How to send 10 GB without signing up for anything

A single card from an event is bigger than most free transfer tiers allow, and the ones that go further usually want an email, a password and a verification click before they will take the first byte. Here is what genuinely sends 10 GB for nothing, what each one costs you in a way that is not money, and how to pick.

Where the free tiers actually stop

Published free limits, checked August 2026. Verify before you rely on them, because these move:

• WeTransfer: 3 GB per transfer, and 3 GB combined across a rolling 30 days, across a maximum of 10 transfers. Account required.
• Google Drive: 15 GB of storage, shared with Gmail and Google Photos. It is storage, not a transfer, so the file sits in your quota until you delete it. Account required for you, and often for them.
• Dropbox Basic: 2 GB of storage total. Same shape as Drive, with less room.
• Kepla Free File Transfer: 10 GB per transfer, no account, no card, no monthly cap. Links last up to three days, then the files are deleted.

The distinction that matters most is storage versus transfer. Drive and Dropbox give you a shelf, and everything you put on it stays there against your quota until you clear it. A transfer tool gives you a conveyor belt: the file goes across and then it is gone, which is why a transfer tool can offer a bigger number than a storage tool at the same price of nothing.

What no account really means

"No account" is used loosely. Three different things hide behind it:

• No account for the recipient. Nearly everyone offers this. The person downloading just clicks a link.
• No account for the sender. Much rarer. WeTransfer removed its no sign in sending in 2023. This is the one that matters when you are the one uploading at midnight.
• No email at all. Rarest, and usually a bad sign rather than a good one: with no address on file, nobody can tell you the transfer finished or that the link is about to expire.

The honest middle ground is an email address and nothing else. That is what a delivery receipt needs and it is where a serious tool should stop. If a free transfer asks for a password, a phone number or a card, ask what it wants them for.

Sending 10 GB, step by step

Using Kepla Free File Transfer as the worked example, because it is the one that takes 10 GB without a sign up:

1. Drop the folder in. Whole folders keep their structure. Uploading starts the moment you drop, and the archive is built while it uploads rather than before, so there is no wait staring at a progress bar that has not started.
2. Add your email, and a name if you want one. The name is what your client sees on the email and the download page. Blank is fine.
3. Add up to ten recipients, or none, and share the link yourself.
4. Pick how long it lives: one hour, six hours, 24 hours or three days. Shorter is safer.
5. Send, and keep the tab open until the upload finishes. You get the link immediately after, and an email receipt.

On a 50 Mbps upload, 10 GB takes roughly half an hour. On gigabit fibre it is a few minutes. Your upload speed, not the service, is the limit.

What to check before you trust one

Free transfer sites appear and vanish constantly, and you are handing one your client's wedding. Four questions worth thirty seconds:

• Does it say when the files are deleted? A tool that will not tell you is storing them indefinitely.
• Does it have a privacy policy that names its sub-processors? Vague is worse than uncomfortable.
• Is the download link private, or is the bucket public? A signed link that expires is the correct answer.
• Who pays for it? Free with no visible business model means either ads, data, or it is about to disappear. Free as a front door to a paid product is at least a model you can understand.

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