September 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Smash vs SwissTransfer
Smash and SwissTransfer, compared by what happens after the link exists.
David KrugManila · @realDavidKrug
People ask this as if one of them cheated. They didn’t. Smash and SwissTransfer grew up answering different complaints.
Smash
Smash, from the French team at fromsmash.com, sells the idea of no size cap. The catch is the queue.
The upload is a minute. The afterwards is the product.
Free transfers over about 2 GB wait their turn. Links on the free side are short, on the order of a week. You can start without an account.
If you refuse to think about file size, the pitch is emotionally correct. A wedding gallery should not be a math problem.
The annoying part: A queue is still a queue. The person waiting on a deadline does not feel the romance of “unlimited” while the bar sits there.
SwissTransfer
SwissTransfer is Infomaniak’s free booth. No paid tier. The company makes money on other products and leaves this one alone.
Up to 50 GB a transfer. You pick 1, 7, 15, or 30 days. The 30-day option asks you to confirm around day 12 or the files go early. There is a cap on downloads and on how many transfers an IP can open in an hour. No account.
Fifty gigabytes, Switzerland, no account, no ads. For a free send, that is the grown-up offer.
The annoying part: No dashboard, no brand on the page, no one to call when a client says the link looks unfamiliar. The download cap can surprise a producer who forwarded the URL to a whole crew.
Side by side
| Smash | SwissTransfer | |
|---|---|---|
| Free size | No hard cap; queue after ~2 GB | 50 GB |
| Free expiry | About 7 days | 1 to 30 days |
| Account to send | No | No |
| Password | Yes | Yes |
| The top end | Pro skips the queue | 50 GB. There is no paid tier |
Which one, then
Open Smash when your files are huge, you can tolerate a wait, and you like that the product was built as a direct answer to WeTransfer’s cap. Open SwissTransfer when you want the largest honest free transfer and you do not need a logo, a password story, or a receipt.
If both have started to feel like a membership, the smaller idea is a transfer that ends. Pink Jeepney’s free ride is 2 GB and 7 days. The paid plans are 25 GB, 100 GB, and 250 GB. That is a third afterwards, not a verdict on the first two.
Written by
David Krug
Twenty-plus years of building cute little websites, and big ones, with an independent footprint. In the Philippines since 2016. Based in Manila, with two children and one amazing partner.
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