Share Photos Without Email Attachments
An attachment is a copy you cannot take back. It sits in their inbox, in your sent folder, in both mail providers' backups, and in whatever thread it later gets forwarded into. A link that expires does the same job and then stops.
Share photos now — no sign-up →How it works
- Upload instead of attaching — Photos, scans, PDFs, spreadsheets — up to 100 MB each and 50 per link, well past what a mail server will accept.
- Set an expiry — Anywhere from 24 hours to 30 days. Add a password if the files are sensitive.
- Paste the link into the email — One line of text instead of an attachment. It will not bounce, and it will not be stripped by a filter.
- The copy expires on its own — When the link lapses the files are deleted. What remains in the inbox is a dead URL rather than the documents.
The size problem, and the bigger one
Gmail and Outlook both cap messages at roughly 25 MB, which a handful of modern phone photos will exceed. That is the obvious reason people look for an alternative, and it is the less important one.
The real issue is permanence. Mail is the most-archived thing most people own: an attachment lands in their inbox, your sent folder, and both providers' backups more or less forever, and it travels intact through every forward. If the photos are a passport scan, a medical letter, an insurance claim or a signed contract, that is a long tail of copies you no longer control.
What corporate mail does to attachments
Business mail systems routinely rewrite or quarantine attachments. Filters strip file types they do not like, scanners open documents to check them, and archiving tools keep a copy for compliance regardless of what either party wants.
A URL passes through all of that untouched. The file is fetched by the person who clicks it, when they click it, rather than being copied into every system the message crosses.
What you can send
Images and video display in the page. PDFs, ZIPs, plain text, CSVs and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are offered as downloads. That covers the paperwork cases — an invoice, an inventory, a report — as well as photographs.
HEIC photos from an iPhone are converted to JPEG on the way in, so the recipient sees the picture rather than a file their computer refuses to open.
Common questions
- Why do my photos bounce when I email them?
- Most mail providers cap a message at about 25 MB including encoding overhead. A few full-resolution phone photos clear that easily.
- Does the recipient need an account to open the link?
- No. It opens in any browser, with nothing to install and no sign-in step.
- Can I send documents, not just photos?
- Yes — PDF, ZIP, TXT, CSV and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are all accepted.
- What stops someone forwarding the link?
- Nothing, on its own — which is why you can add a password and an open limit. Both are set on the upload form and neither needs an account.
- How long do the files stay available?
- As long as you chose, between 24 hours and 30 days. After that they are permanently deleted.