About Yungle

I’m Hein de Wilde. I build and run Yungle, and I write everything in the guides.

Yungle is a file transfer service: you drop a file in, you get a link, the other person downloads it. The reason it exists is that the obvious way to do that involves handing somebody else’s files to a company on another continent, under a jurisdiction that can compel access to them, for as long as that company feels like keeping them.

How it actually runs

One server in Germany, on renewable power, with backups elsewhere in the EU. Every file is encrypted with its own key before it is written to storage. Nothing is stored in a bucket the public internet can reach — every byte that leaves does so through Yungle’s own download endpoint, so a link can be revoked and an expiry actually expires.

It is one person, which has consequences worth being straight about. There is no failover and no service level agreement. If the machine goes down, it is down until I fix it. That is a real trade against a service with three data centres, and if guaranteed uptime is what you need, you should buy it from someone who sells it.

How it is paid for

Subscriptions, and nothing else. No advertising, no analytics products, nothing built on top of what you upload. The free tier is real and is not a trial — it is funded by the paid plans, which is the only arrangement where “free” does not eventually mean something is being sold. A tenth of the profit goes to protecting rainforest.

About the comparisons

Several of the guides compare Yungle against services people already pay for, which is a conflict of interest, so the rules are fixed and public. Every claim about another company comes from that company’s own documentation, never from a review site — while writing the first comparison, three “pricing 2026” pages gave three different figures for the same two plans. Competitor prices are left out entirely because they move faster than anyone can keep up with. Each comparison carries the date it was checked.

Where a competitor is better for a particular job, the guide says so. That is not generosity; a comparison that never concedes anything is one no reader believes, and it would be the fastest way to lose the person it was written for.

Getting in touch

If something here is wrong — especially a claim about another company — I would rather hear it than have it stay up. Write to hello@yungle.co and it reaches me directly.