WeTransfer vs TransferNow

People ask this as if one of them cheated. They didn’t. WeTransfer and TransferNow grew up answering different complaints.

WeTransfer

WeTransfer taught a whole generation that a file could be a link. You drop it in the browser, you get a URL, the other person does not make an account.

The upload is a minute. The afterwards is the product.

Their own pages, as of late 2026, put the free plan at 3 GB per transfer, with 10 transfers or 3 GB total in a rolling month, and links that die after 3 days. Free use is framed as personal, not commercial.

It is still the name people say when they mean “just send the file.” The page is calm. Recipients are not puzzled.

The annoying part: Three days is a rude expiry if your client is on a shoot. Three gigabytes is a short film, not a project. And the free plan is not really for invoices you send every Tuesday.

TransferNow

TransferNow is the French service that wants both sides: you send, and you can also receive, without turning the other person into a subscriber.

The free transfer is about 5 GB and about a week. They advertise a password without an account.

Receiving files without making the client invent a login is a kinder product decision than most drives make.

The annoying part: Five gigabytes free is ordinary now. The interesting product is the paid one, and then you are comparing prices with everyone else.

Side by side

Which one, then

Open WeTransfer when you already live in their paid plan, your files are under a few gigabytes, and everyone on the thread already knows the orange page. Open TransferNow when you need a public “send me the files” link as much as you need to send.

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.