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{{Infobox Software 
| name                   = Fetch
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| collapsible            = yes
| developer              = [[Fetch Softworks]]
| latest release version = 5.8.3
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2023|01|16}}
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| operating system       = [[Classic Mac OS]], [[macOS]]
| genre                  = [[FTP client]]
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                = {{URL|https://fetchsoftworks.com}}}}

'''Fetch''' is a full-featured GUI-based [[FTP client]] for the [[classic Mac OS]] and [[macOS]] made by [[Fetch Softworks]]. In addition to basic [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and re-upload them. In version 5.0, support for [[FTP over SSH|SFTP]] was added, and in version 5.2, [[FTPS]] was added.

==History==
Fetch was created in the summer of 1989 by Jim Matthews, an employee of [[Dartmouth College]]. At the time, it was intended primarily for internal college use. Fetch was maintained and updated as a Dartmouth software project and was eventually released as [[shareware]], becoming very popular in the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] community.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Engst |first=Adam C. |url=https://archive.org/details/mac_Internet_Starter_Kit_for_Macintosh_2nd_Edition_1994/page/n583/mode/2up |title=Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh |date=1994 |publisher=Indianapolis, IN : Hayden Books |isbn=978-1-56830-111-2 |pages=570–574 |chapter=Fetch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Teague |first=Jason Cranford |date=September 2003 |title=FTP Clients |url=https://archive.org/details/macworld00unse_kn4/page/40/mode/2up |journal=Macworld |pages=40–41}}</ref> Due to its status as an official product of an educational institution, Fetch was always free for educational users.<ref name="founding">{{cite web|title=The Fetch Softworks Story|url=http://fetchsoftworks.com/about-us|website=Fetch Softworks|accessdate=22 June 2015}}</ref>

The first version of Fetch was a [[desk accessory]]. For most of the 1990s it competed with [[Interarchy|Anarchie]] as one of the two main Mac FTP clients.

After being a contestant on the game show ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]'' in December 2000, Matthews used his winnings to purchase the Fetch [[source code]] and launch [[Fetch Softworks]].<ref name="founding"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fleishman |first=Glenn |date=2018-12-30 |title=The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/232233/mac-indy-apps-thrived-for-more-than-25-years.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Macworld |language=en}}</ref> Fetch 4.0, the first version of the application to support [[MacOS version history|Mac OS X]], was released in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sellers |first=Dennis |date=2001-05-01 |title=Mac OS X ‘Fetches’ FTP client |url=https://www.macworld.com/article/161004/fetch-3.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Macworld |language=en}}</ref>

==Essay contest==
In September 2007, Fetch Softworks hosted a back-to-school essay contest for students, teachers, or anyone else affiliated with an educational institution. There were five winners: four second-prize winners and one grand-prize winner; the second-place contestants were awarded a third-generation iPod Nano and $100. The grand-prize winner was given a black Apple MacBook along with $750. The contest asked Fetch users how they incorporated Fetch into their lives.

==See also==
*[[Comparison of FTP client software]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://fetchsoftworks.com Official website]
*[https://fetchsoftworks.com/news/fetch-awards-macbook-ipods-to.html/ Fetch Softworks Essay Contest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405163138/http://fetchsoftworks.com/news/fetch-awards-macbook-ipods-to.html |date=2009-04-05 }}

[[Category:Macintosh-only software]]
[[Category:FTP clients]]
[[Category:SSH File Transfer Protocol clients]]


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