Transferit
A WeTransfer alternative made for your phone
WeTransfer is still a fine way to send a file from a computer. The reasons people look for an alternative are nearly always the same three: it's awkward from a phone, the free link gives you little control over who opens it or for how long, and the size limit on the free tier. Transferit was built around those three. Here is an honest comparison, including where WeTransfer wins.
Where WeTransfer is still fine
Open the website on a laptop, drag in a file, type an email address, send. No account, and the person receiving clicks a link. For a one-off from a desk, that is hard to beat and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. If that is all you do, keep doing it.
Where it isn’t
On a phone. The photos and videos people need to send live on phones, and a website in a phone browser is not where you want to pick 214 photos. Transferit sends from inside Photos and Files with the share button, uploads in small pieces so a dropped signal picks up where it stopped, and keeps going when you switch apps.
Control over the link. A free WeTransfer link expires on its own schedule, has no password, and can’t be recalled. In Transferit every send has its own expiry, an optional password, and a take-back that stops the link working that moment. Plus adds a download limit and sending at a set time later.
Knowing it arrived. Transferit shows each send’s size, how many times it’s been downloaded and the days left. No more “did you get the files?”.
The thing a file-sending app can also do
Once an app can send a file and bring something back, a contract is just a file with a different ending. Transferit sends a PDF out for signature: you mark where each person signs, send the link, and when everyone has signed you get back a signed copy with an extra page recording who signed, when and on what device. Your original isn’t touched. The certificate records what happened; it isn’t legal advice.
Receiving, too
Both services can collect files. In Transferit a request is a link anyone can upload into, without an account, and on Plus what arrives can be saved to Google Drive or Dropbox. Useful for the second shooter’s cards, a client’s logo files, or the signed form that has to come back.
The honest summary
If you send from a computer now and then, stay with what you know. If you send from your phone, send to clients, or need to control what happens to a link after it leaves you, Transferit is the one built for that. It’s on iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac; the person at the other end needs nothing at all.
Questions people ask
What's wrong with WeTransfer?
Nothing, for sending a file from a laptop to an email address. It gets awkward on a phone, where the photos actually are, and the free version gives you no password, a short expiry you can't change and no way to take a link back. Those are the gaps an alternative needs to fill.
Is Transferit free?
Yes: the free plan sends up to 5 GB at a time with links that last a week, and includes passwords and PDF signing. Plus is £6.99 a month for 100 GB sends, month-long links, download limits and send-later. The person receiving never pays anything and never needs an account.
Can the other person open a Transferit link without the app?
Yes. They tap the link and download on any phone or computer, with no app and no account. That part is the same as WeTransfer, and it was the one thing worth keeping.
What does Transferit do that WeTransfer doesn't?
Sends from your phone's share sheet, carries on uploading in the background and after a dropped signal, lets you set the expiry and add a password on every send, shows download counts, lets you take a link back, sends PDFs for signature, and on Plus adds download limits and send-later.
Where does WeTransfer win?
Habit and the browser. Everyone has used it, and sending from a desktop browser with no account is as quick as it gets. If you only ever send from a computer and don't need control over the link, there's no strong reason to switch.