Video breaks file transfer in a specific way: the files are enormous, uploads run long enough for connections to drop, and clients need to see a cut before you send the master. So three things matter above all — a ceiling in the hundreds of gigabytes, uploads that resume instead of starting over, and a way to show a preview without shipping 200 GB first.
I build Yungle, so read accordingly. Every claim about another company comes from its own documentation, on the date given, and no competitor prices appear on this site.
What actually matters, in order
Uploads that resume. A 180 GB upload over a home connection takes hours, and something will interrupt it. If the service starts again from zero, the file is effectively unsendable. It is the single most important property and almost nobody advertises it. Why it is hard, and what to check.
A ceiling that fits the master. A minute of 4K varies by a factor of thirty depending on codec — ProRes 422 HQ is roughly 5 GB a minute, heavily compressed H.264 a fraction of that. Know your number before comparing ceilings.
No re-encoding. A service that "optimises" your video is out for a master. Fine for a preview, fatal for a deliverable.
Preview before delivery. The expensive mistake in video is sending the full master, getting a note, and sending it again. Anything that lets a client watch and comment on a review copy saves more time than a faster line.
Structure. A delivery is rarely one file. It is the graded master, the stems, the subtitles, the stills — arriving as a folder, or as a mess.
Where the services stand
Filemail (checked 1 August 2026): Pro sends up to 250 GB per transfer with 1 TB of storage and lists availability as permanent; Business lists transfer size as "Any Size". The strongest raw ceiling in the category, built explicitly around big, fast transfers. If the job is "get 300 GB to a colourist by tomorrow", this is the specialist.
Smash (checked 21 September 2026): paid plans list transfer size as unlimited, kept up to 30 days. Free is 2 GB with priority, and above that you are queued rather than refused — genuinely useful for video on a budget: a big transfer will go, slowly, for nothing.
SwissTransfer (checked 1 August 2026): 50 GB free, no account, deleted after 15 days unless extended to 30. Above 10 GB, files download one at a time. Excellent and free for a single 40 GB master; awkward for a delivery folder of masters, stems and stills.
WeTransfer (checked 31 July 2026): 3 GB or 10 transfers free across a rolling 30 days, ad-supported. Too small for masters on the free tier.
Dropbox Transfer (checked 21 September 2026): 2 GB free, 7 days, no ads. Same conclusion.
What I built, and what it does not do
Yungle is built around the delivery half rather than raw throughput.
- Uploads resume by default. A dropped connection continues from the last finished part instead of starting again — for a 100 GB upload, the difference between possible and not.
- Collections keep your folders and download as one zip, so masters, stems and stills arrive organised.
- Video previews in the browser, with comments, so notes come back attached to the cut rather than buried in an email thread.
- Nothing expires on a subscription, so a client coming back after sign-off is not an upload.
- Free transfers of 10 GB each, as many as you like, no advertising — enough for review copies and single deliverables — with a receipt when each person downloads.
- Files always encrypted with their own keys, on servers in Germany running on renewable power.
Where Filemail is simply better: the single-transfer ceiling. On Yungle, free transfers stop at 10 GB and paid plans are bounded by your storage. If one 300 GB handover is your routine, Filemail is the tool. So the split is clean: Filemail for the single enormous handover, something delivery-shaped for repeated client work with review rounds — which is how video teams use Yungle.
Workflow advice, whatever you use
- Send a review copy first. A 2 GB H.264 export at viewing quality gets you the notes. Then send the master once. That saves more time than any product on this page.
- Do not compress the master to fit a limit. If a ceiling is forcing you to re-encode a deliverable, you have the wrong tier or the wrong service. Compression is a decision about the preview.
- Upload overnight, and test resuming first — on a small file, with a deliberate disconnect.
- Deliver the folder, not the file. Grade, stems, subtitles, stills, and a text file saying what is what. Two minutes that prevent a week of email.
Choosing
| Your situation | Start with |
|---|---|
| One enormous handover, fast, occasionally | Filemail Pro or Business |
| Big files, no deadline, low budget | Smash free, and accept the queue |
| A single 40 GB master, free, right now | SwissTransfer |
| Repeated client delivery with review rounds | Something built for delivery, not throughput |
| Files must stay in the EU | Check the company, not the data centre |