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That file email keeps bouncing? Send it as a short link instead

Attachment limits stop at around 25 MB; your video, dataset, or install package does not. Upload it once here, pass the short link to anyone, and their download starts the moment they click. Nothing to install on either side.

Drop your file here

Anyone with the link · images, audio, video, docs, text & data, or .zip

By uploading, you agree to our Terms and Data Processing Terms and confirm you have the right to share this content.

Three steps from oversized file to delivered

  1. Upload the file that would not fit

    Drag the oversized file into the box above or browse for it. The upload streams straight to storage, so even multi-gigabyte transfers move as fast as your connection allows.

  2. Collect the short link

    As soon as the transfer completes you get a compact URL that stands in for the whole file. That handful of characters is all your recipient ever needs.

  3. Deliver it through any channel

    Drop the link into an email body, a Slack thread, a text message, or a ticket. It weighs nothing, so no inbox filter, quota, or gateway will reject it.

Where a transfer link outruns the attachment

Transfers this replaces every day

Common questions about large transfers

What is the maximum file size?
Anonymous transfers accept files up to 30 MB; a free sign-in raises the ceiling to 50 MB. Because delivery happens over a URL instead of SMTP, mail-server attachment caps never enter the picture regardless of who receives it.
Does the recipient have to register to download?
Never. The link opens directly in their browser and the file starts arriving. No account creation, no app install, no address verification standing between them and the download, which matters when you are sending to a client you cannot ask to jump through hoops.
When does the transfer link expire?
A link created without signing in works for 48 hours. Create it while signed in to a free account and it keeps working for 30 days. Past the deadline the address stops resolving entirely rather than parking on a nag screen.
What does this cost?
Nothing for the core flow. Transfers up to 30 MB require no account and no payment, and the free tier adds 50 MB uploads plus links that survive for 30 days. There is no trial clock counting down in the background.
Are certain file types rejected?
More than 85 formats are accepted, spanning video, disk images, datasets, design sources, CAD files, Office and OpenDocument suites, media, and archives. If your format is in the catalog, size is the only constraint that applies to it.
How fast are the upload and the download?
Both run at whatever your line supports; there is no artificial throttle on either direction and no queue to wait in. Uploads stream to storage as they arrive, and downloads are served from edge infrastructure, so a recipient on another continent still pulls at full speed.
What does the person I send the link to actually see?
A clean page with the file name, its size, and a download control, plus an inline preview when the format supports one. No ad wall, no countdown timer, no mismatched buttons engineered to be clicked by mistake. It behaves the same on a phone, a tablet, and a locked-down office machine.
Can strangers stumble onto my file while the link works?
The URL is randomly generated and never published in any directory here, so in practice only the people you hand it to can reach the file. The address itself is the credential though: forwardable by design, so send it over channels you trust and let the expiry window close behind it.

Sending a document? Turn a PDF into a link. Built a site with AI? Host an AI-generated website. Not a size problem, just an account problem? Share files with no account.

Shipping big files from a pipeline or backend? The upload API returns the same short link from a single HTTP request.