I Built a Mac App That Turns Any FTP Server Into a Native macOS Drive

I built myCloudDrive — a macOS menu bar app that connects to your own server via SFTP, FTPS, or WebDAV and mounts it as a real drive in Finder. No cloud provider, no subscription, no middleman. Your files stay on your server. The Problem I have files on my VPS. I have files on shared hosting. I have files on a NAS. Every time I need something, it's the same dance: open Transmit or Cyberduck, connect, navigate, download, edit, re-upload. What I actually wanted was simple: my server showing up in Finder like a USB drive. macOS has had "Connect to Server" for years, but it's flaky, disconnects randomly, and doesn't handle FTPS at all. Third-party mount tools exist but most are slow network filesystems that choke on large files. I wanted something different: a local drive that syncs — fast local reads, background sync to the server, works offline. The Architecture myCloudDrive runs as a menu bar app and does three things: Creates a sparse disk image and mounts it at /Volumes/myCloudDrive —