Shareboxed
WeTransfer earned its place: open a tab, drop files, send a link. If that is all you need, it works. We built Shareboxed because "send a link" is the easy half of the problem, and the questions that matter come after: who can read the files while they sit on a server, how long does the link live, and what does sharing look like when it is part of your day instead of an errand.
Who can read your files
This is the structural difference, not a feature checkbox. When you upload to a classic transfer service, the service stores your files in a form it can technically read: that is what lets it show previews and scan content, and it is also what a breach, a subpoena or a rogue employee gets access to.
Shareboxed encrypts every file on your Mac before the first byte leaves it.
What our storage holds is ciphertext, and the key travels in the fragment of
the link, the part after the # that browsers never send to a server. We can
see file names and sizes for a hosted share, and we say so plainly in our
privacy policy, but we cannot open the files. With a direct share, nothing
reaches us at all: the files stream from your Mac to the recipient,
encrypted end to end.
Where the files can live
A transfer service gives you one answer: their storage. Shareboxed gives you three, behind the same kind of link: hosted by us, kept in a bucket you already own (S3, R2, B2), or served straight from your Mac with no upload at all. If you stop trusting us tomorrow, your own-storage and direct shares never depended on that trust in the first place.
How sharing fits your day
WeTransfer is a website you go to. Shareboxed lives where the files are: right-click in Finder, pick a destination, and the link plus its generated password land on your clipboard as one paste. Every share expires on its own, carries a download limit if you want one, and can be revoked the moment you send the wrong thing to the wrong person.
Where WeTransfer is still the right answer
Fairness matters more than marketing: if you are on a Windows machine, or you share twice a year and want zero software installed, a browser-only service is the simpler choice. Shareboxed is for Mac users who share often enough that the encryption, the expiry and the right-click are worth having every day.