Delivering a shoot is not the same job as sending a file, which is why generic transfer services feel wrong for photography. You need three things they mostly do not give you: folders that survive the upload, a gallery the client can look through instead of a download button, and a delivery that is still there when they come back in six months.
I run Yungle, which does those three things, so read this as an interested party's writing. Everything about another company comes from its own documentation, on the date stated, and there are no competitor prices here.
What photography delivery actually needs
Structure survives. A shoot is not a bag of files. It is Ceremony/Raw, Reception/Edited, Portraits/Selects. Flatten that into one list and the client emails you asking which is which. Keeping folders intact is a real technical problem, not a nicety.
The client browses, not just downloads. Nobody wants to download 60 GB to choose twelve prints. They want to look, choose and tell you. If delivery is a zip file, selection happens over email with filenames in it — which is where the mistakes come from.
It does not expire on the service's schedule. The client will come back — not this week, but in March, for the one from the garden. If the delivery evaporated after a fortnight, you upload the whole shoot again, unpaid.
RAW stays RAW. Anything that re-encodes or strips metadata to save bandwidth is out. Sending RAW files has its own rules.
Clients can send you things. Contracts, shot lists, the reference images they promised. Chasing them by email is a tax on every job.
The general-purpose services
All figures from each company's own documentation.
SwissTransfer (checked 1 August 2026): free, 50 GB per transfer, no account, deleted after 15 days unless extended to 30. Generous, and great for one big file.
The disqualifier for photography: above 10 GB, the recipient downloads files one at a time. A 40 GB wedding gallery arrives as hundreds of separate downloads — exactly the case it is worst at.
WeTransfer (checked 31 July 2026): 3 GB or 10 transfers free across a rolling 30 days, ad-supported. Fine for a preview, too small for a delivery, and the client sees adverts on the page you sent them to.
Dropbox Transfer (checked 21 September 2026): 2 GB free, 7 days, an account to send, no ads. Clean, but small, and part of Dropbox.
Filemail (checked 1 August 2026): Pro sends up to 250 GB per transfer with 1 TB of storage and lists availability as permanent. The best raw ceiling here by a distance — built around moving bytes fast rather than around what the client sees.
Dedicated photography platforms
Worth saying plainly: there is a whole category of client-gallery products made for photographers — proofing, print sales, studio management. If you want print fulfilment and a full studio workflow, one of those probably fits better than anything on this page, and I will not pretend a file service replaces it.
Where they tend to cost you is pricing per client or per gallery, which turns a busy year into an expensive one, and a feature list you mostly do not use.
What I built, and where it falls short
Yungle's collections aim at the middle: better at delivery than a transfer service, simpler than a full studio platform.
- Folders kept exactly as you uploaded them, and the whole collection downloads as one zip.
- A gallery the client browses, with favourites and comments, so they mark selects instead of emailing filenames. It previews JPEGs and other common image formats; RAW files are delivered untouched but not previewed, so put your edited selects in the gallery and the RAWs beside them.
- Nothing expires on a subscription. The March phone call is not a problem.
- Request links so clients send contracts and references without an account.
- Your own domain, so the delivery page carries your name, not ours — see branding.
- Free transfers of 10 GB each, as many as you like, no ads — handy for previews and single files.
- Every file always encrypted with its own key, on servers in Germany running on renewable power.
What it does not do: print sales, studio management, invoicing or client questionnaires. If you want those, buy a photography platform — a real category doing a real job.
And keep your own backups of anything you cannot reshoot, whatever service you use. That advice includes mine.
Choosing
- A handful of previews: any free tier. SwissTransfer if it is large, Yungle if you want no ads and unlimited sends.
- A full shoot the client will revisit: you need persistence and structure. Compare on the time you lose to uploading again, not on gigabytes. How photographers use Yungle walks through a real week.
- Enough volume to want print sales and studio management: a dedicated platform — treat this page as covering the delivery half only.
- Sensitive clients — corporate, legal, identifiable people in a context that matters: then where the files live and who can compel access is part of the decision, and most of the services above are US companies.