Share a File
Runs on our server, not on your device.
Send large files by link, with an expiry date and an optional password.
- Drop in the file you want to send.
- Choose how long the link should work — an hour, a day, a week or a month.
- Add a password if the file is not for everyone who might see the link.
- Copy the link and send it however you like.
Anyone with this link can download the file until it expires. Stop it any time from My files.
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About this tool
Sending a large file is harder than it should be: email bounces anything interesting, chat apps compress your images, and most file-sending sites want the person receiving it to sign up for something. This gives you a temporary file link instead — and there is no signup at the other end. Drop a file in, choose how long the link should last, add a password if the file is not for everyone, and send it. The person at the other end sees a page with the filename, the size, and a download button — no account, no app, nothing to install. Every link has an end date, because a file you sent once and forgot about should not still be sitting on the internet a year later. The longest is 30 days and there is no permanent option, deliberately. You can stop any link before then from your files page, which also shows how many times each one has been opened. If somebody is sent something they should not have been, there is a report button on the page itself that stops the link immediately — for everyone, without waiting on us. Sending a link needs a free account, because a public link on our domain should belong to somebody rather than to nobody; what a subscription buys is a bigger file and a longer life, not the feature itself.
Frequently asked questions
Does the person receiving it need an account?
No. They open the link, see what the file is, and download it. No sign-up, no app, nothing to install — which is the whole point of sending a link rather than attaching something.
Can I stop a link after sending it?
Yes, at any time, from My files. Each link shows when it expires and how many times it has been opened, with a Stop button beside it. Stopping one link leaves any others for the same file working.
Why is there no permanent link?
Because the failure mode of "forever" is not that it is long — it is that a link you sent once and forgot keeps serving a file for years, and the only thing that ever stops it is remembering it exists. Thirty days is the longest, and everything expires on its own.
What does the password actually protect?
It stops somebody who merely has the link from opening the file. It is hashed, never stored as you typed it. It does not stop the person you sent it to from keeping the file once they have opened it — nothing can, and any tool claiming otherwise is describing a hope rather than a mechanism.
Do I need an account to send a file?
A free one, yes. This is the only thing here that publishes — a link on our domain, serving a file, to anybody who has the URL — so every link should belong to somebody rather than to nobody. That is what the account is for. What Pro buys is the size of the file, how long the link can last, and how much you can keep stored at once.
What if I am sent something I should not have been?
There is a report button on the page, outside the password prompt so you can use it without opening the file. One confirmation stops the link immediately, for everybody holding it, with no queue and no waiting on us.
How big a file can I send?
50 MB on a free account and 2.0 GB on Pro, per file. Above about 25 MB the file goes straight from your browser to storage rather than through this site, which is what makes the larger sizes possible — and it means a big upload is limited by your own connection rather than by us.
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