How do I get files from a client, instead of sending?
Choose Request, enter your email, and you get a link and a QR code. Anyone who opens it can send you up to 10 GB. The files arrive in your inbox as a transfer, with a gallery when they’re photos. Links are valid for 30 days and no one needs an account.
Is it really free? What is the catch?
It’s free: 10 GB a transfer, no account, no card, no trial clock, no watermark. The catch is a request, not a wall: tell someone about it, or take a look at Kepla, the Mac culling app this team is building. That is the whole price.
Do my clients get a gallery?
Yes, automatically, when a transfer is all photos or video. They open a full-screen gallery with your name on the cover, favorite photos, send you their picks, download any photo at full resolution or the whole set, and play any video before downloading it. A transfer that mixes in other files (a contract, RAW files) opens as a file browser with previews, with a button to view the photos as a gallery. Nothing to set up, nothing to pay.
Can I put a password on it, and will I know when they open it?
Both. Add a password when you send (or later) and it is printed in the recipient's email; the page asks for it once. You get an email the first time each recipient opens the link and the first time they download, and the day before the link expires you get a note with who has not opened it and one click to extend by 3 days, remind them, or add someone you forgot.
Are my files compressed or resized?
Never. Everything is stored inside the ZIP byte for byte, exactly as you dropped it. A 45 MB RAW arrives as a 45 MB RAW, a 2 GB video as a 2 GB video. The ZIP skips compression too, which is why uploads run at your connection's full speed instead of your CPU's.
What happens when the link expires?
It dies and the files are deleted from storage. You choose the lifetime when you send: 1, 6 or 24 hours, 3 days, or 2 weeks, which is the maximum. There is no grace period, recycle bin or paid extension, so make sure the recipient downloads inside the window, the expiry is shown on the download page, in both emails, and as a live countdown after you send.
Why do you need my email?
Two reasons: you get the link and a receipt for your own records, and your sender profile keeps a running count of your transfers, which keeps the tool from being abused anonymously. It lives in its own transfer records, it is not added to the Kepla Founding Access list, a newsletter, or anything else, and we never email you about other transfers.
Can I send video, documents, whole folders?
Yes, and any file type in it. Photos are what this was built around, but video, RAW, PSD, PDFs and whole project folders all work, the folder structure arrives intact inside one ZIP, so a wedding export or a project directory lands exactly as you organised it. Up to 3,000 files, 4 GB per file, 10 GB a transfer.
Is it secure?
Files travel over HTTPS straight from your browser into private encrypted storage. They never pass through our web server. The bucket is private, every download uses a signed authorization that expires with the transfer, and nobody at Kepla opens your files. Anyone holding the link can download until it expires, so treat the link as the key.
How fast is it?
As fast as your connection allows. Most tools zip the whole folder first and only then start uploading; here the two run together, so the transfer is moving within the first second. Large sends go up in parallel chunks that retry themselves if your network drops, and nothing is recompressed on the way.
Does the recipient need an account?
No. They open the link, see what you sent and who sent it, and click one download button for the whole ZIP. It works on any device with a browser.
Is this a free WeTransfer alternative?
Yes, and a direct one. WeTransfer's free plan allows up to 10 transfers or 3 GB total in any 30 day rolling window, kept online up to 3 days. This is 10 GB in a single transfer, no monthly cap, no account and no card, and links that live up to 2 weeks. One send here carries more than their whole free month.
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