HOW TO SHARE FILES SECURELY ONLINE

Well, there’s a plethora of option to share files securely online, yet most people tend to use their email or popular cloud storage services. Here are our top picks

WETRANSFER

WeTransfer allows users to send files without having to sign up for a new service. You can share one or multiple files via a custom link, which stays active for a week by default.

SENDANYWHERE

It's simple, fast, and free (for the basics, anyway). Open the site, click the red plus icon, and you can share a file or files using a unique link or a six-digit code.

FIREFOX SEND

It allows users to use—with or without the Firefox browser—and lets you share files up to a total size of 2.5TB, free of charge.

DROPBOX

Dropbox gives you 2GB of cloud storage for free, with paid plans starting at $12 a month for 2TB of storage. Besides enabling file-sharing across the web, it keeps your files and folders synced between your devices and the cloud, lets you showcase files on the web, collaborate on files with others, and more.

GOOGLE DRIVE

Google gives you 15GB of cloud storage for free, split across its various services (including Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos). Paid plans start at $2 a month for 100GB of storage and go up from there—and of course you get Google Docs, Sheets, and the rest of Google’s online office app suite as well.

ONEDRIVE

OneDrive from Microsoft gives you 5GB of cloud storage for free; you can upgrade that for a fee, with prices starting at $2 a month for 100GB of storage

iCLOUD

Apple's cloud storage service iCloud lags behind the competition when it comes to file sharing, though there are signs of improvement; the ability to share folders as well as individual files was recently added in iOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4.