Free File Sharing With No Sign-Up

Most file sharing services want something from you first: an email address, a password, a phone number, an app. That’s reasonable for long-term storage. It’s overkill when you just need to move a file from here to there, today.

Dropzy is built for that short-term job. It’s free, there’s no account to create, and nothing sticks around.

What “no sign-up” actually means

• No account. You never create a username or password.
• No app. It runs in any modern browser on phones, tablets and computers.
• No tracking cookies. Dropzy doesn’t use cookies to follow you around.
• No long-term storage. Everything deletes itself. Wi-Fi Share items last 2 hours, Private Share 2 hours (up to 6), Rooms 24 hours (up to 48).

Instead of an account, your devices get friendly names like “Blue Fox” so you can tell them apart. You can rename them whenever you like.

Three ways to share

Wi-Fi Share: your devices, same network

Open the home page on each device. Devices on the same network find each other automatically. Drop a file or paste some text and it shows up on the others. This is the everyday option for moving things between your phone and computer at home or at work.

Private Share: one-to-one, any network

Private Share gives you a private link and QR code. Send the link to one other person, or open it on another of your own devices, wherever it is. It’s end-to-end encrypted: the key lives inside the link, and the server never sees file names or contents. You can also give a single file its own link.

Room: a temporary group space

Create a Room and share its 6-digit code, link or QR code. Everyone who joins can add and remove files and text. Lock the room once everyone’s in so no one new can join. Good for a team handoff, a classroom, or collecting photos after a party.

Sharing your first file

1. Decide who’s receiving: your own device on the same Wi-Fi, one person anywhere, or a group.
2. Open the matching page: Wi-Fi Share, Private Share, or create a Room.
3. If needed, get the other side connected with the link, QR code, or code on Join.
4. Add your files. Drag and drop them, tap Choose files, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V or ⌘+V.
5. The receiver clicks to save each item, or uses Download all to get a ZIP.

Want the file to vanish as soon as it’s been picked up? Turn on Delete after 1 download before sending.

Is there a size limit?

It depends on how the file travels.

• Directly, device to device. When the other device is online (in Wi-Fi Share, or Private Share with exactly one other device), the file goes straight from one browser to the other and is never uploaded. There’s no fixed limit; it depends on free space on the receiving device. Browsers on iPhone and iPad cap this at about 1 GB.
• Uploaded for a few hours. Otherwise, for example in a Room, or when the other device is offline, the file is uploaded temporarily, up to 2 GB per file, and deleted automatically when it expires.

If a direct connection can’t be made, Dropzy switches to uploading by itself. You don’t need to do anything.

What free sharing is and isn’t good for

Good for:

• moving photos, documents and videos between your own devices,
• sending something to one person without swapping contact details,
• short-lived group sharing at an event or meeting,
• quickly passing links and text between screens.

Not built for:

• long-term backup or storage,
• sharing that needs to last weeks,
• files larger than 2 GB when a direct connection isn’t possible.

For those, a cloud storage service with an account is the right tool.

If something doesn’t connect

• Device not showing up on the same Wi-Fi? VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, and phones on mobile data can get in the way. Use the Connect a device card and enter its 6-digit pair code on Join, or scan the QR code.
• On a busy public network? Dropzy hides other people’s items there. Find yours with its 4-character code.
• Devices on different networks? Use Private Share.
• iPhone photos won’t open on Windows? iPhones may send photos as HEIC or convert them to JPEG. Windows can need the HEIF Image Extensions to view HEIC. See iPhone photos to a Windows PC.

Privacy in one paragraph

No account means there’s no profile to build. Files sent directly never reach a server. Uploaded files are stored only until they expire, then deleted. Private Share is end-to-end encrypted, so even while a file is stored, the server can’t read its name or contents. For the details, see How it works.