Temporary Image Hosting
Most image hosts are built on the assumption that you want the picture up forever. Often you want the opposite: a URL that works now, for the person you sent it to, and stops existing shortly afterwards without you having to go back and tidy up.
Share photos now — no sign-up →How it works
- Upload the image — Drag, click or paste. Up to 100 MB per file and 50 files per link, which covers full-resolution photos and short video.
- Choose the lifetime — 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days or 30 days. The clock starts the moment the link is created.
- Use the link — It is an ordinary URL and an ordinary web page — it works in any browser, in a chat, in an email, or behind a QR code.
- It deletes itself — At expiry the files are permanently removed and the URL stops resolving. Nobody has to remember to take it down.
Why an expiry is the feature, not a limitation
Permanent hosting means every image you have ever needed to show someone is still sitting on a server, indexed by a URL you have long forgotten, outliving whatever reason you had for uploading it. Screenshots of receipts, a photo of a document, a picture sent to settle an argument in a group chat — none of that needs to exist in five years.
Setting a lifetime up front turns cleanup from a chore you will not do into something that happens whether or not you remember. That is the whole design.
Capping the number of opens
Alongside the expiry you can limit how many times a link may be opened, with a minimum of three. It is deliberately not one: a single-view cap sounds appealing and then breaks constantly in practice, because chat apps, link previewers and mail scanners fetch a URL before a human ever sees it, and a genuine recipient often needs a second look.
Three is low enough to stop a link circulating and high enough to survive the automated fetch that would otherwise burn it before delivery.
What you can put behind a link
Images and video render in the page. PDFs, ZIPs, spreadsheets, Word documents and plain text are offered as downloads. HEIC photos from an iPhone are converted to JPEG on the way in, so they display rather than prompting a download the recipient cannot open.
Several files under one link become a gallery — the recipient can page through them or take the lot as a ZIP, rather than being handed a list of URLs.
Common questions
- How long can a link last?
- From 24 hours up to 30 days. You choose when you create it, and you can expire it early yourself at any point.
- Do I need an account?
- No — not to upload, and not to view. No email address, no name, nothing to install.
- What happens to the image at the end?
- It is permanently deleted, along with the access log for that link, and the URL stops working.
- Can I make a link open only once?
- No. The minimum open limit is three, because link previewers and mail scanners fetch a URL automatically and a one-open cap would be spent before the recipient ever clicked.
- How big can the file be?
- Up to 100 MB per file, and up to 50 files on one link. For multi-gigabyte transfers you want a dedicated large-file service instead.
- Is there a hotlink-friendly direct image URL?
- Each link has its own page, and the file is served from it. It is meant for sending to a person rather than embedding in a site that needs the image to stay up indefinitely.