💧 Droplink
Send big files from your own server. Resumable uploads, expiring links, no subscription.
Droplink at a glance
| Price | $79, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | WeTransfer at $12/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Utilities |
Droplink features
🧩 Chunked, resumable uploads
Files slice into 5MB chunks with per-chunk retry. Drop your connection mid-upload and it resumes exactly where it left off — a 50GB file is as safe as a 5MB one.
⏳ Transfers with real terms
Expiry (default 7 days), optional bcrypt-hashed password, optional max-download count, optional message to the recipient.
🔗 Clean share links
File list with sizes, live expiry countdown, password gate, inline preview for images and PDFs, per-file download plus streamed "Download all as ZIP".
📧 Email the link
Compose recipients + a note straight from the transfer page using your own SMTP credentials — no third-party mail service.
🧹 Auto-cleanup
A sweep runs every 5 minutes deleting expired or limit-hit transfers — database rows and files on disk.
📊 Storage quota
Set a quota and get a used/free bar; over-quota uploads are rejected up front, not halfway through.
🛠️ Admin dashboard
Every transfer with files, size, downloads/limit, expiry, one-click link copy, and a full download event log (timestamp + IP).
🔒 100% local & private
One SQLite file + a files folder, no telemetry, no external services except the SMTP server you configure yourself.
$79 once — that's the whole pricing page
WeTransfer charges $12/mo — roughly $144 a year, every year. Droplink is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Droplink inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Droplink guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/droplink-mvp, always. $79 buys the packaged installer, guided deploy and lifetime updates instead of building it yourself.
Do I need a server?
For public share links, yes — a $5 VPS with the included Docker Compose setup does it, with Caddy or nginx in front for TLS. Desktop mode runs the identical app in an Electron window for local use. WeTransfer's zero-setup convenience is real; the trade is you rent it forever.
What happens if an upload drops at 90%?
It resumes. The server tracks exactly which 5MB chunks it already has, so a refresh or dropped connection continues instead of restarting — verified in the test suite with a sha256 byte-identical check, not just eyeballed.