For a more professional crowd, Box is the go-to file sharing service. Box and Dropbox are often pitted against each other. A main difference between the two is the fact that Box is specially designed for businesses and the IT sector to share, edit and secure files over the cloud, while Dropbox usually caters to the consumer crowd.
Box allows seamless transfer of data from your PC to the Box cloud. You can invite teammates to collaborate, join in on any conversation, or edit files together for better results and understanding. You can control who can view, share, edit, and upload files, giving you a lot of security and privacy options and send large files quickly over the cloud. It offers unlimited storage with a 5 GB limit, integration with Microsoft Office , and custom branding features.
The free plan has 10GB of storage space and a MB upload limit. Apart from their enterprise-level storage solution known as AWS, Amazon also has a consumer-based cloud storage solution, previously called Amazon Cloud Drive, and now renamed Amazon Drive. With Android and iOS available, users can set Auto-Save to back up the photos and videos on their phones. All in all, Amazon Drive offers a central place for all your files at a reasonable price, making it a great file-sharing tool.
Dropbox has been the gold standard for file sharing and storage for quite a while now. Another giant in the file-sharing space, Dropbox offers cloud storage to keep all your files in one place.
It also offers desktop clients and mobile apps to keep all your files in sync and within reach. Dropbox has become a crowd favorite due to its intuitive and simple design, hassles-free synchronization between desktop, cloud, and mobile, and reliable servers. Dropbox allows integration with over , third-party apps, making it a cloud storage workhorse.
However, the free account starts out with a 2GB storage capacity which is way lower than what Google Drive or other services offer. Hightail, formerly known as YouSendIt, is another file-sharing service but catered more towards team collaboration than individual sharing. However, for the average user, this kind of interface might be confusing. Hightail, however, makes it very easy to add files to their platform; Whether you prefer to select files, drag, and drop or import content from other services like Dropbox or Google Drive, Hightail makes it easy to upload and share your work.
If you are looking for a casual tool to store and share files, Hightail might not be the tool for you. A file storage and sharing tool , Mediafire provides 10GB storage space for free and a 4GB file upload limit. After uploading your files, you can then easily share through email, link, or any social network. Every month more than million people use MediaFire to send and receive files with their friends, family, fans, colleagues, and clients, making it one of the go-to tools for casual file storage and sharing.
And with both Android and iOS mobile apps, Mediafire provides you a way to access your files anytime, anywhere. Citrix ShareFile is a new file storage service by digital workspace giant Citrix.
Citrix file storage and sharing are especially aimed at enterprise companies wanting to share large files in the safest and secure way possible. A secure managed file transfer MFT software, Sharefile is extremely useful for companies that need to store and share highly sensitive data and proprietary information. We cannot talk about free file-sharing websites without mentioning Zippyshare now, can we?
Zippyshare is a free file-sharing website that contains no download and uploads limits. However, the catch is that you can only upload files with sizes up to MB and all files get removed from their servers after 30 days. Zippyshare offers unlimited disk space and can be accessed without forcing you to make an account. The uploaded files can be easily shared with anyone via email, message, or social media. Even though Zippyshare does not have the most visually appealing user interface, its ease of use more than makes up for it.
However, by large files, DropSend means files up to 8GB in size. If you are struggling with sending files as email attachments, DropSend allows you to upload files to its server and then send a download link to the receiver via email.
The service includes audio and video players to help you stream the shared media files straight from pCloud itself. You can even use the audio player to create and manage playlists. Another specialty of pCloud are social media backups. You can ask the service to connect to your accounts on popular social media services such as Facebook and Instagram and backup media hosted there into your pCloud account. The service also has a free account that can share and sync files up to 10 GB.
All pCloud accounts, whether free or paid, offer the same set of features. However there are a couple of add-on services that you can subscribe to for added benefits. Read our full pCloud review. While 1fichier also offers unlimited storage, make sure you pay attention to how it classifies it between cold and hot storage.
Once that runs out of space, 1fichier will automatically remove the oldest files. You can however purchase additional cold storage on top of the regular plans. The only downside is that Free accounts have some download restrictions.
The unique feature of the service is that it can be used as a professional Content Delivery Network CDN to share your files. The service also supports two factor authentication and can password protect uploaded files. Advanced users will also appreciate its access control features that you can use to, for instance, restrict downloads to specific IP or a range of addresses.
Read our full 1fichier review. Unlike the other services in this guide, 4shared is unique in adding several features to encourage its users to use their shared content in a collaborative fashion. The service supports Secure FTP connections to help you transfer a large number of files securely. Best of all you can even edit text files without downloading them. On top of that, you can edit them collaboratively with your friends by giving them access to your files. In the same vein, you can also get others to upload and edit content inside your shared folders.
Read our full 4shared review. MediaFire allows for bulk file uploading, and comes with a file manager that can help you sort through them with relative ease. It also makes a light job of sharing the files and offers useful sharing options. Unlike a majority of file sharing services, you can use MediaFire to share files without even registering with the service.
Of course this ability comes with certain restrictions to discourage misuse. For starters, the unregistered account only offers GB of storage. Simply registering with the service unlocks a host of features. For instance you now get 10 GB of storage for uploading and sharing files.
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