Digital signature · Audit trail + certificate · No account for the recipientSend a PDF for signing: the recipient signs on a secure page (no account needed) and you get the signed document back — with a certificate, an audit trail (who, when, which IP) and a public verification page. With form fields, reminders and an expiry date, just like DocuSign.
No credit card needed
For anyone who wants to share large files without the hassle: photos and videos with family and friends, or designs, quotes and projects with clients and colleagues. Secure, ad-free — and you know it has arrived.
Three steps, no manual configuration.
Free forever with 50 GB, no credit card needed.
Drag files or folders into the upload zone, choose how long the link stays valid and click send. A password on the link is part of a paid plan.
You get a short, secure link you can email or share yourself. Get a notification as soon as they download it.
With Downloadlink you see for every delivery when it was picked up, it stays secure and it looks polished — for your family and for your clients.
For every delivery you can see whether and when your client downloaded it. Not collected yet? Send a reminder in one click. No more "did you receive it?" emails.
Protect sensitive deliveries with a password and an expiry date. You decide who can access them and how long the link works. After that everything is deleted automatically.
Several people on one account, a shared client address book, and a dashboard showing what was sent and downloaded — by whom and when. Plus weekly planning and bookkeeping.
Your clients download from a page with your own logo and brand colour, with no ads and nobody else's brand — it looks like your own portal. From the 500 GB plan, that page lives at your own address: yourcompany.downloadlink.nl.
Open a Word document, spreadsheet, PDF, photo, video or 3D model and edit it right away. The editors run in your browser: what you edit is not sent to our server. Free to try: 3 operations per kind of tool without an account, 10 with a free account. Unlimited in every paid plan.
Open a .docx, change text, formatting and tables, and save it as Word again.
Formulas, filters and charts in a real spreadsheet; save as .xlsx.
Type and format text, insert shapes, images and text boxes, manage your slides and save as .pptx or PDF.
Lay out flyers, cards and leaflets: text that flows across frames, photos, master pages, and a PDF with bleed and crop marks (RGB).
Draw logos and illustrations with the pen, shapes and text, place images; open and save SVG, PDF and PNG.
Develop photos from your camera: white balance, light, tone curve, noise and sharpness; export as JPEG, PNG or 16-bit TIFF.
Animate text, shapes, photos and video with keyframes, shadow, glow and masks; export as MP4, WebM or GIF.
Record and mix multiple tracks, cut, effects and noise reduction; save as WAV, FLAC or MP3.
Add text, shapes, highlights and images, and measure on a drawing.
Layers, masks, curves and filters; also opens HEIC and PSD.
A timeline with multiple tracks, transitions, titles and subtitles.
Model, open STEP and IFC, and calculate strength (FEM).
Draw and edit as in AutoCAD: layers, dimensions, blocks and snapping; open DXF and DWG, save DXF, PDF and SVG.
Open and measure DWG and DXF drawings and 3D models; when you are signed in, it keeps them in your files.
The PDF, image, video and audio tools run in your browser: your files never leave your computer. Only text recognition (OCR) uses an external service. Plus e-signatures, shared folders and remote desktop. Free to try; unlimited in every paid plan.
Merge, split, compress — plus a PDF editor.
Compress, convert, crop — plus a photo editor with layers.
Trim, compress, screen recording — plus a video editor with a timeline.
Cut on the waveform, remove silences, convert.
Sign yourself or request a signature, with a signing certificate.
Model Fusion-style, STL/STEP import — with structural analysis (FEM).
View files in your browser (including DWG, IFC, STEP and Office), QR codes, strong passwords, zip and unzip, checksums.
View and help remotely, without a separate TeamViewer licence.
Popular: Merge PDF · Compress PDF · Split PDF · PDF to JPG · JPG to PDF · Word to PDF · PDF to Word · HEIC to JPG · Resize image · Compress photo · Compress video · MP4 to MP3
A lasting, branded portal per client, no account needed on their side: folders, revisions and a recycle bin, a name, colour, logo and cover of your own per folder, a readable address, and a presentation view with large previews. Your client picks favourites, leaves comments and approves; you see who opened what.
View the example portals →Watch live TV and listen to the radio without installing anything. The player loads the public list of free-to-air channels from iptv-org for you; you can also add your own playlist (M3U).
Also works with your AI assistant, such as Claude: in paid plans you connect it in a few clicks, and then it creates download links for you and finds the right tool. In a browser with WebMCP (a new technology that Chrome and Edge are now trialling), an assistant can also operate most of the tools; you choose the file yourself. How to connect it →
Your internet traffic travels encrypted to our own server in Germany and only reaches the internet from there. Useful on the wifi of a hotel, train or café: anyone watching on the same network sees only encrypted data.
Included from the 500 GB plan (€12 per month), also with annual billing.
Choose the 500 GB plan →No counter on your transfers — just a storage limit. Switch or stop whenever you like.
Billed monthly, cancel anytime
For anyone who shares large files now and then — without a counter.
For freelancers delivering files to clients every week.
For studios and agencies with ongoing projects.
For teams sending large deliveries every day.
For heavy production work and larger teams.
All prices include 21% VAT.
Need more than the standard? Discuss the options — integrations, AI checks or your own workflow, by arrangement.
