GNOME 51
- Architectures
- x86_64
- Version
- 4.2.3 · 2026-10-13
- Website
- Homepage
- Source
- AeroFTP
- Packaging
- flatpark/registry
Permissions
5 to reviewNetwork access
Can reach the internet and local network
Files: xdg-run/tray-icon:create
Home folder
Files: /media
Files: /run/media
Inter-process communication
Shares the IPC namespace with the host
X11 (fallback)
Audio (PulseAudio)
Talk to org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
Talk to org.freedesktop.secrets
Owns service app.aeroftp.AeroFTP.SingleInstance
Wayland display
GPU acceleration
Packaging
AdaptedAdds components the runtime lacks
Shipped next to the app: ayatana