Notarized by Apple · Free during beta · macOS, Apple Silicon

Heavy media,
light work.

Still babysitting 400 GB uploads in a browser tab? Portage moves heavy media between cloud and drives — fast, verified, no terminal. Built native for the Macs that cut film.

Checksum verification Google Drive + Dropbox Menu bar progress Built-in MCP Rclone powered
Portage macOS app — Overview dashboard with connected remotes
Transfer running 274.8 GB · 74% · 18 min left
Why Portage

Built for media teams that move huge files every day.

Portage wraps heavy-duty transfer infrastructure in a native Mac interface. It keeps the power, removes the terminal, and makes verification part of the workflow.

Delivered means proven.

Any transfer, any time after: one click re-checks every byte against the destination, hash by hash. Know your footage arrived bit-perfect — before you wipe the cards.

Verification is never paywalled. Trust shouldn't cost extra.

Lives in the menu bar.

Kick off a transfer and get back to your timeline. Progress lives on the Dock icon and in a menu bar mini-dashboard — per-file speed, percentage and ETA, one click away.

Done? The menu bar tells you. Mismatch? It tells you louder.

Mac to Mac. No cloud between.

Two machines, one network — or one Tailscale. Portage moves media directly over SFTP, no upload-then-download round trip, no storage bill for the privilege.

The color suite gets the master. The cloud never sees it.

Your files never touch our servers.

Portage moves data directly between your Mac and the storage you connect. Credentials and OAuth tokens stay on your machine. No analytics, no tracking.

The only network calls Portage itself makes are update checks.
Talk to your files

Native MCP. Your storage, on speaking terms with AI.

Portage ships a built-in MCP server: connect Claude — or any AI assistant — and ask what no file manager answers. What's eating my Drive? Any duplicate takes? How's the migration doing? The assistant sees your storage; you keep the wheel.

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Claude + Portageconnected over MCP
Find duplicate files in my Drive
Found 23 duplicate groups — 41.2 GB wasted. Worst offender: BIL05949.jpg in 4 places. Want the full list?
How's my migration going?
62% — 290 of 463 GB at 17 MB/s, 12 files in flight. Done in about 2h40. One benign listing error (Personal Vault), everything else clean.
Any copy an AI requests needs your native macOS approval. Deleting via AI doesn't exist.

Built-in MCP server. Two clicks to connect.

Open About → MCP, copy one command, and Claude — Code or Desktop — can browse your remotes, search, hunt duplicates by checksum and narrate live transfer status.

Reads are free. Actions always ask. Deleting doesn't exist.
Shipping in beta — the first transfer app your AI can talk to.
The rclone engine, tamed
0

clouds.
Zero terminal.

Portage drives the same battle-tested engine trusted by sysadmins for a decade — wrapped in an interface made for people who'd rather be editing.

Google Drive and Dropbox are two clicks and an OAuth away.

The other 67 are in the same menu. Connect storage, choose origin and destination, start moving. No scripts. No memorized flags. No fragile browser sessions.

Google DriveDropboxOneDrive S3BoxSFTP BackblazeFTPWebDAV
Open beta

It's a beta. We're saying so.

Portage is in open beta and free while we polish. The feedback button is built into the title bar — what you report shapes what ships.

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Private by design

Your files never touch our servers.

Portage moves data directly between your Mac and the storage you connect. Credentials and OAuth tokens stay on your machine. No analytics, no tracking.