Wormhole vs WeTransfer

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

Wormhole

Wormhole (the browser one at wormhole.app) encrypts in the browser and tries very hard not to know what you sent.

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

It is free in the way a good protocol demo is free. Files are end-to-end encrypted. They do not linger.

If the threat you actually worry about is the server reading the file, this is the honest design.

The annoying part: You cannot brand it, you cannot see that the client downloaded it, and a huge file still depends on both browsers behaving.

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.

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.

Side by side

Which one, then

Open Wormhole when privacy is the whole requirement and you do not need a paper trail. 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.

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.