Use cases

What people put behind a link

The same three things happen every time, you upload, you get one address, and the person on the other end opens it in a browser with no account. What changes is the job. These pages cover the jobs people actually arrive with, including the parts where we are the wrong tool.

Start with a file

54 pages · 5 categories

Photos, events and people

Sets of images that have to open on somebody else's phone, with no app and no account, and, usually, an audience who will not tolerate a sign-in screen.

Wedding photo sharing800 photos, a mixed-age guest list, and a photographer who delivers three weeks late.Event photo sharingA crowd you have no email addresses for. A QR on a sign does the distribution.Share photos with familyWritten from the recipient's side: what a non-technical relative actually sees.Client photo proofsView-only proofing with comments, and an honest section on watermarking.Property listing linkPhotos, floor plan and walkthrough in one link, with a QR for the board.Class photosOne album for every parent in the class, with a password and an end date for children's photos.Trip photo albumPhotos, clips and the itinerary PDF from a group trip, opened on everyone's phone.Baby shower photosGuests and faraway family in one link, as private as the parents-to-be want.Image to linkThe mechanics: single images, per-photo links, and what the viewer shows.

Documents, work and money

One file or one pack, sent to someone whose attention you need, and a view log that tells you whether it landed.

Share a pitch deckOne trackable link per firm, a password for a confidential raise, no re-sends.Proposal trackingKnow when a client opened the proposal, and follow up on evidence rather than nerves.Product catalogue linkChange prices without changing the link, plus the WhatsApp catalogue comparison.Submit an assignmentPast the LMS upload cap, without breaking your course's anonymous marking.Resume linkA CV that always opens, plus what a link does and does not do inside an ATS.Portfolio linkA PDF portfolio or a whole hosted site behind one address you can print.View-only file sharingTurn the download button off, and an honest account of what that stops.PDF menu QR codeA table-tent code you print once and never reprint through a price change.Share a music demoA link that plays on the first tap, with the MP3-versus-WAV arithmetic.House manual linkA QR on the fridge that keeps working when the Wi-Fi or check-out time changes.Floor plan linkPlans that zoom on a phone, and one link that always shows the latest revision.Fitness plan linkThe training block and the demo videos, updated each block behind the same link.Share a video with a passwordA private video link the viewer unlocks with a password, no account to watch.Expiring PDF linkSet a date or a number of opens and the link stops on its own.Email gate for a file linkAsk for an email before the file opens and see who opened it, with CSV export.

Websites and hosting

Static-site hosting is live: upload a ZIP and it goes live on its own subdomain with SSL. These four pages differ by what you are uploading.

Host a static websiteA ZIP of a multi-page site, live at its own address with automatic SSL.HTML hostingOne HTML page, live as a link, in about the time it takes to save the file.Publish an HTML ZIPA zipped site with its assets, unpacked and served as real paths.Deploy a Vite or React buildYour dist folder online, with hashed assets and client-side routing that resolves.

By file type

Start from what you are holding. Each page covers what the browser preview does for that format, what the size ceilings mean, and where the format bites.

PDF to link converterA PDF as a URL, rendered in a viewer rather than dumped as a download.Video to linkStreams with proper seeking, so nobody downloads a gigabyte to watch ten seconds.Word to linkA DOCX laid out as pages in the browser, read-only, no Word for the reader.Excel to linkA workbook as a read-only table with a tab per sheet, no Excel for the reader.Share files onlineMany files, one link, the general case behind most of the pages above.Send large files via emailPast the 25 MB attachment wall, by sending an address instead of bytes.Direct Send (peer-to-peer)The file goes device to device over an encrypted channel, nothing uploaded or stored, no size limit.QR code generatorA free, print-ready code for any file or link, with the sizing rules.Audio to linkUpload an MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC and get a link that plays in the browser, no app for the listener.ZIP to linkUpload a ZIP and share one download link; the receiver gets a download page, no account needed.QR code for videoA printed code that plays your video when scanned, no app. Swap the video later, same code.

Compared with what you already use

Written to talk you out of switching where switching would be a mistake. Each one says plainly what the other tool is better at.

WeTransfer alternativeA share link that is not counting down to a deletion date.Dropbox alternativeFor sharing one file cleanly, without the sync client and the account wall.Google Drive alternativeNo request-access emails, no downscaled preview, no folder permissions.Tiiny Host alternativeHTML hosting plus file links, compared honestly feature by feature.DocSend alternativeOpen tracking on a document you send, without a per-seat subscription.Google Photos alternativeFor sending a set of photos outside Google; keep Google Photos as your library.Pixieset alternativeSimple photo delivery as one link, and where a real gallery platform wins.Netlify Drop alternativeA finished static site online without usage credits, and when you need Netlify instead.Smash alternativeA link that stays up and opens in the browser, versus a big transfer that expires.Issuu alternativeAn ad-free PDF link you can update in place, versus a flipbook platform with an audience.WeTransfer vs SmashTwo transfer services compared on size, expiry and free plans, and when a link fits better.Tiiny Host vs Netlify DropA simple static host versus a developer platform, and when to share a page like a file.DocSend vs Google DriveDocument tracking versus cloud storage, and a lighter tracked-link option.Papermark alternativeOne tracked link instead of a data room: free view counts, Pro controls, and where Papermark still wins.Pixieset vs Google PhotosClient galleries or a shared album: download control, storage, pricing and branding compared, plus a lighter album link.

Not sure which page you want?

Start from the file. A PDF, a resume or a catalogue goes to PDF to link. Photos go to image to link. A folder of mixed things goes to share files online. A built website goes to host a static website. If you are comparing us with something you already pay for, the comparison pages are written to talk you out of switching where switching would be a mistake.

Longer walkthroughs live on the blog, plans are on the pricing page, and if none of it fits, ask us: a real person answers.