Shareboxed
Shareboxed is built by one person, from the Netherlands, out of a specific frustration: sharing a file from a Mac either meant uploading it to a service that could read it, or handing out a cloud drive link that would still work years later. Neither felt like what sharing should be.
The opinions in the product
Products are opinions with a user interface, so here are ours, written down:
- Sharing starts in Finder. Files live there; a share should be a right-click away, not a browser tab and a drag-and-drop zone.
- A share ends by itself. Every link expires. Forgetting a share should be safe, because remembering to clean up is a chore nobody does.
- Encrypt where the files are. Anything we host is encrypted on your Mac before it leaves. We designed ourselves out of the ability to read it.
- Your storage is a first-class citizen. Shareboxed works with the storage you already have: your own S3 bucket, your cloud drive, your NAS, or no storage at all with a direct share from your Mac.
- Say the true thing. Where we can read something, the privacy policy says so in plain words. Marketing that overstates encryption is worse than no encryption.
How it is made
The app is native Swift, the service runs at the edge, and the file formats the two exchange are documented with byte-level test vectors that both sides prove in CI. That level of care for a file sharing tool is possibly excessive. It is also why the product can make claims and keep them.
Shareboxed has a free tier that stays useful, and a subscription (Shareboxed+) for hosted shares and the transfer relay. There is no investor timeline and no growth target that would need your data to feed it; the subscription is the business model, in full.
Questions, ideas or doubt about a claim on this site: support@shareboxed.app. It is read by the person who wrote the code.