ShareDrop takes the file you want to hand over and gives you back a link. You send the link; the other person opens it and downloads the file. That is the whole thing. Nobody installs an app, nobody signs up, and the two of you do not have to be at your screens at the same time — the link waits.
It works the same on a phone, a laptop and a work machine with a locked-down browser, because the only thing involved is the browser you already have open. File sharing runs on LimeWire, which is where your share link leads.
On the receiving end there is nothing to learn: the link opens a page with the file on it and a download button.
| What | Without an account | Free LimeWire account |
|---|---|---|
| One transfer | up to 4 GB | up to 4 GB |
| Uploads per day | 20 files, 4 GB | 50 files, 10 GB |
| Storage kept | link expires after 3 days | 40 GB, no expiry |
| Downloads per link | 10 a day, 12 GB | higher |
Paid plans raise storage and daily traffic further and are listed on the LimeWire pricing page. If you are only passing one file to one person, the free path above is usually enough.
Your file is reachable only through the share link, and the link is long and unguessable — it will not turn up in a search engine and cannot be arrived at by typing something likely.
What the link is not is a password. Anyone who ends up holding it can open the file, so treat it like the file itself: send it to the person it is meant for, and not to a public channel. A link made without an account removes itself after three days and takes the file with it. With an account you can delete a file whenever you want and the link dies with it.
If you used ShareDrop years ago, you may remember avatars in a circle and dragging a file onto somebody else's avatar — a direct browser-to-browser transfer between two devices on the same network. That version is gone. It worked only when both devices shared one network and one public IP address, broke on any VPN, on most office networks and on mobile data, and required both people to sit on the page at the same second.
What replaced it is plainer and works everywhere: upload once, share a link, download whenever. Different networks, different countries and different times of day are no longer a problem, and nothing has to be installed. If you specifically need devices on one local network to see each other, that is no longer what this site does.
No. Uploading and downloading both work without one. An account only raises the limits and keeps files from expiring.
No. They open the link and download the file.
4 GB in one transfer. A free account does not raise that, but it lifts the daily ceiling to 10 GB and 50 files; paid plans take a single transfer to 250 GB or more.
Three days if it was made without an account. With an account the file stays until you delete it.
Yes — Upload Folder takes the folder as it is and the recipient can download it back as one archive.
Yes, in the normal mobile browser, both for sending and for receiving.
Only while the upload is running. After the link exists you can close everything.
Anything illegal where you are, and anything you do not hold the rights to. Files reported for abuse are removed and the link stops working.
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