An honest comparison with the tools you are probably considering for sharing large files.
| What matters to you? | Downloadlink from €4/mo | WeTransfer Starter $8/mo | Dropbox Business Standard $15/user/mo | SharePoint $7/user/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of transfers No counter — send as often as you like | ✓ Unlimited, on the free plan too | ✕max 10 per 30 days | ✓ | ✓ |
| Do you pay per user or per account? With per-user pricing, the bill grows with your team | Per accountyour whole team shares from one subscription | Per userone user per subscription | Per user3 minimum | Per user |
| Suitable for files >5 GB Video, 3D models, high-res imagery, large archives | ✓ No limit on transfer sizeyour free storage is the limit — from 100 GB | ≈300 GB per 30 days combined | ≈via Transfer | ≈up to 250 GB |
| Own subdomain & full branding yourcompany.downloadlink.nl with your own logo and colours | ✓ from 500 GB | ≈logo only | ✕ | ✕ |
| See when the client has downloaded Per delivery, with a one-click reminder | ✓ | ≈limited | ✓ | ✓ |
| Send a reminder in one click Not collected yet? One click and your client gets a nudge | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ≈separate process |
| Your client does not need an account Download with 1 click on a link, no registration | ✓ | ✓ | ≈sometimes | ✕ |
| Storage in the EU (GDPR) Stored in a Dutch data centre (Amsterdam) | ✓ Amsterdam | ✓ | ≈EU option | ✓ |
| No ads on your download page Important for a professional impression on clients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Password-protected downloads For sensitive documents sent to specific recipients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic expiry + deletion Files gone after the period you set (1–90 days) — less GDPR risk | ✓ configurable | ✓ 7d/30d | ✕manual | ✕manual |
| Up to 50 people on one account Your whole team shares from one account, with no per-person licence | ✓ from Standard | ✕per user | ✕per user | ✕per user |
| Integration with Office / Teams For companies deeply embedded in the Microsoft stack | ✕ | ≈ | ✓ | ✓ |
| General storage including cloud drives Keeping files as 'your drive' as well as sharing them | ≈via shared folders | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cancel monthly, no hassle No annual contracts or notice periods | ✓ | ✓ | ≈annual by default | ≈annual by default |
| Links that never expire Set a link to 'valid indefinitely' | ✓ in every paid plan | ✕Ultimate only | ✓ | ✓ |
Prices for the alternatives are their own published list prices with annual billing, as of September 2026: WeTransfer Starter $8/mo (10 transfers or 300 GB per 30 days, source: wetransfer.com/help-center), Dropbox Business Standard $15 per user/mo from 3 users, Microsoft 365 Business Basic $7 per user/mo since the 1 July 2026 increase. Amounts are in the vendor's own currency; rates vary by country and promotion — check with the vendor.
Answers to the questions we are asked most.
Create a free account, drag your files or a folder into the upload box and click send. You get a link straight away that you copy and share, or have emailed to the recipient. Anyone with the link can download the files without an account.
All your files live on secure storage in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), within the EU. They are stored encrypted and deleted automatically after the expiry period. The first three downloads of a transfer come straight from that storage, and after that too as long as the free download traffic our storage provider gives us each month has not run out. Beyond that, and for the other downloads (such as from a shared folder), the file travels to the recipient via Cloudflare's network; Cloudflare does not keep the files. One exception to those first three: if the recipient's browser cannot build a zip of several files itself, our server in Frankfurt builds that zip, and it then also goes via Cloudflare. If you enable an AI feature yourself — such as the cover note for a transfer, or text recognition (OCR) in the PDF tools — what that feature needs goes to our AI provider Anthropic in the United States: for the cover note the file names and at most three PDF files from your package, for OCR the page you convert. We keep nothing extra ourselves: recognised text is not stored, and the cover note lives with the transfer and disappears with it. If you do not use those features, nothing from your files goes to an AI. Full technical details are on the security page.
30 days by default. On a free account you pick 1 to 30 days per upload; on a paid plan that goes up to 90 days, and you can even set a link to never expire. Expired files are deleted automatically — not just made unreachable, but physically wiped from our servers.
Paid plans place no limit on the size of a single transfer — you are only bounded by your total storage. Free accounts can send up to 50 GB per transfer.
On the free account, recipients can download up to 100 GB per month in total via the links you send. There is no daily limit — only this monthly total counts, so you can quite happily have 30+ downloads in a single day. If you reach the monthly total, your links are paused until the next month — your files simply stay put and you receive a warning email beforehand. Paid plans have more generous limits that scale with your package. That is how we keep the servers fast and affordable for everyone.
Yes. No annual contracts, no notice period. Your plan runs until the end of the paid period; after that you fall back to the free 50 GB account and your files simply stay put.
Your own web address (yourcompany.downloadlink.nl) comes with the 500 GB plan and up; you set it up yourself on your account page. On the smaller plans you send from downloadlink.nl, with your own logo, name and colour on the download page. A fully custom domain (download.yourcompany.com) is available on request — get in touch and we will arrange it for you.
Yes, and it stays free — no time limit, no credit card. You get 50 GB of total storage and an unlimited number of transfers. If you need more space or premium features you can always upgrade — but you never have to.
Start free with 50 GB — free forever, no credit card and no obligations.
