--- title: "BetterFileTransfer vs TransferNow" description: "TransferNow gives away password protection, unlimited recipients and unlimited downloads on a free tier that most of this category charges for. It pays for that with advertising." competitor: "TransferNow" checked_on: "2026-08-22" updated: "2026-08-22T07:56:37.080Z" canonical: "https://betterfiletransfer.com/compare/transfernow" --- # BetterFileTransfer vs TransferNow > TransferNow gives away password protection, unlimited recipients and unlimited downloads on a free tier that most of this category charges for. It pays for that with advertising. _Figures for TransferNow last checked on 2026-08-22._ ## At a glance | | BetterFileTransfer | TransferNow | | --- | --- | --- | | Send without an account | Yes, up to 100 MB | Yes | | Free transfer size | 1 GB | 5 GB | | Free link lifetime | Up to 30 days | 7 days | | End-to-end encrypted | Yes. End to end, on by default, sealed in your browser before upload | No. In transit and at rest; TransferNow holds the keys | | Cheapest paid plan | $10 / month, or $100 / year | €3 / month on a two-year plan | | Paid transfer size | 10 GB | 250 GB on Premium | | Storage included | 10 GB free, 1 TB on Pro | 100 GB on Starter, 1 TB on Premium | TransferNow is a French service with an unusually well-judged free tier: 5 GB per transfer, no account, seven days on the link, and password protection included rather than sold. Unlimited downloads and unlimited recipients too, which is rarer than it sounds. The trade is advertising. TransferNow sells "zero advertising" as a paid feature, which tells you exactly what the free tier looks like. ## What TransferNow does well Free password protection is the headline, and it is a real one. WeTransfer keeps it for Ultimate, Dropbox for business plans, Send Anywhere for paid tiers. TransferNow hands it to anonymous visitors. If you want a second factor on a link and you are not paying anybody, this is the shortest path to it. The Premium tier is also unusually clear about its billing: 10 euros a month monthly, 8 annually, 6 on a two-year commitment, for 250 GB per transfer, 1 TB of storage and links lasting a full year. That transparency is more than several services on this page manage. ## Where the two differ - **Ads on the free tier.** Your recipient sees them on the download page. Nothing here carries advertising on any tier. - **Euros only.** There is no published US dollar pricing, which is a small friction that becomes a real one at expense-claim time. - **The cheapest tier is quoted on a two-year commitment.** Starter is advertised at 3 euros a month, and that is the two-year rate; the monthly-billing figure is not shown by default. Read the toggle carefully. - **A year is a long link.** Premium's 365-day expiry beats our 30-day free ceiling, though Pro here can be set to never expire at all. ## The encryption question TransferNow uses SSL/TLS in transit and AES-XTS-256 at rest, with keys it holds. Premium mentions encrypting stored files with your key, but makes no zero-knowledge claim, and the absence of that claim is the answer. That is a perfectly ordinary posture and, importantly, they do not oversell it. Password protection and encryption are [two different things](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/password-protect-vs-encryption): a password stops somebody opening the link, and encryption decides whether the company holding the file can read it. TransferNow gives you the first for free. Only the second changes what the provider can see, and that is the one that is on by default here. ## What it costs Starter is 3 euros a month on a two-year plan, with 10 GB transfers, 100 GB storage and 30-day links. Premium runs 6 to 10 euros a month depending on commitment, with 250 GB transfers and 1 TB of storage. Ours is $10 a month or $100 a year, with 10 GB transfers, 1 TB of storage, and no cycle you have to commit two years to in order to see the advertised price. ## Which one to use If you want a password on a free link today and you do not mind ads, TransferNow is the most sensible free tier in this category after [SwissTransfer](https://betterfiletransfer.com/compare/swisstransfer). If what you actually want is for the service to be unable to read the file, a password on their server is not that, and this is. ## When TransferNow is the better choice TransferNow is the better choice if you want password-protected links without paying. Almost everyone else treats that as a premium feature, and TransferNow gives it to anonymous visitors along with unlimited downloads and unlimited recipients. Its Premium tier also keeps a link alive for a full year and states all three billing cycles plainly, which is more honesty about price than most of this category offers. --- Canonical HTML version: https://betterfiletransfer.com/compare/transfernow BetterFileTransfer · https://betterfiletransfer.com