Client work stays between you and the client
Every asset pack, rough cut and strategy deck your agency pushes through a cloud transfer service becomes a copy on someone else's infrastructure, governed by someone else's terms. DropLink removes the storage middleman: files move from your machines to your client's without ever landing on a storage service, encrypted, with no size caps and no per-seat subscription.
Quick answer
DropLink is peer-to-peer file transfer for teams that handle confidential client work. Files are never stored on a server: app-to-app transfers are end-to-end encrypted, and browser deliveries stream through DropLink's relay without touching disk. Clients receive through a browser link with no account. Inside the office, transfers run at LAN speed. Free on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, with no seats to license.
The agency file-transfer problem
Confidentiality is contractual
Campaigns leak from infrastructure, not intent. When delivery never lands on a storage server, there is no third-party copy of the client's unreleased campaign — which makes the security conversation with their legal team dramatically shorter.
Per-seat pricing punishes collaboration
Agencies scale with freelancers, contractors and client-side stakeholders. Transfer tools priced per seat turn every collaborator into a line item. DropLink has no accounts at all — everyone on the team just uses it.
Launch days are deadline-shaped
The final-final master always lands an hour before the slot. Upload-then-download through a cloud service is exactly the latency you can't afford; a direct transfer starts delivering immediately.
Asset sprawl outlives campaigns
Expiring links, orphaned cloud folders, 'which drive is the logo pack on?'. When transfer is direct, files live where your archive policy says they live — not scattered across transfer services.
How agencies run on DropLink
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Internal handoffs at LAN speed
Designer to motion, motion to account lead: on office Wi-Fi or Ethernet, machines discover each other automatically and gigabyte asset packs move in minutes over QUIC.
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Client deliveries through a link
Send an encrypted browser link by email. The file streams from your machine through DropLink's relay, never stored — no portal onboarding, no account creation, no 'can you resend, the link expired'.
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Freelancers on any platform
macOS in the studio, Windows in finance, iPhone and Android in the field — DropLink is native and free on all of them, so nobody is the odd one out of the workflow.
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Nothing to clean up
No transfer-service inbox to purge, no storage quota creeping toward an upsell. After delivery, no copy exists anywhere except with you and the client.
DropLink vs cloud transfer for agencies
| Feature | DropLink | Cloud transfer |
|---|---|---|
| Per-seat licensing | None — free for everyone | Per user, per month |
| Client onboarding | Browser link, zero friction | Account or portal signup |
| Third-party copy of client files | Never exists | Stored on provider servers |
| End-to-end encryption | Rare, usually enterprise tier | |
| Size cap on deliverables | None | 2–250 GB by tier |
| Office-internal transfers | LAN speed, works offline | Round-trip through the internet |
| Fits GDPR data minimization | By architecture | Depends on DPA with provider |
The agency take
Agencies pay for transfer tools three times: the subscription, the seat sprawl, and the risk of client data sitting on infrastructure they don't control. DropLink deletes all three by making delivery direct — encrypted device-to-device, free, and invisible to procurement. Try it on the next campaign delivery and time the difference.
Agencies ask
Do our clients need to install or sign up for anything?
No. Clients receive a link that opens in any browser; the download streams from your machine through DropLink's relay, encrypted in transit and never stored. Installing the free app adds direct P2P transfers on top.
How does this help with GDPR and client DPAs?
DropLink never stores file content on servers. App-to-app transfers are end-to-end encrypted — even the relay fallback only forwards data it cannot read. Browser deliveries stream through DropLink's relay encrypted in transit, without being written to disk. Either way, no stored third-party copy of client files ever exists. Your own data policies still govern what you send, but the infrastructure conversation gets much simpler.
We're a mixed Mac/Windows office — does that work?
That's the core use case. DropLink is native on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, and devices on the same network discover each other automatically regardless of platform.
What's the catch — why is it free?
DropLink is built by an independent team, and the peer-to-peer architecture keeps running costs near zero: there is no server farm storing your files to pay for. No ads, no telemetry, no data resale.
Can big video deliverables really go through?
Yes — there is no size limit. Campaign films, raw footage and master files transfer the same way as a logo pack; see the video production page for the heavy-media workflow.